When her parents divorce, seven-year-old Faith finds a friend who supports her--a friend who may be imaginary. Is Faith a prophet or just a troubled little girl? From the acclaimed author of "The Pact" comes a provocative novel about belief, betrayal, and miracles, and the fierce love of a mother for her child.
This newly revised and updated edition of the 450,000-copy bestseller on divorce recovery retains the successful "divorce process rebuilding blocks" format, adding new relationship material on adaptation, awareness, openness, and goals, making the revised 1990s model a 19-step process for putting one's life back together after divorce.
The creator of the nationally recognized Sandcastles Divorce Therapy Program--which has helped thousands of children understand divorce and cope with the emotional fallout that comes with it--now provides a practical guide to helping the one million children who must cope with divorce annually. 86 illustrations.
Your ex-spouse is bad-mouthing you to your children, perhaps even trying to turn them against you. If you handle the situation ineffectively, you could lose your children's respect, their affections - even, in extreme cases, lose contact with them. The conventional advice is to do nothing, that fighting fire with fire will only result in greater ...
Thirteen-year-old Brian Robeson was devastated when his parents divorced and his father took a job working in the far off oil fields of Canada. Traveling to visit his dad for the first time since the divorce, Brian survives a plane crash that kills the airplane's pilot--the only other person aboard the small aircraft. Stranded in the wilderness, ...
This easy-to-understand children's story and parenting guide revolves around a lovable bear who doesn't want to have two homes when his parents decide to divorce. Koko's experience will help children learn what divorce means, how family life will change, and understand that the divorce is not their fault. Full-color illustrations.
Updated for its 20th anniversary, this classic guide that has helped so many people get through loss, now has even more to offer. The new material in this edition will include specific guidelines that will show readers how to choose which grief or loss they should work on first. In addition, losses that were not addressed in the earlier editions ...
Michele Weiner Davis goes beyond her marriage-saving bestseller, Divorce Busting, with this empowering and encouraging guide for revitalizing marriage and building stronger, more loving bonds. In a down-to-earth style that is free of psychobabble, Weiner Davis outlines a realistic, solution-oriente
John James and Russell Friedman see our collective inability to deal with the natural and powerful emotion of grief as being a major problem in personal growth. Friends often say the wrong thing in trying to help, and the natural response on the part of the sufferer is what the authors refer to as "Academy Award Recovery," i.e. the griever acts as ...
You may not feel like reconciling. You may not see hope for a reunion. But the biblical ideal for a separated couple is reconciliation. So how do you do it? When doors slam and angry words fly, when things just aren't working out, and even when your spouse is interested in someone else, there is hope. Hope for the Separated will show you through ...
Debbie Ford, a Workshop Facilitator at the Chopra Center for Well Being, lends a refreshing and helpful perspective to those going through divorce. Her guidebook offers exercises, meditations, and Seven Spiritual Laws to help readers get through this dark and difficult period of life.
John and Abby are an all-American, Christian couple--except for the fact that John is about to leave Abby because he's fallen for Charlene, a teacher at the high school where he coaches football. In retaliation, Abby begins a long-distance e-mail romance. The novel dramatizes how their troubled marriage affects their own internal lives as well as ...
Intelligent, insightful, and based on Abigail Trafford's personal experience, extensive research, and interviews with hundreds of divorced men and women, Crazy Time charts the emotional journey of the breakup of a marriage--identifying the common phases that lead to separation, divorce, and, eventually, to a new life.
The groundbreaking classic, now revised, updated and expanded, covers the legal, financial and emotional realities of creating two happy and stable homes for children in the often difficult and confusing aftermath of a divorce.
In the aftermath of infidelity, couples often struggle with emotional turmoil and sometimes make decisions they later regret. "Getting Past the Affair" helps them overcome the initial shock, understand what happened and why, and think clearly about their best interests before they act. Based on the combined insight of leading marital therapists ...
Wallerstein's 25-year study of the effects of divorce on children, including their adolescence and young adulthood, gives a unique and vivid portrait of the divorce culture. A comparative study, it sheds light on the legacy of failed marriages: attitudes, life-choices, and behaviors that children of intact homes do not harbor. Valuable reading for ...
Until now, couples facing the dilemma of deciding whether or not to stay in an unhappy marriage had three options: individual or couples therapy, separation, or divorce. "Should I Stay or Go?" provides these couples with a fourth option - the Controlled Separation (CS). Revolutionary in scope, CS is a compassionate process that is designed to ...
Featuring personal knitting recipes and patterns, this book is the irreverent first-person narrative of a contemporary, displaced Southern woman facing life after her husband leaves her to get his creativity back.
Named One of the 10 Best Parenting Books of the Year by Child Magazine, this revised edition teaches you to minimize stress during initial breakups and ultimate separation, explain divorce so children don't blame themselves, protect children from parental hostilities, and navigate conflicts of loyalty and alliance.
From the co-authors of the bestselling "The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce" comes this groundbreaking guide for parents on how to help their children at the time of the breakup and in the many years that follow within the post-divorce and remarried family.
In this unabashedly sentimental novel, a woman helps herself by extending help to others. Angela "Angie" Malone's obsessive need and persistent inability to have a child wrecked her marriage and has left her feeling lost and alone. Seeking comfort, she returns to the home of her big Italian family in the small town of West End, Washington, and ...
Given the homework assignment of writing to a famous author, sixth-grader Leigh Botts writes to Boyd Henshaw, the author of his favorite book, WAYS TO AMUSE A DOG. Mr. Henshaw's reply includes some silly answers to Leigh's questions about a writer's life, but he also encloses a series of questions about Leigh that Leigh must answer and send back ...
This book is a valuable resource for the pastor, the counselor, and the church leader (as well as other individuals) who are struggling to understand and apply scriptural principles to the problems of divorce and remarriage.
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