Download or read book True Love Dates written by Debra K. Fileta and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is possible to find true love through dating. In True Love Dates, Debra Fileta encourages singles not to "kiss dating goodbye" but instead to experience a season of dating as a way to find real love. Through powerful, real-life stories and Fileta's personal journey, this book offers profound insights from the expertise of a professional counselor. Christians are looking for answers to finding true love. They are disillusioned with the church that has provided little practical application in the area of love and relationships. They're bombarded by Christian books that shun dating, idolize courting, fixate on spirituality, and in the end, offer little real relationship help. True Love Dates provides honest help for dating by providing a guide into vital relationship essentials. Debra is a professional Christian counselor who reaches millions with her popular blog, Truelovedates.com, and her book offers sound advice grounded in Christian spirituality. She delivers insight, direction, and counsel when it comes to entering the world of dating and learning to do it right the first time around. Drawing on the stories and struggles of hundreds of young men and women who have pursued the search for true love, Fileta helps readers bypass unnecessary pain while focusing on the things that really matter in the world of dating.

Download or read book How to Be an Adult in Relationships written by David Richo and published by Shambhala Publications. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This beloved book has touched hundreds of thousands of lives with its profound and actionable advice. Retaining the core message of becoming more mindful in our relationships, this edition includes new and revised material that addresses how we live and love today. A new preface touches on David Richo’s experience with the book over time and outlines the key updates, including attention to online dating and modern communication styles as well as new perspectives on anger and ending relationships. “Most people think of love as a feeling,” says Richo, “but love is not so much a feeling as a way of being present.” How to Be an Adult in Relationships explores five hallmarks of mindful loving and how they play a key role in our relationships. Adult love is based on a mutual commitment to what Richo calls the “five A’s”: attention, acceptance, appreciation, affection, and allowing. Brimming with practical exercises for couples and singles, How to Be an Adult in Relationships offers heartening insights into a lifelong journey of love. Topics include: • Becoming conscious of our relationship patterns and how they relate to childhood • Recognizing and attracting someone who can show adult love • Understanding the phases relationships go through • Creating and maintaining healthy boundaries • Overcoming fears of abandonment and engulfment • Expressing anger and other emotions in adult and loving ways • Surviving break-ups with our self-esteem intact • Understanding love as a spiritual journey

Download or read book Toxic Relationship written by Abu Sayed Zahiduzzaman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, Toxic Relationship: A Psychological Point of View, might give one hope, a sense of understanding and learning on how they should behave with difficult relationship. It will help individuals make proper decisions during difficult situations with people that they were about. This book covers various topics on toxic relationships between family, work, friends, and also discusses some of the theories that the author has developed regarding these topics. After reading this book, the reader will have a global knowledge of toxic relationships and hope to cope with them. The book will help the readers realize that they may not be the only ones going through hardships. The author of this book discusses various types of situations that can occur between boyfriends and girlfriends, husbands and wives, friends, colleagues, brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers. It covers relationships in details and also discusses separation and divine.

Download or read book Moms Moving On written by Michelle Dempsey-Multack and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trust your gut, take care of yourself, and find new life on the other side with this “straightforward” (Ilene S. Cohen, PhD, award-winning author of When It’s Never About You), empowering guide to divorce for moms. We hear it all the time on the news. The divorce rates are rising. More children are being raised in split homes. But you didn’t think it would happen to you. Luckily, you’re not alone. Popular divorce coach Michelle Dempsey-Multack not only survived her own divorce but figured out how to move on with her life, just like you will, too. Now happily remarried with a blended family, she’s living proof that no matter which “firsts” you might be experiencing as you end your marriage, and no matter how long you stayed with someone who didn’t meet your needs, your best days are ahead. Mom’s Moving On is your “go-to guide” (Dr. Elizabeth Cohen, psychologist and author of Light on the Other Side of Divorce), filled with practical, actionable, and empowering advice from someone who has been through it and has come out the other side. Through Michelle’s guidance, you’ll learn how to navigate your divorce with confidence, adjust to life as a single mother, and shift your perspective to find your way back to your best self. From coparenting to dating as a single mother, you’ll learn how to truly move on and create the life you deserve.

Download or read book Exaholics written by Lisa Marie Bobby and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2016-02-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Severing a cherished relationship is one of the most painful experiences in life—and cutting those emotional ties to a loved one can feel almost like ending an addiction. Up till now, people recovering from other problems were able to get real help—like AA and rehab—while those struggling in the aftermath of traumatic breaks dealt with platitudes and friends insisting they should "get over it already." But now Exaholics Anonymous treats getting over an ex like kicking a chemical habit. Written by counselor and therapist Dr. Lisa Bobby, Exaholics offers meaningful support and advice to anyone trapped in the obsessive pain of a broken, or dying, attachment. She helps the brokenhearted heal, showing them, on a deep level, how to develop a conceptual framework for their experience, understand the emotional processes at work inside themselves, find the path to recovery, and free themselves of shame, injured ego, and remorse. In-depth case studies of others' journeys will illuminate the way to future happiness.

Download or read book Is It Me Making Sense of Your Confusing Marriage written by Natalie Hoffman and published by Flying Free. This book was released on 2018 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One out of three married women sitting in an average conservative Christian church is in a confusing and painful marriage relationship. Those women believe they are alone. I want them to know they aren't. They believe they can't find peace. I want them to know they can. They believe they don't have choices. I want them to know they do.This book isn't for the parents who raised them. It's not for the pastors who condemn them. It's not for the friends who don't understand them. And it's not for the partner who dehumanizes them. This book is for the woman in the pew who somehow, by God's divine intervention, finds it in her hand and has to catch her breath because she suddenly feels like she's free falling.I wrote this book just for you. Let's dig in.

Download or read book She Dated the Asshats But Married the Good Guy written by Shannon Bradley-Colleary and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "She Dated the Asshats, but Married the Good Guy: How to Go From Toxic Love to Real Love in 12 Exercises" is a recovery book for women who attract or are in toxic, circle-the-drain relationships with Asshats (aka Narcissists).Women who attract and stay in toxic relationships tend to have two flaws that make it extremely difficult for them to leave.1. An Overabundance of Empathy2. Misplaced ResponsibilityThis is especially true of women who grew up in homes with divorce, drug and alcohol addiction or immature, needy parents.Using Goal-Setting, Visualization, Inner Child work, 12-Step Recovery and her personal and client stories, Colleary's book offers these Learning Outcomes:Before: I'm attracted to people who use and disrespect me.After: I follow a "dating plan" that helps me navigate dating and falling love with emotionally healthy partners.Before: I'm confused about what a healthy love relationship looks like.After: I instantly recognize toxic behavior and have a clear vision of the partner I want.Before: I'm afraid of being alone, which keeps me in the toxic relationship.After: I've identified my core values and live by them, despite my fears.Before: I keep trying to change or control my romantic partner, but nothing works.After: I recognize when I'm trying to change or control my romantic partner and stop. I accept that I can only change myself, and recognize behaving otherwise damages my self-esteem.Before: I abandon myself to please my romantic partner.After: I recognize when I'm self-abandoning and set healthy boundaries.Before: I feel isolated by and ashamed of my toxic relationship. It keeps me away from the people who really love me.After: I've built a Mental Health Village that supports my emotional recovery and won't shame me.Before: I don't believe in a Higher Power or I once did, but feel like that Higher Power has let me down.After: I've developed a powerful, spiritual connection with the "Higher Power Of My Own Understanding." S/he does for me what I can't do for myself.Before: I'm afraid to look at my childhood, or think it hasn't negatively impacted the choices I've made today.After: I've come out of denial and accept my past. I understand how it affects me today. I'm healing the damage done.Before: I feel like my romantic partner is just using me for sex, money or emotional support and that the relationship isn't reciprocal.After: I no longer give and do for my romantic partner unless it's "For Fun and For Free." (Which means I won't be disappointed if it's not reciprocated.)Before: My romantic relationship is the sole focus of my life.After: I've cultivated other wonderful relationships and activities and have a fuller life than before.Before: I obsess on and worry about whether my romantic partner is cheating on me.After: I use practical tools to detach from him to maintain my serenity and/or gain the strength to leave.Before: I feel depressed and hopeless.After: I have a plan and a path to recovery and know that if I work it, it will work.Colleary is uniquely qualified to help because she's walked the walk. She spent 10 years in two toxic relationships with emotionally abusive men. These relationships included stalking, begging, crying, gnashing of teeth, flailing, threatening, seducing ... and that was just Colleary!By diligently working 12-Step Recovery she learned to stop pointing the finger at her romantic partners and start taking responsibility for her own life by discovering why she kept choosing unwisely.This helped her heal and transform her relationship paradigm. Now Colleary's been married 16 years to a "honeyman" who loves her exactly as she is.This book is a collection of all the exercises and tasks Colleary created and completed to find authentic, enduring love, and which have helped a multitude of her private clients do the same.

Download or read book Toxic People written by LIllian Glass and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Toxic Relationships written by Kimberly J. Brasher and published by Better Life Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003-12 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening look at relationships in our lives that cause us pain and frustration either with a spouse. sibling, in-law, grandparent, or a controlling, toxic boss. How to take back the control you have surrendered, and by doing so make YOU and your relationship stronger and healthier.

Download or read book Escaping the Chains of a Toxic Marriage written by Kavita Jaiswal and published by Blue Rose Publishers. This book was released on 2024-11-06 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Escaping the Chains of Toxic Marriage: The Ultimate Guide to Moving On from a Toxic Marriage' is a profound and empowering roadmap for those trapped in the suffocating grip of a toxic relationship. With a blend of empathy and wisdom, the author dissects the emotional and psychological toll of toxic marriages while offering tangible steps to regain self-worth and embrace a life of freedom. This guide isn’t just about surviving but thriving beyond the shadows of marital discord, providing readers with the tools to heal, rebuild, and rediscover their true selves.

Download or read book Toxic Relationships written by Shell Teri and published by Shell Teri. This book was released on 2023-06-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OVERCOMING TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS: UNDERSTANDING CODEPENDENCY AND NARCISSISM Are you in such a dysfunctional relationship that you feel like at a point of no return? Do you want to know how to extricate yourself from the situation? This Bundle will show you the way. Often it is difficult to identify a dysfunctional relationship like codependency or narcissism, in both situations your feelings and needs are ignored totally. This package, which includes 2 manuscripts, is a heartfelt effort by the author to help anyone who is living in a dysfunctional relationship to identify the destructive behavior and extricate themselves from the situation without further damage to their mind and body. CODEPENDENT NO MORE In the Codependent no More book, the author delves into the unhealthy behavior that is codependency, that robs a person of autonomy and self-sufficiency. What the people do not realize is that codependency can happen to anyone. The author comes to the crux of the matter candidly, stressing on the importance of identify codependency and taking proactive steps to overcome the condition and be free of the destructive relationship. THE COVERT NARCISSIST In the Covert Narcissist book, the author lucidly explains how, unlike an extrovert narcissist, a covert narcissist is passive, but both destroy any relationship they form. With a covert narcissist, the emotional abuse is more subtle but can demoralize and wear a person down. Backed by sound psychological and behavioral studies, the author provides a detailed and expansive guide to dealing with a covert narcissist and how to untangle from the narcissist's need to maintain control and power, when you feel neglected, alone, abused, and ignored, and be free of their abusive tendencies. Through the two invaluable works, "Codependent no More" and "The Covert Narcissist", you will be open to the concepts of self-esteem and the need to place yourself, your needs, desires, and feelings first while not losing the basic humane feelings of compassion and empathy. While codependency is the tendency to sacrifice one's mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing to continue in a relationship, narcissism involves a lack of empathy and compassion. The narcissist puts his needs, feelings and desires above all others, taking total control, resulting in misery. Being in such a dysfunctional relationship can make you feel you are at a point of no return. Fortunately, there are ways and means that help you be free of the destructive relationship. In this completely comprehensive guide, you'll learn: ◆ How to identify the signs of codependency, narcissism and covert narcissism ◆ Know about the impact of the dysfunctional behaviors on your relationships ◆ How to embark on a self-realization journey so you can heal your mind and body ◆ How to gain self-confidence and seek support to break free of the relationship. This bundle is an awakening call by the author for every individual to read, understand, and foster a healthy, satisfying, and happy relationship. Start living the best life possible and pick up your copy by clicking the BUY NOW button at the top.

Download or read book TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS written by Amanda Hope and published by ANMA LAB LIMITED. This book was released on 2021-05-06 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do you get out of a toxic relationship? How can you be free of its painful, traumatic shadow? When is enough going to be enough? Moving on, much less breaking free from a toxic relationship, can be challenging and complicated. However, there’s going to be some point in time that you need to realize if you are in a toxic relationship, get out of it, move on, and heal. People usually seek health professionals’ help to deal with painful and traumatic relationships. Still, there are other ways to do so, such as finding excellent books to read on the subject, just like TOXIC RELATIONSHIPS. This book is about fixing the broken within you and finding yourself again, even after an emotionally abusive relationship. The author fully covers all there is to know about toxic relationships. From domineering partners, jealous ones, cheating ones, insecure, abusive, too difficult ones, alcoholic and narcissistic ones, and more, knowing these types is vital. Identifying these types of people and understanding your role in this toxic relationship is the first step is to differentiate a bad connection from a good one. Reading through tackles subjects on: ✅ Understanding why people choose the same dilemma time and again ✅ Toxic partner types one must avoid at all times ✅ Phases of grief as well as toxicity ✅ Relationship detox as a necessity ✅ Ending a toxic relationship in many ways ✅ Communication and its importance ✅ Improve communication skills in 10 ways ✅ Emotional intelligence to fight toxic relationships ✅ Identifying fears and overcoming them ✅ Ways to improve your relationship ✅ Settling conflicts the healthy way ✅ How to set limits and boundaries Aside from those mentioned above, this book also features techniques for better managing love, family, and friendship. Read it today so you can start healing, developing a new version of yourself – more positive and confident! What are you waiting for? Grab your copy now and start your Healing Journey!

Download or read book Toxic Couples The Psychology of Domestic Violence written by Anna Motz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic violence is a major public health concern, affecting millions worldwide. It is underreported, often devastating and sometimes ends in murder. In Toxic Couples: The Psychology of Domestic Violence, Anna Motz integrates psychological and criminological data with clinical illustrations and discussion of current high-profile cases. She examines the complex manifestations and multiple causes of intimate partner violence. Motz disentangles the roles played by those involved and examines the addictive nature of these damaging partnerships. The book describes various forms of abuse, including physical, sexual and emotional, and analyses how intimate partner violence can escalate to murder. She explores important factors including: the role of addiction; homelessness and vulnerability; the intergenerational transmission of abuse; sadomasochistic relationships; honour-based violence. The book emphasizes the significance of female- as well as male-perpetrated violence and outlines the powerful impact on the children of abusive parents, extending the clinical awareness of professionals working with those affected. Toxic Couples: The Psychology of Domestic Violence is ideal for clinicians working with the victims and perpetrators of intimate partner violence, for students of psychology, gender studies and social care courses and for anyone interested in the psychological forces behind violence in relationships. ]

Download or read book Cutting Your Losses from a Bad or Toxic Relationship written by Dr. J.A. McGruder Ph.D. CRC and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life itself can be like riding a roller coaster. It’s full of ups and downs, high and low points. Using the lyrics of an old gospel song by Linda Ronstadt, “Life is like a mountain railway with an engineer that’s brave. We must make this run successful from the cradle to the grave,” one of the greatest challenges we all face to navigate life’s journey is developing healthy, godly relationships. One of our greatest failures in developing healthy relationships is well described by a story sharer in this book. She compares a bad or toxic relationship with the plight of sin. “Sin will take you farther than you want to go, keep you longer than you want to stay, and cost you more than you want to pay.” Such can be said about a bad or toxic relationship. In Dr. McGruder’s book Cutting Your Losses from a Bad or Toxic Relationship, he warns those who discover themselves in such a relationship and fail to heed warnings and escape from harm’s way. Remaining in such a relationship can waste a significant portion of your life’s journey, and the result can tally up to emotional, mental, psychological, and spiritual gross costs. However, this book will provide insight on how to survive and thrive it all!

Download or read book Toxic Disruptions written by Gauri S. Pathak and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a unique ethnographic account of women living with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in India. It examines how contaminated environments and political–economic changes render urban middle-class women in India vulnerable to PCOS, a condition which has the potential to disrupt conventional, normative feminine biographies of marriage and childbearing. The volume revolves around two main themes: how toxic landscapes, the endocrine disrupting chemicals suffusing them, and the political–economic environments related to them are linked to endocrine disorders such as PCOS; and how the biosocial disruptions caused by PCOS are both affecting women and reflective of changes in contemporary urban India. The author draws on anthropological fieldwork to investigate these connections through a fresh approach, combining a political ecological framework with perspectives from the anthropology of toxic exposures and health–environment systems. The first of its kind, this volume will be indispensable to students and researchers of anthropology, particularly medical anthropology, medical sociology, human geography, science and technology studies, medical humanities, health–environment systems, endocrine disorders, public health, and South Asian studies.

Download or read book Poisonous Parenting written by Shea M. Dunham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-01-26 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the toxicity associated with particular parenting styles affect attachment? How do the contaminated views of themselves that children of poisonous parents have affect their relationships into adulthood? Like physicians, clinicians do not want to amputate, but they sometimes find it necessary in order to preserve the health of the larger system. Poisonous Parenting shows clinicians how to recognize the effects of poisonous parenting in adult children and how to heal the scars created by parents' toxic attitudes and behaviors. Readers will come away from the book understanding ways to counteract the effects of poisonous parenting so that clients can recover and lead a healthy life. They'll also learn techniques for determining when a relationship can be salvaged, when to proceed with caution, and when to disconnect in order to keep the poison from spreading.

Download or read book Treatment and Management of Maladaptive Schemas written by Eric A. Kreuter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume explores new ground in the area of personal transformation, achieved partly through a person’s volition with a guide or catalyst. The authors research and define the dynamics of paradigmatic-thinking, incorporating a series of case vignettes of personal transitions. They describe impediments to such change, as well as the post-transformation state of mind where vulnerabilities may persist. The resultant need for on going commitment may include guidance or coaching in order to sustain the positive effect of a change in paradigm. An important feature of the book is a case study written by “Rex,” a participant in Dr. Kreuter’s earlier work. Rex has achieved significant change in his thought process, both in how he sees the world (less sinister) and his self-perspective (worthy and connected). An in-depth view of the “new” Rex shows the extent to which change has been possible in one human being. Combined with other evidence of shifting paradigms drawn from a cross-section of therapeutic practice, the authors connect the clinical data with their own developed philosophy on the subject of human behavior and the ability to change with the assistance of a therapist guide to effectuate and sustain such change.