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Have you ever felt the weight of a parent's emotional baggage shaping your life? "How to Deal With Emotionally Immature Parents" is a transformative exploration into the world of emotionally immature parents and the profound impact they have on family dynamics. This book is an essential read for anyone who has struggled with the confusing legacy of a parent's emotional limitations. Designed for adult children of emotionally immature parents, mental...
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A desire to belong in a world that poses challenge after challenge has driven Erin K. Pieper to have to be more patient than she ever thought would be necessary. To have to be understanding, and to not only accept but integrate physical limitations as part of her everyday life.
Twelve years after her initial diagnosis of a rare and little-known disease called Friedreich's Ataxia, Erin shares her struggles in navigating the world not only with this...
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The Fate We Make: Heartbreak, is the first volume of a remarkable, occasionally tragic, but ultimately redemptive coming-of-age story. From an early age, Simone Warren recognized that she was caught between her family's expectations and her need to find her own path and voice. Born into a Singaporean Chinese family and a life rooted in tradition, her story is a stunning tale of survival and an inspiring look at how we can learn to move beyond trauma...
4524) Meditation Education
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A critique on meditation for everyone, and teaching children mindfulness.
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MOTHERHOOD IS A JOURNEY OF BECOMING WHO WE ALREADY ARE.
Why do I feel so lost? Who even am I now? Why do I lose it with my kids? Where did my libido go?
In our always-on, Instagram-worthy world, motherhood is portrayed as a joyous time to soak in the cute baby smell, go on playdates and coffee dates, and take dreamy walks with the pram. But so much of the motherhood experience is unseen and untold. While it makes our lives twice as good, it also...
4526) Dominic's Pride
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Women. Money. Parties. Dominic Whitehorn's life revolves around these staples until he wakes up to the reality that he's broke, and living in a foreign land.
He hates his overbearing brother, and can't stand his mother's lectures. The only other source of help is his father, who suffers a heart attack. With tighter reins on the family business, and his loan called in, Dominic's problems multiply. To make matters worse, the woman he's interested in...
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An inspiring collection of thoughts to take with us on the paths we travel in life.
For all the roads we choose to travel, and even those we don't, Fred Rogers has an observation, a story, some insights to share. Whether you're facing graduation, a new job, a new baby, marriage, any change in your life-expected or not-the wisdom that Mister Rogers offers can contribute mightily to the grace with which you handle the change.
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The world seen from two set of eyes is enthralling, especially when those eyes belong to two people who share the same genes but different lives. For example, Mel Martin's view of Alaska in the 1960s and 1970s is certainly different from Elizabeth Martin's Alaska of this century. Besides, a father and daughter can look at the same thing and see two different universes. The book stretches from the past to the future, from Alaska to Russia, and from...
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A micro-preemie fights for survival in this extraordinary and gorgeously told memoir by her parents, both award-winning journalists.
Juniper French was born four months early, at 23 weeks' gestation. She weighed 1 pound, 4 ounces, and her twiggy body was the length of a Barbie doll. Her head was smaller than a tennis ball, her skin was nearly translucent, and through her chest, you could see her flickering heart. Babies like Juniper, born at the...
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"A truly poignant read that shines a light on the humanity in neurodivergence, the heart of parenting, and the soul of psychotherapy."-Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again A profoundly thought-provoking, funny, and hopeful memoir about adapting when life doesn't go to plan, redefining family, and creating your own path.One afternoon, Emma Nadler gets a call from her daughter's doctor that changes her life forever. Faced...
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In 1977, Jeanne's German nationalist ex-husband, Klaus, tells her he's gotten a new job and wants to take their three-year-old daughter and six-year-old son away for a long weekend to celebrate. Jeanne relents. But, Klaus never returns and instead sends Jeanne a letter, delivered by a mutual friend, in which he declares that he has fled to Germany and she will never see him, or her children, again.
The next four months are, filled with agony, despair,...
4532) The Driving Force
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In Act 1, Claude, 55, visits his father Alex, 77, in an Alzheimer's ward, intimately tending to his silent, vacant father's bodily needs while hopelessly trying to reach him with monologues and settle misunderstandings. In Act 2, in an eerie reversal of roles, Alex visits Claude in the same ward, similarly finding disconsolate irony where he had looked for forgiveness.
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Three books of timeless wit and heart from celebrated humorist Erma Bombeck If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits? is Erma Bombeck's timelessly witty look at the hidden side of married life. Motherhood captures one of the toughest jobs on earth with humor and heart. And The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank is Bombeck's take on the unforgiving frontier of American suburbia.
4534) Understanding Your ADHD Child: Learn the Cognitive Behavior Therapy for a Parent, Brain Training
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If your child has recently been diagnosed with ADHD, or you have read other books on the subject without finding practical solutions, then read on."Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder" is one of the most discussed and misinterpreted topics in child development, both in education and parenting.Compared to the past, in recent years, great strides have been made in pediatric and psychiatric studies, going to unravel many secrets still unknown when...
4535) F*ck Divorce: A Science-Based Guide to Piecing Yourself Back Together after Your Life Implodes
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A Divorcee's Empirical (and Slightly Irreverent) "What's Next" Guide to Life after Marriage
Just about everything about divorce sucks. It sucks away your time, your money, and occasionally your will to live. We know. We've been there. We've both been divorced and are now remarried . . . to each other.
F*ck Divorce is not a book about divorcing (which stinks); it is a book about putting the pieces back together afterward (which doesn't have to)....
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Behind the founding of the Joseph Smith Foundation is an untold, inspirational story of a software engineer father who felt called to uphold the Prophet Joseph Smith & the Restoration with only his homeschool family as his production team! Now his children tell candid stories of what it was like growing up with the Joseph Smith Foundation-from video editing, research, and book writing to the many miracles along the way. This heartfelt narrative also...
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From actress Sanaa Lathan to Georgia State Supreme Court chief justice Leah Ward Sears, many African-American women attribute much of their success to having a positive father figure
In Daughters of Men, author Rachel Vassel has compiled dozens of stunning photographs and compelling personal essays about African-American women and their fathers. Whether it's a father who mentors his daughter's artistic eye by taking her to cultural events or one...
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When her five-year-old son passed the rigorous entrance exams to one of Japan's top private elementary schools, Makihara, a single mother, thought they were on their way. Taro would wear the historic dark blue uniform and learn alongside other little Einsteins while she basked in the glory of his high achievements with the other perfect moms. Together they would climb the rungs into the country's successful elite. But it didn't turn out that way....
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Melissa Harris's dream of being a mother again shatters when a fertility doctor tells her she may never have another child due to a physical anomaly in her uterus. Determined to persevere, she undergoes nine surgeries and a year of fertility treatments until she finally gets a positive pregnancy test-only to miscarry both twins within the first fifteen weeks.
When what she's decided will be her last attempt results in her finally becoming pregnant,...
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Man's perception, and how to accept aging, has not changed dramatically since the beginning of time or over the last 220 years as man's life expectancy has increased. Man is not a stagnant being, and as Bathauer notes, "Psychologist tell us that all of life is made up of continuous changes from childhood all the way to old age." The last twenty years of life, the stage we call old age, brings about almost as many changes as the first twenty years....
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