Foster Parenting

Whether you’re a therapist, a student of psychology, or simply someone who wants to improve your connection with your partner, Couples Therapy offers grounded insight and effective tools for navigating the complexities of love, conflict, and communication. With direct, jargon-free language, author Bonny Griffith explores essential topics like emotional regulation, attachment patterns, intimacy, communication breakdowns, and the challenges of maintaining closeness over time.

Achieve a thriving and fulfilling relationship, even if past attempts have left you feeling lost and disconnected. Do you struggle to communicate your needs without sparking an argument? Do you feel an emotional barrier between you and your partner? Are you caught in the monotony of routine? Many adults and couples face the same challenges. Yet, few realize that meaningful change is within reach. Imagine a relationship that thrives on authentic communication, deep emotional intimacy, and a balanced dynamic where both partners feel valued.

Best-selling audiobook on a young man's traumatic childhood in foster care. In 1990, at the age of t10, Daryl Brougham was told by a social worker he was useless and would end up in jail. By 1997, he had attended 27 schools, been through over 30 social workers and lived in more than 30 different foster homes. During his 18 years as a state ward he suffered repeated sexual, physical, emotional, and psychological abuse. Rising above all the abuse, Daryl proved that social worker wrong. A quality New Zealand audiobook.

Relax and unwind for a restful night’s sleep while you listen to this soothing 78-minute meditation designed to encourage and nurture your self-love and self-worth. Your subconscious mind is always listening, even during sleep. While you sleep, you'll receive carefully tailored, highly positive encouragement and reassurance to improve your self-worth, self-love, self-acceptance, and self-compassion.

Are you looking to improve your approach to parenting an ODD child?Navigating Oppositional Defiant Disorder: A Compassionate Guide for Parenting ODD Children has everything you need! Parenting a child with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) can be challenging, leaving you searching for effective strategies and understanding. Sierra Nice, a seasoned authority, recognizes the struggles and offers a valuable resource to guide you through the complexities.

Are you part of the 89 percent suffering from this world epidemic? Are you constantly stressed by overwhelming demands? Does it feel like you can’t relax or get rid of stress? The secret to relief lies in finding effective coping techniques. Most of us never learned how to deal with stress the right way. What people often call relaxing doesn’t reduce stress in any meaningful way. The good news is that inducing your relaxation response isn’t hard to learn and doesn’t take long to do. Within less than a month you can finally feel balanced and happy again.

Imagine transforming chaos into calm while building a solid foundation for your child's success! Are you exhausted by constant emotional storms, unpredictable routines, and strategies that just don’t work for your ADHD child? This compassionate, practical guide helps you create a loving, structured environment that supports your child’s growth—and your sanity.

Do you find learning difficult? Do you struggle with poor memory, distractions, and interruptions and feel consumed by procrastination and a wandering mind? Do you ever wish you could get really good at something quickly, smoothly, and effortlessly? Or maybe, you hate to study? Do you find it slow and boring? Would you like to be able to read faster and get more out of your study sessions? If you answered yes to any of those questions then you need to listen to this audiobook.

Families are the foundation of society. When we care for and protect children, we ensure that future generations thrive as well. The devastation that abuse and neglect cause have taught us the immense impact—good and bad—that parents have on children. This book will enlighten listeners beyond those directly involved with foster children to see the resiliency and potential that can be hidden in these vulnerable girls and boys. Each of our foster children has blessed our lives with their own unique story.

Life for Ariana is not a ribbon floating through time collecting happy memories; it is a rope she clings to that transforms into a noose when she becomes a foster child. Not every child born is given a stable home. Some face tragedy and are often severed from family ties.

Faith to Foster is a candid look into the life of ordinary foster parents T.J. and Jenn Menn. It is a journey chronicling their decision-making process, how the children arrived, the birth parents struggle to rehabilitate, help from friends and family, emotional goodbyes, and how faith in Jesus empowered them through it all. TJ and Jenn share their experiences and feelings in a way that encourages any listener to serve their neighbors, not just foster parents. Faith to Foster reminds Christians how God can use them to make a difference in their community.

Anxiously Attached serves as your guide to understanding and overcoming anxious attachment through insightful explorations, practical exercises, and actionable strategies.

Breathing Through Foster Care is an honest and sometimes raw account of the daily joys and challenges of fostering. This honest glimpse into an imperfect family offers practical tips on how to avoid the missteps they made. It also provides many strategies they learned along the way to maintain a healthy family with children who have experienced trauma.

Imagine a life where your child with ADHD can excel academically, socially, and emotionally – even if you’ve tried everything else! Are you constantly searching for effective strategies to manage your child’s ADHD? Do you feel overwhelmed by juggling behavior management, academic achievement, social skills, and emotional stability? These struggles are real, but you don’t have to face them alone. Parents, teachers, and mental health experts all wrestle with finding the best ways to support children with ADHD effectively and compassionately.

Do you struggle as a doggie foster parent, and feel like you're the only one who finds it hard? Do you want to foster a dog, but don't know where to start, how to prepare, and what to expect? If so, this is the book for you. Fostering is not for wimps, cowards, or the otherwise mess- or insanity-challenged. It's hard and emotionally draining work, and there are days we all could use an understanding shoulder to cry on. You are not alone! Let Foster Doggie Insanity be there for you.

Many factors - personal, professional, and psychological - combine to affect how we think, feel, and act while on the job, which ultimately affects our productivity and success. In 9 to 5: Your Mind at Work, we look at some of these factors, including the physical office space, how to foster creativity and communication, the psychology of effective leadership, the benefits and importance of diversity, and achieving work-life balance.

Why thoughts are like maps and most of us drive blind by taping them to our windshields. How pain is important to experience and equally important to ignore. The significant difference between power and control and how to gain both. How the mandatory condition for courage is tremendous fear. That confusion is necessary for discovery and innovation. Why thinking that you’re “more” messed up than anyone else may be really a problem of arrogance.

Clear guidance to help young adults discover careers that align with their passions for a successful and fulfilling professional life, prepare effective resumes, and ace that job interview. Proven strategies to prioritize daily tasks to boost productivity and overcome procrastination.

Antwone Quenton Fisher was raised in institutions from the moment his single mother gave birth to him in prison. As a foster child, he suffered more than a dozen years of emotional abandonment and physical abuse, until he escaped and forged a life on the streets. And just as his life was about to hit rock bottom, Antwone enlisted in the U.S. Navy, a decision that would ultimately save him. There, he became a man and discovered a loving family he never had.

Faces of Foster Care has heartfelt and frank messages from people around the country who have been involved in some way with foster care. Told like mini memoirs, their inspiring and sometimes heartbreaking stories bring us into their lives and show us unique perspectives of foster care in the United States.