Family Healing

In his plebe year at the prestigious US Naval Academy, Nick’s world comes to a screeching halt. A sudden collapse lands him in the famous Walter Reed psych ward, where he must finally face the overwhelming grief and anger he feels about his father’s marital infidelity. In rehab, with the help of his therapist and mother, Nick slowly comes to terms with the cascade of secrets, loss, and trauma created by his own father’s many extramarital affairs.

What if you could change the most important relationships in your life? This book and the story that's told inside is about the complicated relationship between fathers and sons with real life examples of what can divide and separate them and what can heal them. Written with heart-riveting transparency and courage, author Otto Collins places his evolving journey with his father before you.

The author tells her story of sexual abuse as a child and as a young teen. This culminates in pregnancy from a close family member. She tells of her traumatic aftermath and goes on to take you through the positive steps she takes to heal, to forgive, and move on with her life.

Learning how to cope with the loss of a child is an extremely difficult and painful experience. The author, Lora C. Mercado, lost her son in 2003 due to a congenital heart defect. Throughout this book, she will share with you some of the things that have helped her through this journey of grief and healing, as well as other valuable tips that she has learned through research and other parents who have lost a child.

Co-parenting is critical for successful divorces, and yes, Sam Margulies, an expert mediator of over 4,000 divorces, there are successful, as well as unsuccessful, divorces defined as everyone adapting and moving on productively with their lives. These co-parenting skills and help by each spouse for the other is important to achieve this end. A short must hear audiobook for those with children in a post divorce situation and family members of either couple.

Children are what divorcing spouses say they are most concerned about, but they usually don't act upon that thought. Here, Sam Margulies lays out a plan to protect children from being injured in the divorce process. The first step is to view the client as a family, which includes all members and prospective mates, rather than as plaintiff or defendant. This audiobook is a must listen for divorcing couples with children. It is also a great listen for friends and family of divorcing couples who wish to help the family stay on track.

Raising Children Without Church teaches how God and meaning are found in everyday life. It shows how faith grows, along with children, through art, music, food, gardening, and pets. Raising Children Without Church introduces faith-related information that children will encounter on the playground, on a walk, in the store, and while visiting friends.

In this hypnosis program, longtime paramedic and clinical hypnotist Maggie Staiger combines calming imagery of a lakeside dawn with suggestions for healing, relaxing and remaining stable during the operation itself, and for understanding the surgery as a tool for healing rather than a traumatic event.

When Steve Friedman was a child growing up in the suburbs of St. Louis, the game of golf was, to him, mysterious and dark. His father’s passion for it caused friction in his marriage and eluded the interest of his youngest son, who was devoted instead to basketball. For that and many other reasons, the two failed to bond, ultimately leading to an awkward and unhappy relationship. But Friedman never forgot the love his father had for golf, and after many years, when he was in his 40s, he reached out and asked his dad to teach him the game.

Hypnotist Maggie Staiger was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis in 2001, and discovered hypnosis during her search for relief of M.S.-related neuropathy. In this relaxing hypnosis session, she addresses the anxiety created by the uncertain nature of the disease, and the need to focus on living well with chronic illness, and envisioning a positive future.