How do parents cope when their adult children struggle to launch, battle depression or addiction, or return home unable to face independence? With empathy and insight, When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us confronts the painful gap between parental hopes and the reality of “adultolescents” who are stuck, struggling, or spiraling.In this groundbreaking book, a social psychologist who’s been chronicling the lives of American families for over two decades confron...

They say that we all have a day, a dark day of the soul when we either sink for good or fight it and rise from the depths threatening our everything. I dont think I had a day, but rather a period of time where things were so dark I knew that if something didn't change - if I didn't change - then I would get pulled under and never escape, leaving my girls without a mum, just as I had been left without mine.This book is born from that journey, its my struggle from just barely survivi...

How do today's parents cope when the dreams we had for our children clash with reality? What can we do for our twenty- and even thirty-somethings who can't seem to grow up? Who can we turn to when the kids aren't all right and we, their parents, are frightened, frustrated, resentful, embarrassed, and especially, disappointed?In this groundbreaking book, a social psychologist who's been chronicling the lives of American families for over two decades confronts our deepest concerns wh...

The Ketogenic diet has been a medical miracle that helps control epilepsy, blood pressure, blood sugar and excess weight. This book facilitates a successful ketogenic transition for every vegan - ensuring that every vegan is availed the opportunity to reach and remain in ketosis without much difficulty. The ketogenic and vegan diet can be combined without contradicting the beliefs, values and foundations on which both diets were founded. The great news is that you can be vegan and still en...

A superbly original collection of short stories with an esoteric bias. Each story explores in different situations, often humorous, a paradoxical edge of experience, when the inner and outer life is about to transform; at any stage in life. These stories, light-hearted and profound, were rough hewn by the well known mind-body-spirit author Alan Jacobs, and turned into literary gems by Jane Adams, an artist, poet and author. They express this fertile dialogue, in the inner life. They includ...

"Jane Adams gets at the heart of human relationships by illuminating the boundaries that create and sustain them. Taking on a subject that everyone talks about but few people really understand, she breaks new psychological ground in this accessible, empathetic, and original book that offers concrete assistance and wise counsel to all who struggle with the central dilemma of being human-being both separate and connected, intimate as well as autonomous, without sacrificing the self." -Edward...

Your Life by Design, A journey of gratitude and journaling exercises that will change your life is designed to do just that.Its not just another ordinary gratitude book, instead it will take you on a journey to retrain your mind to find things to be grateful for and to look for the positives in everything.This amazing journal was born from my own soul searching journey from depressed and anxious to now, where I live the most amazing life.Along the way I discovered what work...

The Ketogenic diet has been a medical miracle that helps control epilepsy, blood pressure, blood sugar and excess weight. This book facilitates a successful ketogenic transition for every vegan - ensuring that every vegan is availed the opportunity to reach and remain in ketosis without much difficulty. The ketogenic and vegan diet can be combined without contradicting the beliefs, values and foundations on which both diets were founded. The great news is that you can be vegan and still en...

After playing a TV sleuth for years, Rita Martin retires to the sleepy town of Frantham-on-Sea. Here on the Dorset coast, she runs her own immaculate guest house, and life is blissfully quiet. But then a few doors down, harmless old Mrs Freer is bludgeoned to death, and Rina can’t help but be drawn into the mystery. Mrs Freer’s home was ransacked, but this was no ordinary burglary. Who knew the old lady kept a gun stashed under her pillow? And who wanted it badly enough to kill? Detective ...

A firsthand recounting of a wide-open relationship, told with unflinching candor from the male perspective.Adam had spent most of his life pursuing adventure—climbing some of the world’s steepest mountains, snowboarding dangerous backcountry terrain, and BASE jumping off of cliffs.Jane was a sex educator with a PhD in psychology, a female sexuality empowerment activist—and a self-described slut, who rejected monogamy and the societal norms of what a sexually well-behaved wo...

A must have for every teacher who wants to develop the emotional competence of children in their class. This resource contains 45 lessons - more than enough for one lesson per week! The lessons each contain detailed teachers' notes, warm up games and activities, questions to ask and ideas about what to expect. Most lessons also include a photocopiable activity. The activities are divided into 5 sections: knowing myself, developing empathy, managing feelings, developing social skills and th...

Jane Adams focuses on the transformation of rural life in Union County, Illinois, as she explores the ways in which American farming has been experienced and understood in the twentieth century. Reconstructing the histories of seven farms, she places the details of daily life within the context of political and economic change. Adams identifies contradictions that, on a personal level, influenced relations between children and parents, men and women, and bosses and laborers, and that, more...