Difficult Emotions

Tish Bonner’s high-school English class has to keep a dumb journal for their teacher, Mrs. Dunphrey. Doesn’t Mrs. Dunphrey know that kids are too busy coping with real life to be bothered with writing? But when 16-year-old Tish’s life is turned upside down, her journal becomes her only confidante. Relying on her teacher’s promise that she won’t read any entry marked "don’t read this," Tish writes about her loneliness and fear when her mother abandons her and her little brother....

At times in our careers, we face conversations that bring out tense emotions. Our instinct may be to avoid them entirely, but engaging in challenging conversations can create opportunities to build stronger work relationships, teams, and organizations. This book will help you learn how to communicate productively under stress, offer and accept critical feedback, and ensure teams walk away from challenging conversations feeling united.

Georgie Burgess has known only neglect and abuse during his seven and a half years of life. His alcoholic mother does little to prevent the bruises and scars inflicted on Georgie by her brutal boyfriend. With each blow, the little boy withdraws further into his dreams. When he wins a small rose bush in a lottery, it seems as if one of his dreams has finally come true. But after a particularly savage beating, he is taken from his mother and placed in a home for boys.

Are you working with extremely difficult people who make your life miserable? They put you down. They take advantage of you. They want power over you, and lack empathy for anyone but themselves. Charming you one minute, they seek to destroy your good reputation the next. You don't know which side of them will come forth. The vicious side berates, tortures and embarrasses you and uses you for narcissistic supply. Accomplishing tasks under their toxic schemes is difficult. Anxious and confused, you long to work elsewhere but you're stuck. NOT ANYMORE. You have the power to change that today. ...

You have to talk with a colleague about a fraught situation, but you're worried that they'll yell, or blame you, or shut down. You fear your emotions could block you from a resolution. But you can communicate in a way that's constructive—not combative.

Charlotte Davis is in pieces. At 17 she's already lost more than most people do in a lifetime. But she's learned how to forget. The broken glass washes away the sorrow until there is nothing but calm. You don't have to think about your father and the river. Your best friend, who is gone forever. Or your mother, who has nothing left to give you. Every new scar hardens Charlie's heart just a little more, yet it still hurts so much. It hurts enough to not care anymore, which is sometimes what has to happen before you can find your way back from the edge.

Heaven is the perfect name for the small Ohio town where 14-year-old Marley lives. Or at least she thought so until the fateful day when the mysterious letter arrived. Now her life has been turned upside down. Twelve years ago Momma chose to live in Heaven because she liked the name of the town and the white picket fences and the little schoolhouse by the river.

Perpetual daydreamer Liz Buxbaum gave her heart to Michael a long time ago. But her cool, aloof forever crush never really saw her before he moved away. Now that he’s back in town, Liz will do whatever it takes to get on his radar - and maybe snag him as a prom date - even befriend Wes Bennet. The annoyingly attractive next-door neighbor might seem like a prime candidate for romantic-comedy fantasies, but Wes has only been a pain in Liz’s butt since they were kids. Yet, somehow, Wes and Michael are hitting it off, which means Wes is Liz’s in.

Do you struggle with a nagging feeling of not being enough? Or that you don't have enough, whether of money, time, friends, and so on? Do you find that your life feels small or meager or lacking in some way? Would you like to experience greater richness and abundance in your life? In this book, you will discover how you can work with your feelings of lack and not enough, and how you can turn them around to your benefit. Habitual mental/emotional patterns such as defensiveness, low self-esteem, and fear of failure, which can bring about great distress for ourselves and others are also ...

If you eat to help manage your emotions, you may have discovered that it doesn't work. Once you're done eating, you might even feel worse. Eating can all too easily become a strategy for coping with depression, anxiety, boredom, stress, and anger and a reliable reward when it's time to celebrate.

"Ninety-five days, and then I'll be safe. I wonder whether the procedure will hurt. I want to get it over with. It's hard to be patient. It's hard not to be afraid while I'm still uncured, though so far the deliria hasn't touched me yet. Still, I worry. They say that in the old days, love drove people to madness. The deadliest of all deadly things: It kills you both when you have it and when you don't."

Do you constantly overthink every conversation? Struggle with setting boundaries? Find yourself stuck in patterns of toxic self-talk or endless comparisons? If so, this book is your wake-up call. "Your Mind Isn't F*cked" is the ultimate guide to mastering emotional intelligence, improving self-awareness, and building healthy relationships—without the fluff, jargon, or motivational clichés. Whether you're looking to boost your resilience, enhance your communication skills, or simply stop overanalyzing every little thing, this book offers practical tools and actionable steps to help you ...

Since first grade, Christopher Creed has been everyone's favorite freak and weirdo whipping boy. But when he disappears without a trace, leaving behind only a strange e-mail message that might be a suicide note, his quiet town becomes consumed with speculation and finger-pointing. And the longer he remains missing, the more clear it becomes that for most people, finding out what happened to Christopher is much less important than finding someone besides themselves to blame.

Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable - more sisters than friends. So when Monday doesn’t turn up for the first day of school, Claudia’s worried. When she doesn’t show for the second day, or second week, Claudia knows that something is wrong. As Claudia digs deeper into her friend’s disappearance, she discovers that no one seems to remember the last time they saw Monday. How can a teenage girl just vanish without anyone noticing that she’s gone?

Master authentic communication: Effortlessly navigate challenging conversations and strengthen your relationships, even if you've struggled. Does confronting someone make your palms sweat and your heart race? Are you worried about damaging meaningful relationships by saying the wrong thing?

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters are taking to the streets in Khalil’s name.

Owen Foster has never wanted for anything. Then his mother shows up at his elite New Orleans boarding school cradling a bombshell: his privileged life has been funded by stolen money. After using the family business, the single largest employer in his small Louisiana town, to embezzle millions and drain the employees' retirement accounts, Owen's father vanished without a trace, leaving Owen and his mother to deal with the fallout. Owen returns to Lake Cane to finish his senior year, where people he hardly remembers despise him for his father's crimes.

Are you confused about your direction in life? Do you struggle with a lack of clarity? Do you suffer from fear of the unknown and an accompanying anxiety? Would you like to experience a greater sense of spaciousness in your life? And in your heart and mind? In this book, you will discover how you can work with your confusion and denial, and how you can turn them around to your benefit. This is a book on how you can get to the heart of confusion to find its intrinsic gifts. Discover and uncover the hidden narrative within difficult mental and emotional states In some self-help and meditation...

Are you a parent passionate about raising Christian teenagers? Do you wish to help your teen forge a deep connection with God? Discover the transformative power of Christian parenting with How to Parent Your Teen for a Life of Faith. Dive into faith-based strategies to raise confident, well-rounded teens, and explore how to navigate those difficult conversations while fostering positive connections with your kids. Experience the joys of bonding with your teenagers as you guide them through their emotions, mental health, and adolescent challenges with your unwavering support. Inside you will...

A New Way Of Understanding Emotions With 44 Strategies To Live By For A Healthy Dose Of Feeling Good Theraphy In This Modern Age Are you constantly finding yourself in the middle of a difficult emotion and you just can't figure out how to deal with it? Or tired of feeling negative over and over, like a victim of your own feelings, and you now want to find a way to handle or control your emotions more effectively? The Solution Stop the spiral of negative emotions as they arise by first having a deeper understanding why you're feeling these negative emotions, and then gaining power over them ...