Home Development

Zu mehr innerer Ruhe im Zeitalter der Beschleunigung - Durch einen Hund hoffen wir, Zugang zur Natur zu finden und zu entschleunigen. Doch häufig übertragen wir unseren Alltagsstress auf den Hund, mit allen negativen Folgen. Thomas und Ina Baumann beschreiben die Ursachen von Stress, seine Auswirkung auf das Hundeverhalten und die Rolle des Menschen dabei. Mit ihrem Mentaltraining stärken sie das Vertrauen zwischen Mensch und Hund - für mehr Sicherheit im Alltag und mehr Lebensqualität.

Decades after falling passionately in love, alcoholism has finally torn Gabi and Jay apart. Then a drastic diagnosis forces them both to make decisions. Without love, this final journey would be lonely and hard. But when Jay’s illness forces him to stop drinking, they find themselves at a second chance at love.

Recognizing the survival mode in which your family has been living, experiencing the overwhelm of grief and loss, accepting your own strengths and struggles, and feeling desperate for solutions are just a few heart-wrenching steps you may experience with an adolescent or young adult in out-of-home mental and behavioral health treatment. If you are on this path, you might feel isolated and confused as you wade through the waters of the treatment process with your family. H.O.M.E. offers insight into the journey of wilderness therapy and other treatment experiences.

I’ve Got You, Girlfriend! is exactly what you want to hear when all the crazy, messy, exhausting, disorganized, overwhelming moments happen in the mom life you’re living…and sometimes that’s all before 9 a.m.!

Imagine losing your high-paying job as an executive after almost thirty years at a multibillion-dollar company. How would you react? When it happened to author James Brian Kerr, the answer was simple: Walk more than twenty miles home. In The Long Walk Home: How I Lost My Job as a Corporate Remora Fish and Rediscovered My Life’s Purpose, Kerr invites us to join him on his strange journey from impending unemployment to self-discovery, and reminds us that the only true journey is the journey within.

In the face of a mysterious and terrifying illness, this is the story of a family trying to maintain some kind of togetherness. Torn between his commitment to keep Clarisa a part of Janir’s life and the threat she poses to that life, John acknowledges that he can care for his son in ways he never could for Clarisa. All who have experienced the wrench of mental illness in the family will recognize their own journey in this heartfelt story of fatherhood.

Join Ken and Brenda Barker as they begin their adoption journey in India to bring home twin infants. Travel with them to China, and to Latvia where they pioneered the adoption process, becoming the first American family to adopt from that country shortly after the cold war ended. Experience their agony and loss of innocence as they watch their oldest son battle childhood leukemia twice.

With the rising costs of living, stretching your paycheck seems to be getting harder and harder. Living a Rich Life As a Stay-at-Home Mom outlines clear, simple, and effective strategies that make financial management easier. Implementing principles from this audiobook will help you build a secure financial foundation for you and your children.

What if I were to tell you the conventional career intelligence publicly available surrounding careers in construction has mostly held you back? This is the case for a few reasons. First, it’s incomplete and missing context. Second, it doesn’t provide a holistic approach to career development. And third, it’s missing all the internal work that’s first required to achieve career success, because we live from the inside out.

Home Is Us tells the story of my mother’s struggle to protect herself, and her daughters from harm. Our story moves from the shared trauma of violence, through our fight for education, safety, and independence. My family’s songs, prayers, and spoken word have given me a greater awareness of myself, how we survived, and continue to thrive. Shared here now, for you to listen.

Sent away to boarding school on his eighth birthday, Mark Stibbe watched his adoptive parents drive down a gravel road, leaving him standing in front of a huge country house with his trunk and his teddy. That night, already confused and frightened, he was given the first of four beatings in his first two weeks. This trauma of abandonment and abuse was to scar Stibbe's life until his 50s, when divorce forced him to deal with his "boarded heart".

This is more than just a parenting audiobook. It's a tool to use with your child. Each chapter is divided into two parts. The first part is a fiction story about a family who experiences problems and then learns a new tool. Listen to this section along with your child. It presents family issues from the parent's perspective. Children are often blinded by their own viewpoint and seeing the problem from the parent's view is eye-opening. Furthermore, it opens opportunities to talk about ways your family relates and ways you can make changes.

Because of the way technology has impacted real estate sales, buyers and sellers have greater access to information and even the ability to direct the sales process. While knowing market information is helpful in real estate sales, most people still lack a key aspect: expertise. By presenting an inside view on sales, McLaughlin provides a guide for maximizing the value of the sale and purchase of homes.

Lori-Ellen Pisani lives with a powerful enemy inside her brain. At times, Lori-ellen soars to the heights of mania. She’s highly creative and a multi-tasker. Then a trigger such as an argument will send her into a suicidal depression. Having been undiagnosed until her early 30s and working as a teacher, if anyone were to find out, her career would be in serious jeopardy. Bipolar disorder is very often misunderstood, and therefore perceived as a threat by the parents who have entrusted their children to her care. She takes you on her journey to learn the identity of this enemy.

Women in today's advanced capitalist societies are encouraged to "lean in." The media and government champion women's empowerment. In a cultural climate where women can seemingly have it all, why do so many successful professional women - lawyers, financial managers, teachers, engineers, and others - give up their careers after having children and become stay-at-home mothers? How do they feel about their decision and what do their stories tell us about contemporary society?

In a perfect world, our dreams would have kept us together. "You are my dream," he said to me... But in our world, dreams tore us apart. I ran away from that life. I threw us away... And my choice broke him. A message from beyond the grave would obliterate my world: "You chose wrong." These words would haunt me, telling me that everything I'd worked so hard for was wrong. I chose independence. "You chose wrong." I chose a career. "You chose wrong." And now, how do I keep running...when all roads are leading me home!

When Kim de Blecourt and her husband decided to adopt a child from Ukraine, they knew that the process might be challenging. Nothing, however, could have prepared de Blecourt for the twisted nightmare she would endure. During her year-long struggle to extricate her newly adopted little boy from that post-Soviet country's corrupt social service and judicial systems, de Blecourt was insulted, physically assaulted, and arrested. Worse, her months of loneliness, worry, and fear drove her to the brink of spiritual despair. But God had no intention of abandoning de Blecourt or her family.

This fresh, empowering, and fully comprehensive guide is the must-have handbook for every working mom! Caitlin Friedman and Kimberly Yorio have helped readers find their dream jobs, be a boss without being bitchy, and even start companies of their own. But what happens when a career girl becomes a mom and her world turns upside down? Can you maintain your ambition and momentum at work while still being the kind of parent you want to be? Of course you can!

Letters from Home lays out a bold, no-nonsense approach to raising grateful kids who aspire to something higher than behaving badly on a reality show, actually talk to you in person instead of texting your phone, and understand that the world revolves around something other than them.

The experience of the Vietnam War is almost impossible to grasp - the fear, smell, pain, and camaraderie. Boys were turned into men, men were transformed into soldiers, and then from soldiers to warriors. These warriors had wives who shared in their transformations. Some marriages were strengthened, while for others men and their families were left emotionally and spiritually battered. Focusing in on a singular company’s experience of war and its eventual homecoming, Andrew Wiest discusses the shared experience of combat and both the darkness and resiliency of war’s aftermath.