In addition to the wedding planner, every bride-to-be needs The Engaged Woman's Survival Guide. Here is the only book that confronts the emotional issues of this exhilarating yet anxiety-ridden time. Acting as mother, shrink, and woman-in-the-know, Matthews helps the newly engaged accept her fiance as the man with whom she'll grow old . . . bond ...
Mother-daughter conflict is a fact of life, but this insightful and upbeat guidebook will help women of all ages turn frustrating episodes into harmonious exchanges. Nancy Wasserman Cocola is a family psychotherapist. Arlene Modica Matthews is also a psychotherapist and author who has appeared on daytime TV talk shows.
Using parables and examples to illustrate points, this text shows how to clear a path to a naturally calm centre and choose calm over anxiety on a daily basis. Incorporating psychological and spiritual viewpoints, empathy and humour, the text spells out how to embrace change rather than resist it.
In this supportive and prescriptive nine-month chronicle, Matthews, a psychotherapist and mother, uses her own experiences and the personal stories of other expectant mothers to explore the profound changes--physical, emotional, and spiritual--that come with pregnancy.
From those who spend money they don't have to those who scrimp and save needlessly, otherwise rational people often fall victim to "money madness", a malady that affects not only their financial lives but their lifestyles, relationships, and happiness. Now a New York psychotherapist gets to the bottom of the money obsession.
From kisses to quarrels, here's a wise and good-humored guide to marriage that can keep couples happy and wed for life. Arlene Modica Matthews draws on extensive research and her own work as a couples therapist to help newlyweds have a happy, healthy and successful marriage.
In a book as charming as it is sensible in substance, Arlene Modica Matthews draws on deep research and special psychoanalytic training to chart a course for newlyweds of all ages.
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