When I was 5, I got whacked in the head with a baseball bat, fracturing my skull. Master Certified Relationship Coach Laurie Cameron compares fear to getting whacked by a big cosmic 2 by 4. In her book, The Journey From Fear to Love: Waking Up and Walking the Evolutionary Relationship Path with Your Partner, Cameron encourages readers to focus on the choices that we do have instead of being angry about the ones that we don’t have.

It’s been said that good things come in small packages. This small gem features case studies of real people who have moved from fear to confidence, from panic to inner peace. The tone is friendly and conversational. The 152 pages are seasoned with inspiring quotations, sample case studies and interactive exercises that are structured so that readers can measure their progress on the continuum between an unconscious relationship on one end and an evolutionary relationship on the other.

Cameron says that when we feel incomplete without a partner or choose to sacrifice our own dream and then try to blame our partner, we are acting from a place of fear instead of love. Instead of living a fear-filled unconscious life, we can choose something different. We can choose love over fear and learn to travel the conscious, intentional path.

We can start small and focus on the loving steps we can take in the moment. Cameron encourages us to ask, “What thought can I choose right now that will create an expanded sense of love and inner peace in this situation?”

Cameron invites readers to wake up to the world around and inside them. The Journey From Fear to Love offers a blueprint to consciously create the environment that will allow our relationships to shift away from fear and toward love. It suggests steps we can take to deepen and express our love regardless of our age. These simple but profound principles apply to all relationships, including the most important relationship we have—the relationship with ourselves.