Family Healing

Romance. Loss. Second chances. When Crisa’s husband dies, he leaves behind devastating secrets. Her beliefs about love are shattered. Grieving and unmoored, she searches for comfort in empty encounters—until a chance meeting with Slade sparks something long buried. Slade’s been on plenty of dates and has no intention of sacrificing independence without love. But when Crisa steals the last corned beef sandwich in the office cafeteria and flashes him a smile, everything shifts. Her warmth and quiet strength draw him in, challenging the way he sees the world—and himself. As their ...

Are you struggling to understand the effects of growing up with a narcissistic parent? Do you find it hard to move past feelings of guilt, shame, or low self-worth? Are you ready to break free from patterns of unhealthy relationships and finally reclaim your life?"Narcissistic Parental Abuse Recovery" is a compassionate guide for anyone dealing with the lingering impact of narcissistic abuse from a parent, especially a mother. When you spend your childhood in constant fear, it rewires your brain always to expect the worst. Your mind never learns how to relax because it is always on high ...

Sublime Funeral is a brief, serene, and powerful story about how family becomes support, guidance, and meaning. Beyond the loss that sets the journey in motion, what truly shines is the way familial bonds hold, structure, and dignify life, even in its most difficult moments. With sober and sensitive prose, G. G. Melies portrays the silent path of a community that needs no words to express the essential. In every gesture, in every shared glance, a way of being in the world is revealed: through presence, support, and care. Sublime Funeral is a delicate portrait of a culture where familial ...

Dr. Tiffany Tajiri, a veteran USAF officer and board-certified clinical psychologist, has been in countless sessions with combat veterans and their loved ones and now shares powerful firsthand accounts, lessons, proven exercises, and biblical truth. Whether experiencing combat directly as a veteran or wanting to help bring healing as a family member, pastor, chaplain, or counselor, this book is essential.

In Children of the Depressed, a depression expert helps adult children understand and overcome common problems that stem from growing up with a depressed parent, such as poor communication skills and negative self-talk. Using skills and practices rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), you will learn to shed the old dynamics and ways of thinking that have been weighing you down and keeping you from enjoying healthy relationships and the life you deserve.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that the evil lurking down the road will keep its distance. ******* When two teenagers from completely opposite social classes meet at a graduation party on Lake Coeur d'Alene in 1989, they have no idea that their brief, romantic encounter will eventually lead to one of the most shocking crimes in the Pacific Northwest... or that it will also lead to one of the most precious gifts they've ever been given. This shocking and sometimes brutally honest story tells the tale of a shy boy and his beautiful young mother, their unusual, amusing and wildly diverse ...

After the passing of their mother, four sisters unravel a family secret hidden for fifty years when they discover an old trunk buried deep within a closet. As the siblings considered the significance of the various items their mother kept, a story unfolded. Pieces became clues that ultimately fit together to form a picture they could never have imagined. This is a story of remembrance and love and how seemingly small things can have a major impact on our lives in ways we hadn’t expected. It is also a story about family truth, healing, and letting go.

I wrote this book during one of the most difficult years of my life. This is my journey through the grieving process of losing my 27 year relationship and trauma work before and after. It is a glimpse into how I used the therapeutic processes of Compassionate Inquiry and Internal Family Systems to navigate through the year, as well as chronicle how my childhood shaped my life and how I show up in relationship, my worldview, coping mechanisms, and more.

Autumn whispered to the wind, “I fall but always rise again.” For a long time, tree sprite Scarlet Oak has watched autumn fall and rise in the same way amidst her forested society of sprites. Wingless and bound to live and die with her birth oak, Horace, she longs for a deeper existence. Then, in 1977, her world is shaken when an autistic boy wanders into her woodland and they share a soulful moment before he takes his life on her tree. Smis, a Grim Reaper, arrives to usher the boy’s spirit to the Dark, but Scarlet insists that the boy did not intend to die. In a rare show of mercy, ...

No more dumbing down and invalidating the experiences of daughters of NMs. No more talk of the loving and caring mother in a space that’s supposed to be for healing daughters of NMs. Whether or not you have a narcissistic mother, everyone should learn about them. By becoming aware of and recognizing their traits and behavior, you could help save the life of a child. Other books on daughters of narcissistic mothers on the market are more self-help and psychologically oriented, while this audiobook is more scholarly and sociological, and considers the social forces at play.

Was there more to life than hardships and healing? Brought up in the backwoods by a father dedicated to helping those less fortunate, Ria was a genius at fixing bodies but ignorant of life and relationships. Would Evan be the one to show her what made life bright and enjoyable? The third book in Triplets: Three Aren't One series by USA Today Bestselling Author Dani Haviland is a heart-warming story, sure to bring happy tears.

This guide by Dr. Lawrence L James, an expert in alcoholism and trauma, offers not just knowledge but a shared understanding of the lifelong impact of adverse childhood experiences. Drawing from personal and professional experiences, Dr. James delves into the heart of the emotional and psychological turmoil faced by adult children of alcoholics.

Bestselling recovery author Karen Casey looks at stories of people who grew up in dysfunctional families and "the good stuff" that can, ironically, come from the experience. She interviews survivors who emerged from the fires of turbulent households affected by abuse, addiction, or other problems, and reveals how they came to process their often-harrowing personal trials and, against the odds, triumph over their difficulties—using skills they honed in response to their childhoods.

The world has become a place of exciting discoveries. Dr. Masaru Emoto and Viktor Shauberger have discovered a way to use the principles of nature to energize water so that it becomes a powerful healing agent, effective against all illness. An Arizona cotton farmer has rediscovered the wonderful healing power and rejuvenating power of an element that was known in the middle ages as the Philosopher Stone. It defeats illness and aging. Calling his discovery the "monatomic elements of rhodium and iridium", he shows us how to make this powerful healing agent in your own home. New knowledge of ...

The Prayer Circle Meet Joy, Faith, and Hope Parker—three teenage triplets from Chicago’s South Side, bound by family, faith, and their tight-knit Prayer Circle. No matter what life throws at them, they’ve always had each other’s backs, lifting each other up with love and prayer. But when Hope starts running with the wrong crowd, skipping prayers, and spiraling into a dangerous lifestyle, their bond is put to the ultimate test. Drugs, late nights, and broken trust threaten to tear their family apart. With Grandma Mary’s wisdom and relentless faith, Joy and Faith refuse to give up ...

In Bedside Witness, Adams shares stories from her 20-year journey in hospice, geriatric mental health, palliative care, and dementia coaching. Through the intimate lens as a social worker, Kay artfully draws us into these heartfelt tales as if she were sitting with us at our kitchen table, tenderly weaving the laughter, grief, wonder, wisdom, and tragedy of our shared human experience.

In this hypnosis program, longtime paramedic and clinical hypnotist Maggie Staiger combines calming imagery of a lakeside dawn with suggestions for healing, relaxing and remaining stable during the operation itself, and for understanding the surgery as a tool for healing rather than a traumatic event.

Close Encounters, now in its Second Edition, is a comprehensive, compassionate and supportive guide to understanding the unique and complex nature of narcissistic abuse and the emotionally crippling syndrome that results from it. This groundbreaking book provides a complete roadmap through the healing process, into recovery, and ultimately to the freedom and happiness survivor's deserve. Listeners will find the most up-to-date information on the psychological, emotional and physical effects of NPD abuse.

Part fugitive, part hero, fifteen-year-old Nya is barely staying ahead of the Duke of Baseer's trackers. Wanted for a crime she didn't mean to commit, she risks capture to protect every Taker she can find, determined to prevent the Duke from using them in his fiendish experiments. But resolve isn't enough to protect any of them, and Nya soon realizes that the only way to keep them all out of the Duke's clutches is to flee Geveg. Unfortunately, the Duke's best tracker has other ideas.

Every person experiences emotions; it’s one of the most natural aspects of everyone’s life. Unfortunately, not everyone is capable of dealing with these intense feelings effectively. And, when you’ve been raised by emotionally immature parents, who don’t allow you to be an individual who can express their feelings, you will be set up for failed (and sometimes even abusive) relationships in the future.