Navigating Intimate Relationships
This book spotlights the complexities of relationships, drawing on theories that have guided relationship scholars, classic studies, and current research- juxtaposed with the current Indian milieu. It would be useful to the researchers of Psychology, Applied Psychology, Mental Health, Sociology, Family Studies, and other allied disciplines.
The Feminine Effect
Discover what true femininity is in The Feminine Effect.This is a message for all women: Conditioned by parental viewpoints and societal rules, women have long twisted themselves into unrecognizable identities to adhere to these demands--striving after power as defined by men, only to find themselves exhausted and unhappy. What if this centuries-long attempt to excel in a world with masculine values took women in the wrong direction? What if they no longer know what it means to be a woman? What, indeed, is the true nature of a woman?Chelsea O'Brien's mission is to take women back to their authenticity--to who they really are--and she does this by asking women to feel and see her life as she did: a life that has taken her from the extremes of poverty and wealth, of great fear and power, of divorce and death, and finally into laughter and joy and unconditional love. She represents all the best and worst parts of being a woman, all the while confirming those inklings women have to follow their hearts that, up to now, they haven't dared to honor.Guided by the mystical teachings of her mentor, Abdy Electriciteh, Chelsea uses vulnerable lessons around male and female relationships to redefine the true nature of a woman.
Half Penny
Finalist! 2025 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, Women's Nonfiction⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5-Star Review from Reader's FavoriteHalf Penny is a searing memoir about a girlhood shaped by secrecy, loss, and emotional captivity- and the woman who must return to the past to understand her life.What begins as a daughter's attempt to lay her father to rest becomes an unexpected reckoning with buried memory: her mother's early death, a childhood abduction that was never explained, and a home where silence was treated as loyalty. With clear, unsentimental prose, Lee examines the psychological cost of growing up inside dysfunction. Structured with quiet clues and narrative echoes that only reveal themselves with hindsight, Half Penny rewards a second reading, offering hidden connections and early warnings that take on new meaning once the truth is known.Like Jenette McCurdy's I'm Glad My Mom Died, this is a story about how family damage and secrecy shape identity. And like Amy Griffin's The Tell, it explores what it takes to separate the story you were handed from the life that was built on a lie.Perfect for readers who love: True storiesEmotional and unforgettable narrativesCourageous accounts of resilience and survival.Accessible stories
The Emotionally Savvy Divorce
Harness your emotions and negotiate effectively for a healthier post-divorce future. Your emotions don't have to be a liability. When properly understood, your feelings during a divorce can be invaluable guides to fair settlements, better communication, and a brighter future. Through candid client stories and step-by-step exercises, veteran divorce attorney and experienced mediator Katherine Miller helps you turn emotional turmoil into a negotiation advantage--so you can walk away with a settlement that respects both your needs and your future. Miller reframes the divorce process as an emotional transition rather than just a legal battle and adapts business negotiation techniques to untangling the knot of shared finances, parenting, and identity. She exposes the hidden traps couples often fall into and teaches you to recognize what truly matters so you can preserve your mental well-being. Then she shifts to a practical deep dive on how to negotiate effectively: how to identify your core interests, leverage your emotions at the bargaining table, and handle high-conflict situations without escalating tensions. With insights into proposal structuring and conflict resolution techniques, Miller guides you toward a final agreement that feels equitable and respects everyone involved. By placing empathy and strategy on equal footing, The Emotionally Savvy Divorce offers a fresh, humane approach to dissolving a marriage. Drawing from her substantial background in collaborative law and mediation, Katherine Miller delivers a blueprint for a clean break--one where you stay true to yourself, keep your family's best interests at heart, and come away with a settlement that supports a stable future. If you're facing divorce and want to stay in control--of your emotions, your negotiations, and your future--this book will give you the tools to navigate the toughest conversations and secure a settlement that truly works for you.
My Parents Are Dead: What Now?
A certified death doula provides an accessible and digestible guide to dealing with the legal, financial logistical hurdles of a parent's death--without losing your sense of humor. Whether you've recently lost a parent or you're just trying to plan for the toughest day of your life so far, you're probably experiencing a lot of dizzying emotions. Unfortunately, you're also going to need to enter an overwhelming maze of paperwork and bureaucracy. But you don't have to do it alone. After losing both parents, Becky Robison devoted herself to making death and postdeath logistics easier on others. She draws on her own experience, plus interviews with experts ranging from monument makers to morticians, to hold your hand through: Asking your parents about their end-of-life wishes while you canGetting a body buried, cremated, or donated to sciencePlanning a funeralSecuring a death certificateDealing with your parents' property--or debtHandling even more tricky issues you never wanted to be in charge ofAnd still being able to laugh, a little, sometimesNothing about this is easy. The good news is you have someone on your side.
Nonmonogamy and Betrayal
A reflection on the many manifestations of broken trust in nonmonogamous relationships, and how to heal from them. Nonmonogamy can assume many shapes, none of which can claim to be a "safe" model of intimacy. The jet-setting passport paramour who fits the needs of many far-flung lovers into a single carryon has as many opportunities to do right or wrong by their partners as the members of a homebound triad who prefer raising a family to raising hell on the nightlife scene. Even the most casual of connections requires trust, and where there is trust, there is the potential for betrayal. As long as there have been love stories, there has been love lost through deception, abandonment, or callous disregard of intimate bonds. Intimacy, exclusive or otherwise, can be exploratory or confined, collaborative or autonomous, but one thing it can never be is risk free. Yes, there is cheating in nonmonogamous relationships. There are other forms of betrayal, too: the cliquish injustices of in-group bullying, the violation of having personal information shared by a trusted partner, the humiliation of seeing someone who claimed to love you "trade up" for a partner with more social, sexual or plain old economic capital. Trust can be broken, and in turn break people, in a great number of ways. In Nonmonogamy and Betrayal, Eve Rickert, co-author of More Than Two, Second Edition: Cultivating Nonmonogamous Relationships with Kindness and Integrity, explores a regrettable inclination among many who practise nonmonogamy: to downplay or minimize the destructive capacity of broken trust, both to the betrayed partner and to the larger community. Nonmonogamy and Betrayal not only unravels the varieties of betrayal that can occur in nonmonogamy, but explores pathways to recognition and healing.
Boomers Out of the Box
Social engagement is an essential component of healthy aging, and there are roughly 16 million single Boomers who may want to focus on relationship building, dating, and second chances but don't know where to begin. Most Boomers have not dated for years or even decades. What methods can be employed to find potential partners or platonic friends? How do seniors effectively utilize online dating services? How do want-to-be daters overcome their fears of engagement and rejection? What types of relationships are individuals seeking, and how do they prepare to establish and make them sustainable? What about sex and intimacy, issues that may eventually play important roles? Seniors are living longer than ever. After reaching 65 years old, average males can expect to live to 83 and females to 85. That's roughly 20 years and represents almost a third of an adult lifetime. It's critical not to squander this significant and precious time left, acting as though the game is over. There are so many ways to make the golden years fun and productive, to reset thoughtful goals, and pursue new dreams. Given the myriad changes currently taking place in society and technology, not only can the modern senior be busily engaged in childcare for their grandchildren, volunteer work, sports, and hobbies, but they can start new businesses, travel on senior tours, enroll in online and traditional educational courses, join physical fitness programs, find a new love, and participate in a million other activities. We Boomers have shocked and annoyed the establishment since day one. We have questioned authority and refused to play by the legacy rules. We have rebelled against traditional gender roles, brought marijuana into the mainstream, and revolutionized sexual norms. So why stop now? As seniors, we may feel invisible to younger people, but do we really want to go quietly into the night? Nobody is looking at us, so let's break out of the box - again! Why not? Let's go out on fire. Let's do stuff.
These Changing Roads
Shirley Johnson's poetry captures essential pieces of the journeys, experiences, and relationships that carry us through the years of our lives. She writes about universal themes of family, friendship, aging, and trying to make sense of it all using vivid images and rich descriptions of people, places, and things -- all undergirded by an unexpected blend of wry humor and unaffected tenderness. Her lines never tell us what to think or how to fee. Rather, they evoke deeper levels of thinking and feeling that are likely to stay long after a first reading of her little book. Indeed, her words may call us back again and again to reconsider, to rethink, and to refeel the twists and turns of our own changing roads.
Generation Care
Writer and founder of national online support group Caregiver Collective and herself a caregiver Jennifer N. Levin offers a comprehensive look at our current culture of care--with an emphasis on Millennial caregivers--providing a roadmap to solutions and an urgent call for policy change. More than 10 million Millennials are caring for aging parents before they've been able to fully launch their own careers and consider starting their own families, and that's not including the incalculable numbers of people affected by long COVID. Yet no one is naming this problem, talking about how it feels, or offering resources to ease the pressure of Millennial caregiver burnout. Jennifer N. Levin was 32 when her father was diagnosed with a rare degenerative illness. As she struggled with few resources and little support, she created Caregiver Collective, a national online support group for Millennial caregivers. Now Levin brings the wisdom from her own experience and that of her support group to Generation Care, a comprehensive look at this generation's culture of care. Filled with the voices of caregivers, expert commentary and research, and a roadmap to the solutions that can begin helping people now as well as build the policies of the future, Generation Care addresses: The urgency of caregiving: With earlier (and better) detection of disease, along with a rise in chronic illness, the average age of a care recipient is younger than before--as is the average caregiver age. The financial costs: Millennials spend a higher percentage of their income on caregiving and carry unprecedented student loan debt, adding to fiscally devastating out-of-pocket costs for care. Ambiguous loss for caregivers: Caregiving can dictate caregivers' lifestyle choices; Millennial caregivers may grieve the lives they 'thought' they'd have. The impact of COVID and long COVID: We're in a period of fluctuation with flex and remote work, which makes work and caregiving more compatible. How can we make sure that working caregivers' needs are honored? Strategies for getting help on the individual level and in relation to policy. We, as a culture and society, talk about caregiving broadly--it's something many of us may think, "not us" or "we'll figure that out later." But caregiving is an increasingly urgent crisis. Generation Care brings this crisis to the fore, illuminates the real stories and people who are most affected, underscores the need for shifts in policy and giving support where it is most needed, and sounds a clarion call for change.
