Surviving Relationships

When Loving Them Hurts: A Parent’s Guide to Surviving an Addicted Adult Child You never thought you’d be here—living in the nightmare of addiction, watching your child spiral, feeling powerless to stop it. You’ve tried everything. You’ve begged, pleaded, paid for rehabs, covered for them, bailed them out, given second chances—and still, nothing changes. So what now? This book is for parents who are exhausted, heartbroken, and out of options. It’s for those drowning in guilt, fear, and the unbearable weight of waiting for the call. It’s for those who need real answers, hard ...

Have you ever wondered why certain people thrive in life? Is there a secret to living in a thriving state of being? In Surviving Life’s Storms and Thriving in the Aftermath, Christine Fruehwirth, a professional career and life coach and mother of three adult children, explores her ‘four stages of living’ which are surviving, stabilizing, emerging and thriving. You’ll learn about: Needing to heal from our emotional holes to become a whole person by addressing what is holding us back. Utilizing a framework she developed to move successfully from survival mode to a thriving state.

Parenting can only be described as an endless adventure, but in reality it is so much more. Whether you are raising young toddlers, teenagers, or those on the brink of adulting, parenting can be terrifying, overwhelming, and yes, even exhausting at times. Every stage of their growth and development becomes a new journey. Each time we think we have it figured out; they grow up a little more. We are left feeling unprepared, lost, and out of date, like a stubby armed tyrannosaurus rex trapped in a world filled with push-button-start cars and touch-screen cell phones.

Kate Paris Battaglia, a resilient high school student, has taken advantage of Covid-imposed solitude to author her first book: 101 Tips for Surviving in a Pandemic: A Generation Z Guidebook. Born near 2000, Kate allows listeners to travel into the minds of a generation accustomed to the technology of the internet. However, she surprisingly does not dwell on social media to cure all ills that Covid-19 and its variants have inflicted upon the "zoomers" of Gen Z.

Surviving the Breakup is a roadmap and journal to get over a breakup and move forward confidently. It is a definitive guide that links breakups and nutrition. The audiobook is loaded with logical advice, quotes, programs, and journal prompts; it also includes music choices to listen to while writing your journal. It is geared to help those who are stepping through deep emotional and physical issues from going through a breakup or those who are about to enter a breakup.

Did your parents ever do unloving things in the name of love? Here is how you reclaim your sense of self. Do you feel as though your relationship with your parents is seriously limiting your potential? Have they made you feel worthless in the past? Did you or do you have to constantly be there for them and their problems? Have they used physical or emotional pain to “discipline” you? Do they try to control or manipulate you? If so, then the chances are high you are dealing with a toxic parent.

Choices is the fifth novella in the ongoing Andersen Family Saga. Livia Andersen was a woman who held her family together with a quiet smile and an iron will. It’s been less than a month since her death and the four children she leaves behind struggle with the shifting changes in their lives now that she’s gone. But they are not alone. Her grandchildren and other members of Livia's large and extended family are also grappling with life without her there to turn to... Trisha Slavik knows better than most that sometimes you don’t always get the answers you’re looking for. She knows ...

In the 1940s and the 1950s, men ruled the home in a much different way then households are ruled today. Domestic violence and marital issues arose. The police stayed clear. If the police did happen to be called on the scene, nothing happened because they believed a man's home was his castle, and anything or anyone in it was his property. Sandra watched her father beat and mentally abuse her mother with no recourse, She vowed to never fall victim to the abuse she witnessed as a child. Sandra broke that vow as she fell victim and experienced the things she witnessed as a child.

BuzzFeed senior writer Erin Chack hits you in the guts, the feelings, and the funny bone all at once with this collection of personal essays that sounds like Sloane Crosley for the Snapchat generation. In turns hysterically funny and heartbreakingly poignant, Erin recounts everything from meeting her soulmate at age 14 to her first chemotherapy session at age 19 to what really goes on behind the scenes at a major Internet media company.

Surviving My Mother is the harrowing, candid, beautiful story of a woman’s quest to survive, a mother’s quest to heal, and a daughter’s quest to forgive. Debbie Matzkin shares the life-saving lessons she learned, how she was able to find happiness in even the darkest of depths, and how she ultimately reclaimed her future.

This ‘Teenage Relationships Guide’ will help you steer clear of the relationship dilemmas which can cause heartache instead of love and bonding through the delicate teenage years. This is your handy guide whenever you need guidance in these four important areas of teenage relationships; mother, best friend, siblings, and love interest. You will discover essential tips that will give you the power to develop the most awesome relationships through your teen years and beyond. Almost every teenage girl has relationship problems which they wish they could avoid. With the teenage years so ...

Name it, claim it, own it, and deal with it by working to dump it and never denying it. “It” refers to your emotions—and people who fail in life seldom utilize their thoughts to manage their behaviors. Instead, they are driven by their emotions, yet successful people always use thoughts to govern themselves. Observations and origins about validating your thinking skills, testing your values, and putting them in motion are taught and detailed in Surviving Your Feelings.

Every year, 900,000 women of faith go through a divorce. This book is full of the wisdom and encouragement that Suzanne received, as well as the lessons she learned while the Lord was exchanging his beauty for her ashes. There is life on the other side. A life full of hope, healing, and triumph.

Surviving Life: Contemplations of the Soul is a unique and powerful audiobook full of compassion and empathy that combines the issues of what hurts us the most with the thoughts and advice meant to empower us toward happiness and independence. It is medicine for the soul. It guides us through our deepest pains and weaknesses and leads us to a place of self-empowerment, inspiration, strength, and hope.

"Letting Go" is a practical guide designed to empower professional women to navigate and overcome toxic situations. This book provides strategies for understanding toxicity, identifying triggers, building resilience, setting boundaries, and ultimately thriving beyond toxic experiences. Learn how to prioritize your well-being, heal from emotional scars, and redefine success on your own terms.

Dr. Michael Carr-Gregg is a leading authority on teenage behavior. Surviving Adolescents is the sensible, sanity-saving guide every household needs. Young people today enter puberty earlier than ever before and leave home later. The good news is that teenagers aren't impossible to live with, especially if parents adopt the common-sense strategies set out in this book.

The powerful collaboration of stories in this book has the influence to impact generations and nations by resonating the hope and resilience of women who initially believed there was no hope. These 12 women share their journeys from insidious abuse to freedom and purpose, to help empower women globally with the resources and strategies to navigate their own healing journey from fearful to fearless. While each woman’s experience is unique to her, and their stories were not easy to tell, all their impactful narratives reveal the classic characteristics of narcissistic abuse. Behind each ...

Fear rocked Chip St. Clair's world. As a boy, he never knew what would set his father off--maybe the ice cubes had melted in his glass of Tab, maybe dinner was overcooked or undercooked or the gravy was too runny. Regardless, the beatings always came. As did the twisted games of cat and mouse - being thrown from a rowboat into frigid Lake Michigan, the middle-of-the-night moves to different states, or being left to dangle over a 10-story balcony while his father watched from inside.

Raising a teenage girl can be overwhelming for the most important female figure in her life: her mother. From handling the often delicate situations surrounding academic performance, athletics, friendships, sexual activity, and drug and alcohol experimentation to instilling a healthy body image and providing a strong role model, mothers often feel alone in their struggle to cope with all that they must do for their daughters.

As a teen, you're experiencing intense changes in your life - both physically and mentally. To top it off, you're probably unsure of how to handle your emotions in a positive, constructive way. Surviving the Emotional Roller Coaster offers evidence-based techniques to help you regulate your emotions and find balance in all areas of life - whether it's at home, at school, or with friends and peers. By learning to be more aware of your emotions, you'll be able to let difficult feelings pass without reacting to them in destructive ways.