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Make Love Work For You: A Toolkit for Finding Happiness in Your Relationship
By Anne Nicholls. 2002
In this manual, relationships counsellor Anne Nicholls explains that finding and keeping a positive and happy relationship is not an…
impossible dream. Here she seeks to arm the reader with a toolkit of tried and tested strategies to help you break the negative patterns of the past, allow you to spot early on who is right for you, and keep your new relationship strong and nurturing. Topics covered include: erasing your old relationship rules and finding new positive ones; learning how to recover from past hurt; learning strategies for checking that a new partner is right for you; determining whether it is love or infatuation; learning how to make the transition from singles to couple; maintaining comfort and security in a relationship; using strategies for dealing with conflict and disagreements; and avoiding booby traps.Is Your Family Driving You Mad?
By Anne Nicholls. 2004
Do your parents nag and your in-laws interfere? Does your partner criticise or ignore you? Do your kids play you…
up? Do you feel as though you do everything for everyone while also taking all the blame? Family relationships are probably the most complex and far-reaching you'll ever experience. For anyone who's ever dreamed of a better way of living, here are tried and tested strategies for making family life safer, warmer, less frustrating and more nurturing all round. In Is Your Family Driving You Mad? counsellor Anne Nicholls shows you practical ways to·rewrite damaging family beliefs· make yourself heard· avoid emotional blackmail· balance family demands with personal freedom· minimise arguments and promote harmony· calm stepfamily rivalries· build confidence in your children. Buy this book and get your sanity back!Falling In Love, Staying In Love: How to build a strong, lasting relationship
By Sujata Bristow, Malcolm Stern. 2004
In these difficult and challenging times we are asking more from our relationships than ever before. To build strong, lasting…
relationships, we need a new set of skills. Falling in Love, Staying in Love is a powerful and moving examination of relationships and how to make them work. Using real-life examples, it explores love's uncharted territory in order to help us find our way into successful intimate relationships. Learn how to: Express your emotions; Improve your self-esteem; Develop your sexuality; Manage and resolve conflict; Live with passion and integrity; Use relationships as a tool for transformation and growth.Feelings: Exploring your inner emotions
By Brian Roet. 2003
Our feelings are one of our most powerful motivating forces. By working with them rather than battling against them, we…
can utilise their energy to improve our lives. Feelings is a guide to helping you understand both your own emotions and actions and those of other people. In this inspirational and helpful book Dr Roet explains what emotions are, how they work and what affects them, and includes simple techniques to help us surmount our emotional obstacles. If you have ever felt out of touch with your emotions, overwhelmed by them, or unable to connect with the emotions of those around you, this book is for you. Learn how to:· Understand the emotional motivations behind your actions· Unblock your own emotions: overcoming fear, jealousy and guilt· Listen more effectively to others· Identify your harmful emotional patterns and how to break the cycle· Improve your relationships and state of wellbeing.Later!: A guide to parenting a young adult
By Alison Baverstock, Gill Hines. 2014
One minute you are taking your child to school, the next they're turning into a young adult. It may seem…
like only months since you were first filling your child's lunch box, but the school career moves with such momentum that it isn't long before they are facing the challenges of further education, job hunting and living independently. This new book will help you to encourage self-reliance in your nearly grown children and prepare them for independence in the real world. It also shows how you can prepare for a time when your child's excitement at the prospect of leaving school, going to university or just living on their own leaves you feeling passed over and obsessed by detail they see as unimportant. How do you start to think about what to do with the rest of your life - picking up on ambitions, both personal and professional, and prioritising your own friends and interests? And how do you handle the situation when, as is increasingly common, children later decide to return home to live? This book addresses current issues such as boomerang kids, sofa syndrome and how to motivate, money management for a generation disinclined to save, the hotel of Mum and Dad, and much more. Later! is an empathetic guide to making sense of life at a time when all the ground rules need to be reconsidered, if not renegotiated. Packed with strategies, exercises and question-and-answer sections, Later! is user-friendly and entirely practical. It considers the hopes and plans of parents and children alike and, in the process, demonstrates how to 'move on' while sustaining a supportive, happy relationship.The Guide For Separated Parents: Putting children first
By Nick Woodall, Karen Woodall. 2007
Children living in separated family situations fare best when their relationship with each of their parents continues to be close.…
Putting Children First helps mothers and fathers unlock and resolve the conflict around contact with children that can arise during and after separation. Using strategies such as parenting plans, scripted phone calls and parenting meetings, the book will enable parents to communicate effectively on all the most important things in their children's lives - and make relaxed arrangements for the continued involvement by both parents with their children.Boss Bride: The Powerful Woman's Playbook for Love and Success
By Charreah K. Jackson. 2018
A game-changing book for professional women on how to navigate love and career from relationship expert Charreah Jackson. Essence Senior…
Editor and international dating & career coach Charreah K. Jackson answers the never-ending question for women: Is it truly possible to have your dream career and be part of a fulfilling, satisfying, lasting romantic relationship? In this relatable, entertaining, and confessional guide, Charreah weaves through the complicated world of dating and career, showing YOU how to be a Boss Bride.With advice ranging from dating like a pro and how to go hard AND go home, Charreah gives you the insight and inspiration to become a Boss Bride – a powerful woman who manages the many roles in her life with pride and enthusiasm, demands her worth, lives in the moment, and prioritizes love. Packed with tips, tricks, strategies, and testimonies from women across America, Charreah shows you the path to getting the corner office and walking down the aisle – and how to stay a Boss Bride for life.In an era of safe spaces, trigger warnings, and an unprecedented election, the country's youth are in crisis. Senator Ben…
Sasse warns the nation about the existential threat to America's future. Raised by well-meaning but overprotective parents and coddled by well-meaning but misbegotten government programs, America's youth are ill-equipped to survive in our highly-competitive global economy. Many of the coming-of-age rituals that have defined the American experience since the Founding: learning the value of working with your hands, leaving home to start a family, becoming economically self-reliant—are being delayed or skipped altogether. The statistics are daunting: 30% of college students drop out after the first year, and only 4 in 10 graduate. One in three 18-to-34 year-olds live with their parents. From these disparate phenomena: Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse who as president of a Midwestern college observed the trials of this generation up close, sees an existential threat to the American way of life. In The Vanishing American Adult, Sasse diagnoses the causes of a generation that can't grow up and offers a path for raising children to become active and engaged citizens. He identifies core formative experiences that all young people should pursue: hard work to appreciate the benefits of labor, travel to understand deprivation and want, the power of reading, the importance of nurturing your body—and explains how parents can encourage them. Our democracy depends on responsible, contributing adults to function properly—without them America falls prey to populist demagogues. A call to arms, The Vanishing American Adult will ignite a much-needed debate about the link between the way we're raising our children and the future of our country. A New York Times BestsellerThe New Relationship Blueprint: 10 Steps to Reframe the Way You Love
By Nancy Levin. 2018
Worthy author Nancy Levin shows you how to turn the old model of relationship on its head and build something…
better and more fulfilling than you ve had before Are you ready to turn the spotlight on your love life and move to the next level--something more fulfilling than you ve had before In the spirit of her most recent book Worthy Boost Your Self-Worth to Grow Your Net Worth which was different from any other finance book on the market Nancy Levin s The New Relationship Blueprint takes a truly fresh look at relationships showing you how to build them better from the ground up--or perform some skillful renovations This book is for you if you re single and looking for a new relationship that s beyond what you ve experienced before or happy alone but looking toward a great relationship in the future or divorced and determined never to do that again or recovering from the death of a partner and unsure what s next It s also for you if you re in an unsatisfying relationship that you want to refresh and restore a relationship that challenges or threatens your boundaries a relationship you re not sure you can salvage or a relationship you recognize as the exact right teacher for you even if it s not easy Essentially this book is for you if you re ready for something more in relationship than what the old models have offered It s based on the essential truth that relationship is first and foremost where we learn to love ourselves Drawing on many of the same exercises she uses with her clients Nancy walks you through a 10-step process to work through your emotional and psychological roadblocks to self-love and the relationship you truly desireShattered Bonds: The Color Of Child Welfare
By Dorothy Roberts. 2002
Shattered Bonds is a stirring account of a worsening American social crisis--the disproportionate representation of black children in the U.…
S. foster care system and its effects on black communities and the country as a whole. Tying the origins and impact of this disparity to racial injustice, Dorothy Roberts contends that child-welfare policy reflects a political choice to address startling rates of black child poverty by punishing parents instead of tackling poverty's societal roots. Using conversations with mothers battling the Chicago child-welfare system for custody of their children, along with national data, Roberts levels a powerful indictment of racial disparities in foster care and tells a moving story of the women and children who earn our respect in their fight to keep their families intact.The purpose of this book is to highlight the most important documentary evidence available to the family historian wishing to…
research their Irish ancestry. It is aimed primarily at researchers whose time in Irish repositories is limited, and who want to know what is available locally and online. It covers more than eighteen individual sources of information, making it simpler to organise your search and easier to carry it out both locally and on the ground.Contents: 1. Where to Begin; 2. Administrative Divisions; 3. Civil Registration; 4. Census Returns and Old Age Pension Claims; 5. Census Substitutes; 6. Wills and Testamentary Records; 7. Election Records; 8. Board of Guardian Records; 9. School Records; 10. Migration; 11. Emigration; 12. Landed Estate Records; 13. Taxation and Valuation Records; 14. Church Records; 15. Military Records; 16. Printed Records; 17. Law & Order; 18. Local Government; 19. Researching Online.Necessary to Life: A Memoir of Devotion, Cancer and Abundant Love
By Mich n Neal, Louisa Leontiades. 2017
Vilified by the media for her outspoken non-monogamous lifestyle, Louisa Leontiades is, unbeknownst to the outside world, being defeated by…
mundanity. Four years of caring for toddlers and living in tracksuits has left her anxious, exhausted, and virtually celibate. Her partner, Morten, falls in love with Yasmin, whose family will never allow their relationship unless he leaves Louisa. Louisa falls for Janus, a terminal cancer patient looking for a mother for his children before he dies. As Louisa and Morten seem poised to be torn apart, Louisa learns she has a potentially fatal tumour. Should she start a family with Janus (if she lives)? Would Yasmin make a good stepmother for her children (if she dies)? Necessary to Life takes an unflinching look at the importance of seizing the moment and the costs of following your heart.A World in Us: A Memoir of Open Marriage, Turbulent Love and Hard-Won Wisdom
By Louisa Leontiades, Gracie X. 2017
A guided tour of non-monogamy, A World in Us begins with Louisa and her husband Gilles, who love each other…
but whose marriage is going nowhere. They decide to explore polyamory, falling for another couple and trying to forge a life together as a quad. But they are challenged in ways they didn't expect, and their experimentation forces them to accept a new understanding of themselves and each other. This chronicle is followed by Louisa's letters to her younger self. Sometimes love and good intention isn't enough. Do you cut your losses and return to monogamy, or do you rise from the ashes? In this compilation of her previous works, The Husband Swap and Lessons in Love and Life to My Younger Self, Louisa offers candid insight into the polyamorous heart.Love & Limits: Guidance Tools for Creative Parenting
By Elizabeth Crary. 1994
Functioning as a kind of quick-reference guide to parenting, this concise book discusses child development, describes basic temperament traits, and…
offers many practical child-guidance tools as it introduces a problem-solving process known as STAR Parenting. Parents will be able to use the information to more effectively deal with children’s feelings and reduce power struggles.Surviving the Breakup: How Children and Parents Cope with Divorce
By Judith S. Wallerstein, Joan B. Kelly. 2000
Based on the Children of Divorce Project, a landmark study of sixty families during the first five years after divorce,…
this enlightening and humane modern classic altered the conventional wisdom on the short- and long-term effects of family dissolution.Do Your Own Divorce: A Practical Guide To Divorcing Without A Lawyer
By John Bolch. 2009
This book will save you money. Even if the divorce is completely straightforward, and there are no arrangements for children…
and finances to sort out, a solicitor will typically charge between GBP500 and GBP1000 to deal with the divorce for you, not including court fees. If there are arrangements for children or finances to sort out, then the solicitor's fees are likely to be many times that sum. This book is for the increasing number of people who have to go through divorce proceedings without legal assistance, and for those who just want to save legal costs. It includes: *A guide to divorce proceedings, including completing all the required forms. *Sorting out financial/property arrangements, whether by agreement or through the court. *Making arrangements for children. *Details of child support maintenance. *Dealing with domestic violence, costs and mediation. *Plus specimen forms, useful addresses and websites, and a detailed glossary of legal terms. This book is for anyone who is seeking or contemplating a divorce, or anyone whose spouse has issued divorce proceedings against them. Even if you are separating from your spouse and do not wish to divorce at this time, this book will be useful to you as many of the principles with regard to arrangements for children and sorting out finances are the same.Contents: 1. Divorce; 2. Children; 3. Child maintenance; 4. Finances and property; 5. Domestic violence; 6. Mediation; 7. Costs and legal aid; 8. Final thoughts; Appendix 1 - Example Documents; Appendix 2 - Useful Addresses and Websites; Appendix 3 - Glossary; Appendix 4 - List of Divorce County Courts; Index.Let Them Thrive: A Playbook for Helping Your Child Succeed in School and in Life
By Katie Novak. 2014
Let Them Thrive provides parents with a practical understanding of how education works--and how it can work better--for their children.…
Every learner is as unique as his or her fingerprints. But one-size-fits-all schooling doesn't account for those variations. In this highly readable book (with unique cartoon illustrations), bestselling author, educator, and parent Katie Novak introduces the research-based framework Universal Design for Learning (UDL). Parents learn the origins of UDL in the learning sciences and in practice. (UDL is prominent in the federal Every Student Succeeds Act). They also learn strategies, tips, and tools to support their children's learning in school and in life. Let Them Thrive is an important new contribution to the growing literature on UDL, the first such book directly aimed at parents.Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest For Wholeness
By Betty Jean Lifton. 1994
Betty Jean Lifton, whose Lost and Found has become a bible to adoptees and to those who would understand the…
adoption experience, explores further the inner world of the adopted person. She breaks new ground as she traces the adopted child’s lifelong struggle to form an authentic sense of self. And she shows how both the symbolic and the literal search for roots becomes a crucial part of the journey toward wholeness.The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain
By Gene D. Cohen. 2005
The Mature Mind delivers good news for those in the second half of life, with an extraordinary account of cutting-edge…
neuroscience, groundbreaking psychology, fascinating vignettes from history and case studies, and practical advice for personal growth strategies. Gene Cohen, a renowned psychiatrist and gerontologist, draws from more than thirty years of research to show that surprising positive changes in our brains have the powerful potential to enhance, not diminish, our lives after fifty.My Three Fathers: And the Elegant Deceptions of My Mother, Susan Mary Alsop
By Bill Patten. 1947
Bill Patten grew up in the heart of privileged society to American parentsa debutante mother, a diplomatic fatherstationed in Europe.…
Weekends away from his English boarding school were often spent at the regal country estates of important policy makers and historical figures of the mid-twentieth century. When Bill was twelve years old, his father, William Patten, died, and his mother remarried the renowned columnist Joe Alsop. Patten was swept into Washington during the Kennedy years, where he bore witness to his stepfather's legendary power-brokering, and watched a very different father figure at work. In 1996, when he was forty-seven years old, Bill Patten learned that his biological father was not William Patten, but the noted English diplomat, Duff Cooper. In this quest to know his triumvirate of fathers, Bill Patten offers an unforgettable memoir. My Three Fathers is a search for identityand a luscious chronicle of a fascinating, bygone era of American aristocracy.