Friendship Parenting

When Erica Cerulo and Claire Mazur met in college in 2002, they bonded instantly. Fast-forward to 2010, when they founded the popular fashion and design website Of a Kind. Now, in their first book, Cerulo and Mazur bring to light the unique power of female friendship to fuel successful businesses. Drawing on their own experiences, as well as the stories of other thriving “work wives,” they highlight the ways in which vulnerability, openness, and compassion - qualities central to so many women’s relationships - lend themselves to professional accomplishment and innovation.

This book is here to tell you that you can make new intimate, platonic friendships naturally and organically by applying characteristics we all have in a more effective manner. As you go on listening to this book, you’ll begin to understand you already possess all the skills needed for you to make the kinds of friendships you want; it’s how you use those skills that matter.

Vivimos la vida que queremos? ¿Hasta dónde estamos dispuestos a llegar para mantener la amistad y la lealtad? Imaginemos por un momento que nuestro mejor amigo nos pide que abandonemos todo lo que tenemos y le acompañemos en un viaje, que no deja de ser también una huida hacia adelante. Es lo que le pide Guzmán a su mejor amigo, Rodri, tras recibir la fatídica noticia de una enfermedad sin cura, que lo deje todo durante un año para acompañarle en el que será su último viaje.

Let's face it, everyone wants friends, but some individuals just don't make it easy! Friendship: When It's Easy and When It's Not focuses on the different types of individuals in our lives: the sunny friends who encourage us, the negative friends who drain our energy, the critical friends who steal our confidence, the hurting friends seeking answers we can't give, those incessant talkers who won't let us get a word in edgewise, and what about ex-relatives? Can we remain friends with them? What if we don't like ourselves? Can we become better friends with us?

We’ve all had unique — and often messy — life journeys. You know…the good, the bad, and the ugly. But what if your “messy” life experiences have hidden meanings — that, if uncovered, could help you have mind-blowing insights about your life’s purpose and deepen your friendships? In this second book in the Friendship Series, life coach Shari Leid chronicles a round of dates with her girlfriends where she asks the question, “What is the mess that became your message?” And the responses are astounding!

Set great boundaries and unlock true freedom in your relationships—even if you've felt completely overwhelmed and powerless in the past. Do you constantly find yourself stretched thin, feeling as though you're living for others and neglecting yourself? Do you struggle to maintain a healthy balance between your personal life and work, constantly feeling like you're on the verge of burning out? You're not alone.

A Second Bite: A Poignant Tale of Redemption Winner of Five Stars from Readers' Favorite In the twilight of his life, Cathal Dunne sits in his garden, sipping red lemonade and reflecting on a life marred by hardship, loneliness, and unfulfilled dreams. From a childhood overshadowed by poverty, bullying, and rigid authority, to an adulthood marked by fleeting joys and relentless setbacks, Cathal’s existence has been a library of sad stories. Now, confined to a wheelchair and nearing the end, he yearns for a second chance—a life where joy outweighs despair, and where he can rewrite the ...

Just as there are three dimensions of the physical world (height, width, and depth), there are three dimensions of the interpersonal world - power, love, and mindfulness. How well we learn to navigate them directly corresponds to how well we live our lives and how happy and fulfilled we feel. Human reactivity is the source of most of our interpersonal problems and pain.

"How to Maintain Healthy Relationships" is a practical and in-depth guide to building, strengthening, and maintaining healthy bonds in all aspects of life: relationship, family, friendships, and work. Through straightforward advice, real-life examples, and strategies backed by modern psychology, this book will help you communicate effectively, set healthy boundaries, resolve conflicts maturely, and cultivate empathy and mutual respect.

At twenty-seven years-old, George Fairweather is “the voice of his generation”, a poet whose talent has garnered him accolades from the literary establishment and homage from the disenfranchised “hippie” youth of the late 1960’s.George is the embodiment of the times with his long hair, rebellious attitude and regular use of mind-expanding psychedelic drugs.Then the sudden and tragic death of Fallon, his friend, his muse and his lover shatters his world, his sanity and nearly ends his life.Katherine is the one person who stands between George and destruction. A hanger-on, a groupie...

If you have just undergone a breakup, then get this step-by-step guide to getting over it, written especially for women. It is written by a person who has gone through breakup and lost loved ones. In this step-by-step guide, you will discover how to overcome and endure the pain caused by the break up.

Moved by the Sandy Hook Elementary School tragedy, Ferial Pearson wondered if a simple act of kindness could change a life. She thought of the school where she taught and the students she guided every day and wondered what would happen if we started secretly carrying out small acts of kindness in school. Could a modest act of compassion really change the course of a life? She posed the question to her students. They didn’t have the answers, but they were willing to find out. So they became the Secret Kindness Agents.

In The Lost Art of Relationship, Dan Chrystal tackles the heart of relationship based on the time-honored instruction to “love your neighbor as you love yourself”. How do we live out this odd instruction? What makes relationships healthy, and what makes them fail? Through Dan’s personal stories and difficult life lessons, listeners will come away encouraged, inspired, and motivated to love the people in their life more fully. If you desire deep and meaningful connections, now is the time to discover the lost art of relationship.

Doesn’t it seem like there simply isn’t enough time to take care of ourselves, our families, and our to do lists? Even when we’re partnered and surrounded by friends, we’re often too afraid of burdening others to ask for help. So how do we survive today’s age of overwork and stress, and who can we turn to for the support we need to stay afloat? Now, writer and cartoonist Sophie Lucido Johnson offers a radical answer to our age of overwhelm in Kin.

In his late teens Tom Macher rebelled against a world that seemed stacked against him. Raised in a broken family and estranged from an absentee father suffering with AIDS, Macher turned to alcohol to escape the painful loneliness of his reality. In quick succession, he is kicked out of school, and then his mother's house, sent to a boys' home in Montana, and later, a halfway house in a truck-stop town of Louisiana. It was there that Macher encounters a community of young men struggling to survive.

L'Éthique à Nicomaque d'Aristote est composée de neuf livres qui traitent des moyens d'atteindre le bonheur en développant la vertu. Les deux derniers livres sont consacrés à définir l'amitié, telle qu'elle existe et telle qu'elle doit être vécue par l'homme vertueux. La méthode aristotélicienne permet de distinguer les différentes causes et les différentes manifestations de l'amitié, nécessaire à l'homme et qui lui révèle son appartenance à la communauté. Le véritable ami est celui qui aime l'autre pour lui, et non en vue de ce qu'il peut lui apporter.

Nearly 50 percent of Americans checked the "single" box in the 2010 census. Because we equate touch with sex, many of us suffer alone when we crave physical comfort and tenderness. Somebody Hold Me takes a simple, radical approach to health and relationships by teaching you how to get more platonic touch. Somebody Hold Me walks you through the increasingly fraught physical space between humans and allows for more connection and closeness through giving and receiving structured touch in your existing relationships.

From Aristotle to Haruki Murakami, Nietzsche and Mark Twain to Bob Marley, we have selected for you 100 of the greatest quotes about friendship. You will learn its value from 100 different angles: these witticisms, remarks and pearls of wisdom will provide you with inspiration, food for thought, and different ways to relate to this essential concept. Much-loved but hard to define, excessively precious but fleeting and fragile, friendship has driven the greatest minds to try and formulate its significance, give out advice, and gain new understanding; enjoy these quotes for pleasure, betterment, and gratitude.

Jake is the direct competitor for the family business and a man with a dark secret, and Tamara struggles to fight her attraction to him as she deals with secrets of her own and an ex who refuses to give up. Tamara is soon drawn into the small community of Brewer Creek where she becomes the coordinator for an old fashioned Friendship Tree - a chart telling people who they can call on in times of trouble. And before long, she realizes the Friendship Tree does a lot more than organize fundraising events and working bees; it has the power to unite an entire town.

Every Kind of Wanting explores the complex intersection of three unique families. Miguel Guerra, who grew up in poverty in Venezuela before his family's relocation to Chicago, could not be more different from his partner Chad Merry, a happy-go-lucky real estate mogul from Chicago's wealthy North Shore. When Chad's sister, Gretchen - struggling with the deterioration of her marriage - offers the couple her eggs, they begin scrambling for a surrogate to carry the child, finally settling on Miguel's old friend Emily, happily married to an eccentric Irish playwright.