Friendship Development

Using real-world examples, illustrations from their own lives, and a researchbased approach, dynamic daughter-mother duo Lauren Reitsema and Joneen Mackenzie guide you through familiar relationship situations. Their suggestions can be used with your partner, coworkers, children, extended family members, and friends. Drawing from their experience teaching thousands through The Center for Relationship Education, they introduce practical, easy-to-use strategies that will help you communicate more effectively and work through relationship challenges with confidence.

We’ve all had unique — and often messy — life journeys. You know…the good, the bad, and the ugly. But what if your “messy” life experiences have hidden meanings — that, if uncovered, could help you have mind-blowing insights about your life’s purpose and deepen your friendships? In this second book in the Friendship Series, life coach Shari Leid chronicles a round of dates with her girlfriends where she asks the question, “What is the mess that became your message?” And the responses are astounding!

¡MI PERRO BOOSTER es una emocionante historia que se desarrolla por décadas, en la que Booster, un perro rescatado por un hombre, lo salva a él... pasando así de estar al borde del suicidio, a ser un apasionado por mejorar la vida de personas en todo el mundo!

In a world that often feels more connected yet increasingly isolated, true friendships can feel hard to find. Mastering Friendship is your guide to cultivating meaningful connections and creating the tribe that lifts you up. Whether you're looking to build new friendships, strengthen existing ones, or shift your mindset to embrace connection, this book gives you the practical tools and insights to make it happen.

Still, we are not taught how to be good friends to one another. We cancel plans, lose touch, blame technology, and neglect our non-romantic loved ones. In Good Friends, author Priya Vulchi explores friendships across history, continents, and identities to show how friendship can open up new levels of joy and community in your life.

Im Musikbusiness gibt es kaum einen größeren Superstar, als Whitney Houston es gewesen ist. Nachdem ihr 1985 veröffentlichtes Debütalbum sie auf Anhieb an die Spitze katapultierte, führte Whitney zwei Jahrzehnte lang die internationalen Charts an und begeisterte und berührte Fans auf der ganzen Welt.

Este libro te ofrece las herramientas necesarias para que aprendas a expresar tus sentimientos de manera directa, abierta y sincera, solicites sin inhibiciones lo que necesitas y exijas con firmeza tus derechos.

When you were young, for a male to make friends with another male was pretty damn simple - you walked up to them and asked them to be your friend. Try that as an adult and you will get some very strange looks! With this audiobook, best-selling author and speaker Ben D. Ingham has successfully unlocked the code and made it so much easier to make and keep male friendships.

Did you know that 8 out of 10 people ponder upon dating their best friend at one point or another? If you’re considering “taking friendship to the next level,” you’re not alone! Dating someone who knows you inside out makes a lot of sense. Your best friend knows everything about you. You enjoy spending time together, and if the chemistry is there, why not? But, wait. What if your BFF doesn’t feel the same way? What if both of you turn out to be different people in the relationship than you were in a friendship? What if the romance fades?

It was early evening and a new acquaintance had come to retrieve his daughter from a play date. Instead of driving up in a minivan, he arrived by water, tacking his sailboat smartly across a squiggly channel in the marsh, throwing a rope overboard, and zipping back home, his gleeful daughter riding in the wake. Who knew you could do such a thing? And how could you resist befriending a man such as that?

In answer to the question of what happened following her New York Times best seller Kabul Beauty School, Deborah Rodriquez is back with a new memoir Irreverent, insightful, and blatantly honest, Deborah takes us along on her inspiring journey of self-discovery and renewal after she is forced to flee Afghanistan in 2007. She first lands in California, where she feels like a misfit teetering on the brink of sanity. Where was that fearless redhead who stared danger in the face back in Kabul?

In many small, Southern hometowns, legends are created in an instant. Just mention purple Converse, mayonnaise, panty labels, or visiting the school lab after hours to someone that grew up in the '70s in Albertville, AL, and a different name comes to mind for each.

When celebrated and respected agent Fritz Hudson passes away, he leaves a trail of Hollywood glory in his wake - and two separate families who never knew the other existed. Allie and Des Hudson are products of Fritz's first marriage to Honora, a beautiful but troubled starlet whose life ended in a tragic overdose. Meanwhile, Fritz was falling in love on the Delaware Bay with New Age hippie Susa Pratt - they had a daughter together, Cara, and while Fritz loved Susa with everything he had, he never quite managed to tell her or Cara about his West Coast family.

Ein Plädoyer für die wichtigste Beziehung in unserem Leben. Wie können wir in einer Zeit der ständigen Ablenkung und der sich immer schneller drehenden Welt Freund:innen finden und halten? Insbesondere in einer Gesellschaft, die die romantische Liebe oft über alle anderen Beziehungen stellt? In ihrem Hörbuch versammelt Marisa Franco die neuesten - oft überraschenden - wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse über die Bindung zwischen Freundinnen und Freunden.

A ruthless and illuminating exploration of the friendships that dominated, influenced, nourished, inspired, haunted - and sometimes tore her apart - Susanna Sonnenberg has written a book as searing and superb as her first book about her mother, Her Last Death. Childhood friendships, friendships with older women, friendships that play out with the passion and intensity of love affairs, the friendships between new mothers - each has its own subtleties, its own lessons that Sonnenberg examines and understands with astounding acuity.

In his late teens Tom Macher rebelled against a world that seemed stacked against him. Raised in a broken family and estranged from an absentee father suffering with AIDS, Macher turned to alcohol to escape the painful loneliness of his reality. In quick succession, he is kicked out of school, and then his mother's house, sent to a boys' home in Montana, and later, a halfway house in a truck-stop town of Louisiana. It was there that Macher encounters a community of young men struggling to survive.

Der Zustand unserer Erde ist ein Spiegel unserer Gesellschaft. So, wie wir den Planeten ausbeuten, handeln wir auch in unseren Beziehungen: vorwiegend nutzenorientiert. Um wirklich nachhaltiger zu leben, müssen wir unsere Beziehungsmuster kritisch hinterfragen und zum Positiven verändern. Dieses Hörbuch macht Mut, das Thema Nachhaltigkeit aus einer neuen Perspektive zu betrachten.

Pat Conroy was America's poet laureate of family dysfunction. A larger-than-life character and the author of such classics as The Prince of Tides and The Great Santini, Conroy was remembered by everybody for his energy, his exuberance, and his self-lacerating humor. Michael Mewshaw's The Lost Prince is an intimate memoir of his friendship with Pat Conroy, one that involves their families and those days in Rome when they were both young - when Conroy went from being a popular regional writer to an internationally best-selling author.

Anyone, whatever their age, gender, culture, or abilities, can find themselves separate and disconnected from others and feeling lonely. If you feel lonely, you are lonely. And it's not nice. But your situation can change for the better! In Lonely Less, best-selling author Gill Hasson delivers practical strategies you can implement immediately to counter loneliness and connect with other people.

A call to arms against BRUNCH...and a how-to guide for fighting back, from the hosts of the hit podcast and public radio show The Dinner Party Download. Society is under threat. The culprit? Brunch. Not merely a forum for overpriced eggs, brunch is a leisure-time-squandering hellscape, embodying all that is soul-killing and alienating about modern life.