Step Parenting

After author Jess Keefe ended things with her long-term boyfriend, she moved in with her brother in hopes that family could help her not only heal from the break-up but also evolve into a healthy adult. But that fantasy ended when Matt’s heroin addiction came roaring back after lying dormant for years, leading to a fatal overdose one October night. Thirty-Thousand Steps is a powerful and transformative memoir that interweaves the author’s obsessive training to becoming a distance runner, along with her focused research into the science of addiction in the shadow of grief.

Have you ever struggled with making emails deliver a powerful punch? If you already create punchy emails, you can make them deliver an even mightier blow. From novice to master, this guide has lessons and tips you can begin applying to your life right away. Don’t waste another second feeling your messages are when there’s a potent tool of electronic communication right in your hands. You will become an unstoppable dynamo of multimedia communication once you are through with these 7 easy steps.

As a former aerospace scientist, Fortune 500 executive, chief innovation officer of two major companies, inventor and software entrepreneur, David Murray has made a living by coming up with new and innovative ideas. In Borrowing Brilliance he explains the origins and evolution of a business idea by showing you how new ideas are merely the combination of existing ideas.

Half psychology textbook written by your best friend (who’s also a therapist), half comprehensive guide brimming with actionable insights for engaging with our unconscious positively and productively, Your Unconscious Is Showing is here to help us accept what we can’t control, courageously change what we can, and wisely know the difference.

Linda J. Solie, a psychologist who has been in private practice for more than twenty years, says everyone can benefit from taking charge of their emotional health. She gives listeners the skills to take control of their thoughts and behaviors by first identifying the problem thinking that creates painful feelings and undesirable conduct. Then using a seven-step process, she helps them change their feelings and behavior.

The simple yet life-changing 10-step process this audiobook outlines will help you to make the best choices for your children to ensure their long-term health, take actions that will protect your children during this time, communicate productively with your co-parent, and release the past so you can create a love-filled future with your children.

With some expert guidance and God's help, you can have tremendous influence in your stepchild's life and grow in your faith along the way. Seasoned stepmom Laurie Polich Short understands and empathizes with the difficult job you face. Drawing on extensive research, biblical teaching, and her own real-life experience (including an insightful chapter cowritten with her stepson, Jordan), Laurie provides practical and spiritual advice to help you fully embrace and succeed in your role as stepparent.

Are you living your to-do list rather than living your life? Many of us run from task to task and are burning the nearly nonexistent candle at both ends. Most of us are one health crisis away from financial devastation - and yet, we are hurtling toward physical breakdown each overscheduled day. Our lives demand too much of us: When everything is a priority, this can make us sick and tired. Dr. Clever discovered the personal cost of this lifestyle and has since devoted herself to helping people renew themselves and regain balance in life.

This book will enlighten you to the many possibilities of love. It will open the doors of understanding about love and loving back all over again. It has bonus topics about dating and how to make dating more exciting and fun. Unique places to spend your dates, not too expensive, not the usual date, less serious but more on fun activities and more time to get to know each other.

In 1-2-3 Parenting with Heart, Dr. Thomas W. Phelan and pastor Chris Webb teach Christian parents to take charge while refraining from yelling, leading to better behaved children, happier parents, and a more peaceful home environment. Complete with relevant Bible verses, explanations, and exercises, this guide allows you to get back in charge of your home and enjoy your kids again by helping you set limits for your children, and by breaking down the complex task of parenting into three straightforward steps.

Do you dream about increased student engagement and more effective classroom management? How about reducing teacher stress and the feeling of being overwhelmed? Or leaving campus at a reasonable hour without dragging a cart full of lesson planning and papers to grade? If the answer to these questions is “Yes!” then this audiobook is for YOU! Based on current research in positive psychology and more than 15 years of “real world” experience in the classroom, this book provides a map to reduce stress, improve student behavior, and be happier in your classroom and your life.

Do you want to love the right way? Yes, there is a right way to love, and there is a painful way to love. Love should not hurt. Love should not be difficult. Have you ever felt like you had to push through a relationship with the hopes of making it awesome? We all have. But what if you could be pulled by an amazing relationship?

Las cosas buenas no solo le suceden a los demás. El momento ha llegado. Es hora de que el éxito te suceda a ti. Este libro te guiará por un proceso de tres pasos sencillos cuya aplicación garantizan que alcances tus sueños y metas. El éxito es una ciencia y un arte a la vez. Por un lado, son principios que invariablemente te llevarán a acercarte a tus sueños. Por otro, es un arte, un proceso de descubrirte a ti mismo, y encontrar plenitud y significado para tu vida.

Where does stress come from? Financial worries? Health issues? Conflicts at work or at home? For more than half a century, we’ve been told that stress is caused by outside pressures and that the best we can do is to breathe, try to relax, and accept that life is hard. In Breaking the Stress Cycle, Bernstein shares solutions for how to stop managing stress and break the cycle of ups and downs at its source.

Drawing on more than two decades of research at The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASAColumbia), founder Joseph A. Califano, Jr., presents a clear, commonsense guide to helping kids stay drug-free. All parents dream of a healthy, productive, and fulfilling future for their children; Califano shows which specific actions work and what parents can do to teach, protect, and empower their children to have the greatest chance of making that future come true.

Do you feel comfortable delivering bad news? Do you look forward to speaking in public? Do you enjoy networking? Is it easy for you to speak your mind and be assertive with friends and colleagues? If you answered no to any of these questions, this book can help!

Do you feel overwhelmed by the demands of your job? Are you facing a sundry of distractions at home? Do you find it hard to achieve balance between your personal life and your work? The strategies provided in this guide will allow you to have quality time and energy left to enjoy precious moments with your loved ones and the other things that truly matter to you.

Have you ever found yourself floundering in the midst of life’s challenges? Do others around you seem to handle the same problems with much more ease than you do? Are you just not able to meet your personal goals? You know you are lacking something, but you have no idea what. In this book, you will learn what mental toughness is and how people in the military, sports, and business worlds use it to succeed and become the top of their field. If you think that mental toughness is something that you are born with, you are wrong! It is a skill that can be taught and learned.

It's Not About the Banana: The 5-Step Method to Stop Living Other People's Lies and Start Living Your Truth takes listeners on a spiritual healing journey of inner reflection to recover from identity-sabotage and gain clarity, empowerment, and emotional fitness to reclaim their lives.

Les 3 Etapes Efficaces Pour Reconstruire Sa Vie est un livre audio pour le développement personnel. Comme indiqué son titre, celivre audio parle de trois étapes importantes qui peuvent aider une personne à reconstruire sa vie. S’adresse à toute personne qui se retrouve dans une situation où elle a connu le décès d’un proche, le divorce, la rupture dans une relation amoureuse, la perte d’un emploi, ou commencer une nouvelle vie dans un pays d’accueil, Bref lelivre audio s’adresse à toute personne qui a besoin de se reconstruire et aller de l’avant.