Part Augusten Burroughs, part Robert Leleux, Conversations and Cosmopolitans is a hilarious and touching memoir written by a mother, Jane, and her son, Robert, as they navigate their new relationship together after Robert announces in a hand-written letter that he is gay.After moving from the Midwest to New York City at the age of twenty-one, Robert Rave finally found the resolve to mail a letter to his parents informing them that he was gay. Once Robert wa...

Raising Healthy Children and Teenagers is one of the most important things that we will ever do in life. How they turn out, how life goes for them, whether they experience joy and happiness because of their inner strength and resources, or struggle with life because of inadequate coping skills is largely in our hands. In this book we discuss three main areas that are crucial to raising healthy children: how you treat your children, what you expose your children to, and what you model for t...

**The groundbreaking guide to self-healing and getting the love you missed“Years ago, I was on vacation and read The Emotionally Absent Mother. That book was one of many that woke me up. . . . I began the process of reparenting and it’s changed my life.”—Dr. Nicole LePera, New York Times–bestselling author of How to Do the Work**Was your mother preoccupied, distant, or even demeaning? Have you struggled with relationships—or with your own self-wor...

A practical guide to bridging the generation gap.In How to Say It to Seniors, geriatric psychology expert David Solie offers help in removing the typical communication blocks many experience with the elderly. By sharing his insights into the later stages of life, Solie helps in understanding the unique perspective of seniors, and provides the tools to relate to them.

Breakthrough Treatment Offers New Hope for RecoveryRevised and Expanded 2nd Edition with 3 new chapters on adolescentsGentling represents a new paradigm in the therapeutic approach to children who haveexperienced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and have acquired Post TraumaticStress Disorder as a result. This text redefines PTSD in child abuse survivors by identifyingchild-specific behavioral signs commonly seen, and offers a means to individu...

"This book will help your mom understand. Give it to her."—Betty DeGeneresComing out to mom is a lesbian rite of passage. In Different Daughters, thirty mothers of lesbians come together to trace their journeys towards acceptance of their daughters. Facing their fears and confusion, prejudice and misunderstandings, they speak honesty and bravely about the difficulties and joys of life with their "different daughters."Writing about families, community, religion, gra...

Whats it like to be married to a drug addict? What should you do if you think your spouse is addicted to crack cocaine? What is crack cocaine? You will find out this and more in this book. Its a true educational overview in a few short pages.

At the time this book was written, the youngest person recorded with Alzheimers Disease was 28 years old. Since I learned about Alzheimers with my maternal grandmother suffering from and succumbing to the disease in the 1980s, the ages of Alzheimers patients have been steadily becoming younger and younger. In my mothers memory care unit was an educator who died of early onset Alzheimers at the age of 53. There is a new diagnosis of Alzheimers every 67 seconds and it is estimated that one i...

On Sunday she went to my niece's seventeenth birthday party. It hasn't even been a week since the surgery. She didn't act any different. If you didn't know, you couldn't tell she had just had a mastectomy surgery. I hope that I have at least half of the strength and courage she has. It boggles my mind how she is always so strong and happy. Through this whole process she didn't let it get her down.The day author Rebecca Bany discovered her mother suffered from breast cancer...

A Startling Thought: When did you first realize your parents were not going to live on this planet forever?An Even More Startling Thought: When did you realize that your parents may die soon?In Faith and Farewell, a veteran hospice chaplain explores the spiritual dimensions of saying good-bye to aging parents. Discover the Seven Spiritual Themes which commonly surface for adults whose parents are rapidly declining and advancing toward death:AuthorityControl

Ever since Cinderella, the word wicked seems to have got permanently prefixed to step mothers which is not only unfair, it is also not true. Most women consider step motherhood as their lifes highest calling. They go above and beyond the call of duty to make their step children feel loved and welcomed and all they get is attitudes, eye rolls, and sarcastic remarks. They cant even share their pain with anyone because if they do, the only thing they get to hear every time is, well you knew t...

One boy and one big question; one man and one big response: "What is God?"