Family & Relationships

Learn How to Begin Again and Take Charge of Your Life

This book will inspire and motivate you to hit that restart button with incredible stories of midlife trailblazers that not only changed their lives─but the lives of others as well.

Restart your life. If you find yourself feeling in need of an intervention because your life and goals seem to have taken a back seat─whether it be from your career, family, or general burnout─then look no further. This motivational book takes you through the inspiring stories of those who have found new purpose in their lives.

For readers of self-help books.  This book will help you realize your potential, and encourage you to begin again as you watch your dreams begin to manifest. Second Acts That Change Lives offers self-help through invaluable life-lessons thanks to the numerous individuals who provide their experiences of how they not only changed their lives, but also changed others. This amazing and inspiring collection of stories will help:

• Serve as a critical intervention to kickstart your new path in life
• Build your self-esteem and help you stay focused on your goals
• Guide you to make the change you want to see in yourself─and the world

If you’re looking for self help books for women, self help books for men, or motivational books─or if you enjoyed books like Your Second Act, Life Is in the Transitions, or It’s Never Too Late to Begin Again─then you’ll love Second Acts That Change Lives.

Note: This is NOT a book for single women on how to find a man/ it is a guide for women who want to find their truest selves and celebrate them. As the author of the daily meditation book for teenage girls, Be True to Yourself, Amanda Ford's message of fierce individuality and even stronger identity has grown up with her audience. 

In her new book Kiss Me, I'm Single, Ford exhorts single women not to get lost in the pressure to be in a relationship (single women's mantra: Any relationship will do ) and not to lose themselves in a relationship. The bottom line is that the most important relationship they can have is with themselves. True love is an inside job and begins with you. It is a basic fact of life that in order to be truly happy and fulfilled with another person, you must be truly happy and fulfilled on your own first. A good relationship can enhance life for sure, but it cannot take what is just "okay" and turn in into perfect. In Kiss Me, I'm Single Amanda Ford urges readers: "Get off your derrieres and get to work on yourself. Go inward and be relentless in your search. Discover what is in you that you must do in order to bring joy into your own life." Refreshingly honest, ruefully witty and wise, Ford has also dug deep down and done the work she recommends. From her soulsearching sojourn, Amanda Ford brings back news that will empower all young women: "Love has nothing to do with another person/ it is a condition of your own heart."

• Deals with how you can set the scene for a great love life by keeping the focus on yourself.
• Shows you the spiritual aspects of life such as letting things happen that are beyond your control and knowing good will come from a full and focused life.
• Offers advice from women who already have a successful love life and shares comforting, realistic ways to find your own happiness. Kamins and Macleod lace wisdom, personal experience, sex tips, fun pampering projects, and recipes in a concise and compact book that readers will want to refer to again and again.

Sixty-Five Prescriptions for Lasting Love

“Intimacy is the experience of closeness that brings joy to life. It’s the bottom line of what we want out of our relationships.” ―Daphne Rose Kingma

Fall in love and stay in love. Whether you have just fallen in love or are celebrating your silver anniversary, A Lifetime of Love shows you how to develop a deeper intimacy, transcendent moments, and a wonderful soul connection through sixty-five prescriptions for lasting love.

Grow in love together. Follow the light of love with your treasured one. Work on your relationship through self-improvement, whether you have just started dating or have been in a marriage for years. Kingman provides tips and pointers on ways to keep the romance alive such as dinner conversation starters. Kingma wants you to feel the fire, but also learn how to commit fully and gladly.

Inspire intimacy in your relationship. Learn about intimacy through vulnerability, and  ways to trust and love your partner and encourage longevity in your relationship.

Discover:

• How to be vulnerable in your relationship
• Ways to communicate your love to your partner
• How to make your relationship go the distance

If you enjoyed #Staymarried, Tiny Love Stories, or Relationship Goals, your next read should be Daphne Rose Kingma’s A Lifetime of Love.

“Super Ager is manual for living well, aging with grace and keeping that youthful bounce in your step.” ─Darren Main, author of Yoga and the Path of the Urban Mystic

#1 New Release in Diets & Nutrition, Gerontology, and Aging

One of America's top yoga and embodied mindfulness teachers reveals secrets and practices for optimal aging

Relationships matter. Super Ager has everything you need to know to "live long and prosper"; from movement, diet, fasting, brain and memory health to the major impact of relationships on longevity.

Younger aging. Filled with science, suggestions for gentle daily movement, natural remedies and modern wisdom, Super Ager is a practical and concise guide to optimal aging. Yoga instructor, nutrition expert and healthy living blogger Elise Marie Collins has compiled a comprehensive look at what “Super Agers” are doing to live long and prosper. Learn about movement at any age, brain fitness and memory maintenance, foods, vitamin and mineral content cues and clues, and what they do to promote health, prevent disease, and decrease and reverse symptoms of illness.

Increased lifespan, better healthspan. In her revolutionary book, Collins presents us with a bold new paradigm of aging, showing us how we can increase not only our lifespan but also our health span. Through a journey of cultures that have the distinction of producing some of the world’s healthiest, oldest people, Collins reveals the secrets for living an extended and fulfilling life in which our later years become a period of wisdom, vitality, and happiness. From India to Japan, northern Europe and the Greek Island of Ikaria “where people forgot to die,” she shows how the unique lifestyles of these people can influence and improve our own lives.

If you liked books such as Empowered Aging, Retirement: The First 365 Days or The Best is Yet to Be, you will want to read Super Ager.

Turn Heartache into Empowerment

When author Tatiana Jerome had a bad experience with a relationship breakup, she decided to explore her feelings through communicating with other women on social media. By facing her pain and challenges, even acknowledging what she did to contribute to the relationship’s failure, she began to heal and move beyond the broken heart to a better understanding of what would make her happy, and, most of all, of the type of love she deserved. Her insightful posts and blogs went viral, and soon other women were coming to her for advice and support.

Based on Tatiana’s journey and that of other women she has coached, Love Lost, Love Found is a woman-to-woman conversation that nurtures each woman hurting over her breakup by allowing her to let go of her past, find love within herself, and welcome new love into her life. You’ll learn to avoid self-sabotaging behavior and other things on Tatiana’s “drop list,” implement a personal action plan, attend to your physical well-being, and stay connected to your spiritual life. Uplifting and honest, Tatiana helps you ask the difficult questions and face reality while building a better life by prioritizing self-respect, self-care, and self-confidence. You’ll discover that focusing on your own healing, spirituality, and growth is the surest path to leading an extraordinary life and attracting new love.

Hints for Lovers explores the romantic rules of engagement by providing a detailed strategy to help readers successfully navigate and improve their own personal relationships. It offers a light-hearted take on how to find and maintain love in any era.

The author frequently examines the fundamental differences between men and women and how they inform romantic expression. He dives into the psychology of relationships as well as the impact of intimacy such as kissing and making love. It’s a comprehensive analysis of courtship that ranges from dating to engagement and ultimately, marriage.

Published in 1909, Hints for Lovers is greatly influenced by the social constructs of the early twentieth century. The tongue-in-cheek anecdotes consist of many dating principles that are still relevant today. Arnold Haultain’s playful point of view makes for an entertaining and delightful read.

With an eye-catching new cover, and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Hints for Lovers is both modern and readable.

Since our inception in 2020, Mint Editions has kept sustainability and innovation at the forefront of our mission. Each and every Mint Edition title gets a fresh, professionally typeset manuscript and a dazzling new cover, all while maintaining the integrity of the original book.

With thousands of titles in our collection, we aim to spotlight diverse public domain works to help them find modern audiences. Mint Editions celebrates a breadth of literary works, curated from both canonical and overlooked classics from writers around the globe.

Seahorses is a groundbreaking anthology that shares the experiences of trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people who have navigated pregnancy.

What can trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive people expect from pregnancy? What roles do supportive friends, family members, and care providers play? What are some of the fabulous family structures folks are creating?

This collection brings together a wide spectrum of voices to share unique stories about navigating family building, pregnancy, fertility treatments, conception, loss, healthcare, abortion, childbirth, the early days of parenting, and the intersections of legal, political, and cultural contexts. Alongside individual stories, this book features collaborative round-table discussions where contributors address shared questions about personal journeys, community, advice and information, and pregnancy care.

Seahorses is both a vital resource for trans, nonbinary, and gender-expansive communities and an invitation for readers of all genders to get a glimpse of trans joy and resilience that will stick with you and inspire you to love a little deeper. This book is an essential addition to conversations about gender, pregnancy, and family.

Contributors include Amari Ayomide, Amber Hickey, Felix Aster, g k somers, Halo Dawn, Jacoby Ballard, J. Workman, Jamie Cayley, Jess F Gutfreund, Kara Johnson Martone, Kathy Slaughter, LÍfthrasir Green, Aakash Kishore, Simon Knaphus, Simone Kolysh, Tom, and Zillah Rose.

Este libro, que se ha convertido en bestseller instantáneo del New York Times, nos demuestra lo importante que son las amistades para nuestro bienestar emocional y nos descubre cómo la teoría del apego nos condiciona a la hora de hacer amigos.

La amistad es tan necesaria como el amor: con este novedoso enfoque, la Dra. Marisa G. Franco nos muestra lo importantes que son las amistades y cómo mejorarlas y valorarlas como nunca antes ¡La teoría del apego también aplica a los amigos!

¿Cómo hacemos y conservamos amigos en una era de distracción, agotamiento y caos, especialmente en una sociedad que a menudo valora el amor romántico a expensas de otras relaciones? Hacer nuevos amigos y profundizar en relaciones duraderas es posible a cualquier edad; de hecho, es esencial. Forjar vínculos duraderos con otras personas no es una ciencia exacta, pero requiere trabajo. La buena noticia es que existen maneras de mejorar la cantidad y la calidad de tus relaciones utilizando los conocimientos de la teoría del apego y las últimas investigaciones científicas sobre la amistad.

En Platónico, la Dra. Marisa G. Franco analiza los últimos hallazgos, a menudo contrarios a la intuición, sobre los vínculos de amistad. Por ejemplo, por qué tus amigos no te responden mensajes de texto (¡no es porque te odien!) o el mito de las “amistades espontáneas” (¡hacer amigos, como cultivar cualquier relación, requiere esfuerzo!). Como explica la autora, para hacer y conservar amigos debes conocer tu estilo de apego (seguro, ansioso o evitativo): esa es la clave para descubrir qué funciona (y qué falla) en tus amistades.

Combinando investigaciones recientes con entrevistas, historias personales y consejos prácticos, Platónico ofrece un plan claro y práctico para forjar conexiones fuertes y duraderas con los demás, y así convertirnos en personas más felices y plenas en el proceso.

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This book, an instant New York Times bestseller, reveals the crucial role friendships play in our emotional well-being and uncovers how attachment theory influences our ability to make friends.

Friendship is as essential as love: With this innovative approach, Dr. Marisa G. Franco shows us the importance of friendships and how to improve and value them like never before. Yes, attachment theory applies to friends too!

How do we make and keep friends in an era of distraction, exhaustion, and chaos, especially in a society that often prioritizes romantic love over other relationships? Making new friends and deepening lasting relationships is possible at any age; in fact, it’s essential. Building lasting bonds with others isn’t an exact science, but it does require effort. The good news is that there are ways to enhance the quantity and quality of your relationships using insights from attachment theory and the latest scientific research on friendship.

In Platonic, Dr. Marisa G. Franco explores the latest, often counterintuitive findings about friendship bonds. For example, why your friends don’t reply to your texts (it’s not because they hate you!) or the myth of “spontaneous friendships” (making friends, like cultivating any relationship, takes effort!). As the author explains, to make and keep friends, you need to understand your attachment style (secure, anxious, or avoidant): this is the key to discovering what works (and what doesn’t) in your friendships.

Combining recent research with interviews, personal stories, and practical advice, Platonic offers a clear and practical plan for forging strong and lasting connections with others, helping us become happier and more fulfilled in the process.

HOW TO PREPARE YOUR TEEN TO SUCCEED IN A COMPLEX WORLD

There are so many influences on teens and young adults today, the flood is impossible to control. Often, teens’ questions about themselves and their futures are too much for parents to handle alone, or worse, go unnoticed and unanswered. The consequence of ignoring these can lead to decades of unnecessary struggle. Adolescence Is Not a Disease offers innovative, real-life, real-world solutions to problems both parents and teens face.

Internationally recognized mentor, Jeffrey Leiken, explains the three distinct stages of the deep and complex inner journey each teen goes through in becoming a self-sufficient adult, and how you can help your teens answer their most urgent and challenging questions and move toward fulfilling adulthoods.

Leiken shares themes, struggles, and solutions almost all teens and their parents face, highlighting the differences between coming-of-age in the twenty-first century, while honoring the universal constants that we all went through. Leiken poignantly discourages parents from blindly deferring to the pervasive, contemporary, one-dimensional, feardriven “expert advice” that too often pathologizes adolescence, misunderstands it, and creates the problems it then tries (and mostly fails) to fix. Rather than try to become an expert in parenting, Leiken will help you to instead become an expert in raising your own.

You are creating your family. You may not know how (or with whom) quite yet, but you are on your way.




Conceivable: A Guide to Making 2SLGBTQ+ Family moves beyond the birds and the bees to consider the politics, challenges, choices and opportunities for agency and joy involved in 2SLGBTQ+ fertility, conception and family building in Canada. With contributions from healthcare workers, mental health professionals and support people in the field of reproductive health and 2SLGBTQ+ sexual care, this book is an honest and thorough look at growing your family.



Conceivable is for birthing parents, non-gestational parents, families seeking a surrogate or donor, and those who do not yet know what they need. With illustrations, worksheets and activities to help you think about the intimate questions of communication, relationship building and community, this guide will prepare you with the knowledge you need to navigate advocacy, rights and regulations.

Expert guidance for parents on growing up their kids

Psychologist Carl Pickhardt offers insight from his thirty years of experience counseling caregivers on how to navigate the adolescent development process—from eight to eighteen. For most parents, the onset of puberty brings an unexpected, even unwelcome change in their child’s behavior, which can cause bewilderment, confusion, and sadness. Dr. Pickhardt’s comforting and knowledgeable voice points out that not only can growth change many beloved characteristics of their child, but also it can alter dynamics in the relationship. Parents, teachers, and caretakers will find comfort with effective practices to help kids achieve responsible independence from the end of childhood through young adulthood and beyond.

Cozy up with You Can Always Come Home, a charming compilation of short stories serving as a reminder that there is always hope amidst life’s challenges.

From nostalgic church potlucks to delightful encounters with quirky neighbors, these tales will touch your soul, reminding you of who you are and rekindling the hope hidden in long-forgotten memories. 

In this fast-paced world of constant demands, these stories offer a sanctuary of solace to pause and reflect on what matters most. The good stuff, the God stuff. They capture those transformative moments that turn shattered fragments into something breathtakingly beautiful. No matter how hard or scary life becomes, hope glimmers in the moments where the Lord’s healing touch shines through the fractures to mend the brokenness. 

Come open the sock drawer and dig around for the memories that got stuffed in there long ago –waiting to rekindle your hope and bring you back to a place of belonging.

Examining the AIDS pandemic and Japanese A-bomb literature, this book asks the question of how the experience of unimaginable and unrepresentable loss affects the experience and constitution of the social and the discourses of history. It argues that those objects which are presumptively given to thought under the rubrics of “AIDS” and “Hiroshima/Nagasaki” pose an essential threat, in their existentiality, to conceptual thought and, ultimately, to rationality altogether. It therefore argues that any serious thinking about AIDS and nuclear terror must think the essential insufficiency of thought to its putative objects—the insufficiency of “society” to think sociality, the insufficiency of “history” to think historicity.

The author first attempts to think the incapacity of every invocation of historical consciousness (or, indeed, of “history” itself) to think the existential historicity of that event which is presumptively not only its object but its ground. Readings of works by Nishida Kitaro, Ota Yoko, and Takenishi Hiroko written in the aftermath of Hiroshima and Nagasaki attempt to mark the limit of historical consciousness. The author then considers erotic sociality in the time of AIDS, specifically as articulated in texts by David Wojnarowicz, focusing on the themes of vulnerability, anonymity, the erotic, and nomadism.

Parenting Teen Boys with Love and Confidence

“John is the real deal… He knows what kids are dealing with, what their struggles are, where their strengths lie, what they know, and what they need.”—Giuliana Rancic,  journalist, television personality, and infotainer

#1 Best Seller in Popular Adolescent Psychology

Dr. John Duffy; bestselling author of Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety, clinical psychologist, and parenting expert; offers 8 practical solutions for dealing with our national crisis of disaffected boys and young men.

How to help our sons grow into happy, successful, capable adults. Recent decades have shown that boys are simply not thriving the way they should be. In Rescuing Our Sons, Dr. Duffy has developed 8 practical parenting steps to improve your understanding of your teenager, equip him with life skills to improve his present and his future, and bring your family together.

Become the effective, confident parent your teen needs. Raising responsible, confident boys is difficult, especially through the teen years. Dr. Duffy is dedicated to helping you encourage your son’s growth with positive parenting tips.

Inside, you’ll find:

• Practical and proven parenting strategies for dealing with the common issues that teen boys face, including gaming addictions, pornography, vaping, and drug use
• New perspectives and insights on your son’s teenage brain and behavior that will help you develop a more meaningful relationship with him
• Methods for effectively raising a motivated young man who can overcome depression, anxiety, and risky behaviors

Readers of books on parenting teens, such as The Teenage Brain, How to Raise an Adult, He’s Not Lazy, or Parenting the New Teen in the Age of Anxiety, will want to pick up a copy of Dr. Duffy’s Rescuing Our Sons. 

Help and hope for parents of children with learning differences.

Every child can succeed in school and life, but some children need more help than others. For over 40 years, internationally acclaimed reading specialist and student advocate Dr. Victoria E. Waller has helped children who have trouble reading, who can't sit still in class, who don't feel like they can participate—children whom teachers have all but given up on. In Yes! Your Child Can, Dr. Waller shares with parents, teachers, and therapists her proven techniques to create success for children with learning differences and draw out the singular genius within your child.

In compassionate, nontechnical, easy-to-understand language, Yes! Your Child Can gives step-by-step guidance on how to help your child achieve in school and build lifelong intellectual confidence. Drawing on the latest science and her own wide-ranging experience, Dr. Waller explains why it's important to pay attention to your first gut feeling that your child may need extra help and shows how to navigate testing, medication, and choosing a team to help your child.

Most importantly, Yes! Your Child Can shows you how to use your child's natural strengths and passions to build their academic, social, and personal confidence. Dr. Waller empowers parents to let their children follow their own interests, whether that's learning about sharks, reading to the dog, or building with Legos and writing about their creations. With Dr. Waller's help, learning can be motivating and fun. Dr. Waller's techniques are smart, caring, and effective with any child, no matter their current or past educational difficulties.

Respectful, compassionate, and offering real help, Yes! Your Child Can is the first book every parent of a child with learning differences should read.

With the right information, parents can help children to overcome their anxiety, guiding any child to lessen their worrying and reduce their avoidance of challenging tasks.

Childhood anxiety is much more prevalent these days, and parents and carers need to be able to help their kids to prevent dangerous escalation. With 18 years of expert, qualified experience, the author shows how to help children and tweens build up the necessary brain architecture and perspective, and create the emotional reserves and balance needed throughout life.

Parent-led strategies for managing child anxiety based in cognitive behavioral approaches are vital for the successful treatment of mild to moderate levels of child anxiety. Parents, carers and grandparents are on the spot when a child is behaving anxiously and simple interventions by them can be used across time as an effective treatment for child anxiety.

User-friendly features in this book include:

• Case studies of a family who have successfully tackled their children’s anxious behavior.
• Worksheets outlining the methodical steps parents should take.
• Advice on how to manage a child’s digital world.
• Tips to help worried parents deal with their own anxious thoughts and feelings.

You’re the one who’s in your child’s life for the long run — it’s important that you know what to do when anxious moments arise.

How parents can help children with Asperger's Syndrome to grow and prosper

If you are raising a child with Asperger's Syndrome, it can be a real challenge to find answers to your questions and make decisions while trying to keep pace with the latest developments in research and changes in the growth and behavior of your child. This book comes to the rescue by combining the latest medical information and interventions with clearcut strategies to help your child thrive at home and at school.

• Covers the biological, psychological, social, and spiritual development of children with Asperger's syndrome from 18 months through adolescence
• Presents the most up-to-date scientific data on Asperger's Syndrome, including the latest neuro-imaging research
• Offers practical strategies for shaping social interactions, coping with repetitive thoughts and behavior, addressing sensory needs or avoidance, encouraging interests without enabling obsessions, and other challenges
• Reviews the advantages and disadvantages of available medical treatments, complementary therapies, and early intervention strategies
• Written by a medical doctor and an educator who has a child with Asperger's

From getting a diagnosis, to finding the best schooling options, to helping your child with day-to-day issues and challenges, Asperger's Syndrome is an essential practical resource you will turn to again and again for reliable and current information.

In the 1960s, Iona and Peter Opie observed that although many books had been written about how children should play, none had been written about how they actually played. To fill the gap they carried out an exhaustive survey, through the decade, of the games that children 'in fact play' when aged roughly between six and twelve years of age, and when outdoors -- and usually when out of sight.

The result was their classic work Children's Games in Street and Playground. It records games played in streets, parks, playgrounds and wastelands by more than 10,000 children across the UK from the Shetland Isles to the Channel Islands, although the majority of the information comes from children living in big cities such as London, Liverpool, Bristol and Glasgow.

In all, around 125 games are described in detail, including the rhymes and sayings children repeat while playing them, together with the different names they are called. Brief historical notes are also included where relevant.

There are important lessons to be learned from this book about giving children the time and physical space to be themselves with other children.

Previously published as Children's Games in Street and Playground, Volume 1 and Volume 2.

Discover A New Approach to Positive Parenting

Internationally known family therapist and parenting expert Judy Ford knows a thing or two about family relationships. After all, she’s a parent herself and offers advice and insight for all kinds of parents.

Family life isn’t easy. It’s a never-ending journey that is certainly rewarding in the end. Wonderful Ways To Be a Family gives you Ford’s tried and true approach to what it means to be a family. Inspirational messages coupled with expert advice creates the ultimate parenting guide.

Refreshingly honest. From raising kids to marriage, it isn’t a smooth task, yet Ford’s accessible and friendly style offers practical suggestions and helpful advice for every situation imaginable. Gain support and knowledge with:

• Real-Life examples of how to handle conflict
• Inspirational stories filled with encouraging messages and lessons
• Professional advice on a variety of scenarios

Whether you’re a new parent or a veteran, Wonderful Ways to Be a Family offers a combination of professional and practical guidance that any parent can apply to their family dynamic.

If you enjoyed books like How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, The Explosive Child, or How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide, then you’ll love Wonderful Ways to Be a Family.

Life Lessons for the Teenage Girl : Quotes, Inspiration, and Advice for Women by Women provides valuable and entertaining advice to adolescent girls from women who have attained success in business, politics, sports, and entertainment. These are women teen girls can look up to as role models. Some are well known to today's teens, while others are women from whom they could still learn much. The goal is to spare the reader some of the challenges and frustrations that the contributors themselves may have faced, and if the reader cannot be spared, she can at least gain comfort in the knowledge that she is not alone in the experience. The author draws upon her education and experience as a clinical psychologist to explore and examine the individual contributions. By doing so, she offers insight into mental health exercises and coping mechanisms girls can utilize to survive and thrive beyond their teen years.

A clinical psychologist specializing in children and adolescents shares the secret language of boys and how to reconnect with them.

All too quickly, talkative, affectionate young boys seem to slip away. Adolescents may be transformed overnight into reclusive, seemingly impenetrable young people who open up only to their friends and spend more time on devices than with family. How do you penetrate this shell before they are lost to you?

Drawing on decades of experience garnered through thousands of hours of therapy with boys, Cracking the Boy Code explains how the key to communicating with boys is understanding their universal psychological needs and using specific, straightforward communication techniques. Coverage includes:

• Why it’s important to understand the psychological needs of boys
• How to talk to be heard, and listen to understand
• The crucial role of non-verbal cues
• Learning the universal tone that helps boys listen
• Motivating boys to become their authentic selves
• Using purposeful work to teach boys self-respect and confidence
• Reducing stress and creating greater closeness between boys and caregivers

Cracking the Boy Code is essential reading for parents, caregivers, teachers, youth workers, coaches, and others who want to make a real connection with the boys in their lives.

Praise for Cracking the Boy Code

“Cox unpacks in simple language the intricacies of communicating with boys . . . . The book is an educational revelation resulting from remarkable face to face research, and provides an exceptional tool to help parents and teachers understand what makes boys tick.” —David Anderson B.A, Dip TG, B.Ed, Cert. of Care, Sydney Australia IBSC Jarvis/Hawley Award Baltimore USA 2017

“A thoughtful, accessible guide to developing meaningful communication with the boys in our lives. Adam Cox’s insights, grounded in practical wisdom cultivated over decades of clinical work with boys, provide readers with compelling possibilities for using non-verbal cues, tone of voice, hands-on activity, and empathetic listening to connect with boys in a manner both deep and enduring . . . . Dr. Cox’s latest work is both inspiring and instructive.” —Dr. John M. Botti, Head of School, The Browning School

Everything you need to know to create an intentional community from scratch

An intentional community is a group of people who have chosen to live or work together in pursuit of a common ideal or vision. An ecovillage is a village-scale intentional community that intends to create, ecological, social, economic, and spiritual sustainability over several generations.

The 90s saw a revitalized surge of interest in intentional communities and ecovillages in North America: the number of intentional communities listed in the Communities Directory increased 60 percent between 1990 and 1995. But only 10 percent of the actual number of forming-community groups actually succeeded. Ninety percent failed, often in conflict and heartbreak. After visiting and interviewing founders of dozens of successful and failed communities, along with her own forming-community experiences, the author concluded that "the successful 10 percent" had all done the same five or six things right, and "the unsuccessful 90 percent" had made the same handful of mistakes. Recognizing that a wealth of wisdom were contained in these experiences, she set out to distill and capture them in one place.

Creating a Life Together is the only resource available that provides step-by-step, practical "how-to" information on how to launch and sustain a successful ecovillage or intentional community. Through anecdotes, stories, and cautionary tales about real communities, and by profiling seven successful communities in depth, the book examines "the successful 10 percent" and why 90 percent fail; the role of community founders; getting a group off to a good start; vision and vision documents; decision-making and governance; agreements; legal options; finding, financing, and developing land; structuring a community economy; selecting new members; and communication, process, and dealing well with conflict. Sample vision documents, community agreements, and visioning exercises are included, along with abundant resources for learning more.

Become Your Own Life Coach

An inspirational book of self-care. For over a decade, four women came together for weekly “kitchen table coaching” sessions that they designed to enable them to support each other through life’s ups and downs. The power and strength of their collective friendship has enabled them to not only survive but to thrive, and the remarkable results can be found in this collection of lessons, stories, and wisdom. With this book, you can learn how to turn any unfortunate event into a joy-filled opportunity.

Overcome adversity, embrace change, and discover your power—together. In addition to stories and advice, This Is Not the Life I Ordered will teach you how to put together your own gathering of kitchen-table friends. At the end of each section, you will find tools that you can work with as a group to help each other grow, learn, and thrive. Don't get stuck telling your friends that "everything happens for a reason" over and over again—learn how to encourage them effectively and love them well.

Show yourself and others compassion, kindness, and forgiveness. Part autobiography, part self-help book, and all useful and actionable content, the authors and friends pulled from their experiences supporting one another to help you do the same. If you are struggling with work, family, love, or just life in general, This Is Not the Life I Ordered is for you. In this book, you'll find advice and stories that will help you grow to be better than before. Topics include:

• Managing misfortune
• Finding courage
• Understanding money
• Reinventing yourself
• Learning to love your mistakes
• Facing naysayers
• And much more!

Readers of motivational books and personal growth books like Tell Me More, On Being Human, and Carry On, Warrior will be inspired by This Is Not the Life I Ordered.

This vivid portrayal of the late Elizabeth (Betty) Murray recreates the life and times of one of Nova Scotia’s finest educators and community leaders, a does at the grassroots. It examines her activities as a highly innovative rural and urban teacher, as a liaison between Acadia University’s education students and their wider rural community, as a founding member of the provincial Adult Education division and, in retirement, as the author and director of a series of history plays with music about her village of Tatamagouche.

This is a portrait of the changing nature of community, from the traditional and rural model experienced as mid-century to the utilitarian and more urbanized society of today. The values that informed the work of Murray and her colleagues underscore contradictions inherent in contemporary claims of education and action, such as those surrounding wholistic learning, greater choice, advantages of parental involvement, and decentralized decision-making.

Heading into the unknown world of adult orphanhood?

Helping one’s parents as they age and eventually leave this world can be difficult. While caring for them perfectly isn’t a realistic expectation, it is possible to let them go without losing sight of kindness and compassion for them and the caregiver.

When parents begin to need assistance, the path from mild annoyance to complete overwhelm can change in an instant. Given the combination of family dynamics, health concerns, and current life responsibilities, it should be little surprise that there is no “one-size-fits-all” answer. Friction between siblings, parents, and caregivers can quickly intensify as everyone tries to map out the best plan of action.

Having lost her father at a young age and then much later assisting her mother through the last years of her long life, author Ingrid Hanson-Popp offers both soulful advice and practical tips through her own story and the stories of more than a dozen friends who are fellow orphans—those who have entered the new world of life without Mom or Dad.

Becoming an Orphan shares the experiences and advice of others who have experienced the death of a parent, providing hope and direction on becoming an orphan.

• Discover realistic strategies to help during the season of letting parents go.
• Realize how compassion can help one successfully navigate the uncharted waters of grief and becoming an adult orphan.
• Learn tips to take care of oneself while caring for aging parents

This Myra Menville's first book, AND THEN THERE WERE TEN. It is a true love story about a woman who came from a privileged family with thirteen siblings, meets the love of her life on a blind date, breaks her engagement to one of the Gettys, and marries this man David Loker a year later.
The first child was born nine months after the honeymoon (my mother) and over a period of time, and then there were ten!

There are wonderful stories about New Orleans culture and the diversity of the ten children. She ended up wearing her son’s football sweater to keep warm, but  loved that man til the day he died, proving love conquers all. She traded wealth for true love and her life was a testament to what is really important.

Un libro imprescindible para comprender por qué los traumas de nuestra infancia nos siguen afectando si no han sido integrados en nuestro cerebro de manera sana, y cómo resolverlos.

Solemos pensar que el trauma es aquello que acontece a un porcentaje muy bajo de la población ante situaciones estresantes extremas como un desastre natural, un accidente aéreo o un maltrato físico severo. Sin embargo, hoy en día los expertos consideran el trauma la epidemia invisible de la infancia. Los traumas se pueden desarrollar en cualquier momento de nuestra vida, aunque la infancia es el momento más probable debido a la vulnerabilidad que la caracteriza. Una situación estresante se convertirá en traumática si el adulto impide que el menor exprese las emociones que ha experimentado. Además, frases como «no pasa nada» o «no hay que llorar por esa tontería» pueden hacer que la situación se convierta en traumática.

En este libro de Rafa Guerrero, psicoterapeuta especializado en trauma y apego, entenderemos qué es un trauma y qué podemos hacer para prevenirlo. Veremos que algunas situaciones normalizadas en nuestra sociedad como el castigo, los chantajes y el abandono emocional son potencialmente traumáticas en la infancia. Los profesionales de la salud tendemos a diagnosticar de TDAH, depresión o trastorno negativista desafiante a quien realmente está traumatizado por abuso sexual, maltrato, acoso escolar o abandono emocional. En este libro, el prestigioso psicoterapeuta describe los síntomas más frecuentes del trauma, las distintas formas de maltrato en la infancia, cómo es un cerebro traumatizado y nos da unas pautas sencillas para prevenir el trauma en niños y adolescentes. Además, todos los capítulos tienen como protagonistas a pacientes que han pasado por su consulta para entender mejor cómo afecta nuestra infancia a la etapa adulta.

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 An essential book to understand why childhood traumas continue to affect us if they haven’t been integrated into our brains in a healthy way, and how to resolve them.

We often think that trauma happens to a very small percentage of the population in extreme stressful situations like a natural disaster, a plane crash, or severe physical abuse. However, experts today consider trauma to be the invisible epidemic of childhood. Traumas can develop at any time in our lives, but childhood is the most likely time due to its inherent vulnerability. A stressful situation becomes traumatic if the adult prevents the child from expressing the emotions they have experienced. Additionally, phrases like “it’s nothing” or “don’t cry over that” can make the situation traumatic.

In this book by Rafa Guerrero, a psychotherapist specializing in trauma and attachment, we will understand what trauma is and what we can do to prevent it. We will see that some normalized situations in our society, such as punishment, blackmail, and emotional abandonment, are potentially traumatic in childhood. Health professionals tend to diagnose ADHD, depression, or oppositional defiant disorder in those who are actually traumatized by sexual abuse, mistreatment, bullying, or emotional abandonment. In this book, the renowned psychotherapist describes the most common symptoms of trauma, the different forms of childhood abuse, what a traumatized brain looks like, and gives us simple guidelines to prevent trauma in children and adolescents. Additionally, each chapter features patients who have been through his practice to better understand how our childhood affects our adult life.

Una mirada singular a las constelaciones familiares por su máximo referente en lengua española.

Los vínculos, las raíces, las relaciones y el amor son las unidades básicas de la vida y nos convierten en lo que realmente somos. ¿Por qué son tan importantes? ¿Cómo nos sostienen, y cómo su ausencia, o su negación, nos causan sufrimiento e infelicidad? Cuando aparece, el dolor nos pide un enfoque inédito que nos permita superarlo. Esta es la función de las constelaciones familiares: una herramienta de autoconocimiento que nos insta a comprender el pasado, crear salud para el presente y auspiciar un buen futuro. Una llave maestra que logra abrir puertas cerradas durante generaciones y nos sirve para orientarnos en el laberinto de la existencia.

El psicólogo y gestaltista Joan Garriga, referente mundial de esta terapia sistémica, traslada las constelaciones familiares al campo de la filosofía, la ética y la espiritualidad. A través de anécdotas, cuentos de sabiduría, relatos mitológicos y casos reales, observaremos las tramas sutiles que las personas experimentan en su vida, llevándonos a una nueva comprensión de la condición humana.

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A unique look at family constellations because of their maximum reference in the Spanish language.

Bonds, roots, relationships, and love are the basic units of life and make us who we really are. Why are they so important? How do they sustain us, and how does their absence, or their denial, cause us suffering and unhappiness? When it appears, pain asks us for an unprecedented approach that allows us to overcome it. This is the function of family constellations: a tool for self-knowledge that urges us to understand the past, create health for the present, and hope for a good future. A master key that manages to open doors closed for generations and serves to orient us in the labyrinth of existence.

The psychologist and gestaltist Joan Garriga, a world leader in this systemic therapy, transfers family constellations to the field of philosophy, ethics and spirituality. Through anecdotes, tales of wisdom, mythological stories, and real cases, we will observe the subtle plots that people experience in their lives, leading us to a new understanding of the human condition.

No eres culpable de lo que viviste en la infancia pero sí eres responsable de tu adultez.

El legado de una infancia tóxica es fácil de reconocer pero difícil de interiorizar y superar. Los padres dejan semillas emocionales en sus hijos. En algunas familias, éstas son de respeto, amor e independencia, pero en otras, son de miedo, culpa y autocastigo. Si hay cierta identificación con el segundo grupo, falta entender el legado nocivo de los padres y comprometerse a cambiar los pensamientos dañinos que han marcado, dejar ir las emociones negativas que rigen la vida y reconocer que, mientras se liberen las enredaderas de la infancia, se vivirá un ciclo autodestructivo.

Todos los padres emocionalmente sanos se equivocan; el problema es cuando lo hacen intencionalmente y de manera repetitiva. Los hijos de padres tóxicos tienden a relacionar el amor con sufrimiento, a caer en relaciones de dependencia, a vivir con culpa y, más importante aún, a repetir los patrones destructivos que sufrieron en su niñez. No se es culpable de lo vivido en la infancia pero sí de lo ocurrido en la adultez. Este libro es el primer paso para tener una vida plena, romper los patrones perjudiciales vividos y criar una familia sana.

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You are not to blame for what you experienced in childhood but you are responsible for your adulthood.

The legacy of a toxic childhood is easy to recognize but difficult to internalize and overcome. Parents leave emotional seeds in their children. In some families, these are of respect, love, and independence, but in others, they are of fear, guilt, and self-punishment. If there is some identification with the second group, there is a lack of understanding the harmful legacy of parents and committing to change the harmful thoughts they have marked, letting go of the negative emotions that govern life and recognizing that, as long as the vines of childhood are released, a self-destructive cycle will be experienced.

All emotionally healthy parents make mistakes; the problem is when they do it intentionally and repetitively. Children of toxic parents tend to associate love with suffering, to fall into dependent relationships, to live with guilt and, most importantly, to repeat the destructive patterns they suffered in their childhood. You are not guilty of what you experienced in childhood but you are guilty of what happened in adulthood. This book is the first step to having a full life, breaking harmful patterns lived and raising a healthy family.

Las heridas emocionales son complejas e infectan la mente, el cuerpo y el espíritu. Su impacto se extiende a gran velocidad a otros miembros de la familia, afectando así a todo el linaje. A esto se le conoce como trauma generacional y provoca que las personas sean complacientes, que se involucren en relaciones codependientes y que experimenten culpa, tristeza, depresión y ansiedad.

La doctora Mariel Buqué, reconocida experta en trauma, creó esta innovadora guía para transformar el dolor en abundancia generacional. Al entretejer la investigación científica con ejercicios prácticos, que incluyen respiración consciente, reiki y aromaterapia, te enseña cómo se transmite el trauma dentro de una familia y cómo puedes romper su ciclo desde la raíz, para heredarles fuerza en lugar de dolor a las generaciones futuras.

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The Instant National Bestseller

The definitive, paradigm-shifting guide to healing intergenerational trauma—weaving together scientific research with practical exercises and stories from the therapy room—from Dr. Mariel Buqué, PhD, a Columbia University–trained trauma-informed psychologist and practitioner of holistic healing

From Dr. Mariel Buqué, a leading trauma psychologist, comes this groundbreaking guide to transforming intergenerational pain into intergenerational abundance. With Break the Cycle, she delivers the definitive guide to healing inherited trauma. Weaving together scientific research with practical exercises and stories from the therapy room, Dr. Buqué teaches readers how trauma is transmitted from one generation to the next and how they can break the cycle through tangible therapeutic practices, learning to pass down strength instead of pain to future generations.

Las personas que amamos y las que nos criaron viven en nosotros. Experimentamos su dolor emocional, soñamos sus recuerdos y moldean nuestras vidas de maneras que no siempre reconocemos. Herencia emocional nos desvela los secretos familiares que nos impiden alcanzar nuestro máximo potencial en la vida, que nos persiguen como fantasmas y que crean brechas entre lo que queremos y lo que podemos tener. 

En esta transformadora obra, Galit Atlas entrelaza las historias de sus pacientes, las suyas propias y décadas de investigación para ayudarnos a identificar los vínculos entre nuestros conflictos vitales y la «herencia emocional» que acarreamos. Porque solo siguiendo las huellas de esos fantasmas podremos cambiar nuestro destino.

**Goody Business Book Awards 2024: Self-Help - Personal Transformation Winner**

Following an unexpected and unwanted personal upheaval, Dr Tammy Watchorn, the original Change Ninja, became her own real-life case study.

She decided to test just how effective the change management and neuroscience tools she’d been using professionally might be outside the workplace, when the stakes were high, the emotions raw and a wrong decision could end in disaster.

Building on The Change Ninja Handbook’s gamified approach, Tammy’s story unfolds in parallel to you gaining fresh insights with practical tools that will equip you to navigate your own life’s challenges, from managing your emotions to making the right decision when you’ve no idea what to do next.

If you’re facing unwanted change in your life, you might be surprised to find that you already have many of the resources and skills you need, and this story and toolkit will ensure you can easily access them when needed.

Discover how to Ninja your life!

“I love this book. It’s practical, accessible, and full of humour.” - Jenny Landreth, Writer and script editor

"Read this book to find your own recipe and awaken your hidden ‘doer’.” - Margo Waldorf, Founder at Change Awards

Dr Tammy Watchorn’s experiences of leading transformational change in complex highly resistant environments led to The Change Ninja Handbook. She now focuses on writing, training, facilitating and coaching at all levels within and across organizations with a strong focus on change management, neuroscience, behaviours and resistance to change, effective delivery and productivity.

¿Quieres dejar de sufrir por amor y volver a sentirte vivo? ¿Te gustaría conseguirlo de una manera sencilla y sin resentimientos? 

Yo después de ti es un manual que te ayudará a:

• Comprender los motivos de tu tristeza
• Reconocer los motivos de la ruptura sentimental
• Conocer de qué está hecho el amor verdadero
• Pasar página sin amargura ni resentimientos 
• Desarrollar tu autoestima y confianza para ponerte por delante de todo
• Recuperar la ilusión por el presente y volver a la vida con más fuerza y alegría 

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Gio Zararri, author of the bestseller The End of Anxiety, helps us get over a breakup and work on the most important love of our lives: the one we owe ourselves.

• Understanding the Reasons for Your Sadness
• Recognize the reasons for the breakup
• Knowing What True Love Is Made Of
• Turning the page without bitterness or resentment
• Build your self-esteem and confidence to put yourself ahead of everything
• Recover the illusion for the present and return to life with more strength and joy

«Para saber quiénes somos de verdad debemos ser testigos de quiénes hemos sido hasta ahora», Marisa Franco

De la conocida terapeuta y experta en relaciones Vienna Pharaon llega una guía profunda para comprender y trascender las heridas de nuestra familia de origen, heridas que se encuentran en los fundamentos de nuestras relaciones con los demás, con nosotros mismos y con el mundo que nos rodea.

Nadie puede presumir de haber tenido la infancia perfecta. Casi todos arrastramos comportamientos que provienen del pasado que ya no nos sirven o que incluso nos hacen daño, pero esto no tiene por qué ser así. El pasado ha creado ciertos patrones de comportamiento que nos condicionan, sí, pero todos podemos transformarlos… si utilizamos para ello las herramientas adecuadas.

En este libro, Vienna Pharaon nos propone un proceso de sanación muy profundo en el que vamos a comprender nuestra familia de origen, es decir, la familia y el entorno en el que crecimos, y a examinar qué cosas funcionaron (y cuáles no) en ese sistema. Ciertas disfunciones (o heridas) de esa familia de origen se manifiestan en nuestros comportamientos adultos de formas sorprendentes, desde retos en el trabajo a conflictos recurrentes en nuestras relaciones. Pero la buena noticia es que, armándonos con el conocimiento de nuestro pasado, podemos resetear esa programación mental y emocional para mejorar de forma significativa nuestras relaciones y nuestra vida a partir de ahora.

No importa si has ido a terapia durante años o si la terapia no es para ti. No importa si tienes un montón de recuerdos de infancia o si, al contrario, te cuesta encontrar alguno. Lo único que importa es tu voluntad de mirar dentro de ti y tu determinación para encontrar un camino nuevo. Repleto de reflexiones e introspecciones guiadas, experiencias personales, historias de pacientes, ideas concretas para tener conversaciones difíciles y hojas de trabajo que complementan cada capítulo, este libro te enseñará cómo la familia puede nutrir y también destruir… y cómo puedes sanarte a ti mismo para siempre.

Educar a un hijo no es tarea fácil, y menos ante la confusión de los mitos que rodean a la crianza. Al considerar la teoría del apego y los más recientes descubrimientos de las neurociencias, es posible entender cada fase del desarrollo emocional del infante, comprender sus conductas y la manera en que va construyendo las conexiones neuronales que le permitirán responsabilizarse de su comportamiento. Siguiendo esta línea, Teresa García Hubard sostiene que, lejos de criar con castigos y desde una posición de autoridad, los padres deben aprender a construir una relación empática con sus hijos, centrada en la conexión emocional, sustentada en el diálogo y la confianza.

Luego de que atravesamos una pandemia desde la primera edición de este libro, es necesario hablar del papel protagónico que tienen hoy las pantallas y la tecnología en la vida de los seres humanos, por ello, se incluye un nuevo capítulo sobre nuestra relación con estas para tomar mejores decisiones respecto a su papel en la educación de los hijos.

Con este libro, los padres comprenderán que, al educar desde el amor, la comprensión y la empatía, podrán disfrutar de una crianza menos estresante y, sobre todo, formar niños y niñas con seguridad en sí mismos y frente al mundo.

Deseada, buscada, provocada, inadvertida, la soledad puede adoptar muchas formas, pero en la mayoría de casos es una situación que nos da miedo, nos genera rechazo y tratamos de evitar a toda costa. En el mundo actual y especialmente a partir de una cierta edad, parece que la soledad se entiende como un fracaso: estar soltero, divorciado o separado es algo que debe superarse a toda costa. Sin embargo, saber estar solo es en realidad un signo de madurez, de autonomía, de riqueza personal.     

A solas es una oda a la vulnerabilidad, al atrevimiento, a no dejarse vencer. Silvia Congost, una de las psicólogas más conocidas de nuestro país, rompe en este libro, lleno de reflexiones y consejos, con las ideas preconcebidas sobre no tener pareja y nos invita a perderle miedo al monstruo de la soledad desde su propia experiencia. A quedarnos en silencio escuchando nuestro cuerpo, conectando con los latidos de nuestro corazón, con el ruido de nuestra respiración u observando la forma y el contenido de nuestros pensamientos. A atravesar los tortuosos caminos de la soledad hasta llegar a la propia liberación, esa que solo se consigue cuando vamos de frente, sin dejar de avanzar.      

Aprender a estar a solas puede ser la mayor aventura de tu vida y un viaje fascinante hacia tu interior que te conectará con el mundo y contigo mism@.

Desired, sought, provoked, unnoticed, loneliness can take many forms, but in most cases it is a situation that scares us, generates rejection and we try to avoid at all costs. In today's world and especially after a certain age, it seems that loneliness is understood as a failure: being single, divorced or separated is something that must be overcome at all costs. However, knowing how to be alone is actually a sign of maturity, autonomy, personal wealth.     

Alone is an ode to vulnerability, to daring, to not letting oneself be defeated. Silvia Congost, one of the best-known psychologists in our country, breaks in this book, full of reflections and advice, with preconceived ideas about not having a partner and invites us to lose fear of the monster of loneliness from her own experience. To remain silent listening to our body, connecting with our heartbeat, with the noise of our breath or observing the form and content of our thoughts. To cross the tortuous paths of solitude until you reach your own liberation, the one that is only achieved when you go straight ahead, without stopping advancing.      

Learning to be alone can be the greatest adventure of your life and a fascinating journey into your interior that will connect you with the world and with you.

Aquí te va una verdad dolorosa: El amor no es suficiente para mantener unida a una pareja. Y, en algunos casos, aquello que tú consideras «amor» no es más que posesión, miedo y costumbre. Walter Riso explora algunos de los motivos que llevan a las personas a cansarse de su relación. Si no estás incómodo con tu vida amorosa, y lo has intentado casi todo, quizá sea hora de replantearse algo más de fondo.

¿El amor se terminó o eres tú quien se cansó de ese amor? A partir de cartas de despedida escritas por el autor, aprende a decir adiós cuando solo puedes pensar: «Te amo, ¡pero ya no te aguanto!».

Deja de sufrir inútilmente y permite que el realismo se imponga.

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10 Principles for Affective Survival

Nuestra manera de estar en el mundo muchas veces está condicionada por las secuelas que nos dejaron las heridas infantiles. Cómo somos, qué pensamos, qué sentimos y cómo actuamos en nuestras relaciones viene en gran parte determinado por ese periodo crucial de nuestra vida. El psicólogo y psicoterapeuta Jordi Gil Martín nos propone sanar las heridas latentes que vienen de la infancia y nos afectan en la edad adulta. Esta es nuestra misión vital si queremos dejar de reaccionar desde el pasado y tomar las riendas de nuestra vida.

En este libro descubriremos la importancia de sanar, proteger, cobijar y cuidar a nuestro niño interior, así como la necesidad de reconectar con nuestra magia infantil para conquistar nuestra fortaleza interna. Prestar atención a las heridas de la infancia significa acabar con un daño crónico que nos entorpece, atasca y frena en el camino a la felicidad.

Podemos recuperarnos de las heridas infantiles, mejorar nuestras relaciones y vivir con mayor armonía y conciencia para desarrollar todo nuestro potencial.

EL AMOR PUEDE MORIR. Algunas veces anuncia su final y en otras solo sucede. En todos los casos siempre implica un proceso doloroso. 

¿Cómo saber si una relación está agonizando o puede ser salvada? ¿Por qué motivos fallece? ¿Qué acaba con la pasión? ¿Sabrías tomar el mejor camino para afrontar una ruptura? Quizá no sepas cuál será el destino, pero lo cierto es que su final no es tu propio fin. 

Gaby Pérez Islas, la tanatóloga más reconocida de México, aborda en este, su séptimo libro, el duelo de la muerte del amor. Con su particular calidez y su experiencia terapéutica, a través de ejercicios y testimonios, te ayuda a reconocer los indicios del desamor, a revertirlos y a darle un giro a la relación. Y si realmente fuera el momento del adiós, Gaby te toma de la mano para mostrarte cuáles son las herramientas emocionales que te permitirán elaborar bien tu duelo y diseñar un nuevo proyecto de vida.

The School of Life’s approach to love - in a pocket format 

In the first of a series of pocket books, The School of Life has distilled its most essential ideas on love in order to produce a bitesize manual that is both useful and entertaining. 

We learn – among other things – how to pick partners more reliably, how to avoid conflict and how to know whether a relationship is really for us. By exploring key themes within the topic of relationships, such as Anxious Attachment, Attachment theory, Long-term love, Romantic disappointment, Secrets in love and Crushes, this book shows us how satisfied love life is not a chance event but something that we can all plot for and achieve. 

Love is a skill, not an emotion; this is a guide to how we might master it.

Pair with the Connect Cards and The Compatibility Game, to help foster connection and closeness.

Empowering Wisdom for Surviving a Dysfunctional Family

Bestselling author Karen Casey shares the incredible stories of survivors living and leaving their abusive households transformed them forever

Thriving against all odds. Toxic families can be the most difficult things anyone can live through. So many people experience bleak childhoods where degradation, pain, and neglect were common. But as a survivor, their triumphs are not only powerful, but also inspirational. The Good Stuff from Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family follows twenty-four stories about finding happiness after surviving a dysfunctional family. Featuring enlightening honesty, humor, and famous quotes to connect with, you’ll experience the transformative effects that hope and resilience can have for anyone going through difficult moments.

Celebrate the person you’ve become. Thriving means more than just letting go of the past and its hardships; it means becoming your own silver lining. Karen Casey and our narrators explore how your worst experiences can help you create meaningful skills to help you create a new, fulfilling life. With each narrator sharing the moment they decided to thrive instead of giving up, this self-compassion book will show you that no matter how dysfunctional life can be, you can emerge stronger than ever from it.

Inside, each chapter explores a transformative lesson, such as:

• Promises and positive affirmations to live
• The importance of nourishing your emotional strength
• Beginning your healing journey by putting your heart first
• Forgiving your family’s pain to avoid repeating it

If you enjoy self-help books such as Codependent No More, Change Your Brain Every Day, or You Are Not Your Mother, you’ll love The Good Stuff from Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family.

Dr. Claudia Black's remarkable book designed specifically for children growing up in families ravaged by addiction.

Children who grow up in addicted families usually learn at a very young age that it is not safe for them to openly talk about their family experiences. This updated edition of My Dad Loves Me, My Dad Has a Disease gives children ages five to twelve the opportunity to work through their feelings of loss, loneliness, fear, and frustration, both verbally and through drawing exercises. Through sharing their thoughts and feelings, children can develop a better understanding of addiction and how it affects their parent(s).

Written from a child's point of view, this book has helped thousands of children and is a springboard for children to understand their own recovery process in a family ravaged by addiction.

A new and revised edition of Claudia Black's groundbreaking workbook for adult children from dysfunctional families

This updated edition of Dr. Black's revolutionary self-help workbook provides readers with a step-by-step framework and a guide that takes them through a process to recognize how present challenges are influenced by growing up in a troubled family system, release the parts of the past they wish to leave behind, and take greater responsibility for how they live today.

Adult children tend to repeat the life scripts of their challenged, troubled families as a result of internalized beliefs and behaviors that were either modeled for them or were a part of their survival strategy. Claudia Black, world-renowned expert on dysfunctional families, articulates a seven-step process for readers to heal the wounds of their past.

This is also an excellent resource to aid therapists, counselors, and other helping professionals in their work with clients to help them become aware of how their family system affected them and grow beyond it.

• Is it time for your aging father to stop driving?
• How can you balance your career opportunities with your mother’s care needs?
• Can your parents cope on their own?
• Is it time for long-term care? Given their reluctance, is that even an option?

Millions of people are dealing with aging parents and are stunned by the complexities and demands of their care. As demographics change and societies adapt, that caring — that parenting — isn’t getting any simpler. In the fourth edition of this eldercare classic, advocate Bart J. Mindszenthy and geriatrician Dr. Michael Gordon present twenty-four case studies of families working through the eldercare puzzle. With new scenarios, such as legalized marijuana and medical assistance in dying, this revised and updated edition makes the case for good planning, family unity, and being aware of your loved ones’ health.

With the help of Gordon and Mindszenthy’s expert advice, care providers are able to shed guilt and worry and become confident that they have done all they can to make their parents’ latter years as fulfilling and comfortable as possible.

Divorce. The very word conjures up heartache, pain, frustration, and financial devastation. In the United States, up to half of all marriages end in divorce, one of the highest rates in the world. Whether you or someone you know is considering divorce or is in the process, 20 Things To Know About Divorce will help prepare you for what to expect from one of the most emotional experiences of your life or the life of a loved one. In an easy-to-understand format with helpful resources, this book will help you discover:

• How to recognize what problems may be leading to a divorce
• What you can do to protect your marriage from divorce
• How to find the right experts to help you through the process
• Steps you can take to change the outcome of your divorce

Explores the experiences of homeschooling mothers

Mothers who homeschool their children constantly face judgmental questions about their choices, and yet the homeschooling movement continues to grow with an estimated 1.5 million American children now schooled at home. These children are largely taught by stay-at-home mothers who find that they must tightly manage their daily schedules to avoid burnout and maximize their relationships with their children, and that they must sustain a desire to sacrifice their independent selves for many years in order to savor the experience of motherhood. Home Is Where the School Is is the first comprehensive look into the lives of homeschooling mothers. Drawing on rich data collected through eight years of fieldwork and dozens of in-depth interviews, Jennifer Lois examines the intense effects of the emotional and temporal demands that homeschooling places on mothers’ lives, raising profound questions about the expectations of modern motherhood and the limits of parenting.

Q. What does everyone want from a marriage?

A. For someone else to be the wife!

Exploring the many cultural assumptions exposed by divorce - sex, money, dating, love, home, and health - Splitting Up is both a guide to the new social landscape and a serious search for personal meaning in an age of rapidly shifting cultural values. According to social theorist and lawyer Larry G. Frolick, divorce is neither a legal nor a therapeutic problem - it is a serious cultural issue. No one can perform the old social roles anymore.

Drawing on his most interesting cases from twenty years practicing law, and from studies in culture, the author shows how the seventy-per-cent divorce rate is the flip side of mall marriage - that is, a relationship based on consumption, rather than on saving - and how divorce is part of our common destiny, a painful world many of us will one day encounter.

This fascinating book takes the reader on an unsettling trip into the strange world of divorce, revealing the new social order and the roles we must play in it to survive - Working-Warrior Mom, Treat Daddy, and the Lost Child - as our society evolves into the next millenium.

Splitting Up is a hip handbook for divorce in the twenty-first century, a guide to survival and renewal. The many topics include:

• The Worst Divorce Story Ever Told
• Sex Realities: Sex Talk & Real Sex
• Divorce Statistics & the Myth of Undifference
• Depression: Can a Million Therapists Be Wrong?
• My Ex-Spouse was an Alien!
• McParenting in an Age of Wire Monkeys: Children Need One Thing
• The Lawyers Other Lawyers Use
• Your Money & Your Sanity & How to Keep Both
• and much, much more!

Through the inspirational, wise, and informative stories of the residents, either in their own words or based on interviews, and environmental photographs of each, this book focuses on various residents of long-term care facilities and especially on the positive facets of their life, their thoughts, and their feelings. The only issue that reaches the media about nursing homes is the negative and unfortunate events that sometimes occur, but there is so much more to the story.

Most people are afraid of long-term care homes because they recognize that it is the last phase in their life - it is the step before death. But some people have years from the time they enter the home until they die. This book shows how many men and women make the best of their situation - often leaving a positive legacy for family and friends - and how these can be fulfilling and quality years.

For three decades Dr. Howard H. Irving has championed the use of divorce mediation outside the adversarial court system to save couples and their children from the bitter legacy of legal wrangling and winner-takes-all custody battles. Now, calling on his vast experience mediating more than 2,000 cases, Irving has written Children Come First directly for couples contemplating or undergoing divorce.

In this book the author takes a tripartite approach that points out:

• the dangers of the adversarial approach to divorce,
• the benefits of divorce mediation, and
• how parents can put their children first during and after their divorce.

Children Come First is written in a reader-friendly style with case studies, charts, and diagrams, as well as illustrations from the author's renowned practice. Ultimately, this book takes parents through the process of building a shared parenting plan that places their children's interests uppermost while still addressing the parents' unique situations and needs.

Chart a Course to Wholeness in the Aftermath of Divorce

"Divorce tends to rip away your façade and defenses, and call into question what you know or believe. That vulnerability is painful, but ultimately can bring you to a place where your spiritual life can gain strength and insight if you are open to it. In the midst of feeling lost, you can find a new path forward, which brings you to a better place."
—from the Introduction

Divorce is never easy and almost always includes profound experiences of pain, isolation, anger, despair, and confusion. Here is a spiritual map for regaining your bearings, helping you move through the twists and turns of divorce in a spiritually healthy way.

Drawing on her work as a pastor and counselor—and her personal experience with divorce—Carolyne Call proposes a three-prong approach to help you reset your compass on a new destination—wholeness. Supported by first-person accounts from men and women from a variety of faith traditions who have found their way through divorce, she helps you identify:

• Where you want to go—“I want to be true to who I am”
• Where you don't want to go—the “cul-de-sacs” of bitterness, resentment, victimization, and guilt
• What you can do to get there

Rebalancing the Roles in Caregiving So All Involved Are Supported

"When you care for someone who is dealing with the complexities of aging, illness, or disability, you share intense emotions and form deep bonds. You each have the opportunity to recognize what is most deeply human—and most deeply Divine—in the other. This sense of reciprocal sharing—between the caregiver, care receiver, and with others around you—is the essence of the dance in caresharing."
—from the Prelude

The word caregiver typically suggests someone doing all the giving for a frail, physically or mentally challenged, or aging person who is doing all the receiving. Marty Richards proposes a rebalanced approach of "caresharing." From this perspective, the “cared for” and the “carer” share a deep sense of connection. Each has strengths and resources. Each can teach the other. Each can share in grief, hope, love and wisdom.

Richards shows you how to move from independent caregiving to interdependent caregiving by engaging the spiritual and emotional aspects of caring for a loved one. Whether you are a daughter or son, a husband or wife, a sibling, long-term partner or good friend, Caresharing offers a multilayered, reciprocal process that will help you keep your spirit—and your loved one's spirit—alive in challenging times.

• Sharing Wisdom: What the Frail Teach the Well
• Sharing Roles: Reinventing Family Roles in Sharing Care
• Sharing “Soul to Soul”: A Special Relationship with People with Dementia
• Sharing Grief: Dealing with the Little Losses and the Big Ones
• Sharing Forgiveness: A Key Spiritual Journey
• Sharing Hope and Heart: An Active Process One Step at a Time

1. Provide your children with an environment in which they can feel loved by both parents.
2. Help your child feel good about themselves.
3. Be a model of the values and basic skills your children need to achieve healthy independence.

She encourages parents to make the important transition from former marriage partners to ongoing parent partners, and gives helpful guidelines for ways to deal with hurt, anger, and difficult situations. She also advocates using mediation to avoid bitter and costly lawsuits, and includes examples of constructive agreements and lists of mediators and helping organizations in the United States.

The drawings in this book were made by children of divorcing parents. They clearly illustrate the children's frustration, anger, and pain at the breakup of their families. Dr. Bienenfeld uses the pictures as a way to open parents' eyes to their children's needs.

Divorce. The very word conjures up heartache, pain, frustration, and financial devastation. In the United States, up to half of all marriages end in divorce, one of the highest rates in the world. Whether you or someone you know is considering divorce or is in the process, Divorce: An Essential Guide to the Inevitable Questions will help prepare you for what to expect from one of the most emotional experiences of your life or the life of a loved one. In an easy-to-understand format with helpful resources, this book will help you discover:

• How to recognize what problems may be leading to a divorce
• What you can do to protect your marriage from divorce
• How to find the right experts to help you through the process
• Steps you can take to change the outcome of your divorce

Anthroposophical medicine recognizes the individuality of each human being. This philosophy is central to care for the elderly where it is important to see beyond the outer ageing body, and to ensure dignity for all.

This book describes particular approaches for professional nurses and caregivers, as well as offering practical care plans. While care cannot itself heal, it can provide the basis for the healing process to work. This book will help those who work with the elderly with invaluable guidance and advice.

Wait, Stay or Go tracks the process Donna R. Martin took in order to come to her decision. Her need for God’s guidance becomes clear as she asks herself, and God, several questions:

As people age, so do their loved ones. The healthy integration of caring for an aging parent requires being able to walk them all the way to the end of their life while still having a life to walk back into. No Regrets helps caregivers consider how being intentional in their season of caring will allow them to care for their loved one well while at the same time not losing themselves in the caring.

The story of Scarlett addresses the taboo topic of Christian women and adultery, giving those women who have been silenced by their past sexual sin, a voice. This bold adventure of an unsuspecting Southern girl next door helps women realize they should never say never. Christy Neal walks readers through the darkest moments of Scarlett’s life, traveling the lonely road of failure and despair, to reveal that God can indeed take people’s ugliest messes and turn them into beautiful messages of hope, healing, and redemption. When all seems lost because of her choices, and when others look down on her, Scarlett chooses to continue looking up. Her heartfelt journey challenges the reader's thinking and transforms critical judgment into a compassionate connection, teaching them that when all is lost, everything becomes gain.

Certified life coach, Carmen Silvestro, has developed a process that helped stop endless days of consuming thoughts about her broken marriage so she could find acceptance, peace, and love. She presents her method in Piecing Your Heart Back Together to teach women how to finally break free from the deep emotional attachment to their ex. Throughout Piecing Your Heart Back Together, women also discover how to turn this devastating pain and loss into a powerful transformational journey by:

After experiencing the pain and agony of divorce, ordained minister Freda R. Wilson now helps others to build their futures that are better, both inside and out. With her more than twenty years of experience working with individuals and couples, she helps those suffering from divorce recover from what may seem like the darkest period of their life. In Healing the Wounds of Divorce, divorcees learn how to:

Each chapter tackles the sometimes sequential, sometimes parallel stages of healing a heart— from ‘When it all comes Tumbling Down’ to ‘Don’t you Dare Pick up that Phone.’ From ‘I Keep Forgetting I Can’t Call’ to ‘I will Never Love like this Again.’ This is a journey towards self-growth through reflection. Sprinkled with stories from her own journey, Emma will have you laughing. Reflecting. Tearing up. Letting go. But ultimately, feeling whole.

Like a conversation with a best friend, Untangling will help you find your balance again. Remind you that you’re not alone in all this. Encourage you to learn from experiences in love instead of just having them. But mostly— how to find the kind of happiness that someone else didn’t make. And a broken heart can never take.

Untangling is the book that helps you move forward without going back. That starts at an ending and ends at a beginning. And helps us each find peace with all the things we do, and did, when love was leading us.

Fiona Eckersley went through divorce at age forty-five with four kids in tow, so she knows first-hand what it’s like to face all these very real fears. Now, she wants to share what she has learned from her own experiences and from those of the women she has coached. Fearful to Fabulous provides a clear pathway for divorced women to get to a place where they feel financially stable and finally in control of their life.

In Fearful to Fabulous, women learn to:

Tanzania Davis-Black has journeyed through the painful process of raising children during divorce. In When Life Breaks, she proves that divorce can become a pathway to healing for the couple and children. She walks readers through discovering:

Everyone knows at least one person who demonstrates toxic love, someone who consistently jabs a straw in others and sucks the life right out of them. Without an in-depth understanding of how to navigate these relationships, most people continue to emotionally regress and remain paralyzed in familiar, pain-soaked patterns. But Your Mother Loves You helps readers overcome this cycle of toxicity. Kim Honeycutt shares the real-life experience of how a shame-based, self-destructive little girl grew up to be a recovered alcoholic, entered the world of psychology as a professional, and created her own strategies to address and conquer toxicity. This story, both witty and practical, is told through the lens of personal life experience and expert psychological strategies combined with Godly intervention. Readers learn how to either walk away from or walk with a toxic loved one without losing themselves. Covered in both vulnerability and clinical information, But Your Mother Loves You provides a step-by-step approach on how to stop toxic love and the subsequent self-abuse.

After a long marriage, Jude Walsh found herself in a position she never thought possible: divorced. The life she knew was gone. To heal the pain of the divorce and create a different future for herself, Jude developed eight practices, which she shares with the goal of helping other women create the life of their dreams and thrive after divorce. In Post-Divorce Bliss, women learn to shift their perspective, go beyond grief, and transform their trauma, along with other practical skills for moving forward. With Jude’s guidance and passion, women find themselves ready to leave their divorce behind and live a life they love.

Author and coach Belen Loreto Grand is the voice for thousands of nurses from the Philippines and OFWs (Overseas Filipino Workers) who are bound to family and duty and assist their relatives financially. In Family Matters, she shares a system of living that empowers, opens the flow of money, and reduces drama and trauma.

In Family Matters, various challenging issues are addressed and resolved, including what to do when relatives ask for money, how to support a Filipino family without breaking the bank, and how to maintain family harmony when deciding to stop the flow of money. Belen Loreto Grand draws on the Law of Attraction, the Kabbalah, and more to inspire readers to care for themselves and attract abundance for their family in the States and their family back home in the Philippines.

The tools, strategies, and success stories in Family Matters promote a life of love, peace, harmony, joy, and abundance.

You bought the “til death do us part” thing. Now you are alone, and perhaps feeling unlovable? Is being single again overwhelming, scary, and totally not what you want? Are you freaked out about ever getting your life back together? Do you ask yourself, “Where do I start?” every day, then take a few steps and give up when the grief or panic overtakes you?

In Fear of Flying Solo: Recovery from Divorce, Licensed Clinical Social Worker Marsha Vaugn teaches those going through divorce how to manage the transition and all of the overwhelming to-do’s that come with it. She guides them through asking for support, what to do (or not do) about sex and dating, how to begin anew, and what practices carry them forward into their new life.

If you are caught in the divorce transition and don’t want to do it alone, Fear of Flying Solo is there for you every step of the way.

Using real life examples, Aging in Place is instrumental in promoting healthy family discourse on these important topics. Mary Mashburn discusses the roadblocks and pitfalls you and your family might encounter, explains many useful planning techniques, and provides information on local and national resources. Whether in the midst of a crisis or just beginning to discuss options with loved ones, you gain valuable insight and information that guides you and your family toward making the best choices that fit your unique situation. Rather than offering a magic wand to make the difficulties of aging disappear, Aging in Place offers useful information to make decisions that provide peace and strength as those who are aging and their loved ones face these challenges together.

Parent Teenagers in Loving and Thoughtful Ways

“A source of lovingly gentle perspective with powerful relationship saving tools that every parent of teenagers should have to refer back to”—Becca Anderson, Bestselling Author of Badass Affirmations

• Easy-to-follow advice for how to parent teenagers
• Powerful and poignant examples from true life stories and examples
• A how-to guide for loving your teens, even when it feels impossible

If you liked Untangled, The Connected Parent, or Parenting Teens with Love and Logic, you’ll love Wonderful Ways to Love a Teen.

In Every Bad, There’s Some Good─And A Lesson to Be Learned

Twenty-four survivors recount their stories of living in a dysfunctional family. It isn’t always easy. You can’t choose your situation or where you come from, but you can choose the lessons you take away.

Is there a silver lining to growing up in a dysfunctional family? Bestselling recovery author Karen Casey looks at stories of people who grew up in dysfunctional families and "the good stuff" that can come from the experience. "Throughout my many decades in recovery rooms I have interacted with thousands of women and men whose journeys reveal, in detail, the harrowing history of dysfunction that has troubled their lives," says Casey. "But what is also apparent in their stories is their eventual and quite triumphant survival, often against extreme odds."

From 24 families rife with dysfunction. Casey interviews the survivors who emerged from the fires of a turbulent household to willingly share their stories and come to realize they had, surprisingly, thrived as the result of their often-harrowing experiences. In The Good Stuff from Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family, Casey reveals the stories and the skills these survivors developed to live more creative and fulfilling lives.

In this book find tales that help you to:

• Realize lessons in disguise
• Acknowledge your personal growth
• Point out your own silver lining

If you enjoyed books like Daring Greatly, Codependent No More, or Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, then you’ll want to read Good Stuff from Growing Up in a Dysfunctional Family.

Not all children learn in the same way. Written by two educators, How Your Child is Smart identifies six patterns of learning and teaches parents how to help their children learn and communicate most effectively. Through simple questions, activities, and charts, parents can identify their child's pattern and learn how he or she can best be taught in school.