Family Cycles

Society is making great strides in increasing awareness of oppression and injustice, but one group remain mistreated, with unequal human rights, and remains under-discussed: children. We are a society who are afraid of treating children kindly, as evidenced by the almost constant uproar and ridicule of the 'gentle parenting' movement by the media today. Because each of us have been raised to believe that the rights of children matter less than those of adults, we subconsciously continue the cycle of childism from one generation to the next.

We use words like "honor", "loyalty", and "tradition" to talk about our families. But behind closed doors, if you listen closely enough, you can hear the muffled sounds of suffering. If you are one of those people, take heart in knowing you are not alone. The good news is that you have a choice. You can decide to do things differently, even if it means being the first in your family to do so. Join Felicia Harris and unburden yourself of the weight of family ideals, influences, and imperfections by choosing to believe that what you've always known is not all there is.

El patriarca de la dinastía Garren está en el lecho de muerte. Para los hermanos de la familia ha llegado la hora de volver a su ciudad natal y reunirse en el hogar de su infancia. Sin embargo, enseguida descubren que su único nexo de unión es la figura del padre y se preguntan entonces si su muerte significará el final de la familia.

Why this audiobook? If you have ever struggled with poor body image, low self-esteem, disordered eating behaviors, or feelings of being powerless and out of control, there is a strong possibility that you may unknowingly pass these same struggles on to your children. This audiobook is designed to empower and equip all you mamas and soon-to-be mamas to break that cycle. Don't Pass It On will help you identify, understand, and navigate your past and present challenges with confidence.

Healing Begins With Us is the story of two sisters who weren’t supposed to be friends. Ronni and Jennie grew up in a home with addiction, mental illness, and abuse issues that generated unhealthy dynamics and often pitted them against each other. In this audiobook, they tell the raw truth about their childhood experiences, including the abuse that occurred between them. As they moved toward adulthood, they managed to come together and chart a path that allowed them to heal their relationship and break the cycle of intergenerational trauma and abuse in their own families.

Is your child calling the shots? Tantrums in public, slammed doors, and bitter arguments? Discover how you can regain control of your relationship, even if you think you've tried it all. Does your child expect you to cater to their every whim, no questions asked? Maybe you're guilty of giving in to the millionth demand for privileges that weren't earned or saying yes just to get a moment of peace and quiet. You worry that you're making crucial mistakes and that your child won't be equipped for the realities of adult life. You're not alone, and you're not a bad parent!

For David Hirsch, the Dads Honor Ride was a daunting 2,300+ mile, 21-day journey to honor dads and raise awareness for the importance of fathers and father figures. With an estimated 24 million kids growing up without their dad in the home, the ripple effect is a higher incidence of drug and alcohol abuse, incarceration and crime, depression, and suicide. The cycle of father absence is devastating the lives of countless youth, crushing families, and crippling communities.

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 listeners overcome this cycle. Kim Honeycutt shares the real-life experience of how a shame-based, self-destructive little girl grew up to be a recovered alcoholic and entered the world of psychology as a professional....

It’s all too tempting to judge when you’re not standing in someone else’s shoes. Criticizing parents is one of the easiest things to do thanks to social media’s invasion of privacy. Instead of judging how a woman decides to hold her toddler while she’s making coffee (or some other random and specific criticism), the goal should be to get to the root of common parenting issues today. Your grandparents and their parents before them were all people. They lived, breathed, dreamed, hoped, and worked.

When Daisy Ramona zooms around her neighborhood with her papi on his motorcycle, she sees the people and places she’s always known. She also sees a community that is rapidly changing around her. But as the sun sets purple-blue-gold behind Daisy Ramona and her papi, she knows that the love she feels will always be there. My Papi Has a Motorcycle is a young girl’s love letter to her hardworking dad and to memories of home that we hold close in the midst of change.

When Naomi convinces her 95-year-old great-grandmother that it's not too late to become a Bat Mitzvah, all the cousins pitch in to help Bubbe celebrate her big day. While usually it's the grandmother that teaches the child, in this story the tables are turned and Naomi realizes that she has something very special to teach her great-grandmother.

Cuando Daisy Ramona recorre su barrio en motocicleta con su papi, ve a la gente y los lugares que siempre ha conocido. También ve a una comunidad que está cambiando rápidamente a su alrededor. Pero mientras el sol azul púrpura y dorado se va poniendo a sus espaldas, Daisy Ramona comprende que el amor que siente por su ciudad nunca cambiará.