Step Parenting

Popular recovery speaker Mary Pearl T talks about relationships and relates them, often humorously, to the traditions. Lots of great stories. Great fun.

No one escapes adversity in this life. At times we all struggle with personal pain that can seem unfair and overwhelming. How do we move forward without turning to self-destructive ways of coping or simply giving up? Chris Greco’s dynamic and faith-inspired book, 8 Steps to Overcoming Adversity, offers a concise roadmap on how to overcome whatever hardship we face, whether it’s dealing with failure, illness, loss, and grief, difficult life choices, anxiety about the future, or other challenges.

Introducing solid foods is a key milestone in your baby's first year of life. The Nourished Baby provides an informative, practical, realistic, and caring guide to introducing your baby to solid foods, removing the worry so you can enjoy this milestone with your baby and watch both baby and family flourish. Lecturer, researcher and mother, Dr. Julie Bhosale, explores the issues, the controversy, and the science, before leading you through the important "when", "what", and "how" of introducing your baby to solids.

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.

A stepmother constantly sees to others' needs - those of her spouse, her kids, his kids, their kids. She also has to work so hard to maintain her marriage or deal with the emotional turmoil that can follow divorce and marrying again, that she may neglect her own needs. It's no wonder, then, that stepmothers often ask: Who's taking care of me? This is where Sue Patton Thoele steps in, offering practical advice and emotional support in a new edition of her book, The Courage to Be a Stepmom.

Getting through the pain and confusion of a breakup is never easy - recover from the agony fast with easy, practical, and proven steps. Best-selling author Laura Elliott has created a simple and easy way for women to deal with heartbreak, now updated for 2020. Full of practical advice that gets to work immediately, Elliott has distilled and removed all the nonsense out there and brought you the essential guide to getting over a broken relationship.

In professional life, you are constantly faced with situations that present challenges or even develop into serious problems. Teams often end up having lengthy discussions that ultimately fail to produce a truly satisfactory solution. In order to be able to deal with difficulties efficiently, it is therefore very important to have the right communication skills. You can achieve a great deal here with the right questioning technique. In this book, you will learn when and how you can use which questions and what advantages the individual questions have. However, using them requires some practice.

No relationship can survive without communication. Discover how you can rekindle your relationship by following this seven step action plan.

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!

Whether you want to improve communication or help your struggling teen make better choices, How to Get Your Son Back: 7 Steps to Reconnect and Repair Your Relationship will show you how to stop the fighting and reestablish communication, mutual respect, and trust; motivate and show your teen how to change; help your teen heal and continually grow; and much more. While this audiobook includes details relevant to raising a son, the overall principles also apply to troubled daughters.

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.

Stuck in a love rut and yearning for a deeper, more fulfilling connection? Say hello to the step-by-step guide that will reboot your love life for good!

Rather than confusing you with jargon, which is often the case with other books, this book is a simple-to-follow practical guide on using Stoic philosophy to become more calm, assured, and confident. This book will teach you about the many benefits of a stoic mentality and help you understand that a fulfilling life is found in a lifestyle that aligns with your values and dreams.

In How to Get Hitched (And Stay Hitched), author and marriage coach Suzanne Venker claims women need a detox from the bogus cultural narratives they've absorbed about men, sex, marriage, work and family. If you're a woman who wants a successful love life (not just a successful professional life), you're going to need a brand new roadmap. And now you have one.

Do you struggle to stay confident? Does it make you feel unimportant, uncomfortable and self-conscious? Or do you just want to feel confident and shine out amongst the crowd? Then Confidence Training is the right book for you. Confidence Training has the detailed, non-fluff instructions to lead you to having more confidence.

In today's troubled economic market, everything is a tough sell. From products to services, everyone is consuming less as they tighten their belts. In this respect, it's easy to forget that the job interview is becoming more and more like the showroom - where the interview itself is the pitch, and the product you're selling is yourself. The Art of Selling Yourself will provide you with the knowhow you need to navigate today's tough business terrain and achieve success in your career and your life.

The truth is you will never move forward without a huge amount of anxiety and the possibilities of rejection unless you become informed about what to expect in the dating world. This book will help you identify when you are ready and how to transform yourself from a self-conscious divorcee to taking control of your emotions and fear in finding a new partner. This book will guide you through the steps designed to free you from your post-divorce loneliness.

In January 2010, founder of ArtLeadHer Mashonda Tifrere and music producer Swizz Beatz finalized their divorce. When Swizz married award-winning singer/songwriter Alicia Keys, a new dynamic was born - three adults who loved and were deeply committed to raising Mashonda and Swizz's four-year old son Kasseem. In Blend, Tifrere draws on the insights they gained from their journey as well as advice from family therapists, parenting experts, and other blending families, to provide an invaluable resource for blended families.

To ensure we’re the ones controlling our minds, we must curate our thought content like a quality control expert on a vital production line. We need to know when our thoughts are helpful or harmful.

Hurry is the new normal. When someone asks us how we’re doing, we tell them that we’re "good...but busy." We want to achieve our dreams and live a significant life, so we cram our calendars with nonstop activities. Instead of feeling fulfilled, we’re distracted, exhausted, and overwhelmed. We have too much to do and not enough time. But it doesn’t have to be this way! Garland Vance knows how you feel. In Gettin’ (un)Busy, he shares how he nearly burned out while leading a nonprofit, having a family, and working on his doctorate in leadership and spiritual formation.