Parenting Strategies

Following on the runaway success of her book Boundary Boss, Terri Cole presents a practice-packed guide to help you establish the robust boundaries that are essential for an empowered and deeply satisfying life. The Boundary Boss Workbook greatly expands on the transformational tools Cole introduced in her debut book. You’ll start with the essential truths about boundaries and how they operate, then dive straight into potent exercises—including assessments, scripts, mindfulness, embodiment, gratitude, celebration, and more.

In a world where everything seems to transform in a blink, anyone can suddenly find themselves scrambling for human connection. Someone who has always found it easy to connect can suddenly feel disoriented if they start a new job, move to a new region, or welcome a new member into the family. Others may have always found it difficult to connect, feel they've outgrown their circles, or may feel dissatisfied for a range of other reasons. Natalie Kerr and Jaime Kurtz explain the science behind these struggles and steer us toward timeless skills to overcome these challenges.

In our default state, our brains constantly get in the way of effective communication. They are lazy, angry, immature, and distracted. They can make a difficult conversation impossible. But Andrew Newberg, M.D., and Mark Waldman have discovered a powerful strategy called Compassionate Communication that allows two brains to work together as one.

Adults with ADHD face unique challenges that impact every aspect of life, including work and relationships. This expansion and update of psychologist Abigail Levrini’s bestselling book offers realistic, proven strategies to help adults with ADHD lead more fulfilling and productive lives. With her extensive experience researching and treating adults with ADHD, Levrini provides user-friendly strategies for setting meaningful and realistic goals, developing a plan to achieve the goals, and staying on track while following the plan.

Do you want to easily help your teenager cope with everyday conflicting problems whilst developing a calmer, more positive environment and relationship at home? Raising a teen is a tricky part of the parenting journey but the teenage years do not need to be terrifying. Multiple studies have found distracted parenting, and low levels of parental warmth and support contribute to behavioural problems, insecurity, and emotional difficulties in adolescents.

This essential guide offers invaluable insights into the complex world of narcissistic personalities, empowering you to recognize, understand, and effectively manage your interactions with narcissists—whether in your personal life or at work.

The symptoms of borderline personality disorder (BPD) include severe mood shifts, unfounded accusations and wildly inappropriate displays of anger, a range of self-destructive behaviors, and frantic efforts to avoid abandonment. A practical guide to successfully navigating life with someone with BPD, The Stop Walking on Eggshells Workbook is chock full of checklists and exercises to help them apply what they've learned to their own relationship. It includes a list of phrases to use, and a glossary of BPD-related terms.

Are you in a mixed-orientation marriage where you or your partner identify as LGBTQ+? You’re not alone. Thousands of couples face similar challenges, and while it may feel overwhelming, there is a path to understanding, acceptance, and love. This guide offers practical tools and strategies for navigating the complexities of mixed-orientation marriage, whether you’re dealing with coming out, family dynamics, or legal and financial considerations.

Raising a teen can feel overwhelming, but ADHD adds a unique layer of challenges. Do you find yourself struggling to support your teen toward independence without constant stress? You’re not alone. Many parents of teens with ADHD face the same worries – the quest for balance, the desire to connect without overwhelming them, and the fear of making mistakes. But with the right strategies, you can help your teen thrive. In this comprehensive guide, you'll discover simple yet effective approaches for understanding, supporting, and guiding your teen as they prepare for adulthood.

Calm in the Storm offers simple techniques to assist you in developing fundamental skills for settling overwhelming emotions.

Perhaps you want to be nicer to yourself but don’t really know how to get there. Or maybe you’re someone who assumes self-criticism is a permanent part of your personality. Rest assured you’re not alone. Millions of people struggle with the toll that excessive self-criticism takes on their minds, energy levels, jobs, and relationships. And problems with self-talk vary dramatically from one person to the next: they can appear as mild but persistent inner criticism, full-blown self-loathing, or the pain of internalized oppression or abuse.

Written by an expert with over 15 years of experience in treating adult ADHD and ADHD in children, Focused offers essential information to empower parents and provide immediate assistance. Learn to uncover your child's considerable strengths and work around their obstacles with concrete, actionable strategies that improve executive functioning, support emotional development, and promote positive behavior.

When you are criticized or rejected, do you have a tendency to lash out or withdraw entirely? Both types of kneejerk reactions can have lasting and unintended consequences, affecting our friendships, careers, families, and romantic relationships. The truth is, overreacting hurts us as much as it hurts the people around us. You may see overreacting as an unchangeable part of your personality, but in reality, this tendency, like any other, can be unlearned.

Think of your child's executive functioning issues as an opportunity to demonstrate strength and resilience. It's through their struggles and their efforts in overcoming them that your child will truly come into their own.

Seduction is a science. If you apply scientifically-supported psychologically principles designed to generate raw sexual attraction in a woman, then you can seduce the most beautiful women on the planet. Psychologists have dedicated decades of research into understanding the elements that drive women into having intercourse. Being a horny bachelor myself, I spent all of my 20s to going through hundreds upon hundreds of academic peer-reviewed articles and case studies to compile a list of crucial key principles that when applied on a woman will unleash her wild sexual desire.

Are emotional roadblocks hindering your personal growth? Do your emotions control your career success? Discover why some relationships flourish while others fail. You're not alone—many struggle with managing emotions, impacting relationships. What if you could overcome these hurdles and lead a more fulfilled life? Introducing Emotional Intelligence Unlocked: A Guide to More Fulfilling Relationships, empowering you to navigate emotions for meaningful interactions and life success.

When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder will empower you to help your teen using a unique, family-based treatment (FBT) approach. With this guide, you'll learn to respectfully and lovingly oversee your teen's nutritional rehabilitation, which includes helping to normalize eating behaviors, managing meals, expanding food flexibility, teaching independent and intuitive eating habits, and using coping strategies and recovery skills to prevent relapse.

Middle childhood, the period for those aged 8–12 years old, is often the most overlooked phase of a child’s development, but it’s the age where play continues to serve an important role in their emotional growth. It’s also an age where we are most likely to stop playing with our children. With over 20 years of clinical expertise and neuroscientific research, psychotherapist and parenting expert Joanna Fortune shares her proven techniques that will enable you to better understand your relationship with your children as they grow.

Whether the confrontations are taking place at home, at work or online, the emotional toll of dealing with an angry person day-in day-out can be huge. As we often can't cut ourselves off from these angry people (although terminating the relationship is an option that’s explored), this audiobook draws on the author's years of research and clinical practice to help listeners manage potentially explosive situations for the best possible outcomes. This audiobook reveals the psychological factors that underpin an angry personality, offers ten key strategies for dealing with angry people.

Specially written with a profound and practical blend of therapeutic strategies, personal anecdotes, and the latest scientific insights, this comprehensive dialectical behavior therapy workbook for borderline personality disorder reveals tried-and-tested lessons that challenge and motivate you to reclaim your emotions and work through feelings of fear, anger, abandonment, emptiness, jealousy, or insecurity.