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361) Mommy, Tell Me Why
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This is a short story synopsis through the eyes and heart of a child from adoption, growing up and becoming a mother herself. It's about searching for answers to heal, stopping the cycle of abuse and learning to forgive and move on without apologies.
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My grandparent's house had a gumball tree and under this tree, as a boy, I would listen and observe as the role models around me discussed the subjects of life. The things discussed became what I believed and held as life principles concerning relationships, religion, finances and health. Years under that old gumball tree were fun and exciting, but fostered detrimental information to me. Years later, I saw that the old gumball tree completely uprooted....
363) Choices
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Have you ever wondered why so many families are dysfunctional? Do you want to know what makes someone turn into a bully or how you can handle such situations with love instead of anger?
Choices can help answer these questions and more. This book explains how life is an intricate pattern of relationships, which we weave into and out of our lives with every choice we make. It also shows how our choices are based in love or fear (love's opposite), and...
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Six women. One man. Seven secrets. One could ruin them all.
Kit is a twenty-five-year-old archaeology undergrad, who doesn't like to get her hands dirty. Life seems purposeless. But if she could track down her father, Roger, maybe her perspective would change.
The only problem-Roger is as rotten as the decomposing oranges in her back yard according to the women in her life: Ailish, her mother-an English literature professor who communicates...
365) Gaslighting
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Don't Let the Darkness of Abuse Overshadow Your Life Any Longer
Victims of Narcissistic abuse, Gaslighting, and Manipulation often struggle to recognize the signs of emotional abuse and feel helpless in the face of psychological manipulation.
Just imagine having to constantly question your own reality. The toll it takes on your self-esteem, mental well-being, and overall happiness is immeasurable.
But it doesn't have to be that way any longer.
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366) Gaslighting
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No permitas que la oscuridad del abuso eclipse tu vida por más tiempo
Las víctimas del abuso narcisista, el gaslighting y la manipulación a menudo luchan por reconocer las señales del abuso emocional y se sienten impotentes frente a la manipulación psicológica.
Imagina tener que cuestionar constantemente tu propia realidad. El impacto en tu autoestima, bienestar mental y felicidad en general es incalculable.
Pero ya no tiene por qué ser así.
Este...
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When Leah Reinhart was six years old, her family moved to an unlikely neighborhood on a hill much like the country-a place where everyone dressed and lived like they were living a real-life Little House on the Prairie. Yet their new home was in Oakland, California, and everything surrounding Leah's neighborhood was the polar opposite of their old-fashioned lifestyle.
As an already scared little white girl in a predominantly African American city,...
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What Is Wrong with Me? is the compelling story of Anna, whose childhood sexual trauma and dysfunctional family looms over her journey to adulthood. Entering college, nothing seems to go her way. She struggles with every relationship and cannot trust the good ones, eventually finding herself in an abusive relationship as family secrets unfold in unpredictable ways. When she marries her abuser and has a baby, she is forced to abandon her nursing career....
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Two phone calls. One mysterious death. This is a true story. On July 4, 2020 Kory received two phone calls. One from her uncle, saying her mother was found dead in her bedroom from an overdose. A second from a homicide detective saying he believes it was murder-and her uncle is the suspect. Now Kory wants to find the truth about what happened to her mother. But sifting through the conflicting details and compelling evidence turns out to be a hell...
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Harness your power and thrive in every area of your life!
"One of the biggest realizations I've had: God brings forth things in our lives when we're ready, not when we think we're ready." Stephanie Bailey
The women who came together in Miss-Adventures Guide to Ultimate Empowerment for Women are showing up and ready to change the world. These pages are filled with heartfelt stories of vulnerable wisdom, inspiration, and teachings to support you in...
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Dealing with the toxic ex because of the kids and feel like things are worse than before?
This book will give you the information you need to co-parent or parallel parent your kids. Co-parenting books talk about just that, co-parenting. This form of dealing with the other parent while trying to come up with the children's visitation schedule and a parenting plan doesn't always work, especially if you are dealing with a narcissist or a borderline...
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"This book is for real, because Libby is for real..."
- Dr. Phil McGraw in his foreword to Traveling Hopefully
Are you living a life based on who you really are or one built on outdated messages from your past? Is your past negatively influencing your present and potentially derailing your future? What if you could shift your perspective from limiting to liberating?
Now you can learn to let go of your baggage and create a life of passion and purpose....
373) How to Heal From Toxic Parents: Get the Tools to Break Free From Self-Absorbed and Emotionally Ab
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You will take a deep breath and realise it was always about them and not you… Do you struggle with your childhood trauma? Are you feeling lost in life and believe the future is bleak? Are your thoughts affecting your adult life every single day? Do you feel you can't concentrate at work, hold down friendships or relationships? This is leaving you drained from constantly overthinking, right? You always believe you're not good enough and you don't...
374) Raspberry Wars
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Born into a family with special needs in a small, Dutch Michigan town in the early 1950s and raised by his deeply religious grandmother, Sherwood De Visser navigates the horrors of bullying at home and at school.
He tries to create safe spaces wherever he goes, which include hiding his plastic football in different spots before school and acting as the class clown. He says ""hi"" to Norma, the scary neighborhood outcast, finds safe moments with...
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MURDER IN THE FAMILY. MURDER BY DADS, MOMS, KIDS & SPOUSES. The family home is supposed to be a place where family members find a safe haven from the stress of outside life. A place where they feel protected and loved. Yet for many this is simply not the case. The true stories in this short book demonstrate that the family environment can be a very dangerous place indeed. Not just for children suffering from child abuse, but also for mothers, fathers,...
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Enosh runs away from home with his uncle after the death of his grandfather. He holds the same aspirations of being somebody. He doesn't know that his father has left him with his grandparents. Told his whole life that his parents had died in a car crash, he runs away from home with the father that'd left him at birth. This novel is about making the best of bad situations.
Through powerful symbolism and moving poetry, this story will pull at your...
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Joanne Vannicola grew up in a violent home with a physically abusive father and a mother who had no sexual boundaries.
After being pressured to leave home at fourteen, and after fifteen years of estrangement, Joanne learns that her mother is dying. Compelled to reconnect, she visits with her, unearthing a trove of devastating secrets.
Joanne relates her journey from child performer to Emmy Award–winning actor, from hiding in the closet to embracing...
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How do we recover from a childhood of heartbreaking pain that left us feeling inadequate, unworthy, and unloved? After a lifetime of feeling insecure, how do we restore connection to our true selves?
As Mindi Kessler, PhD, shares her story of recovery from a difficult childhood she shows us how to face the challenges in our daily lives that arise from childhood trauma, including the need to control everything, an inability to maintain satisfying...
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Ce livre s'adresse aux personnes atteintes d'un trouble de santé mentale, mais aussi à leurs familles qui, très souvent, ne parviennent pas à comprendre les difficultés qu'engendrent ces maladies dans la vie de tous les jours.
Il raconte l'histoire de Rose et May, rescapées d'une mère avec une personnalité schizoïde. Relaté avec simplicité, ce récit basé sur un fait vécu amène May à réfléchir sur le karma que sa mère lui a légué...
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Holding on in a loveless marriage. I want my boys' lives to be better than mine. Can I endure Javier's possessive behaviour to bring change for my family?
Something keeps informing me of impending death. Why am I sensing such things?
Spirituality is asking me to open up to it. Amazing, real dreams, so real that I feel the effect of the experience on waking. Was it a dream or was I there?
Patterns in death and patterns in family behavior being, played...
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