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Relationships

Reviews of books focusing on all aspects of relationships, including dating, marriage, partnership, divorce and anything else that might fall into this category.

Author
Lynda Bevan

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Life Without Jealousy: A Practical Guide

Ask yourself...

• Do you feel the need to be frequently checking up on your partner?
• Are you suspicious when you meet new people?
• Do you often question your partner about where they are going and who they are seeing?
• Do you withdraw from your partner without giving an explanation as to why you doing this?.......

Author
Sherry Quan Lee

Publisher
Modern History Press

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How to Write a Suicide Note: serial essays that saved a woman's life (Reflections of America)

How to Write a Suicide Note examines the life of a Chinese/Black woman who grew up passing for white, who grew up poor, who loves women but has always married white men. Writing has saved her life.......

Author
Sandra L. Ceren

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Look Before You Leap: A Premarital Guide for Couples

Ready to Tie the Knot?

Originally published as a highly recommended professional text for premarital counselors, the research based quizzes, exercises, and case examples are now available for couples planning to marry. The materials can help you discover more about yourselves and your partner and determine readiness for marital challenges.......

Author
Sandra L. Ceren

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Essentials of Premarital Counseling: Creating Compatible Couples (New Horizons in Therapy)

b>Expand Your Clinical Practice with this Practical Hands-on Guide

• Teach conflict resolution skills to your couples
• Introspective quizzes expose more of couples¿ inner lives and past history to each other
• Real-life exercises let couples practice cooperative decision- making and compromise before a crisis happens.......

Author
Nancy Wesson

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Moving Your Aging Parents: Fulfilling their Needs and Yours Before, During, and After the Move

Whether whittling down to the essentials for a parent moving into a room or two or downsizing for ourselves, ignoring the spirit and basing decisions on health and safety alone could have devastating results.......

Author
Leslee Tessmann

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Sacred Grief: Exploring a New Dimension to Grief

Sacred Grief offers an intriguing exploration of the far-reaching ripple effect of our present-day opinions about surviving grief's emotional roller-coaster and the unnecessary suffering our judgments unconsciously promote.......

Author
Marjorie McKinnon

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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REPAIR Your Life: A Program for Recovery from Incest & Childhood Sexual Abuse

R.E.P.A.I.R. is a Six-Stage Program for abuse survivors that will transform your life forever!

• Recognize and accept your adult problems stemming from childhood sexual abuse.
• Enter into a commitment to transform your life.
• Process your issues with tools and techniques that will enable you to become healthy.......

Author
Karen H. Sherman

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Mindfulness and The Art of Choice: Transform Your Life

Do You Have the Life You Want?
Each person is entitled to have "the good life." Most don't experience this because of getting caught up in reacting, continually recycling old patterns that keep you stuck and emotionally frozen.......

Author
David M. Matthews

Publisher
Wheatmark

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Every Man Sees You Naked: An Insider's Guide to How Men Think

Employing equal measures of wit and wisdom, Emmy Award-winning composer/writer/producer (The Young and the Restless, The Nanny, Half & Half) David M. Matthews leads you on an amusing yet highly informative journey through the seamy underbelly of the male mind.......

Author
Lynda Bevan

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Stop Being Pushed Around!: A Practical Guide (10-Step Empowerment)

Something is not quite right and you're not sure what it is...

• Are you getting pushed around?
• Do you feel you need to do everything asked of you by your partner or anyone else?
• Do you feel you have to fulfill all your partner's needs no matter what?.......

Author
Victor R. Volkman and Irene Watson

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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The Story That Must Be Told: True Tales of Transformation, Vol. I

What will you do when life puts you to the ultimate test?

This slim volume contains 21 true stories of courage, love, endurance, and undying hope from people around the USA and UK. Follow each of our authors as they detail what it took to face impossible circumstances and powerfully transform them into forgiveness, understanding, and grace.......

Author
Lynda Bevan

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

5 Review Copies Left

Life Without Jealousy: A Practical Guide

Ask yourself...

• Do you feel the need to be frequently checking up on your partner?
• Are you suspicious when you meet new people?
• Do you often question your partner about where they are going and who they are seeing?
• Do you withdraw from your partner without giving an explanation as to why you doing this?.......

Author
Marian K. Volkman

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Life Skills: Improve the Quality of Your Life with Metapsychology (Explorations in Metapsychology)

Metapsychology, as developed by Frank A. Gerbode, MD, is a subject rich in philosophy and practical application. Much of Applied Metapsychology makes use of one-on-one session work to achieve the individual's personal goals -- from relieving past pain to living more fully to expanding consciousness.......

Author
Tami Brady

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Regaining Control: When Love Becomes a Prison (New Horizons in Therapy Series, 4)

• Only 1% of the world's assets are held in the name of women.
• 70% of people in abject poverty¿living on less than $1 per day¿are women.
• Over half the women of this generation do not themselves receive, from either employment or the state, enough to 'get by'.......

Author
Marta Felber

Publisher
LifeWords Publishing

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A Cat's Eye View of Life and Love by Sterling with Gentle Self-Help for All Ages

This book's subtitle--"With Gentle Self-Help for All Ages"--accurately defines both its focus and its audience. Sterling the Cat, in the words of one reviewer, is a furry philosopher of the human heart. In brief "Mewsings" at the end of each of sixty illustrated episodes Sterling offers insights for readers (and listeners) of any age.......

Author
Lynda Bevan

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Life After Your Lover Walks Out: A Practical Guide (10-Step Empowerment Series)

Your long-time partner has just walked out on you forever:

• Do you feel paralyzed or afraid to move on?
• Does the thought or sight of your old partner with someone else fill you with rage?
• Are you worried or anxious about how to get by financially on your own?.......

Author
Richard A. Singer Jr.

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Your Daily Walk with The Great Minds: Wisdom and Enlightenment of the Past and Present (Pocket Edition)

If you could change your life today, what would you do...?

Your Daily Walk with the Great Minds gives you the inspiration you need each day to be the best you can be and live the life you've always desired. Let me be the coach who will lift your spirits, challenge you to go the extra mile, and fulfill your life's wishes every day.......

Author
Deborah K. Martin

Publisher
AuthorHouse

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A Hot Dog Stand in the Himalayas

The enchanted world children live in often envisions life in terms of stories with insights and lessons that can be profound. Unfortunately, as we grow older many of us lose these insights. As everyday experiences disenchant the world, these stories were inspired by a loving grandchild who saw the world with such imagination and understanding that they deserved to be remem.......

Author
William E. Krill

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Gentling: A Practical Guide to Treating PTSD in Abused Children, 2nd Edition

Breakthrough Treatment Offers New Hope for Recovery

Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition with 3 new chapters on adolescents
Gentling represents a new paradigm in the therapeutic approach to children who have experienced physical, emotional, and sexual abuse and have acquired Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as a result.......

Author
Holli Kenley

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Breaking Through Betrayal: and Recovering the Peace Within

Are you ready to finally recover your peace of mind?
We are living in a time where betrayal abounds. Tragically, most of know or know of someone who has been scarred by the betrayal bandit.  In whatever form it takes (financial, political, personal, social, legal, environmental, cultural, etc.......

Author
Albert Garoli

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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The Evolutionary Glitch: Rise Above the Root of Your Problems

Ever wonder what it is that keeps holding you back?

Deep within the constructs of your brain, a superimposed identity has been formed. This "glitch", embedded in your neural network through the evolution of brain development, is an acquired Persona which perpetuates itself by constantly creating problems and limitations in your life.......

Author
Liliane Desjardins

Publisher
Life Scripts Press

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Rewriting Life Scripts: Transformational Recovery for Families of Addicts

Finally a treatment approach that embraces the whole family!

In one sense, alcoholics and drug addicts are the fortunate ones. They have to learn a new way to live or risk death, incarceration, and loss of everything they hold dear.......

Author
Karen H. Sherman

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

5 Review Copies Left

Mindfulness and The Art of Choice: Transform Your Life, 2nd Edition

Do You Have the Life You Want?
Each person is entitled to have "the good life." Most don't experience this because of getting caught up in reacting, continually recycling old patterns that keep you stuck and emotionally frozen.......

Author
David K. Banner

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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FrameShifting: A Path to Wholeness

Ever wonder why certain events allow you to expand your consciousness or alter who you think you are beyond what you normally experience?

Through the power of Frameshifting, I'll show you how you can have access to this experience at any time, without adopting, changing, or fixing your beliefs! Along the way, I share with you personal experiences I.......

Author
Lawrence J. Danks

Publisher
Helpful Media

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Finding The Right Man For You: Dating Advice for Women

Many women don't need a man, but would like to find the right one to augment their happiness. Women often seek the advice of other women to help them in their search, but rarely get a male perspective.......

Author
Sister Renee Pittelli

Publisher
Outskirts Press

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Narcissistic Predicaments: A Biblical Guide to Navigating the Schemes, Snares, and No-Win Situations Unique to Abusive Families

Pleasing God While Protecting Yourself

Adult Children of narcissistic families often find themselves stuck in predicaments that people with normal families never have to face. Featuring The 21 Rules of No Contact and 102 Questions to Ask Yourself When Deciding Whether to End an Abusive Relationship, Narcissistic Predicaments has the answers you’ve been l.......

Author
Sister Renee Pittelli

Publisher
Outskirts Press

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The Family Freeloader: A Biblical Answer For Sob Stories, Con Games, And Never Having To Get Off The Couch

We're all familiar with the stereotypical freeloading relative. He's usually depicted in the movies as an able-bodied but unkempt bum, who lives with mom or a more responsible sibling, refuses to get a job, and spends his days lying on the sofa, drinking beer, getting potato chips all over the carpet, and watching cartoon marathons.......

Author
Marj Frazer Lacey, MS, MFT

Publisher
Infinity Publishing

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It's Not a Life Sentence:Liberating Your Self, Becoming Who You Are

Reconnect with your joyous, genuine self. Become whole! Discover your personal truth and take charge of your life with the help of a warm, insightful therapist.

Author
Viki Kind

Publisher
Greenleaf Book Group

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The Caregiver's Path To Compassionate Decision Making: Making Choices For Those Who Can't

Wouldn't it be a relief to know you are making the right decisions and doing right by the person in your care? Whether you have a loved one who can't make his or her own decisions or you are a healthcare professional, you know how difficult--even heartbreaking--it can be to make decisions for others.......

Author
Robert P. Rugel

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Taming Marital Arguments: Breaking Out of the T.R.A.P.

What happened since the honeymoon?

• Are you mad at your partner all the time?
• Do you feel like your partner is selfish?
• Do innocent conversations suddenly escalate into arguments?
• Does your partner misinterpret what you say?.......

Author
Bevan Lynda

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Life After Betrayal: A Practical Guide (The 10-Step Empowerment Series)

Your long-time partner has just betrayed your relationship and everything you hold dear:

• Are you stuck trying to decide whether to move forward in your relationship or give up?
• Do you find yourself repeating old ways of behavior?
• Do you frequently talk about whose fault the betrayal was?.......

Author
Elaine Fields Smith

Publisher
Blazing Star Books

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Ridin' Around

The almost totally true tale of a time when gas was cheap, cops were allowed to have senses of humor, and all a person needed to have fun was friends, music, and wheels.

Through the stories of the hilarious escapades—and sometimes heartbreaking experiences—of a group of college-age friends, Ridin' Around: Taillights in Chrome, 8-Tracks on Wheels wi.......

Author
Lynda Bevan

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

5 Review Copies Left

Life Without Jealousy: A Practical Guide (10-Step Empowerment Series)

Ask yourself...

• Do you feel the need to be frequently checking up on your partner?
• Are you suspicious when you meet new people?
• Do you often question your partner about where they are going and who they are seeing?
• Do you withdraw from your partner without giving an explanation as to why you doing this?.......

Author
Robert Brown

Publisher
CreateSpace

5 Review Copies Left

Things I Learned From My Wife

The book wives and girlfriends have been waiting a thousand years to see. Finally, at long last, proof positive that men actually can, and indeed do, change after marriage. It may not be much and it may be slow, but it is possible. It is now clear that men can become civilized without harming their other charms and assets.......

Author
Andrew D. Gibson

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

5 Review Copies Left

Recovering The Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. III, No. 1)

Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. III, No. 1) January 2011

Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through the lenses of poetry, memoir, opinion, essays, fiction, humor, art, media reviews and psychoeducation.......

Author
Leslee Tessmann

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

5 Review Copies Left

Sacred Grief: Exploring a New Dimension to Grief, Second Edition

Are you ready to discover what lies beyond the ordinary experience of grief?

Sacred Grief offers an intriguing exploration of the far-reaching ripple effect of our present-day opinions about surviving grief's emotional roller-coaster and the unnecessary suffering our judgments unconsciously promote.......

Author
Jr. Richard A. Singer

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

5 Review Copies Left

Your Daily Walk with The Great Minds: Wisdom and Enlightenment of the Past and Present

If you could change your life today, what would you do...?

Your Daily Walk with the Great Minds gives you the inspiration you need each day to be the best you can be and live the life you've always desired. Let me be the coach who will lift your spirits, challenge you to go the extra mile, and fulfill your life's wishes every day.......

Author
Robert Orfali

Publisher
Mill City Press, Inc.

5 Review Copies Left

Grieving a Soulmate: The Love Story Behind "Till Death Do Us Part"

The book every lover should read. Grieving a Soulmate is unlike any book you've ever read, even though the story is universal. It's about the death of a lover. The book takes on this difficult and very personal topic with courage, out-of-the box thinking, and deep love.......

Author
Ernest Dempsey

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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Recovering The Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. III, No. 2) -- Focus on Disabilities

Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. III, No. 2) April 2011

Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through the lenses of poetry, memoir, opinion, essays, fiction, humor, art, media reviews and psychoeducation.......

Author
Nick Purdon

Publisher
Modern History Press

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The Road-Shaped Heart

"an intimate journey of self-reflection...sensitive, sincere, and skillful"
--Sherry Quan Lee, author of Chinese Blackbird

About the Author
Nick Purdon was born in 1976 in East London in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa.......

Author
Karen Field Bolek

Publisher
Karen Field Bolek

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How to Apologize to Your Woman...so that she won't use it against you in the future

Premised on translating leadership best practices into the close personal realm, this book presents men with a step-by-step method for setting up an apology and specific techniques for delivering it to a woman to gain closure. Main content is supported by original research conducted by the author and illustrated via an original communication skills model......

Author
Tamsen Butler

Publisher
Atlantic Publishing Company

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Meeting Your Match Online: The Complete Guide to Internet Dating and Dating Services - Including True Life Date Stories

Recent studies show that more than 20 million people will visit at least one online dating service a month in 2008. Internet dating has several advantages, among them the ability to discover everything about a potential partner before ever meeting them. You can learn their age, religious affiliations, education, expectations, interests, hobbies, and so on.......

Author
Eileen Kennedy-Moore

Publisher
Jossey-Bass

4 Review Copies Left

Smart Parenting for Smart Kids: Nurturing Your Child's True Potential

"My kid is smart, but..."

Author
Sister Renee Pittelli

Publisher
Outskirts Press

5 Review Copies Left

Breaking the Bonds of Adult Child Abuse: A Biblical Textbook on Abusive Narcissistic Families, How They Operate, And How To Deal

Breaking The Bonds Of Adult Child Abuse:
A Biblical Textbook On Abusive Narcissistic Families, How They Operate, And How To Deal With Them

Adult Child Abuse

-The Only Form of Abuse still tolerated, accepted and condoned in our society.......

Author
Toneal M. Jackson

Publisher
AuthorHouse

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Pleasing Your Partner: A Spiritual Guide To Happiness

This book discusses many of the issues that most marriages face. From financial hardship, to infidelity, to lack of communication, all of these problems can be conquered by adhering to the principles of this book. Every couple, whether just starting out, or on a continuous journey can benefit from this spiritual guide to h.a.p.p.i.n.e.s.s......

Author
Lynda Bevan

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

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How To Forgive: A Practical Guide

Ask yourself:

• Do you believe that the other person is responsible for how you feel?
• Do their actions seem like a complete mystery?
• Are you ready to stop feeling angry or upset?
• Do you still feel hurt or sad?
• Are you ready to re-build the trust within this relationship?.......

Author
Lynda Bevan

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

5 Review Copies Left

How To Forgive: A Practical Guide

Ask yourself:

• Do you believe that the other person is responsible for how you feel?
• Do their actions seem like a complete mystery?
• Are you ready to stop feeling angry or upset?
• Do you still feel hurt or sad?
• Are you ready to re-build the trust within this relationship?.......

Author
Chet Shupe

Publisher
Acacia Publishing, Inc.

5 Review Copies Left

Eden: Regaining Our Spiritual Freedom

Is Our Way of Life Sustainable?
Can humans control their destiny?
Do we have free will?
Is our species the focus of creation?

Our religious and legal institutions are based on the presumption that the answers to these questions are yes.......

Author
Ernest Dempsey, Victor Volkman

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

5 Review Copies Left

Recovering The Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. III, No. 4) -- Focus on Parenting

Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. III, No. 4) October 2011

Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through the lenses of poetry, memoir, opinion, essays, fiction, humor, art, media reviews and psychoeducation.......

Author
Thomas Kelleher

Publisher
East Bay Press

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FREE LOVE - True Stories of Love and Lust on the Internet

Nearly 40 million singles in America share a personal little secret. They're using the Internet to look for true love and/or lust online, but are not necessarily admitting it.

The truth is that online dating has grown immensely popular over the past decade, due, in part, to continuing advances of the Internet and the proliferation of dating sites.......

Author
Beverly Flaxington

Publisher
ATA Press

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Understanding Other People: The Five Secrets to Human Behavior

This book should not be missed by anyone who wants to improve the quality of their relationships! Leveraging decades of experience working with people in many different areas and experiences, Beverly Flaxington has found a way to explain to all of us what we simply don't learn naturally - how to understand and communicate with others more effectively.......

Author
Ernest Dempsey, Victor Volkman

Publisher
Loving Healing Press

5 Review Copies Left

Recovering The Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. IV, No. 1) -- Focus on Abuse Recovery

Recovering the Self: A Journal of Hope and Healing (Vol. IV, No. 1) January 2012 -- Focus on Abuse Recovery

Recovering The Self is a quarterly journal which explores the themes of recovery and healing through the lenses of poetry, memoir, opinion, essays, fiction, humor, art, media reviews and psychoeducation.......

Author
Luke Benoit

Publisher
Luke\Benoit

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All Storms Pass: the Anti-Meditations

ALL STORMS PASS; The Anti-Meditations is a different kind of meditation book. While there are some similarities with classic meditation books, they are focused on tools and inspiration but also read like puzzles and beg for discussion. Some are hopeful and some pose darker questions about life, choices, who we have been and who we are becoming.......