Is This Really Love?
It's time to take back control. If you're in a coercive or emotionally abusive relationship, this trauma-informed guide can help you gain clarity--and courage to break free. Do you suspect you're in a coercive, controlling, or emotionally abusive relationship? Does your partner have unreasonable expectations of you, or cause you to feel anxious or stressed? Do they make you feel guilty for spending time with other people? Are they manipulative, blaming, gaslighting, and shaming when they don't get what they want? Do you want to leave, but feel like you just can't? When we think of emotional abuse, we usually think of verbal aggression and yelling; but often it can also be subtle, nuanced, and difficult to recognize. Written by a psychotherapist and relationship expert, this trauma-informed guide spotlights the red flags of coercive control, and provides powerful tools to help you break free from a toxic love relationship and gain the autonomy needed to live your life fully--without fear, guilt, or intimidation. Drawing on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), EMDR, motivational interviewing, and self-compassion skills, this book will help you identify your core values, rebuild your confidence and self-worth, and learn to set essential boundaries. Coercive control and emotional abuse create an unequal power dynamic--giving your partner power and creating anxiety, confusion, self-doubt, fear, and a sense of entrapment for you. But you can change course and take back your life. This book will show you how, step by step.
My Marriage Book
This is a gift for my children. My son is getting married and I felt like I had some wisdom to share on the topic. I hope you enjoy!!!!
Love. Crash. Rebuild.
Whether a small fight or even a period of war, the authors walk readers through a dynamic five-step model to help couples reset into a different state of love. The model rebuilds and maintains a foundation of vulnerability, empathy, and intimacy.Conflict and turmoil--the intimacy of everyday life--is the foundation great relationships are built on. Based on decades of helping couples address conflict and achieve long-lasting love, the authors created a simple five-step process for reconciling differences, taking couples in crisis from rupture to repair.Their tool--the PACER model (Pause, Accountability, Collaboration, Experiment, and Reset)--takes into account cultural differences, past hurts, and current crises. It is an opportunity for not just healing but for growth. Packed with interactive exercises that make real change possible, Love. Crash. Rebuild offers readers in any type of romantic partnership--straight, gay, nonbinary, interracial, etc.--a single toolbox that can help bring a new understanding of what a successful relationship should look like.This groundbreaking new book includes dozens of client anecdotes and stories of the authors' relationship as a mixed-race couple, who are also couples' therapists, that highlight how a simple process can address and resolve all ruptures, large or small. Couples will learn how to take a deeper look at what is lying underneath their issues and find a healthier outlook on their relationship.
Parallel Parenting - The Only Way to Co-parent with a Narcissist
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Friends in Common
With its revolutionary potential, friendship stands as a formidable force against a profoundly anti-social capitalist system. Friends in Common explores friendship as a radical practice, empowering us to challenge hierarchies and produce social change. Friendship can transcend social boundaries and political borders. It is vital in building communities and underpinning solidarity. But its transformative potency ensures that it is heavily policed and restrained by the state. Understanding the radical possibilities of friendship can help us rethink our approach to family, work, and politics and show us new routes to resistance and ways to open up spaces of solidarity and escape. The dissonance created by comparing societal expectations around friendship and a lonely reality, especially after an isolating global pandemic, is profoundly alienating. Friends in Common shows that friendship as a political practice is foundational to strengthening revolutionary ideas and projects and is the antidote to capitalist despair.
