Adult Development

Imagine falling asleep within minutes, experiencing deep restful slumber throughout the night, in a blissful state of mental tranquility. Yes, even if you're a seasoned insomniac, a chronic overthinker, or an exhausted, stressed-out soul!

How to achieve deep, restorative sleep without pills or complex routines, even if you've struggled with insomnia for years. In The Yoga Nidra Sleep Book for Adults, you'll discover how this ancient practice, backed by modern sleep science, can transform your relationship with rest.

People have been sharing their life stories with Psychologist Allison Keating for the past 18 years and the words she hears most often are ‘I feel overwhelmed’, followed by ‘I thought I’d have it figured out by now’. Adulthood is tough. As we try to divide ourselves between our partner, children, parents, siblings, friends and colleagues, it is no wonder we can feel overwhelmed, often neglecting the most important relationship of all - the one we have with ourselves.

By just incorporating ten simple and compelling techniques into your everyday life, you’ll unlock the secrets of social finesse that even the most introverted can master! Inside this life-altering book, you’ll discover: How to get yourself some rizz: Learn how to build self-confidence, self-esteem, self-awareness, and self-image. Practical strategies to swerve the drama: Find out how to communicate constructively, resolve conflicts, and deal with unnecessary drama.

Master essential life skills for a smooth transition into adulthood, even if it feels overwhelming right now. Are you struggling with budgeting, cooking, job hunting, or managing time? Feeling stressed about juggling responsibilities? This guide simplifies the process, helping you build confidence and independence step by step. Discover how to manage your daily tasks and responsibilities with ease.

Manipulation, Kontrolle, Empathiemangel oder Machtspiele: Wer mit einer narzisstischen Mutter aufgewachsen ist, kennt all das nur zu gut aus seiner Kindheit. Auch auf Erwachsenen lastet diese Vergangenheit oft noch schwer – und wenn Sie sich aus diesen Fesseln befreien wollen, finden Sie in diesem Hörbuch einen Weg! Mütter lieben ihre Kinder bedingungslos und wollen nur das Beste für sie: Das ist die gesellschaftliche Vorstellung von Müttern – doch es gibt auch solche, die das nicht erfüllen können.

Testing expectations of motherhood and faith, this haunting and breathtakingly-honest depiction of the transformation of a family through the mystery of gender questioning and identity is a dual story of awakening: of the heart of a mother towards her transgendered child, and of the child’s awakening to his, her, their fluidity of gender.

It has been five days since her father’s death, and Liz still feels frozen in time. Left with 21 years of memories, Liz knows that John Frederick Smith was not a perfect man or father. She loved her father, but his drinking had always been a source of resentment. As she attempts to grapple with her grief and anger, Liz returns to her memories with the hope of finding the answers she so desperately needs. Sixty-nine years earlier, little Fred Smith is born out-of-wedlock in the small town of Southport, North Carolina.

Career Rookie is a book for every grad, student, and 20-something who feels lost, overwhelmed, and anxious. It tackles the emotional and logistical WTF-ness of starting your career, answering questions like, What if I don't have any experience? What if I went to school for something I hated? What if I have no idea what I actually want? Should I just suck it up and settle? Because, honestly, this career thing is starting to give me an ulcer. This fresh, fun guide gives even the most lost and overwhelmed a way forward.

Needed for our times, our people, and our communities. In her critically acclaimed, groundbreaking best-seller - Whatever Happened to Daddy's Little Girl? - author Jonetta Rose Barras broke the code of silence surrounding the devastating impact father absence has on girls and women. Using her own story, and that of other women from across the country, Barras identified the "fatherless woman syndrome," along with its ramifications, and offered remedies for healing.

Our country is in a profound crisis: a crisis of decency, of civility, of character. And families today are experiencing a new set of realities. Our best instincts are undermined at every turn, and our families, to which we turn in crisis, are feeling the strain. Working parents are harried, tired, and overextended. Mary Pipher understands this. She's a good listener, perhaps the best listener in America. And what she has to say goes straight to the heart.Confronted with today's challenges, parents feel helpless to protect their children from the enemy within their homes: the innapropriate television their kids watch for hours, the computer and virtual reality games that keep them from playing outside, when they should be learning from and about the real world. Compounding this is the fact that our psychological theories don't work anymore. These theories were developed decades ago, when families were tightly knit, relatively monolithic institutions, and they're dated. Pipher argues that such theories are of little help in our violent, sexualized contemporary culture. And while diagnosing the problem is the first step in curing it, Pipher offers ideas for simple actions we can all take to help rebuild our families and strengthen our communities.

Après le récit de vie de sa mère Marie, Odile G. Huet revient sur le destin de son père. Chassé de l'Espagne par la guerre, puis de l'Algérie par un tremblement de terre, c'est en France que José parviendra à construire son foyer. Malgré la maladie, sa force de caractère, le soutien de ses amis et l'amour de sa famille permettront à José de dépasser le préjugé de l'immigré qui dérange pour montrer sa ténacité et son sens moral. C'est par le récit de son passé que José laisse découvrir à sa fille ce qu'il ne confie à personne.

In the second edition of A Young Adult's Guide to Life, Chandler Rivinius updates his roughly sequential guide to overcoming the challenges young adults face while coming of age in post-2020 America. Chandler outlines a common-sense approach to making the most out of high school and college. This approach is based on his observations and his experiences growing up. From there he uses the same logic-based approach to cover the topics that are most important to becoming a successful adult.

What if you weren't the only guy that had trouble finding quality guy friends? And keeping them in your life? More than likely, you're not. Heterosexual males today are the loneliest demographic. Tragically, they are the ones that would benefit the most from friendship as they suffer from higher cases of depression and suicide. But isn't it just so awkward to go talk to another guy you don't know and try to be his friend? This audiobook will show you how to fill this void in your life without awkwardness, looking silly, feeling gay, or embarrassing yourself.

Are you one of those people who are very stressed out? Are you having a difficult time having a good night’s sleep? Adult life is very challenging and frustrating. You juggle a plethora of balance checkbooks, debts, and relationships, not to mention that you need to put dinner on the table each night. What’s more, parents have even more frustrations giving for their kids. One of the things you want to do is to have enough sound and a good night’s sleep. In this audiobook you will be able to relax, calm down, lessen your stress levels, and sleep better at night!

The adult world is stressful. It is incredibly difficult to live in a world where you are constantly connected to everyone and everything. You cannot escape responsibilities, bills, expenses, relationship troubles, or anything else; it can all weigh you down, making it hard for you to cope with your daily stressors. There are things you can control, and there are things you cannot. What is within your control is choosing how to respond to the world around you and how you can better cope with stressors. These mindfulness-focused bedtime stories will help.

It starts with a nagging feeling—something’s off, but you can’t pinpoint it. Constant criticism, emotional manipulation, and never feeling good enough. Narcissistic abuse has clouded your sense of self. You’ve been gaslighted, guilt-tripped, and controlled, leaving you drained and hopeless. The hardest part? You don’t know how to break free. Healing from the Narcissist Parents is the guide you’ve been waiting for. This book will help you step by step to break the trauma bond, regain your emotional freedom, and rediscover the peace and confidence that’s been lost.

Listen to our stories about men and women living their life, experiencing joy, drama, sadness, and happiness. They are everyday stories, windows to different lives, that can lull us into the arms of night, shifting from a dream to another.

At a dance workshop held to address the threat of the AIDS pandemic, the author admits she doesn't know how to be a mother to her gay son. With the help of women in her spirituality group, she learns to say yes to what life is asking of her son and of her as his mother. The author's best friend, dying of breast cancer, asks the author to accompany her through what turns out to be 14 days of her dying, ironically preparing this mother for what lies ahead with her own children.

When Lu Spinney's 29-year-old son, Miles, flies up on his snowboard, "he knows he is not in control as he is taken by force up the ramp," writes his mother, "skewing sideways as his board clips the edge and then he is hurtling, spinning up, up into the free blue sky ahead.... " He lands hard on the ice and falls into a coma. Thus begins the erratic loss - Miles first in a coma and then trapped in a fluctuating state of minimal consciousness - that unravels over the next five years.