Family Healing

In Shadows of Sobriety, Keith Burton pulls back the curtain on his journey through a childhood marked by alcoholism, family dysfunction, and emotional scars that lasted a lifetime. Raised in a household where love was often confused with pain, Keith reflects on his relationships with an alcoholic father and a controlling mother, and how their struggles set the stage for his own battles with identity, faith, and a fractured family legacy.

Unlock the secrets to a harmonious family life with Healing the Parent-Child Relationship. This transformative eBook is your essential guide to repairing, nurturing, and strengthening the bond you share with your child. Dive deep into practical strategies and insightful knowledge crafted to support parents through the challenging yet rewarding journey of parenthood. In the first chapter, gain a foundational understanding of the parent-child bond by exploring the importance of trust and recognizing the signs of a strained relationship. Learn to rebuild this critical trust with consistency, ...

Pain, trauma, and abuse seem to be all thirteen-year-old Allison McClanahan knows. Shame, humiliation, and fear was her life before her ambitious case worker, Ms. Rebecca Aisling, took her case and took her under her protective wings. Rescued from an abusive, drug-addled father and the loss of her mother, Allison finds herself placed in foster care. Everything is a whirlwind of confusion. She doesn’t know who she is or where her place is in this world anymore. She yearns for answers and a night without bad dreams and nightmares. Marjan Mehri, an outsider to some but a young woman of hope ...

Sometimes, the hardest knots to untangle… are the ones inside you. Wren thought she had buried her past deep enough to never look back. But when a call from an old friend brings her back to the ranch she once called home, she finds more than overgrown trails and broken fences—she finds Carter and Colt, the two men she once loved… and left. At Sanctuary Ridge, a rustic retreat nestled in wild canyon country, Wren is pulled into a world of slow mornings, rough rope, and the kind of intimacy that demands more than just skin. As she rebuilds trust with the men she hurt—and rediscovers ...

In this powerful and practical guide, Minaa shares therapeutic tools, client stories, and actionable insights to help you on your healing journey, along with reflections from her personal experiences. Each chapter focuses on a common emotional struggle—from overcoming dysfunctional family patterns to developing emotional maturity, finding our village, navigating racial trauma, and moving past isolation and despair.

Most of us are only starting to become aware of how our foundational years contribute to who we are today. Our childhood environment shapes the foundation for our sense of self, how we feel about the world, and how we relate to others. If we experienced trauma or dysfunction along the way, it likely disrupted the pathways to these fundamental structures. Understanding our trauma is not about blame, but about understanding, learning, and growing. In most cases, our caregivers did the best they could with the tools they had, often while dealing with external or internal stressors as well.

Black Diamond Chronicles is a compelling anthology that tells the stories of individuals who have faced immense adversity and emerged stronger, like rare black diamonds formed under pressure. Each narrative highlights the resilience of the human spirit, showcasing its ability to heal, grow, and transform through hardship. These stories inspire with their message of courage, strength, and triumph over life’s challenges. Readers are invited to witness the profound transformations that arise from moments of struggle, celebrating the extraordinary resilience and brilliance that resides within...

Maureen and Harold Fry have settled into a quiet life, but when an unexpected message from the North disturbs their peaceful equilibrium, Maureen realizes that it’s now her turn to make a journey. But she is not like her affable, easygoing husband. By turns outspoken, then vulnerable, she struggles to form bonds with the people she meets—and the landscape she crosses has radically changed. Maureen has no sense of what she will find at the end of the road. All she knows is that she has to get there.

Missy Houghton hopes to defy the odds while marrying young, but ends up with a failed marriage when Chuck breaks her heart once again. In the midst of her divorce she loses her father to cancer, and now everything in her life feels broken. At her lowest point she meets Frank, a Christian man at her church, and he restores some of the faith she had lost in herself. Though reluctant to begin another relationship, they become close friends and she decides to give love one last chance. Soon drama with Franks's ex overwhelms her and she regrets committing her heart to another man. At the same ...

Life is hard. But it gets a whole lot easier when you start to talk it out. In How Am I Doing?, you're invited into a series of conversations with yourself to improve your mental health and reconnect with who you want to be. Dr. Corey Yeager, psychotherapist for the NBA’s Detroit Pistons and most recently featured on Oprah and Prince Harry's The Me You Can't See on Apple TV+, offers you 40 questions to help you raise awareness of your thoughts and emotions and reconnect with who you want to be.

Meet Patrick Butler and Melyssa Fleming, a dynamic brother-sister duo juggling parenthood, thriving careers, active volunteerism, podcasting, and now, writing. In The Bond We Share, they open up about their upbringing in the Midwest, where their parents’ decision to adopt Melyssa initially brought joy, but later faced challenges due to extended family dynamics and mental health struggles. The siblings were abruptly separated during their formative years, disrupting the foundation of their sibling bond.

After the birth of her baby triggers a manic maelstrom, Dyane Harwood struggles to survive the bewildering highs and crippling lows of her brain's turmoil. Birth of a New Brain vividly depicts her postpartum bipolar disorder, an unusual type of bipolar disorder and postpartum mood and anxiety disorder. During her childhood, Harwood grew up close to her father, a brilliant violinist in the Los Angeles Philharmonic who had bipolar disorder. She learned how bipolar disorder could ravage a family, but she never suspected that she'd become mentally ill - until her baby was born.

Not every fairytale starts with once upon a time. She built an empire one spreadsheet at a time. Now she’s burying the woman who raised her, facing the man she once left behind, and discovering a life she never planned—but might just need. Rachel Ashcroft has everything she thought she wanted—a high-powered career, a luxury apartment, and a calendar so full she doesn’t have time to breathe. But when her grandmother passes away, she’s forced to return to the sleepy hometown she once fled and the house full of memories she never meant to inherit. She expects to be in and out in a ...

After a grizzly bear kills Antonia Valleau's trapper husband, she packs her few worldly possessions, leaves her home in the mountains of Montana, and treks to nearby Sweetwater Springs, seeking work to provide for her two young sons.

Connecting to Our Ancestral Past is a pragmatic, spiritual journey that introduces a variety of specific rituals and conversations in connection with Constellations work, an experiential process that explores one's history and powerful events of the past in order to understand and resolve problems of the present. Constellations facilitator and author Francesca Mason Boring presents this therapeutic method in the context of cultures like the Shoshone, of which she is a member, that have seen the world through a prism of interrelationships for millennia.

Much of what we previously thought about trauma is simply wrong. It’s not a psychological problem as we previously thought. This book provides five concepts that will turn your previous understanding of trauma upside down and inside out, leading you to the breakthroughs you’ve been wanting.

Gay Children, Straight Parents is authored by sexual orientation therapist Richard Cohen, who lived a homosexual life and then came out straight! Today he has been married to his beautiful wife for 38 years and has three adult children. Over the past 30 years as a psychotherapist, Cohen has helped hundreds of parents, family members, and friends who have same-sex attracted (SSA) loved ones.

SEVEN SILENT WITNESSES - Finding FREEDOM Through the Power of Forgiveness. ONLY $2.99 Every Day! Written in novel form this book is Inspirational, Motivational, gives specific direction in Spiritual Healing, practical information on healthy relationships and will captivate the reader from page one. This book is a personal journey, but with a very HAPPY Ending and some practical information shared that can help those who have experienced any type of abuse or need to know how to Forgive.After you read it - 5 star reviews greatly appreciated - if you can. :) Inspiring! Compelling and deeply ...

This book is a prayer book particularly for commanding total deliverance, restoration, breakthroughs and victories in night’s seasons. Take time to read every bit of it in order to have better understanding of the breakthrough and prophetic prayers of the night seasons. Whatever you don’t understand is above you but what you understand keeps you above. Good understanding giveth favour… Proverb13:15a. Nothing happens in life on its own. Everything happening and that will still happen is by a deliberate act and orchestration. Whatever will be, will not be until you make it be. There are...

From Superstition to Salvation: One Black Cat's Unforgettable Journey In a world where shadows hide both danger and beauty, a forgotten black cat must overcome the oldest superstition of all—his own midnight fur. Abandoned because of ancient fears, Billy the black cat struggles to survive alone on merciless city streets where superstition runs deeper than compassion. Through bitter winters and relentless rejection, he fights not just for food and shelter, but against a growing sense that darkness is all he'll ever know. Until the night everything changes. When Billy encounters Maya, a ...