Family Help

Having suffered from anxiety for much of her life, Izzy Judd has brought together a brilliant and inspiring collection of simple activities and exercises to help mothers find their own piece of calm. Included are exercises for you to do alone and with your children of all ages, giving them their own tools to help remain happy and peaceful too. Mindfulness for Mums will guide you through invaluable, quick and easy self-care tips to help you find a moment's calm in the chaos of motherhood.

If you could protect your teen from unnecessary anxiety, depression, and chronic stress, and foster a greater sense of happiness and well-being in their life, wouldn’t you? In Generation Sleepless, the authors uncover one of the greatest threats to our teenagers’ physical and mental health: sleep deprivation. Caught in a perfect storm of omnipresent screens, academic overload, night owl biology, and early school start times, our teens are operating in a constant state of sleep debt and "social jet lag" while struggling to meet the demands of adolescence.

Some experts say that depression and anxiety are the new normal. Suicide is the second leading cause of death in young people. As parents, we cannot accept this. Many young people feel helpless and hopeless. Our kids must be equipped with more than resilience and positivity. They need hope. Hope for a future. Along with her daughter Kendra, parent and family educator Lori Wildenberg encourages you to take the practical ways offered in Messy Hope to foster necessary hope growth in your children’s hearts.

This book offers advice, reassurance and a helping hand, with a wide range of solutions and strategies, as well as issues covered - everything from separation anxiety to issues at school, phobias and so much more. Help! My Child's Anxiety is Giving Me Anxiety is designed to fit each family's specific requirements, replenish confidence and put the positivity and pleasure back into parenting.

The Freedom Model for the Family is an approach for families dealing with a loved one who is struggling from addiction. It was written by the authors of The Freedom Model for Addictions and uses the same principles in a way that families can apply them. Addiction is not a disease, and it's definitely not a "family disease". Treating it like one has led us to the crisis we're seeing today. Treatment plays both sides of the fence. It labels addiction a disease, but then advises families to implement “tough love” and cut the substance user off. Can you imagine screaming at your son ...

Bestselling author, TEDx speaker, and podcaster Allison Carmen's new audiobook, Maybe Everything is Okay: A Parent's Guide to Less Stress and Worry (September 17, 2024; Tantor Audio Original; narrated by Kim Niemi), is both important and timely. It offers parents a powerful and uplifting tool called the "Maybe mindset" to help them navigate the unknown with greater ease and renewed hope.

Help Club for Moms is here with practical, hands-on advice to assist you in loving and serving your family. When you look to the true Helper and source of all knowledge, Jesus, you will gain wisdom for every area of your life - your home, your marriage, your children, and your own spirit. You will also discover a community of caring women, both in this book and online (helpclubformoms.com), who are eager to share their expertise with you, so you can learn from their experiences and get the most out of motherhood.

Parents know that sleep is vital for children but often don’t know how to help their school-aged child sleep independently without the stalling, arguments, and emotional turmoil. Banish Bedtime Battles presents a straightforward plan to do just that. With expert guidance, parents can help their child develop critical coping skills essential to increasing confidence and competence at bedtime (and beyond!). Armed with the powerful strategies presented in this book, parents will be ready to use their personalized six-week plan to solve their child’s nighttime struggles.

Don't let your child suffer a personality disorder later in life. Most personality disorders and mental illness problems result from errors in teaching children appropriate perceptions and problem solving skills. This book will give you seven steps to instill healthy boundaries in your children.

DESPRE AUDIOBOOK. Poate sunteți părinți, poate sunteți educatori, poate sunteți bunici sau poate doar aveți în îngrijire un copil de o vârstă fragedă cu care nu știți cum să vă purtați. Îi vreți binele și îi interziceți să mănânce prea multe dulciuri, îl puneți să doarmă la prânz sau nu acceptați mereu să-i faceți pe plac. Dar metodele nu funcționează. Relația voastră nu e deloc cea pe care v-o doriți. Autoarele vă propun strategii și exemple utile în procesul educării celor mici pentru a vă ajuta să depășiți dificultățile cu care vă confruntați.

Sadie Wynn doesn't want a new life; her old one suits her just fine. But times are hard in drought-plagued Missouri, and Daddy thinks they'll be better off in Texas. Sadie hates this strange new place, where even children must work at the cannery to help make ends meet and people are rude to her disabled father. Yet when trouble comes, it is the kindness of these new neighbors that helps the family make it through.

Mom and yoga teacher Sarah Ezrin offer 34 practices to find more presence, patience, and acceptance—with your child and with yourself. Each chapter highlights a yogic posture and theme and explores how it relates to parenting, including presence, boundaries, balance, and nonattachment. Chapters include prompts such as intention setting, breathwork, and journaling. Ezrin also features the stories and insights of a wide range of yoga practitioner parents whose experiences include single parenting, grandparenting, and passing on intergenerational yoga traditions.

Texting while driving. Binge drinking. Bullying. Unprotected sex. There are plenty of reasons for parents to worry about getting a late-night call about their teen. But most of the advice parents and educators hear about teens is outdated and unscientific - and simply doesn't work. Acclaimed adolescent psychiatrist and educator Jess Shatkin brings more than two decades' worth of research and clinical experience to the subject, along with cutting-edge findings from brain science, evolutionary psychology, and other disciplines.

ONCE WRITER'S BLOCK GRIPS YOU ... HOW TO BREAK FREE? ★Authors, Writers, Creatives! Have you ever experienced dreaded writer's block, a torment that haunts new and experienced writers alike... the frustration of staring at a blank page, the fear of abandoning your half-finished masterpiece, or the overwhelming feeling of not even knowing where to begin? Dr. Denis Palumbo, a former Hollywood screenwriter, novelist, and psychotherapist, says about writer’s block: “I know only too well the sleepless nights, emotional and intellectual fatigue, insidious undermining of creative confidence ...

You are the one responsible for taking care of your parents, now. Is your family in disarray? Do your parents claim they don't need help? How to stay sane and weigh out the options, while those around you are losing their minds, and coming up with excuses as to why they cannot contribute.

¿Tu pareja acaba de darte una sacudida con la gran "palabra con la E" y ahora te das cuenta de repente de que no tienes ni idea de lo que se supone que debes hacer al respecto? ¿Estás emocionado y aterrorizado al mismo tiempo y realmente pensabas que estarías más preparado para esto de lo que te sientes actualmente? Quizá sea algo inesperado, o quizá lleves tiempo intentándolo, pero de repente es verdad: ¡vas a ser papá!

All Kat wants is to be normal, or at least to look that way to students at her new school. But her mother is a medium, and not the kind that fits in between small and large; Kat's mom is the kind of medium who sees spirits and communicates with them. And, even worse, Kat has just discovered that she can see spirits too. In fact, she seems to be the only one capable of helping a spirit at her school cross over successfully. The question is can she do it without needing to switch schools herself?

When your teenager is estranged from you and God and is making unwise (and perhaps downright awful) choices, it’s natural to feel hopeless and helpless. Perhaps you have already done everything you know to do—you have talked with them at length, applied consequences, asked others for help, and prayed desperately, but still you see no change in your child’s life or choices. Barbara Miller Juliani draws from her own experience of rebellion and also from decades of ministry to families to encourage weary parents that they can lean hard into the Lord for help in this difficult season.

În remarcabila sa carte, Gáspár György ne dezvăluie o perspectivă inedită asupra conceptului de parenting, arătând că nu doar copilul e important, ci și părintele. El explică în detaliu dinamica interacțiunii părinte–copil și progresul ce rezultă din această legătură specială. Cartea îmbină perspicacitatea clinică și inteligența analitică, fiind o neprețuită sursă de informații pentru cei care lucrează în domeniul sănătății mintale, dar mai ales pentru părinți. O recomand cu căldură.

Sam and Jo are parents who are passionate about learning, unlearning, and relearning whatever will help them become the best parents to their kids. They are dedicated to raising their children to become adults who enjoy a beautiful life. They have implemented lots of ideas and strategies gleaned from books, podcasts, and even social media. Still, one term has become a hard nut to crack, and they are confident that if they get it right, it can positively impact their kid's life forever.