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Establish wise and loving limits that make a positive difference in your teen, in the rest of your family, and in you. The teen years: relationships, peer pressure, school, dating, character. To help teenagers grow into healthy adults, parents and youth workers need to teach them how to take...

It's Friday evening on the Canterbury Estate in Bradford, and Christine, who's been rushed to hospital by her friend, Josie, is on the maternity ward giving birth. She's 17 and terrified. Not just of the pain, which is ripping her in two, but because she knows that once the baby arrives, her family is never going to speak to her again. Her beautiful baby boy is about to start a chain of events that will lead to tragedy - and only her own family can save her.

Life is a pressure cooker, and, more and more, being overwhelmed is just considered normal. Author, blogger, and mother-of-five, Kay Wills Wyma, has learned that if we're going to be overwhelmed by anything, let's have it be truth with all its grace, hope, peace, and love. In this freeing book, she shares how to confront life's pressures we face - at home, online, at work, in our relationships, on our calendars - and replace all those heavy expectations with the liberating truth that we were made for something better.

Bogen inviterer til refleksion over, hvordan graviditet og moderskab forandrer en kvindes liv. Glemte minder kan blive lysende klare, og både kendte og nye følelser dukker op. Døden, som man før har kunnet holde på afstand, kommer tæt på. Og kærligheden viser helt nye sider. Angst og uro får en ny plads. Sammen med livskraften og lykken i at kunne bringe et nyt menneske til verden. Bag bogen står et fællesskab af jordemødre og filosoffer, som med udgangspunkt i deres forskning og kliniske erfaringer kombinerer sundhedsvidenskabelige og filosofiske perspektiver.