Advises parents on how to mediate their adult children's relationship with God, using the author's personal experience and stories from other parents and focusing on such topics as career choices, relationships, parenting skills, addiction, and faith commitment.

As her son grows up from little boy to adult man, a mother secretly rocks him each night as he sleeps.

"In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through four-color cartoons, family photos, and documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of...

Un libro que puede ayudar a las personas que sufren de adicciones, sometiéndose a un plan que les explica detalladamente cómo superar la dependencia en general, particularmente al alcoholismo, las drogas y las pastillas de todo tipo.

This book is about overcoming your situation and what you are going through, dance can be used as a tool to let the music heal you and be exactly who you are. Life can be hard, we should always be true to ourselves.

"Behind The Pretty Doors" is a piercing memoir that balances prose and poetry in an expulsion of a lifetime of events and emotions. The lessons shared could be the validation you need to unshackle yourself and discover the stillness of peace. This memoir displays the stifled childhood of a family subjected to a substance abusive parent. The ripples roll throughout the life of Michelle Hancock, whose words jolt the reader into examining their own thoughts. ...

"Opiates, Methadone, and Detox" was written by an active Substance Abuse Counselor; with the hope of educating families who are dealing with opiate dependent loved ones. The struggles that opiate dependent families go through to hide their addiction can lead to the destruction of the family unit. Young families are often torn apart when one parent goes to jail while the other is left behind to deal with financial problems, the need for a good job,...

Empower Your Life Despite All of Your Problems. What if shame, guilt, inadequacy, low self-esteem and painful memories of your past failures no longer plagued your mind? What if you could take full control of your life and achieve the goals and success you always yearned for with just a few easy habits? "When we tell ourselves something is too hard, or easy, or that we are successes or failures, it's self-talk. "Six years ago, the prevailing thought...

The child of an alcoholic develops patterns of behavior during childhood which carry over into adult life. As children they were taught to cover up the family secret and suppress their feelings. No matter what is going on, as adults, when asked how she or he is doing your partner will likely answer "fine." Distrust, fear of abandonment, and sensitivity to criticism are all major issues for your adult child. Recognizing these patterns and changing...

Colin Hancock is giving his second chance his best shot. With a history of violence and bad decisions behind him and the threat of prison dogging his every step, he's determined to walk a straight line. To Colin, that means applying himself single-mindedly toward his teaching degree and avoiding everything that proved destructive in his earlier life. Reminding himself daily of his hard-earned lessons, the last thing he is looking for is a serious...