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Conscious Heart
Conscious Loving
Death
Grounded For Life?!
Guess How Much I Love You
Intimate Partners
Just Because I Am
My Mother My Self
Overcoming Social Anxiety And Shyness
Parent Problems
Parenting From The Inside Out
Parenting Under Pressure
Permanent Partners
Raising Boys
Secret Of Happy Children
Shyness & Social Anxiety Workbook
SOS! Help for Parents
Trust After Trauma
Why Love Matters
Women Who Love Too Much

Conscious Heart : Seven Soul-Choices that Inspire Creative Partnership
image by Gay Hendricks, PhD & Kathlyn Hendricks, PhD
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"This path invites you to create your relationship by design instead of by default. It shows you a set of stepping stones that will carry you to the rich and magnificent feeling we call essence. Essence is your deeply felt sense of who you truly are."    


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Conscious Loving : The Journey to Co-Commitment
image by Gay Hendricks, PhD & Kathlyn Hendricks, PhD
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"We each have a strong inner urge toward conscious loving: toward relationships that are free of mistrust, disharmony, and unspoken words... Yet within us also lives an urge toward unconscious loving..."  The authors offer us the skills we need to choose.   

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Death
 by Jc McFee  
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Moving poetry about losing significant people in our lives, both loved ones and abusers (and sometimes they're one and the same). 

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Grounded For Life?! Stop Blowing Your Fuse and Start Communicating with Your Teenager
image by Louise Felton Tracy
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"It offers parents a child-rearing process that builds on communication, cooperative problem-solving, and individual strengths. It teaches skills, presents life-changing options, and demonstrates relationship-building ways of involving adolescent children directly in their own growth." 

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Guess How Much I Love You
 

imageby Sam McBratney
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A delightful, illustrated book for children who may have difficulties believing they’re loved. 

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Intimate Partners : Patterns in Love & Marriage
image by Maggie Scarf
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A nicely written book that examines what attracts us to a particular partner, and introduces the idea of genograms - maps of each partner's emotional history, enabling us to learn what issues from the past we carry into a relationship.   

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Just Because I Am : A Child’s Book of Affirmation
 imageby L. Murphy Payne

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A beautiful illustrated book to support a child’s self-esteem and personal safety. 

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My Mother My Self : The Daughter's Search for Identity
image by Nancy Friday
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"Understanding what we have with our mothers is the beginning of understanding ourselves...  Any effort to change and shape our lives must begin with that first woman in whose image we live. We know this.... we have not known it long."    


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Overcoming Social Anxiety And Shyness : A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques 
imageby Gillian Butler
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"Social anxiety is normal… For this reason it helps to start by defining when socials anxiety becomes a problem, and… learning how to reduce its painful aspects and consequences, so that it no longer causes distress and interferes with your life.”  

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Parent Problems : Children’s Views On Life When Parents Split Up
imageEdited by Bren Neale & Amanda Wade
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A collection of short writings by children on how they feel about their parents separating.  

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Parenting From The Inside Out : How A Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive
image by Daniel J. Siegel, MD & Mary Hartzell, MEd
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"How you make sense of your childhood experiences has a profound effect on how you parent your own children... Making sense of life can free parents from patterns of the past that have imprisoned them in the present." 

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Parenting Under Pressure : Voices of Prisoners and Their Families 
imageedited by Adrienne Katz
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“Mothers, sons, daughters, grandmothers, grandfathers,, sisters, brothers, even some children, each, in just a few sentences, testifies to the effect imprisonment of a loved one has had on their lives… This is a world vibrant with unhappiness and pain but also shot through with hope and love”.  

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Permanent Partners : Building Gay and Lesbian Relationships That Last
image by Dr. Betty Berzon
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"I have sought here to provide information about the dynamics of intimate partnerships. I have tried to give guidance and inspiration from my own life and from the lives of gay and lesbian people I know and work with."  Revised edition of this classic book. 

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Raising Boys : Why Boys Are Different - And How to Help Them Become Happy & Well-Balanced Men
image by Steve Biddulph
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With his humour, honesty and practical knowledge of families, Biddulph looks at the important issues in boys' development, and discusses the warm and strong parenting boys need. 

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The Secret Of Happy Children
image by Steve Biddulph
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"...to make it easier for fathers and mothers to get on with their kids, and for kids to live without the put-downs and fears that our generation often felt... Your own heart will always tell you, if you listen to it, what is the best way to raise your children."    

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The Shyness & Social Anxiety Workbook : Proven Techniques for Overcoming Your Fears
image by Martin Anthony & Richard Swinson
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"Shyness and social anxiety are universal... Regardless of whether your fears are minor or completely overwhelming, the strategies described in this book will help you to deal more effectively with social anxiety."   

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SOS! Help for Parents : A Practical Guide for Handling Common Everyday Behavior Problems
image by Lynn Clark, Ph.D.
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If you (or your client) are the parent, foster-parent or guardian of a child with emotional behaviour problems, you need this book. Using the basics of behavioural modification, it covers fundamentals of behaviour and reward, time-out, managing behaviour away from home, handling aggressive and dangerous behaviour, when to get professional help, and controlling your own anger. Quizzes at the back of the book help parents know what material to review for better understanding. 

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Trust After Trauma : A Guide to Relationships for Survivors and Those Who Love Them
imageby Aphrodite Matsakis
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"This book is about trauma and relationships, about how being traumatized as the result of violence has strained your existing relationships and made it difficult for you to feel close to others." She explains how survivors' increased understanding of emotional pain can ultimately enrich their ability to relate to other people. Includes step-by-step exercises, and some advice for partners. 

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Why Love Matters : How Affection Shapes A Baby's Brain
imageby Sue Gerhardt
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Aims to provide a lively and accessible interpretation of the latest science, explaining why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life. 

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Women Who Love Too Much : When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He'll Change
image by Robin Norwood
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Describes 'loving too much' as a pattern some women develop as a response to problems from childhood.  "If you choose to begin the process of recovery, you will change from a woman who loves someone else so much it hurts, into a woman who loves herself enough to stop the pain." 

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