Surviving Relationships

Surviving Life: Contemplations of the Soul is a unique and powerful audiobook full of compassion and empathy that combines the issues of what hurts us the most with the thoughts and advice meant to empower us toward happiness and independence. It is medicine for the soul. It guides us through our deepest pains and weaknesses and leads us to a place of self-empowerment, inspiration, strength, and hope.

This book sheds light on two seemingly opposing ideas: Divorce or breakups, and marriage or intact relationships. Most of it helps you cope with the heartbreak of being dumped, breaking up, going through moving out, or even signing the divorce papers. It is meant to help those who have experienced this see things in a different light, and at the same time, accept what cannot be changed.

Are you too busy to breathe, let alone meditate? Overwhelmed by the idea of self-care routines that require hours, expensive candles, or pretending to like kale smoothies? Self-Care(ish) Sanity Hacks is here to help. This hilarious and practical guide skips the fluff and gets straight to self-care hacks that actually fit into a busy life—because you deserve to feel human, even if your schedule disagrees.

Raising a teenage girl can be overwhelming for the most important female figure in her life: her mother. From handling the often delicate situations surrounding academic performance, athletics, friendships, sexual activity, and drug and alcohol experimentation to instilling a healthy body image and providing a strong role model, mothers often feel alone in their struggle to cope with all that they must do for their daughters.

An instant best seller in the UK, Grief Works is a profoundly optimistic and compassionate handbook for anyone suffering a loss - from the expected death of a parent to the sudden death of a child or spouse - as well as a guide for those who want to help their grieving loved ones.

Teenagers are flooded with too much information from the internet, and it can be difficult to navigate what is helpful or hurtful to learn from. Even as adults, it can be challenging to have a grasp on life skills without an early start.

BuzzFeed senior writer Erin Chack hits you in the guts, the feelings, and the funny bone all at once with this collection of personal essays that sounds like Sloane Crosley for the Snapchat generation. In turns hysterically funny and heartbreakingly poignant, Erin recounts everything from meeting her soulmate at age 14 to her first chemotherapy session at age 19 to what really goes on behind the scenes at a major Internet media company.

A book about life, travel, survival, and awareness of mistakes. Escape to Myself is the first book in the Big Little Stories series by Ukrainian writer Ivan Kuznietsov. Each book in the series is an independent, complete story and can be read in a free sequence. All stories have something in common—they are all about change. You will discover the adventures of different characters, but all of them, just like you and me, are essential parts of the big little story of our world. This book tells the story about a conscious transition from the life of a highly respected person, the heir to ...

JUST A LITTLE BREAK What’s a girl to do when she’s had twelve lovers and the love of her life has only bedded two? Serena Adams, sexy makeup artist to the stars, is certain that her life is perfect – great job, devoted man and the silent promise of a ring on her finger. So when her boyfriend Markie attempts to shatter it by leaving her due to their “numbers” issue she is determined to do anything to keep him. No longer able to cope with Serena’s impressive sexual history (twelve one-night stands versus his two longstanding ex-lays) Markie sees splitting up as the only solution. ...

Every year, 900,000 women of faith go through a divorce. This book is full of the wisdom and encouragement that Suzanne received, as well as the lessons she learned while the Lord was exchanging his beauty for her ashes. There is life on the other side. A life full of hope, healing, and triumph.

Name it, claim it, own it, and deal with it by working to dump it and never denying it. “It” refers to your emotions—and people who fail in life seldom utilize their thoughts to manage their behaviors. Instead, they are driven by their emotions, yet successful people always use thoughts to govern themselves. Observations and origins about validating your thinking skills, testing your values, and putting them in motion are taught and detailed in Surviving Your Feelings.

"Underway: One Family's Guide to Surviving Boot Camp" is a moving narrative that explores the emotional journey of the Knudson family as they navigate the complexities of having their children enlist in the Navy. From the heartfelt farewells of boot camp to the uncertainties of deployment, Ruel Knudson offers a sincere portrayal of the raw emotions, fears, and triumphs experienced by families with loved ones in uniform.

How could Maya Warwick not fall in love with Lucien Desmarais? He was the man of her dreams: Handsome, aristocratic, suave, artistic, and debonair. With promises of moving to his farm in Provence, they get married and embark on a true fairytale. It doesn’t take long before she realizes that Lucien lives by his own rules, and conventional mores don’t apply to him. With alternating periods of bliss and total chaos, her best friend makes Maya see that Lucien has an entirely different agenda. As their marriage becomes a war of attrition, Maya desperately tries to stay one step ahead of her ...

The Pelzer family's secret life of fear and abuse was first revealed in Dave Pelzer's inspiring New York Times best seller, A Child Called "It", followed by The Lost Child and A Man Called Dave. Here, for the first time, Richard Pelzer tells the courageous and moving story of his abusive childhood.

Dr. Michael Carr-Gregg is a leading authority on teenage behavior. Surviving Adolescents is the sensible, sanity-saving guide every household needs. Young people today enter puberty earlier than ever before and leave home later. The good news is that teenagers aren't impossible to live with, especially if parents adopt the common-sense strategies set out in this book.

Surviving the Breakup is a roadmap and journal to get over a breakup and move forward confidently. It is a definitive guide that links breakups and nutrition. The audiobook is loaded with logical advice, quotes, programs, and journal prompts; it also includes music choices to listen to while writing your journal. It is geared to help those who are stepping through deep emotional and physical issues from going through a breakup or those who are about to enter a breakup.

Kate Paris Battaglia, a resilient high school student, has taken advantage of Covid-imposed solitude to author her first book: 101 Tips for Surviving in a Pandemic: A Generation Z Guidebook. Born near 2000, Kate allows listeners to travel into the minds of a generation accustomed to the technology of the internet. However, she surprisingly does not dwell on social media to cure all ills that Covid-19 and its variants have inflicted upon the "zoomers" of Gen Z.

As a teen, you're experiencing intense changes in your life - both physically and mentally. To top it off, you're probably unsure of how to handle your emotions in a positive, constructive way. Surviving the Emotional Roller Coaster offers evidence-based techniques to help you regulate your emotions and find balance in all areas of life - whether it's at home, at school, or with friends and peers. By learning to be more aware of your emotions, you'll be able to let difficult feelings pass without reacting to them in destructive ways.

In the 1940s and the 1950s, men ruled the home in a much different way then households are ruled today. Domestic violence and marital issues arose. The police stayed clear. If the police did happen to be called on the scene, nothing happened because they believed a man's home was his castle, and anything or anyone in it was his property. Sandra watched her father beat and mentally abuse her mother with no recourse, She vowed to never fall victim to the abuse she witnessed as a child. Sandra broke that vow as she fell victim and experienced the things she witnessed as a child.

Fear rocked Chip St. Clair's world. As a boy, he never knew what would set his father off--maybe the ice cubes had melted in his glass of Tab, maybe dinner was overcooked or undercooked or the gravy was too runny. Regardless, the beatings always came. As did the twisted games of cat and mouse - being thrown from a rowboat into frigid Lake Michigan, the middle-of-the-night moves to different states, or being left to dangle over a 10-story balcony while his father watched from inside.