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Break free from the chaos of disorganized attachment and build secure, lasting relationships—even if relationship struggles have left you feeling hopeless for years. Do you find yourself trapped in a cycle of emotional instability, swinging between intense closeness and overwhelming distance? Are trust issues and fear of abandonment constant in your relationships? Does your self-worth falter, leaving you questioning your value even in healthy connections? You’re not alone. Many struggle with disorganized attachment, but change is possible.

An essential guide to raising happy children from author Christine Carter, complete with tips, secrets, and strategies that will set the stage for positive emotions into adolescence and beyond.

Do you want to love the right way? Yes, there is a right way to love, and there is a painful way to love. Love should not hurt. Love should not be difficult. Have you ever felt like you had to push through a relationship with the hopes of making it awesome? We all have. But what if you could be pulled by an amazing relationship?

As someone who has experienced narcissistic abuse first-hand, I understand the fear, anxiety, and uncertainty that comes with leaving an abusive partner. But I can guide you through the process of leaving your abuser and never looking back.You'll learn how your brain is being damaged and what you need to do right now to reverse these effects. You'll discover the signs and cycles you go through as a victim and how to stop them in their tracks. I'll also show you the controlling tactics that narcissists use to keep you close and why you may have failed in your attempts to leave them before.

Do you find yourself pulling away just when things start to feel real? Maybe you crave closeness, but something inside keeps telling you to run. You don’t mean to push people away — it just happens. Then the guilt and confusion set in. You wonder, “Am I even capable of having a healthy relationship?” If this sounds familiar, you may have an avoidant attachment style — a pattern that silently sabotages intimacy and connection.

Our fast-paced world prioritizes the productive busybody—financial security always seems to rule over the insatiable hankering for a Friday night splurge. However, Jamila Souffrant argues that you can in fact spend and save responsibly, all while enjoying that extra side of guacamole.

Do you say yes when you really mean no? Do you avoid conflict at all costs? Are you waiting for someone in your life to change in order to get what you want? If so, you're not alone. Most people will do anything to avoid the unpleasant sensations that accompany having an honest exchange - even if it's as simple as declining an invitation. But not speaking directly in the short term results in a much bigger problem long-term: hurt feelings and passive-aggressive patterns that stress us out, keep us up at night, and literally make us sick.

Whether your partner left, or it's you who has decided to the end the relationship, breaking up is painful, difficult, and sometimes overwhelming. Before you can move on you need to understand what went wrong, mourn the loss, and most importantly, heal. Otherwise you risk taking all the problems from your current relationship into the next one. In this compassionate book, marital therapist Andrew G. Marshall brings 30-plus years experience working with couples to explain how to recover from a break-up the healthy way.

You find yourself lying awake at night, replaying conversations and scenarios in your mind, the weight of worries pressing down on your chest. Each tick of the clock seems to amplify the thoughts spiraling through your head, leaving you feeling trapped in a cycle of anxiety and uncertainty. In those moments, it can feel as if you are standing at the edge of a cliff, peering into an abyss of what-ifs that threaten to consume you.

Mari A. Lee is the founder of Growth Counseling Services, a counseling and recovery center in Southern California specializing in working with sex and porn addicts, and partner and spouse betrayal trauma. With over 10 years of clinical experience, Mari has written Healing Betrayal for the partner or spouse who has just learned that their significant other may be dealing with sex and/or porn addiction. Having had her own personal journey as a former partner, Mari knows how heartbreaking and emotionally draining it is to be in relationship with a person who is sexually deceptive.

After years of working as an image-obsessed actress in Hollywood, Roxanne finds herself at rock bottom from a disease that is anything but glamorous. In her first year of recovery, Roxanne has to take accountability for her past. From tales of being mistaken for a prostitute at the Hotel Bel-Air to botching a threesome attempt with an A-list celebrity, she must face the truth about herself and stop playing the victim.

Unfortunately, because of the hectic schedules so many women are shouldering every day, self-care gets pushed to the back burner. But self-care is vital to maintaining your mental health, and there are ways to quickly weave it into your busy schedule.

Do you wake up in the morning with the feeling of anxiety or panic running through your veins? If so, there is a Twelve Step program for you that can help! Having co-dependence, perfectionism, worrying, depression, obsessing, gossiping, overt or covert manipulating, overworking, overthinking, people-pleasing, rushing, and going through life exhausted and feeling like the walking dead, all fall under this category, as well.

Your attachment style can significantly affect how successful your relationships are and how secure and confident you feel. Whether you are anxious, avoidant, or fearful, this book will provide you with proven strategies for effectively dealing with an insecure attachment style.

If your last relationship fell apart, if your current relationship isn’t working, if you’re single and looking for love, or if you just want to fall in love with your own life again, Nancy Levin is here to help with a 10-step process to design and build (or rebuild) the best love of your life....

One of the hardest times in your life is undoubtedly the breakdown of a relationship. If you were the one to end the partnership or you have been left heartbroken by your ex, the pain that you feel during this time is difficult to deal with. I have been there - where you are right now. I’ve felt the pain, loss and rejection of a break up. I wrote this book to guide you through the break up and offer you advice and the comfort that you can and will get over this; just like I did. From sobbing myself to sleep to now feeling the best version of myself, I tackled my break up head on.

Are you afraid to feel good? Do you see everyone else pursuing their right to happiness yet feel held back? Do you feel alone, strange or that there’s something wrong with you? Here’s the good news: None of these feelings are true! This is how people feel after a childhood as the scapegoat to a narcissistic parent. These parents require this child to feel bad so that they don’t have to. Scapegoat children learn it is psychologically dangerous to feel good about who they are. This book lays out three steps to finally make it safe to feel good about yourself.

Eating is an innate skill that has been overcomplicated by marketing schemes and a dieting culture. It’s time to leave the dieting culture behind for the whole family. It starts with the baby’s first bite! When babies show signs of readiness for solid foods, they can eat almost everything the family eats and become healthy, happy eaters in the process. By honoring self-regulation (also an innate skill) and focusing on a whole-food foundation, we can foster healthier children, parents, and families.

Drawing on more than two decades of research at The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University (CASAColumbia), founder Joseph A. Califano, Jr., presents a clear, commonsense guide to helping kids stay drug-free. All parents dream of a healthy, productive, and fulfilling future for their children; Califano shows which specific actions work and what parents can do to teach, protect, and empower their children to have the greatest chance of making that future come true.

Psychologist Clodagh Campbell knows how it feels to be lost, anxious and overwhelmed – because she’s been there too. If you often feel disconnected, exhausted or trapped in a cycle of self-doubt, you’re not alone. In this transformative ten-step guide, Campbell offers you the tools to have honest, healing conversations with yourself and begin addressing the past experiences that hold you back.