Self Development Family

In Dancing with a Porcupine, Jennie Owens shares the compelling story of her struggle to save her own life while caring for three troubled children she and her husband adopted from foster care. How could she stay loving, giving, and forgiving in the midst of a daily battle with children acting out the rage, resentment, and pain of their own traumatic pasts? Is there such a thing as secondary trauma, and if so, what do you do about it? When faith, endurance, and creativity are not enough, what’s next?

In Lead Me, Matt identifies the tension many men experience when trying to balance work and home life. With bracing honesty, vulnerable storytelling, and practical application, Matt challenges you to be faithful both to God's vocational call and to His call to lead your family well. Discover the extraordinary joy of actively and intentionally pursuing your wife and children. Matt reminds us that it's messy. It's difficult. And it's the most rewarding thing you can do, beyond following Christ.

Is school for your kids a resounding success? For most of us, education was an uncomfortable process of sitting in stifling classrooms, listening to tedious lectures, struggling over stressful exams, and feeling like we were wasting our time and energy. There were class clowns, ruthless bullies, teacher’s pets, popular kids, and students no one wanted to be around.

Discover simple and powerful self-care techniques that will help new moms conquer postpartum - find joy and fulfillment in motherhood without feeling guilty!

If you or someone you love grew up with an emotionally unavailable, narcissistic, or selfish parent, you probably struggle with residual feelings of anger, abandonment, loneliness, or shame. For anyone who endured a nightmare or a wasteland instead of a nurturing childhood, The Toxic Parents Survival Guide will offer you the clinical insights and the day-to-day tools so you can break the chains of toxicity that bind you in a mess you didn't create.

ADHD is not the result of ineffective parenting education, and it is not related to the "badness" of the child. ADHD is an attention disorder that if not managed right can become a real problem - for the individual, family, and school - with discomforts and frustration at school and personal level. Very often, the first to suffer from this situation are discouraged and stressed parents because they feel guilty and unable to manage the child's behavior.

Are you a father of a young daughter or teenage girl? Do you know if your words or actions encourage her or bring her down? If you're like most dads, you may think you need to be a mother to boost your daughter's confidence. But really, all you need to do is make a few simple tweaks to the way you communicate. If you do this, you'll build her self-esteem, improve her self-worth, and be the hero in her life. And you won't even have to change who you are to do it.

Your Baby Can Self-Feed, Too, is the inclusive guide to introducing solids. Over 25 percent of children experience challenges with this big step—both typically developing babies and those with (known or unknown) physical or neurological differences. Resources on how to help babies who face obstacles in making the move to solid foods are scarce. That’s where this audiobook comes in.

It is a jungle out there, where the strongest members prey on the weak-minded. It’s a jungle where you need resilience in order to survive and thrive. It’s a jungle that your children have to conquer. No, this is not your ordinary self-help, positive parenting, or educational psychology book. Frank Dixon, the author of this eye-opening guide on how to raise resilient kids, has created an easy-to-follow strategy for parents.

No one wants to feel like a failure, especially when the pressure and expectation of others is weighing you down. You want to make yourself and others proud and prove that you can do anything you set your mind to, so what’s holding you back? It’s that little voice inside saying, “Are you crazy? Of course, you can’t really achieve your goals.” No, you most certainly can. You are in a world where you choose the life you want to live. You deserve freedom and happiness.

Some of the most effective talk therapy is self-talk therapy - learning to connect positively with that internal voice that serves as your own personal GPS to guide you through life. Rabbi Shmuley teaches the reader to reconnect with the inner voice of conscience, the source of personal dreams and values, which has been so drowned out by the noise of a culture that emphasizes form over substance, career over calling, and consumption over conviction. Drawing on Rabbi Shmuley's extensive counseling experience, this book helps you defeat negative self-talk.

Raising a teen is a tricky part of the parenting journey. Do you want to easily help your teenager achieve more than average in all areas of their life without stress? Most teenagers do not achieve their full potential due to gaps in their knowledge, lack of experience, not knowing how to grow, or realize their strengths. The good news is that years of scientific findings have made the process of coaching teens to become more empowered and responsible an easy process, so even the busiest parents can do it.

Women today feel a constant pressure to improve themselves and just never feel like they’re “enough.” All too often, they live their daily lives disheartened, disillusioned, and disappointed. That’s because joy doesn’t come from a new self-improvement strategy; it comes from rooting their identity in who God says they are and what he has done on their behalf.

Do you ever feel stuck and failing in everything you do as a woman, mom, and friend? Are you tired of the life that you have and want a change? Do you feel like everyone is going against your will? Do you feel joy and happiness are just so hard to find? Do you constantly fear the outcome of your decisions? In this book, you’ll find the one most important tool that, when mastered, will give you leverage to transform your doubts into confidence and to embrace and love yourself without changing yourself. You'll transform your life into one you want and create the change you want.

Parenting is hard. That's why self-compassion is so important. In this empathetic resource, mindfulness expert and psychologist Susan M. Pollak helps you let go of constant self-judgment and treat yourself with the same kindness and caring you strive to offer your kids. Simple, yet powerful, guided meditation techniques (most under three minutes long) are easy to practice while doing the dishes, driving to work, or soothing a fussy baby. Learn to respond to your own imperfections like a supportive friend, not a harsh critic.

Motherhood is demanding (to say the least), but when all of your mental and physical energy is directed towards a tiny human, you are neglecting yourself. And when you are neglected, you don’t have the energy or strength to take care of your completely dependent newborn. But you’re probably thinking how can I possibly put my needs above those of my baby? The truth of the matter is, your baby needs you to be at your best, and this is achieved through self-care. Self-care has many misconceptions, and due to the prefix, it’s all too often associated with selfishness.

This audiobook plans to give you exactly what you need: the means to stay positive through constant affirmations designed to help improve oneself, change a bad behavior, or channel the universe to attract good things in your life. Packed with subliminal affirmations, the audiobook shows that in order to attract opportunities that will improve your health, love life, or even wealth, all you need are few minutes a day to shift your mind through positive affirmations.

Find the calm and inner peace to be a more patient parent. Being a parent can be trying some days. With this powerful hypnosis and meditation program, learn how to create calming energy whenever you begin to feel stressed or anxious.

Imagine if you lived without the fear of failure, without the fear of not measuring up. If you no longer felt the need to stifle your thoughts and swallow what you really want to say in order to please and appease others. If you could stop berating yourself mercilessly for human mistakes, let go of the guilt and the strangling pressure to be perfect, and just breathe. What if, in every decision you faced, you made the brave choice or took the bolder path. Would you be happier? Would you impact the world in the ways you dream you can? I believe the answer to both is yes.

This book isn’t about being a perfect parent—it’s about becoming a more present and emotionally grounded one. You’ll gain practical tools for repairing emotional ruptures, strengthening the bond with your child, and building a healthier, more connected family dynamic.