Step Parenting

If you are considering remarriage and want to do everything you can to ensure a happy and fulfilling union, turn to Ron Deal and the Smart Stepfamily series. This is the ideal book for engaged or pre-engaged couples who have at least one child from a previous relationship, offering premarital counsel about how to prepare to blend family relationships, parenting, finances, rituals, and daily routines for your new life together.

Most of us are quite relaxed and confident when we're with our friends and family. We can tell a story or even tell a joke. But put us on a platform and we can feel very different. When we speak to an audience, we often put on a public mask; and use a different voice. Why can't we seem to be ourselves when we give a talk? In this audiobook, we will look at all aspects of spoken communication, from structure right through to delivery. We will learn how to have a conversation with our audience - to be ourselves - so that we connect with them every time we speak.

Don’t let fear hold you back from the personal and professional success you were meant to enjoy. It’s time to master your fears and increase your resilience so that you can regain control of your life and achieve your vision of success. Fear is one of the greatest obstacles to your success, happiness, and fulfillment, and it is one of the most difficult to combat. It roots itself deep in the subconscious and darkens your dominating thoughts, coloring your perceptions and, in turn, your actions.

If you’re looking for a better way to handle your emotions and improve your relationship with your kids, you’ve come to the right place. This groundbreaking guide will transform your parenting journey. Using a practical and straightforward approach, it condenses years of research and personal experience into a simple 3-step system that any parent can follow.

Do you struggle to connect with others, feel misunderstood, or let past experiences cloud your emotional world? You're not alone—and you don't have to stay stuck. Research shows that building emotional intelligence leads to stronger relationships, greater confidence, and personal and professional success. This audiobook is your 7-step roadmap to mastering emotional intelligence and creating the connected, confident life you crave.

Drawing on personal and professional experience, psychotherapist Andrew Susskind examines issues such as shame, grief, narcissism, and codependency to demonstrate how people use out-of-control sexual behavior to cope with brokenheartedness. He offers strategies to cultivate sustainable sexual sobriety, sharing his own healing narrative, as well as those of others who’ve chosen to bear their truths. No one is ever too hurt or isolated to achieve reliable relationships and emotional intimacy. This is a guidebook for every person seeking long-term healing from sex addiction.

This book is your no-judgment, practical and refreshingly honest guide for every twist and turn of the parenting adventure. It’s filled with expert advice, relatable anecdotes, and those laugh-out-loud moments, all designed to help you build stronger bonds with your kids, even on the craziest days. Whether you’re navigating the toddler years, dealing with teens, or just trying to make it through bedtime, this book got you covered. If you’re looking for tips you can actually use, encouragement that feels genuine, and stories that remind you you’re not alone: this book is just what you need.

Emotional intelligence, also referred to as emotional leadership or emotional quotient, is the ability of certain people to realize their emotions, as well as those of others, differentiate them, label, and readily manage or adjust depending on the situation or environment. These people typically remain calm despite the changes in the surrounding or negative impacts associated with a given case.

Visionary business leader Greg Brenneman has written the 21st-century companion to Stephen Covey's classic The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Like Covey before him, Brenneman believes that true business success and personal fulfillment are two sides of the same coin. The techniques that will grow your business will also help you achieve a rich, purposeful, and integrated life.

Sacred Grief offers an intriguing exploration of the far-reaching ripple effect of our present-day opinions about surviving grief's emotional roller-coaster and the unnecessary suffering our judgments unconsciously promote. You’ll find comfort in discovering that there's another dimension to this universal experience - a dimension that fosters trust, kindness and compassion, peacefully heals, and steadfastly moves you towards your soul's deepest desires and dreams.

We all reach a point in our life where the urge to understand ourselves becomes irresistible. We might ponder, What is causing these emotions within me? and What steps can I take to navigate through these intense feelings and find peace within myself? If this sounds like you, you’ve come to the right place. Art Therapy Workbook for Beginners is a comprehensive exploration of the power of art therapy and its profound impact on mental and emotional well-being. This book offers practical insight and engaging exercises to guide listeners on their journey through understanding and healing.

Recovering from the trauma of a toxic narcissistic relationship can be a difficult journey. It’s a complicated mess of anger, anxiety, depression, shame, and even guilt. Trying to make sense of what you’re going through, questioning if you’re the one to blame for what happened.... With the help of this book, you can overcome the obstacles after leaving the relationship, pick up the pieces of your life to create a brighter future, renew your self-confidence, create firm boundaries, and gain clarity about who you are.

Each of us is born brilliant. Then we spend the rest of our lives having our brilliance buried by people, circumstances, and experiences. Eventually, we forget that we ever had genius and special talents, and our brilliance is locked away in a vault deep within. So we settle for who we are, instead of striving for who we were meant to be. Release Your Brilliance provides the combination to the vault where your brilliance is kept.

A stepmother constantly sees to others' needs - those of her spouse, her kids, his kids, their kids. She also has to work so hard to maintain her marriage or deal with the emotional turmoil that can follow divorce and marrying again, that she may neglect her own needs. It's no wonder, then, that stepmothers often ask: Who's taking care of me? This is where Sue Patton Thoele steps in, offering practical advice and emotional support in a new edition of her book, The Courage to Be a Stepmom.

Can your relationship be saved? The star of the hit VH1 show Couples Therapy with Dr. Jenn looks at what can be fixed, what can't, and what can take your relationship to new heights. Based on cutting-edge research and almost three decades of clinical experience as a marriage and family therapist in private practice, Dr. Jenn Mann teaches you everything you need to know have a deeper, more satisfying relationship, and the skills to fix one that isn't working.

Raising kids is hard and confusing, especially with the amount of pressure put on parents these days. Parents are expected to stay on top of their kids’ cognitive and emotional development, all while working from 9 to 5 each day. Add the numerous stresses of having to deal with real-world demands outside the home and you have a recipe for burnout.

In "How to Stop Giving a Damn About What People Think," author Karl Wright takes you on a transformative journey towards self-empowerment and personal freedom. This insightful book is a toolkit for anyone who's ever felt weighed down by the expectations and opinions of others. Karl Wright's engaging, down-to-earth narrative guides you through 23 life-changing chapters, each a stepping stone to breaking free from societal chains and embracing your authentic self.

Drawing on principles from psychology, communication theory, and everyday lived experience, Top 10 Simple Steps to Become a Better Listener breaks down the habits that block true listening—and offers small shifts that make a big difference. Each chapter addresses a core principle, from removing distractions and resisting the urge to interrupt, to developing empathy, reading body language, and embracing silence. You’ll discover how to shift your mindset from “waiting to talk” to “wanting to understand”—and why that change alone can radically improve the quality of your conversations.

If you are a man who has no points in the game of love or fewer than you deserve, then here, finally, is a just-released love life-changing book for you. It's called 200 Guaranteed and Proven Ways to Meet, Date, Attract, and Seduce Women by Don Diebel. It shows you step-by-step what you need to know to be more successful with women, get more dates, meet more women, and fill your life with more fun, love, intimacy, and romance.

What if the emotions of your past experiences continued to secretly control your life today? What if these residual, inner blockages prevented you from truly connecting with, trusting and working with others? What if your life was a continuous loop of the same story being retold with slightly different characters and settings no matter where you are and which people you choose to have relationships with?