Jenny Brown is the founder and executive director of the Family Systems Institute and the Family Systems Practice in Sydney, Australia, where she has a counselling practice and trains mental health professionals and organizations. Jenny has a Ph.D. in Social Science from the University of New South Wales. She has trained and earned academic awards at the University of Sydney and Columbia University, New York. Additionally, Jenny has completed many years of postgraduate education in systems approaches to counselling at Relationships Australia, Sydney; the Family Institute of Westchester, New York; and the Tavistock and Portman in London. Jenny lives in Sydney with her husband (and cocker spaniel) and enjoys the richness of her important relationships, in particular as a wife, mother to adult children and grandmother.

• IntroductionWho's willing to work at growing up?Part 1: Understanding the relationship foundations of adult maturity1. Becoming a self in our relationships2. Real maturity or pretend maturity 3. Family ties that bindPart 2: Maturity for the first half of adult life4. Leaving home and growing up5. The single young adult6. How marriage can grow people7. Sex for grown-ups8. Grown-up parentingPart 3: Being a grown-up beyond family9. Off to work we go10. Developing mature beliefs Part 4: Nurturing maturity in the face of set backs11. Separation and divorce12. Symptoms and setbacksPart 5: Maturity enhancement in the second half of life13. Midlife14. Ageing well15. Old age and facing deathPart 6: Broadening the focus16. The grown-up helper17. Society and selfEpilogueAppendix 1: Summary questions for reflectionAppendix 2: Mature connection and separatenessAppendix 3: What are guiding principles?Appendix 4: Differentiation of self as a continuumAppendix 5: How to construct your family diagramAppendix 6: An overview of human development across the lifespan from a Bowen family systems perspectiveAppendix 7: Some Biblical reflections on relationshipsNotesBibliography and further readingAcknowledgementsIndex

“GrowingYourself Up isa great read for anyone feeling like they’re about to lose themselves orfeeling burnt out by trying to make things right for others.” - NaturallyAustralia

Jenny Brown is the founder and executive director of the Family Systems Institute and the Family Systems Practice in Sydney, Australia, where she has a counselling practice and trains mental health professionals and organizations. Jenny has a Ph.D. in Social Science from the University of New South Wales. She has trained and earned academic awards at the University of Sydney and Columbia University, New York. Additionally, Jenny has completed many years of postgraduate education in systems approaches to counselling at Relationships Australia, Sydney; the Family Institute of Westchester, New York; and the Tavistock and Portman in London. Jenny lives in Sydney with her husband (and cocker spaniel) and enjoys the richness of her important relationships, in particular as a wife, mother to adult children and grandmother.

• IntroductionWho's willing to work at growing up?Part 1: Understanding the relationship foundations of adult maturity1. Becoming a self in our relationships2. Real maturity or pretend maturity 3. Family ties that bindPart 2: Maturity for the first half of adult life4. Leaving home and growing up5. The single young adult6. How marriage can grow people7. Sex for grown-ups8. Grown-up parentingPart 3: Being a grown-up beyond family9. Off to work we go10. Developing mature beliefs Part 4: Nurturing maturity in the face of set backs11. Separation and divorce12. Symptoms and setbacksPart 5: Maturity enhancement in the second half of life13. Midlife14. Ageing well15. Old age and facing deathPart 6: Broadening the focus16. The grown-up helper17. Society and selfEpilogueAppendix 1: Summary questions for reflectionAppendix 2: Mature connection and separatenessAppendix 3: What are guiding principles?Appendix 4: Differentiation of self as a continuumAppendix 5: How to construct your family diagramAppendix 6: An overview of human development across the lifespan from a Bowen family systems perspectiveAppendix 7: Some Biblical reflections on relationshipsNotesBibliography and further readingAcknowledgementsIndex

“GrowingYourself Up isa great read for anyone feeling like they’re about to lose themselves orfeeling burnt out by trying to make things right for others.” - NaturallyAustralia

Jenny Brown is the founder and executive director of the Family Systems Institute and the Family Systems Practice in Sydney, Australia, where she has a counselling practice and trains mental health professionals and organizations. Jenny has a Ph.D. in Social Science from the University of New South Wales. She has trained and earned academic awards at the University of Sydney and Columbia University, New York. Additionally, Jenny has completed many years of postgraduate education in systems approaches to counselling at Relationships Australia, Sydney; the Family Institute of Westchester, New York; and the Tavistock and Portman in London. Jenny lives in Sydney with her husband (and cocker spaniel) and enjoys the richness of her important relationships, in particular as a wife, mother to adult children and grandmother.

• IntroductionWho's willing to work at growing up?Part 1: Understanding the relationship foundations of adult maturity1. Becoming a self in our relationships2. Real maturity or pretend maturity 3. Family ties that bindPart 2: Maturity for the first half of adult life4. Leaving home and growing up5. The single young adult6. How marriage can grow people7. Sex for grown-ups8. Grown-up parentingPart 3: Being a grown-up beyond family9. Off to work we go10. Developing mature beliefs Part 4: Nurturing maturity in the face of set backs11. Separation and divorce12. Symptoms and setbacksPart 5: Maturity enhancement in the second half of life13. Midlife14. Ageing well15. Old age and facing deathPart 6: Broadening the focus16. The grown-up helper17. Society and selfEpilogueAppendix 1: Summary questions for reflectionAppendix 2: Mature connection and separatenessAppendix 3: What are guiding principles?Appendix 4: Differentiation of self as a continuumAppendix 5: How to construct your family diagramAppendix 6: An overview of human development across the lifespan from a Bowen family systems perspectiveAppendix 7: Some Biblical reflections on relationshipsNotesBibliography and further readingAcknowledgementsIndex

“GrowingYourself Up isa great read for anyone feeling like they’re about to lose themselves orfeeling burnt out by trying to make things right for others.” - NaturallyAustralia