New Mom, New Woman provides you with skills and strategies to become more competent, decisive, and empowered. You will develop a broader perspective of your new life, a deeper awareness of your needs and desires, and a keen understanding that a life you love won’t happen miraculously; it needs to be consciously defined and deliberately designed.Rachel Egan, MBA, is a certified life coach and President of Maternity Transitions®—a national coaching service provider. She is t...

This innovative book introduces Group Radical Openness (GRO), a group treatment for individuals who struggle with costly and harmful overcontrol.The book opens with the background and evolution of GRO, followed by a thorough description of how to assess overcontrol. This novel group approach draws on both Group Therapy and Polyvagal Theory and encourages an entirely different way of working with this client group. It explores the concept of overcontrol, describing a pattern of dist...

In "Ten Years Near the German Frontier: A Retrospect and a Warning," Maurice Francis Egan offers a poignant reflection on a decade spent in close proximity to German society, encapsulating the profound cultural, political, and social dynamics of the time. Written in a captivating narrative style that blends personal memoir with astute analysis, Egan's work stands as a vital document reflecting the shifting tides of early 20th-century Europe. He delves into themes of nationalism, identity, ...

In "Confessions of a Book-Lover," Maurice Francis Egan presents a reflective exploration of literature and its profound impact on the human experience. Egan employs a conversational yet erudite prose style, drawing readers into a tapestry of personal anecdotes, literary critique, and revelatory insights. The work stands as a testament to the late 19th-century literary culture, characterized by an emerging appreciation for the complexities of reading and the emotional resonance of books. Th...

Reconstructive facial surgery after a car crash so alters Manhattan model Charlotte that, within the fashion world, where one's look is oneself, she is unrecognizable. Seeking a new image, Charlotte engages in an Internet experiment that may both save and damn her. As her story eerily converges with that of a plain, unhappy teenager - another Charlotte - it raises tantalizing questions about identity and reality in contemporary Western culture.Jennifer Egan's bold, innovative novel...

At the start of this edgy and ambitiously multilayered novel, a fashion model named Charlotte Swenson emerges from a car accident in her Illinois hometown with her face so badly shattered that it takes eighty titanium screws to reassemble it. She returns to New York still beautiful but oddly unrecognizable, a virtual stranger in the world she once effortlessly occupied.With the surreal authority of a David Lynch, Jennifer Egan threads Charlotte’s narrative with those of other casua...