Self Development Family

Life Strategies for Teens is the first guide to teenage life that won't tell you what to do, or who to be, but rather how to live life best. Employing the techniques from Dr. Phil McGraw's Life Strategies, his son Jay provides teens with the 10 Laws of Life that make the journey to adulthood an easier and more fulfilling trip. Whether dealing with the issues of popularity, peer pressure, ambition, or ambivalence, Life Strategies for Teens is an enlightening guide.

Take care of yourself as you care for others with this accessible, easy-to-follow self-care guide to relax and rejuvenate.

Dealing with the extra concerns that come with ADHD can be challenging. As a mother, you may be putting your self-care on the back burner. I would know. I’ve been there, and I understand. There will be times when worry takes over and you find yourself drowning in self-doubt and overwhelm. You’ll feel judged by others and bombarded with parenting advice. Your relationships will become strained, leaving you feeling isolated and alone.

Do you ever feel stuck and failing in everything you do as a woman, mom, and friend? Are you tired of the life that you have and want a change? Do you feel like everyone is going against your will? Do you feel joy and happiness are just so hard to find? Do you constantly fear the outcome of your decisions? In this book, you’ll find the one most important tool that, when mastered, will give you leverage to transform your doubts into confidence and to embrace and love yourself without changing yourself. You'll transform your life into one you want and create the change you want.

Why does talk in families so often go in circles, leaving us tied up in knots? Linguist Deborah Tannen reveals why talking to family members is so often painful and problematic - even when we're all adults. Searching for signs of acceptance, we find signs of disapproval and rejection. Why do the seeds of family love so often yield a harvest of criticism? In I Only Say This Because I Love You, Tannen shows how important it is, in family talk, to learn to separate word meanings, or messages, from heart meanings, or metamessages.

You've met the partner of your dreams and have gotten your happily ever after, but now you've taken on a new role: stepmom. And you have no idea what you signed up for. Or maybe you've been a stepmom for a while now, but things are getting you down. Who do you turn to for help? Where is the stepmothering support group that'll give you the advice you need? A book for all the ins and outs of having a blended family? Who actually gets how hard being a stepmom can be?

Did you know anxiety is one of the most common mental health concerns for children, affecting upwards of 20 percent of children and adolescents over the course of their youth? Anxiety is more prevalent in our society than ever before; we’re all affected by it. But it doesn't have to be this way. Your kids don't have to live a life of anxious stress. Together, you can build a new reality - one completely free from unnecessary anxiety.

Would you like to become the best parent you can be? Discover how positive parenting can transform your relationship with your child into one built on trust, respect, and mutual understanding. Whether you’re starting from scratch or looking to deepen your parenting knowledge, this guide will empower you to create a strong, lasting bond with your child.

¿Sabías que el miedo al parto es un miedo aprendido y se puede desaprender durante el embarzo? Vivir tu embarazo con seguridad, confianza y sin miedos es posible. Mantener la calma y sentirte segura es imprescindible para que el parto progrese de manera natural y para tomar decisiones desde la calma y no el miedo o la pasividad. Gana confianza en tu capacidad de dar a luz y reemplaza tu miedo y ansiedad sobre el parto por confianza y seguridad. Este audiolibro es para ti si deseas darle el mejor comienzo a tu bebé y tener el mejor inicio a la ma-paternidad en cualquier escenario.

Remove negative thinking and replace with positive thinking!

¿Ha oído hablar de la crianza positiva? ¿Quiere aprender más al respecto? Incluso si no lo ha escuchado, no tiene de qué preocuparse porque Criar a niños pequeños: Una guía para usar la disciplina positiva y criar a niños con buena autoestima, con consejos para enseñarle a dormir solo, controlar los berrinches, y enseñarle a usar el baño, contiene toda la información necesaria. Este libro será su guía y proporcionará información útil sobre cómo criar a un niño pequeño utilizando la disciplina positiva.

Further Along the Road Less Traveled takes the lectures of Dr. Peck and presents his profound insights into the issues that confront and challenge all of us today: spirituality, forgiveness, relationships, and growing up. In this aid for living less simplistically, you will learn not to look for the easy answers but to think multidimensionally. You will learn to reach for the "ultimate step," which brings you face to face with your personal spirituality. It will be this that helps you appreciate the complexity that is life.

Doula Beccy Hands and midwife Alexis Stickland know what a challenge it can be to balance self-care with motherhood. In The Little Book of Support for New Moms, they bring together decades of experience to share invaluable tips and tricks to boost confidence and calm frazzled nerves - plus answers to all those questions new moms may be too embarrassed to ask. Here are instructions for creating cooling breast pads with chamomile tea, quick stretches for relieving aching muscles, and tips for reducing swelling.

If you’re feeling hopeless and running out of patience in dealing with your highly explosive ADHD child, this powerful positive parenting guide is for you! ADHD is one of the most common mental disorders affecting children. And this gets parents frustrated because ADHD kids are often misunderstood by many. These kids are often perceived as having bad attitudes, defiant, or just plain out of control. When your child is struggling to self-regulate, it’s easy to get pulled into power struggles and negative interactions that only make the situation worse.

In our forties, fifties, and beyond, we're wrestling with new questions. Is this it? Did I do what I wanted to do in my life? Who am I now that my kids have moved out? Will my sagging skin eventually hang all the way down to my feet? We feel a little like the world has nudged us aside for the younger crowd. But God still has much in store for us. God doesn't bring us to the middle of our lives so we can park in front of the TV and binge-watch home makeover shows. We are his gift to this world at every age and in every season, and it's time to embrace it like never before.

The Power of Emotional Self-Regulation: How Any Parent Can Master Emotional Control for Lasting Well-Being, Mindful Living, and Resilience is the guide every parent has been waiting for. This book helps you understand emotional regulation, its significance in parenting, and how it can transform your relationship with your children.

The post-partum period is challenging. Everyone - your mom, well-meaning strangers, and your OB/Gyn - constantly tells you to get more sleep, make sure you're eating well-balanced meals, and drink lots of water. But every time someone offers you a bit of advice, you want to throw your hands to the sky and shout, "But how?"

Is school for your kids a resounding success? For most of us, education was an uncomfortable process of sitting in stifling classrooms, listening to tedious lectures, struggling over stressful exams, and feeling like we were wasting our time and energy. There were class clowns, ruthless bullies, teacher’s pets, popular kids, and students no one wanted to be around.

Are you living a life based on who you really are or one built on outdated messages from your past? Is your past negatively influencing your present and potentially derailing your future? What if you could shift your perspective from limiting to liberating?

People across the globe fall victim to challenging relationships, but that doesn't mean you have to stay a victim. You are more powerful than you realize—you just need to know where to direct your energy.