Parents & Adult Children

Bursting with actionable steps you can use IMMEDIATELY to transform the way you communicate, this compelling, highly effective book serves as your comprehensive guide to better communication....

In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable....

Drawing on the success of her popular self-help book, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, author Lindsay Gibson offers yet another essential resource for adult children of emotionally immature parents....

Were you raised by a narcissist? This guide will show you how to quiet your critical inner voice and start living life on your own terms.

When your parents are pathologically self-centered, manipulative, or emotionally abusive, the pain they cause is deep and often difficult to put into words. But it was not your fault, and there are tools you can use to heal the trauma caused by your childhood.

Are you struggling to connect with your child now that they've left the nest? Are you feeling the tension and heartache as your relationship dynamic begins to change? In Doing Life with Your Adult Children, bestselling author and parenting expert Jim Burns provides practical advice and hopeful...

Clinical psychologist and intimacy expert Dr. Kenneth M. Adams provides a practical, compassionate relationship guide for women who are involved with mother-enmeshed men, mothers who wish to set their sons free, and men dealing with issues of commitment, sex addiction, and unhealthy attachments.

The Hours tells the story of three women: Clarissa Vaughan, Laura Brown, and Virginia Woolf....

This "wise and caring book" (Library Journal) is a guide to understanding and coping with grief and all of the disorienting emotions that accompany the death of our parents. Losing our parents when we ourselves are adults is in the natural order of things, a rite of passage into true adulthood...

Whether you're preparing for a college entrance exam or a major business presentation, Ron Fry's How to Study Program equips you...

The best news on the planet is that your mother doesn't have to change in order for you to be happy. In fact, author Karen C.L. Anderson will take it a step further and say your mother doesn't have to change in order for you to be free, peaceful, contented, and joyful....

When Nancy Friday began her research for My Mother/My Self in the early 1970s no work existed that explored the unique interaction between mother and daughter. Friday investigates a generational legacy and reveals the conflicting feelings that daughters hold for their mothers...

There is a special bond between mothers and their sons, and it never goes away....

Would you like to become the best parent you can be? Discover how positive parenting can transform your relationship with your child into one built on trust, respect, and mutual understanding.

An enchanting literary debut—already an international best-seller. At the height of Mao’s infamous Cultural Revolution, two boys are among hundreds of thousands exiled to the countryside for “re-education.” The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find...

Family scapegoating is an insidious form of "invisible" abuse that is difficult to recognize. It is therefore critical that adult survivors of dysfunctional or narcissistic family systems understand what type of abuse they are trying to recover from.

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER Based on her hugely popular Facebook posts and Instagram photos, Feeding My Mother is a frank, funny, inspirational and piercingly honest account of the transformation in Jann Arden's life that has turned her into the primary "parent" to her mom, who is in the grip of...

Leslie and Lindsey have lived through their own traumas and devastating ups and downs in their relationship. They've turned their experiences into a successful platform for helping others and share them here in this book.

This new audiobook contains the 101 best stories and poems from Chicken Soup’s library honoring the lifelong relationship between mothers and their male offspring....

Kate Spencer lost her mom to cancer when she was 27. In The Dead Moms Club, she walks readers through her experience of stumbling through grief and loss, and helps them to get through it, too. This isn't a weepy, sentimental story, but rather a frank, up-front look at what it means to go through...

This edition includes 36 Stories about Gratitude, Being There for Each Other, and Saying Goodbye....

Being a parent is usually all about giving of yourself to foster your child's growth and development. But what happens when this isn't the case.....

A New York Times Bestseller Instagram. Whisper. YouTube. Kik. Ask.fm. Tinder. The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media. What it is doing to an entire generation of young women is the subject of award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales’s...

You can grow in love, even for the in-laws you didn’t (exactly) choose....

Often, the grown children of emotionally absent mothers can't quite put a finger on what's missing from their lives....