Step Parenting

Prolonged exposure to domestic abuse can manifest characteristics of post-traumatic depression and illness. Scott Vinci takes you on a guided path through four critical steps that he has identified from 10 years of working with the intimate partner survivors of men who perpetrated various forms of abuse and violence to control them.

Award-winning journalist, motivational speaker, and blogger L'Oreal Thompson Payton is a self-professed success junkie and poster girl for "overly" ambitious high achievers everywhere. She also knows firsthand how imposter syndrome and self-doubt can derail your dreams. She's experienced the growing pains that come with big career and life changes. In Stop Waiting for Perfect, she's doing just that: using that hard-won insight to help you through your own journey. She's penned the pep talk to walk with you through any obstacle in your career or personal life.

If you're looking for a couples therapy workbook for healing, The 5 Step Action Plan to a Happy & Healthy Marriage is an easy-to-understand, step-by-step guide with user-friendly couples therapy workbook exercises at the end of each chapter.

Chartered psychologist Beverley Stone helps you work step by step through the decision. She explains the life-sapping harm caused by failing to be decisive and helps you work through your fears and anxieties in order to make the best choice for yourself. In six key life-changing steps, she offers everyone the chance to bring about positive change.

You don’t need to have the perfect relationship with your ex for the kids to be happy. Life can be better for you after separation or divorce. Some couples aren’t meant to stay together.

Have you noticed that on some days, everything seems to go so smoothly? Those times when everybody shares the same deadline and all of a sudden everything gets done. What’s going on here? What’s different in these scenarios? At the core of each situation is a replicable occurrence, a behavior pattern, or a trend you can understand and utilize. In fact, with just a little bit of heightened awareness and increased focus on your situation, you can pinpoint these exact patterns and recreate them at will.

In Middle-Class Mindset Escape Plan: Six Proven Steps to Break Free of Faulty Beliefs, Conquer Your Fears, and Reach Financial Success, J.D. shares what he learned through his own personal journey from middle class to millionaire so that you, too, can recover from loss, make a mindset shift, and break through to financial freedom.

While it’s difficult to overcome codependency, change is still possible…only if you choose to work on yourself and make the necessary adjustments. And it all starts here with this practical guide to overcoming codependency in your relationships.

Have you ever wondered how to best approach your new role as a stepparent? Have you found it challenging to get along with your stepchildren? You are certainly not alone, and this book is here to help you. Starting a new family in which you have to integrate your life with that of your stepchildren can pose unique challenges that are not present in nuclear or biological families.

Learn how to get in the right "state" with specific techniques so that you can easily approach strangers and start conversations. In Day Game Step by Step, you learn how to start conversations with complete strangers and maintain the conversation easily by providing value instead of asking questions.

This book is a heartfelt guide that gently leads listeners through a journey of improving their relationships. This book is filled with a treasure trove of tools, techniques, and exercises that are designed to uplift and strengthen the bonds between partners who are already in relationships. This book also seeks to help single people stand the best chance of their future relationships lasting.

The official diagnostic definition of narcissism describes an individual with impairments to self-direction, intimacy, identity, and empathy. It also says that a narcissist is dependent on others for self-esteem and validation and has a grandiose sense of self. In Narcissistic Relationships: Strategies to Emotionally Detach, Steps to End the Relationship, and Coping Mechanisms to Help You Stay Away, we are going to start by looking at nine specific signs that you are in a relationship with a narcissist and conclude by looking at resources for online therapy, among other things.

Whether you have an established step family or are in the early stages of a blended family, you can find value in the information presented in this audiobook. Also included is a chapter of real-life case studies from stepparents caring for disabled children. The experiences they share hold valuable lessons on issues that may arise and how they handled them in their endeavor to maintain a happy stepfamily.

You read the word "self-healing" and you are skeptical and a bit curious? Your mind says "No," but your gut is saying "Yes, you are!" It's a little inner struggle to find the primal trust that we all lost a little and more and more somewhere in our childhood in the system we grew up in. In this book you can expect an attempt at regression, remembrance, reminding of our, your primordial self-trust: one of the foundations for self-healing to work. I offer you methods, techniques, mind games and you use them how and when you want. I give a framework, you paint it. Just as you like.

No more feeling sorry for yourself. You deserve an awesome body, and I’d like to give you the tools you need to get it. In this book, we talk about the foods you should be eating, debunk more than 15 weight-loss myths that have been leading you astray, and give you a step-by-step guide to leveraging the power of meditation to get rid of that belly for good.

Break free from a narcissist's hold and reclaim your life with this practical guide to navigating divorce and recovery. Understand the stakes and arm yourself with the knowledge needed to regain your peace. This guide doesn't just offer legal advice; it provides a step-by-step path to mend your spirit and rebuild your life. You'll feel lighter and ready to move forward confidently.

It's time to stop putting yourself at the bottom of every to-do list and start taking care of yourself first. It's time to leave Superwoman in the movies, where she belongs, and say hello to being a super woman - the best, most productive version of the hero you already are.

What if the emotions of your past experiences continued to secretly control your life today? What if these residual, inner blockages prevented you from truly connecting with, trusting and working with others? What if your life was a continuous loop of the same story being retold with slightly different characters and settings no matter where you are and which people you choose to have relationships with?

This audiobook is about codependency and attempting to control addictions, opinions, and behaviors. It covers the concept of addiction to dysfunctional and toxic relationship processes, and identifies the main "process-drugs" people use to try to navigate through relationships. It discusses how one loses themselves in an attempt to find love and belonging in dysfunctional ways, and how this does not work for healthy relationships. After identifying the disease processes, this audiobook educates and guides the listener to practice daily living in the solution rather than in the problem.

If you are a stepparent, you may know how challenging a role it can be. It takes more than the will to make it work. Stepparents must apply a range of skills to keep their families together, and they have to be prepared to be flexible in the process.