Parenting Essentials

Exploring ADHD often comes with concerns of labeling our children, yet understanding it can celebrate their uniqueness. With about 6 million children diagnosed according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and possibly millions more undiagnosed, the spectrum of ADHD symptoms is broad, affecting family dynamics, academic success, and everyday challenges both for the children and their parents trying to navigate this complex condition.

Have you ever found yourself in a conversation with your partner, trying to put into words what's really in your heart, only to feel misunderstood or not heard? You're not alone. In this busy world, couples rarely get the chance to close the gap between what they want to say and what their partner truly hears. This book is your guide to mastering the skills and mindset needed for effective, compassionate communication that strengthens your bond instead of straining it.

As creators and hosts of the hit dating podcast Dateable, Julie Krafchick and Yue Xu have made breaking down the nuances of the ever-evolving dating world, and empowering the people within it, their purpose and passion. Drawing on a decade’s worth of research from speaking to thousands of daters and world-renowned experts, Julie and Yue have come to realize that everyone is dateable—it’s just the modern dating norms that keep us from falling in love.

Understand developmental trauma and reactive attachment disorder (RAD). Learn tips and tricks to help you to navigate "the system". Get resource recommendations that will provide a way forward. Adopting or fostering a child with reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is beyond challenging. They may have violent outbursts, engage in outlandish behavior like lying, stealing, playing with feces, and hoarding food. With histories of early childhood trauma, kids with RAD too often break even the most loving of caregivers.

Explaining the important difference between grief and mourning, this book explores every mourner's need to acknowledge death and embrace the pain of loss. Also explored are the many factors that make each person's grief unique and the many normal thoughts and feelings mourners might have. Questions of spirituality and religion are addressed as well.

Let me make one thing very clear: you teach people how to treat you based on how you behave and your perception of your worth. Simply assume a position of status and it will be given to you. Doubt yourself and others will question your authority. If you think that you aren't worth much then women will sense this and treat you accordingly. If you sincerely believe that you are gold then you will organically exude a sexy confidence that turns women ON.

As a Black woman, I know all too well the unique challenges and obstacles we face in pursuing our dreams. But I also know the power of manifestation and the impact it can have on our lives. Through my own journey and working with other Black women, I've seen firsthand the incredible transformation that can occur when we tap into our inner strength and harness the power of manifestation.

This first book in the Mindfulness Essentials series, a back-to-basics collection from world-renowned Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh, introduces everyone to the essentials of mindfulness practice. In short, single-paragraph chapters, Nhat Hanh shares detailed instructions, guided breathing exercises, and visualizations, as well as his own personal stories and insights.

With the countless distractions that come from every corner of a modern life, it's amazing that we're ever able to accomplish anything. The Power of Less demonstrates how to streamline your life by identifying the essential and eliminating the unnecessary - freeing you from everyday clutter and allowing you to focus on accomplishing the goals that can change your life for the better

In his commencement address to the graduating class of 2016, James E. Ryan, dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, offered remarkable advice to the crowd of hopeful men and women eager to make their marks on the world. The key to achieving emotional connections and social progress, he told them, can be found in five essential questions.

Nhat Hanh brings his signature clarity, compassion, and humor to the ways we act out in anger, frustration, despair, and delusion. In brief meditations Thich Nhat Hanh instructs us exactly how to transform our craving and confusion. If we learn to take good care of our suffering, we can help others do the same, and reach reconciliation between family members, coworkers, and even nations.

A practical guide that explores how nonmonogamous relationships do not belong exclusively to the neurotypicals, but to us all.

In today’s culture of instant gratification, patience has become a dying art. We’ve been trained to want something five minutes ago, though yesterday would be even better. Impatience has become ingrained in us. Fortunately, your mood, attitude, and knee jerk reactions are not set in stone. The impatience that you’ve learned can actually be unlearned. Even better, your bad habits can be replaced by good ones.

Thich Nhat Hanh says that when we relax, we “become calm water, and we will reflect reality as it is. If we’re not calm, the image we reflect will be distorted. When the image is distorted by our minds, it’s not the reality, and it causes lots of suffering.” Relaxation is essential for accessing the tranquility and joy that lead to increased personal well-being. How to Relax includes meditations you can do to help you achieve the benefits of relaxation.

In this inspiring guide from conscious creativity leader James McCrae, you’ll find a variety of ways to expand your creative life. From visual inspirations to opportunities for creative play, here he shares a flexible set of tools, exercises, rituals, and insights that will awaken your sense of wonder and reclaim the artist within.

There’s no reason in the world why you can’t have that fine woman on the other side of the room. If you were aware of her body language, and had you been prepared mentally, you’d know exactly how to seduce her. If you had listened to Alpha Male Dating: The Essential Playbook, you wouldn’t be across the room right now, not way over there, staring at her like an imbecile.

Blending two households can feel overwhelming, especially when managing relationships, parenting styles, and financial complexities. Many families face these struggles, but achieving a harmonious and well-adjusted blended family is within your reach. This guide offers practical solutions and proven strategies to help you navigate the journey with confidence.

In our search for love, affection, and acceptance, we often find ourselves repeating old patterns with new partners. Our brains seek familiar touch points as a way of navigating the unpredictability of our lives, but this means we can find ourselves reentering relationships with the same toxic dynamics. Toxic relationships are especially hard to recover from, especially when they uncovered some of our earliest and deepest traumas. When we leave them, we often find ourselves nursing a broken heart, again and again.

Mental health is the driving force behind every decision we make—how we live, work, and love. Many of us suffer from depression and anxiety, which impede our choices and quality of life, and despite the proliferation of prescription drugs, the numbers are growing across the globe. But there is another, proven way to achieve mental wellness, beyond antidepressants and talk therapy. Practicing psychiatrist Gregory Scott Brown believes that mental health begins with actionable self-care.

If you want to discover how people with dark personalities work and what it really takes to persuade someone, then pay attention...