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Caring for an aging parent can feel overwhelming, confusing, heartbreaking, and—yes—unexpectedly funny. Caring for Aging Parents Without Losing Your Mind! is a witty, heartfelt, and deeply relatable guide for adults who are already caring for an aging parent—or sensing their time is quickly approaching.

Your teenager is about to make a $100,000 decision based on a job market that no longer exists.They are choosing a college major or career path right as Artificial Intelligence is fundamentally rewriting the global economy. As a parent, the pressure to guide them is overwhelming. But what if you...

“We are brave families, and our love encircles us through the darkest nights, empowering us and nurturing us with support from one another.” —Jean Voice Dart In Brave Families: The Ultimate Guide to Long-Lasting, Loving Relationships, a diverse group of courageous authors shares heartfelt...

Every family is a game—but the goal is not to defeat the other players. It is to create a family where everyone can thrive.Families are built on love, but they are also shaped by competing needs, hidden expectations, shifting alliances, old rivalries, and difficult decisions about time, money...

Entwicklungspsychologie – verständlich, praxisnah und umfassend erklärt! Du fragst dich manchmal, ob die Entwicklung deines Kindes "normal" verläuft? Es kommt dir vor, als seien andere Kinder besser, weiter und gesünder entwickelt? Vielleicht vermutest du sogar, dass eine...

Fast nichts ist in der Erziehung wichtiger als das Selbstbewusstsein von Kindern früh zu fördern...Natürlich können Sie Ihr schüchternes Kind weiter als etwas sensibel betrachten und denken, mit der Zeit wird es schon selbstbewusster werden. Aber warum sollten Sie wertvolle Jahre in der Entwicklung verschenken? Hören Sie ab sofort auf, sich in Selbstzweifeln zu ergehen, weil Ihr Kind nicht ganz durchsetzungsfähig erscheint. Werden Sie jetzt aktiv und sichern Sie sich mit diesem Hörbuch jede Menge Expertentipps, die Ihr Kind zu einer starken Persönlichkeit machen!

Did you grow up with a parent who has borderline personality disorder (BPD), or you suspect they did? Was your parent's behavior unpredictable or scary? Did it seem like they were angry one minute and happy the next? Were your basic needs ignored? If so, it wasn't your fault. This compassionate guide offers a trauma-informed approach to help you recover from your toxic childhood and discover the person you were truly meant to be. You'll learn how to identify emotional and developmental wounds, and discover why interactions with your parents were so harmful to your sense of self.

OVER 500,000 SOLD IN THE PRAYING THE SCRIPTURES SERIES As parents of adult children, we often worry about whether our children will make good choices when they're on their own. Praying the Scriptures for Your Adult Childrenprovides you with biblically based prayers and encouraging stories to...

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. Today psychotherapists throughout the world acknowledge that if women are to be able to love without possessing, to find work that fulfills them, and to discover their full sexuality, they must first acknowledge their identity as separate from their mother’s. Nancy Friday’s book played a major role in that acceptance.

“A deeply soulful novel that comprehends love and cruelty, and separates the big people from the small of heart, without ever losing sympathy for those unfortunates who don’t know how to live properly.” —Zadie Smith One of the most important and enduring books of the twentieth century...

When addiction and abuse exist in the same relationship, it can be difficult to know where one ends and the other begins.Is the addiction causing the anger, manipulation, and control? Will everything change if the addiction stops? Are you helping—or enabling? And what happens when sobriety...

Does every conversation with your adult child end in frustration, or worse, silence? Most parenting advice stops at 18. This book starts where that advice ends: the hardest relationship transition of all, from raising a child to relating to an adult. What makes this different is simple: you get...

Adult children whose parents are invalidating, critical, demanding, or hateful require skills to advocate for their own needs. In this much-needed guide, listeners will learn how to employ unique assertiveness strategies based on the characteristics of their own family dynamics; uncover the hidden motives behind their parents’ behavior; put a stop to repetitive, hurtful interactions without cutting off their problem parents; and foster healthier relationships.

In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the principal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged Oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the early death of her husband. 

When your parents are pathologically self-centered, manipulative, or emotionally abusive, the pain they cause is deep and often difficult to put into words. You may experience anxiety, depression, complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), low self-esteem, addiction, or other mental health conditions as an adult. But it was not your fault, and there are tools you can use to heal the trauma caused by your childhood.

If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. This breakthrough audio course was created to help you revive your self-confidence and sense of self, value your own needs, and move forward in your life. Your instructor, Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, has dedicated her professional life to helping adult children of emotionally immature parents (ACEIPs). She speaks to you from the heart with a warm, empathetic tone as she takes you on a journey of self-discovery and transformation.

The story of Maya Angelou’s extraordinary life has been chronicled in her multiple bestselling autobiographies. But now, at last, the legendary author shares the deepest personal story of her life: her relationship with her mother. For the first time, Angelou reveals the triumphs and struggles...

ये पुस्तक “लड़का हुआ है” कुछ पूर्वनिर्धारित परिभाषाओं से जनित विरोधाभास से हम सभी को परिचित कराने का एक प्रयास है । कई कहानियां सत्य में घटित हुईं हैं तो कई अनुभवों का आत्मसातीकरण है । 

每次踏上回乡的列车，你是否也会陷入一种难以名状的精神内耗：明明已经在外面独当一面，回到原生家庭面对情感疏离的父母时，却立刻被打回原形，像个透明人般无足轻重。这种隐秘的窒息感并非你的错，而是长期缺乏情...

当原生家庭的隐形创伤最终演变为成年子女的彻底断联，我们该如何在不评判对错的痛苦中寻找真正的心理疗愈？无论你是正承受着骨肉分离之痛的父母，还是在边界冲突中艰难谋求独立生存的个体，这种讳莫如深的家庭撕裂...