Relationship Wisdom

Have you ever had a conversation with your spouse and felt like you were somehow speaking a language they did not understand? Have you ever looked for down-to-earth guidance on how to change? The Man, He Stupid, and the Girl, She So Bitch is just such a guide. In this book, you are invited to listen in on real conversations between Frankie and her close friend, Cheri, in which Frankie shares this wisdom, along with many things she has learned in her work with clients, as well as living with and loving her own family.

The Place of All Possibility taps into a deep current interest about how creativity and imagination can help us build a better world. Drawing on the Torah, and the subversive interpretive strategies of ancient rabbis, The Place of All Possibility offers new creative strategies for building a meaningful life—and for responding to our current crises of climate change, racial injustice, and more.

As parents today, we often feel that our role is to protect our children from the world: to cushion them when they fall, to lift them over obstacles, and to remove sharp rocks from their path. But controlling a child’s entire environment and keeping all pain at bay isn’t feasible—we can’t prepare the world for our children, so instead we should focus on preparing our children for the world.

Somehow, deeply conservative assumptions about how children behave and how parents raise them have become the conventional wisdom in our society. It's widely assumed that parents are both permissive and overprotective, unable to set limits and afraid to let their kids fail. We're told that young people receive trophies, praise, and A's too easily, and suffer from inflated self-esteem and insufficient self-discipline. However, complaints about pushover parents and entitled kids are actually decades old and driven, it turns out, by ideology more than evidence.

How does a woman build her house? Nancy Wilson begins with the kitchen table, remembering how each scratch and stain in the wood chronicles "hours of stories and jokes, questions and concerns (through courtships and pregnancies), prayers and discussions." She continues, each essay full of stories and encouragement—the beauty of imperfection, the comfort of Velveeta, the strengths of mothers- and daughters-in-law, the honesty that is submission, the laughter of reading aloud.

Giving is at the core of family life - and with current law allowing up to $5,120,000 in tax-free gifts, at least through December 2012, the ultra-affluent are faced with the task of giving at perhaps largest scale in history. Beyond the tax saving and wealth management implications, giving to family members opens up a slew of thorny questions, the biggest of which is, "How do I prepare recipients of such large gifts?"

Spilt Milk Yoga is a companion guide for mothers who want to experience the happiness, peace, and purpose available in each moment, and who want to be more present and connected to themselves and their children.

Seeking daily inspiration to uplift your spirit? Look no further! "365 Inspirational & Motivational Quotes to Live By" is your daily companion towards a richer, more fulfilling life. Each section holds timeless insights that will illuminate your path every day of the year.

The first part of this book shows us how to recognize when we are acting from a place of fear. The second part helps us to overcome fear’s sometimes overwhelming presence in our lives through Paramhansa Yogananda’s original teachings.

What do you really want? It's an uncomplicated question until you try to answer it meaningfully. Whether prompted by transition, disruption, or curiosity about how to live more aligned with your values, we've all been there, feeling frozen, stuck, or lost in the fog of competing, half-baked desires, unsure how to move forward. In The Magic of Knowing What You Want, leadership coach Tracey Gee walks you through a proven framework of identifying, clarifying, and embodying your desires.

This book will appeal to sports fans, aspiring athletes, and individuals looking to find their unique role in life. ROLE Player is about being relentless in pursuit of one’s goals, recognizing and seizing opportunities and leveraging every moment to become a valuable asset to a team, family, or community.

Sensual Intelligence: The Lost IQ describes the embodied art and science of how to break free of the rules and ideals that have been dictated by society so that you can experience greater joy and full self-expression.

Dick was a Master who came here to enlighten and challenge us to become our authentic selves. An amazing artist, Hypnotherapist, lecturer and writer, he left behind hundreds of columns and articles he wrote over the years. Wanting to carry out his wishes, his wife, Roberta, organized his most important articles into the years in which he wrote them. This is the first time they have been published in a book.

So many people feel stuck in the sameness of day-to-day life, trapped by personal limitations and the strictures of society. You intimately know what's holding you back, but you don't know how to break out of it and get somewhere better. Let Chris Masiello, accomplished business leader, author, and empowerment speaker, show you how to get there.

The Overthinker’s Guide to Love offers hard-won insight-turned-straightforward practices for anyone seeking satisfying partnership in an increasingly complex landscape of dating and sexuality. Complete with data analysis and experiments that listeners can run at home, her combination of sincere storytelling and teaching reminds us that discovering who we are in love should be playful, fun, and always up for investigation.

Dr. Gordon Livingston's national bestseller, Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, has drawn tens of thousands of readers who have embraced its thirty bedrock truths about life and how best to live it. Now, in And Never Stop Dancing, Dr. Livingston, a Vietnam War veteran, psychiatrist, and parent twice bereaved, offers thirty more true things we need to know now.

You wake up, and the world is already throwing a whirlwind of chaos your way. From the boss’s never-ending demands to the endless juggle of responsibilities, life can feel like a high-wire act without a safety net. Yet, amid the madness, there's an unseen power waiting to be unleashed— Enter stoicism, your new life coach with a fabulous toga and a snazzy philosophy.

Drawn from more than 30 years of research, talks, and wisdom of the world-renowned parenting, marriage, and educational expert Rabbi Shimon Russell, this rich repository of foundational parenting psychology and practical, down-to-earth guidance will help set you on the way to create loving and enduring bonds with your children.

Sometimes, the pain of loss feels like molten lava in our hearts, a burden that no one wants to hold. If you’re seeking expert guidance on healing the loss you feel deep inside, this book is for you. Know that your heart is expanding to hold the lessons grief is teaching you.

Napoleon Hill’s The Language of Thought is your guide to understanding, generating, and directing more powerful thoughts so that you can live and work with more intention, joy, and success. The single most powerful tool available to human beings is not money, physical strength, influence, or a network; it is the mind. Our thoughts determine our outcomes in life, as well as our ability to enjoy the journey. In order to harness our thoughts to create material success, we do not require any personal advantage such as wealth, connections, or education.