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In The Art of Parenting Together: How to Be Good Parents Together by Using Dynamic Parenting to Improve Your Kid’s Childhood, parenting author Frank Dixon shares practical strategies to help parents get on the same page—with calmer communication, consistent boundaries, and a united approach that supports your child’s emotional security.

Your brain is running a dopamine-cortisol-oxytocin loop that makes leaving a narcissist feel like drug withdrawal. Willpower alone can’t override your nervous system. That’s why you keep going back. If you grew up with unpredictable caregivers, your nervous system learned to chase reassurance and abandon your needs to keep someone close. That’s anxious attachment—and it makes you the exact target for a narcissist. This research-grounded guide maps the intersection of anxious attachment and narcissistic abuse, giving you the tools to break the trauma bond and build secure attachment.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From the UK's favourite therapist, as seen on Channel 4's Grayson's Art Club. How can we have better relationships? In this Sunday Times bestseller, leading psychotherapist Philippa Perry reveals the vital do's and don'ts of relationships...

Often mistakenly labelled as codependency, fawning can present as being more of who someone is: smart, generous, successful, funny, or beautiful, while for others it's about being less: vocal, ethnic, creative, self-assured, or boundaries. Fawning can be visible or invisible, but one thing remains constant: it is about finding safety in an unsafe world, often at our own expense. Written by fawning expert and clinical psychologist Dr. Ingrid Clayton, Fawning will be the first of its kind, shining a light on this under-represented, but extremely important piece of the trauma puzzle.

Born in a prison and removed from his drug-dependent mother, rejection is all that 7-year-old Alex knows. When Cathy is asked to foster little Alex, aged 7, her immediate reaction is: Why can’t he stay with his present carers for the last month? He’s already had many moves since coming into...

Aged nine Joss came home from school to discover her father's suicide. She's never gotten over it. This is the true story of Joss, 13 who is angry and out of control. At the age of nine, Joss finds her father’s dead body. He has committed suicide. Then her mother remarries and Joss bitterly...

The Phenomenal #1 New York Times Bestseller In his classic guide to understanding the opposite sex, Dr. John Gray, provides a practical and proven way for men and women to improve their communication and relationships by acknowledging the differences between them. Once upon a time Martians and...

What if you could defuse tension and create accord in even the most volatile situations—just by changing the way you spoke? Over the past 35 years, Marshall Rosenberg has done just that, peacefully resolving conflicts in families, schools, businesses, and governments in 30 countries all over...

Million-copy bestselling author Cathy Glass tells the story of Dawn, a sweet and seemingly well-balanced girl whose outward appearance masks a traumatic childhood of suffering at the hands of the very people who should have cared for her. Dawn was the first girl Cathy Glass ever fostered. Sweet...

If you’ve ever been so pissed off that you did things that you regretted, or ruined your own day and some other people’s, too, this book is for you. Or if you feel angry every single day and it’s affecting your health and sleep and love of life. Or if you have very good reasons to be mad as hell, and you aren’t going to take it anymore. Or if you’ve repressed your anger all your life and now it’s all coming out at once.

Brought to you by Penguin. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Lighter offers a blueprint for deepening your compassion, kindness and gratitude so you can truly grow in harmony with another person and build stronger connections in all your relationships. 'Personal transformation that is...

ONE REMARKABLE WOMAN OVER 30 YEARS OF FOSTERING CARER TO MORE THAN 150 CHILDREN Betrayed. Exploited. Forgotten. Can one boy overcome the odds stacked against him? Tayo was surprisingly well-spoken boy when he arrived at Cathy's but something about his story didn't add up. Tayo has no past...

Is your father's emotional absence still running your life? You chase emotionally unavailable men and can't figure out why the pattern keeps repeating. You tolerate behavior from partners that you'd never accept if it happened to a friend. You can't ask for help without feeling like you're admitting weakness. You're exhausted from being perfect, competent, and "fine" all the time. You grew up with a father who was physically there but emotionally absent. He showed up, but when you needed him? Nothing. Just silence or a tone that made you feel like an inconvenience.

Just as Masters and Johnson were pioneers in the study of human sexuality, so Dr. John Gottman has revolutionized the study of marriage. As a professor of psychology at the University of Washington and the founder and director of the Seattle Marital and Family Institute, he has studied the habits of married couples in unprecedented detail over the course of many years. His findings, and his heavily attended workshops, have already turned around thousands of faltering marriages.          

New York Times Bestseller The Future is Emotionally Intelligent From two early childhood experts, an essential guidebook that empowers parents to help their little ones navigate their big feelings—including tantrums, outbursts, and separation anxiety—while laying the groundwork for a...

Your ex-spouse is bad-mouthing you to your children, perhaps even trying to turn them against you. If you handle the situation ineffectively, your relationship with your children could suffer. This groundbreaking work gives parents powerful strategies to preserve and rebuild loving relationships with their children and provides legal and mental health professionals with practical advice to help their clients and ensure the welfare of children.

“This parenting book actually made me a better parent.”—Lydia Kiesling, The New York Times From #1 New York Times bestselling authors, the ultimate “parenting bible” (The Boston Globe)—a timeless, beloved book on how to effectively communicate with your child. This bestselling...

OVER HALF A MILLION COPIES SOLD A must-have resource for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction by Adele Faber, coauthor of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, the international mega-bestseller The Boston Globe dubbed “The Parenting Bible.”...

Read by the author with audiobook-exclusive bonus chapter. Unoffendable, now revised and updated with two new chapters, gives you a concrete, practical way to live life with less stress. In our easily offended, cancel-culture society, learn how to replace perpetual frustration and anger with...

Course objectives: Define and discuss the six essential aspects of empathy—a scientifically validated human function that can be cultivated in order to improve our relationships and quality of life Discuss an empathic guide to emotions including the three basic levels of emotions, the...