Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
A New York Times bestseller--with more than one million copies sold!If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent's behavior. These wounds can be healed, and you can move forward in your life. In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect, and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood. By freeing yourself from your parents' emotional immaturity, you can recover your true nature, control how you react to them, and avoid disappointment. Finally, you'll learn how to create positive, new relationships so you can build a better life. Discover the four types of difficult parents: The emotional parent instills feelings of instability and anxiety The driven parent stays busy trying to perfect everything and everyone The passive parent avoids dealing with anything upsetting The rejecting parent is withdrawn, dismissive, and derogatory
Finding Your Higher Self
Add a little THC to your TLC with more than 100 cannabis-infused self-care activities designed to enhance and elevate your sense of well-being. After all, when the world gets crazy, it helps to stop and inhale. Bliss is a warm bath, scented with essential oils, lit by candlelight, and topped off with a soothing lungful of calming cannabis. Or maybe you find your bliss in child's pose, prefaced by a few gentle doses of your vape pen. Self-care is an important part of modern life, as we all strive to slow down, and do better to care for our minds, bodies, souls, and our relationships with ourselves and others: and cannabis is a lovely, all-natural tool to help you get there. This book has advice for infusing your day with the healing and soothing power of marijuana, from adding it into your yoga or meditation practices, to your journaling practice, your bathing rituals, and your quiet moments. The book includes activities like: -Practice the Four-Fold Flower Power Breath -Give yourself a Massage with Cannabis Oil -Enjoy a Flower-Fueled Face Mask -Try a Medicated Meditation After a Really Rough Day
The Enneagram & You
Use the wisdom of the enneagram to strengthen your relationships--at home, at work, and in love! The Enneagram & You not only helps you understand your personality type but provides the most comprehensive and modern information on how your type matches up with your friends, family, coworkers, and love interests. In part one, you'll learn the basic concepts of the enneagram and how to effectively apply it to your life and your relationships. You'll also find a detailed description of each of the nine personality types, including their core values, key desires, and strengths along with their key fears, challenges, and blind spots. Part two explores each type pairing--from a Type 1 with a Type 1 to a Type 9 with a Type 9 and every possible pairing in between. Chapters cover these pairings in various relationship settings, including professional relationships, family relationships, and romantic relationships. You will learn how each pair works well together as well as the points of tension each pair faces based on how their personality types interact. You'll also find detailed advice on how the different personality types can resolve conflict and effectively communicate with each other and better understand what each person in the relationship needs to feel valued, known, and fully engaged based on their personality type. Armed with this knowledge, you can begin to understand your reactions and responses to the various people in your life. And you'll also be able to better understand their reactions and responses to you. You'll be able to understand your own strengths and needs while recognizing the different strengths and needs of those around you. And this understanding can help you improve your relationships in ways that previously may have seemed impossible. Let The Enneagram & You unlock the power of personality types to help you improve your personal, professional, and love life today!
The Purpose Pursuit
What if there is more to your life than this? For so many of us, the ever-present list of daily demands can mean that we end up settling for a life that's different to the one we once imagined. But there is a way to get back on track and this holistic guide to realigning with your sense of purpose will show you how. Award-winning speaker and coach, Hannah Miller, invites you to take a step-by-step journey designed to demystify the elusive search for meaning and make it something well within reach. Whether you're discovering your true purpose for the first time or reigniting your purpose once again, this easy-to-action 8-step roadmap is designed to give you the clarity and confidence to make the life changes you are looking for. Begin your journey with an assessment tool to help you discover what matters most to you before diving into robust research, real-life case studies and reflective prompts to help you move from where you are to where you want to be. A life of purpose is closer than you think.