Relationships
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Gary Chapman The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate
Are you and your spouse speaking the same language? While love is a many splendored thing, it is sometimes a very confusing thing, too. And as people come in all varieties, shapes, and sizes, so do their choices of personal expressions of love. But more often than not, the giver and the receiver express love in two different ways. This can lead to misunderstanding, quarrels, and even divorce. Quality Time, Words of Affirmation, Gifts, Acts of Service and Physical Touch are the five basic love languages. Dr. Gary Chapman identifies these and guides couples towards a better understanding of their unique languages of love. Learn to speak and understand your mate's love language, and in no time you will be able to effectively love and truly feel loved in return. Skillful communication is within your grasp!
$16.99
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Robin Stern The Gaslight Effect Recovery Guide: Your Personal Journey Toward Healing from Emotional Abuse: A Gaslighting Book
This guided journal helps readers understand the dynamics of challenging and unhealthy relationships, and how to leave one. Author of The Gaslight Effect. In 2007, Dr. Robin Stern coined the phrase to explain the long-term effects of repeated gaslighting, covert emotional abuse that undermines and controls another person by deflecting, twisting, and denying their reality. Gaslighting can happen in a romantic relationship, between family members, or at work. In every case, victims constantly second-guessing themselves, are loathe to make simple decisions, and destabilized from the constant reality shifts. This book will help you identify if you are part of a pattern of emotional abuse and free yourself from that dynamic with crucial mindset shifts. Prompts, checklists, quizzes, and guided reflective questions explore past and present relationships, helping readers gain confidence to leave an abusive partner set boundaries in unavoidable situations, and heal.
$24.99
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Alan Fruzzetti The High-Conflict Couple: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy, and Validation
You hear and read a lot about ways to improve your relationship. But if you've tried these without much success, you're not alone. Many highly reactive couples—pairs that are quick to argue, anger, and blame—need more than just the run-of-the-mill relationship advice to solve their problems in love. When destructive emotions are at the heart of problems in your relationship, no amount of effective communication or intimacy building will fix what ails it. If you're part of a "high-conflict" couple, you need to get control of your emotions first, to stop making things worse, and only then work on building a better relationship. The High-Conflict Couple adapts the powerful techniques of dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) into skills you can use to tame out-of-control emotions that flare up in your relationship. Using mindfulness and distress tolerance techniques, you'll learn how to deescalate angry situations before they have a chance to explode into destructive fights. Other approaches will help you disclose your fears, longings, and other vulnerabilities to your partner and validate his or her experiences in return. You'll discover ways to manage problems with negotiation, not conflict, and to find true acceptance and closeness with the person you love the most.
$29.95
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Amy J. L. Baker, J. Michael Bone, Brian Ludmer The High-Conflict Custody Battle: Protect Yourself and Your Kids from a Toxic Divorce
False Accusations, and Parental Alienation This practical guidebook is for people who are engaged in a high-conflict custody battle. If you are dealing with an overtly hostile, inflammatory, deceitful, or manipulative ex-spouse, you will learn how to find and work with an attorney and prepare for a custody evaluation. It provides helpful tips you can use to defend yourself against false accusations, and gives a realistic portrayal of what to expect during a legal fight.
$37.95
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Elaine N. Aron The Highly Sensitive Person In Love: Understanding and Managing Relationships When the World Overwhelms You
This book offers practical help for highly sensitive people seeking happier, healthier romantic relationships. Every aspect of highly sensitive people in relationships is covered, from low-stress fighting to sensitive sexuality. Included are self-tests and case studies--and the results from the first survey ever done on sex and temperament. With wonderful advice on making the most of all personality combinations in relationships, Aron offers a wealth of insights for non-highly sensitive people as well.
$24.95
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Sue Johnson The Hold Me Tight Workbook: A Couple's Guide for a Lifetime of Love
A companion workbook to Dr. Sue Johnson's million-copy bestseller Hold Me Tight, packed with exercises, conversation prompts, and activities to help couples strengthen their bond, deepen their intimacy, and cultivate a lifetime of love. Drawing on the latest developments in Emotionally Focused Therapy, a field pioneered by Dr. Johnson, The Hold Me Tight Workbook is packed with sage wisdom and science-backed advice, as well as compelling conversation prompts, exercises, activities, and resources to help couples work through conflict and achieve greater levels of intimacy. Whether you're celebrating your 50th anniversary or your first, The Hold Me Tight Workbook is an invaluable guide to cultivating a deeper connection - and more fulfilling relationship - with the person you love most.
$35.99
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Leslie Becker-Phelps The Insecure in Love Workbook: Step-by-Step Guidance to Help You Overcome Anxious Attachment and Feel More Secure with Yourself and Your Partner
A step-by-step workbook to help you move past anxious attachment and feel more confident in your relationships! Has your romantic partner called you clingy, insecure, desperate, or jealous? If they go out with their friends, do you worry that they might be flirting or hooking up with someone else? Do you often worry that they’re going to leave you? If you find yourself constantly on the alert or anxious when it comes to your significant other, you may suffer from anxious attachment—a fear of abandonment that is often rooted in early childhood experiences. So, how can you move past this anxiety before it hurts—or even destroys—your relationship? Based on the self-help hit by Leslie Becker-Phelps, The Insecure in Love Workbook offers engaging activities, tips, and exercises to help you overcome attachment anxiety by developing compassionate self-awareness. You’ll learn to recognize physical sensations, negative thoughts, distressing emotions, and unhealthy behavior patterns that underlie your insecurity; and respond to them in a more nurturing way—rather than beating yourself up. You’ll also discover how insecurity can overwhelm or paralyze you, negatively affecting the relationship between you and your partner. Finally, you’ll develop the skills needed to stop repeating old patterns of self-doubt, neediness, and possessiveness. If you suffer from anxious attachment, you probably know that you need to change, and yet you have remained stuck. But by developing compassionate self-awareness, you can finally free yourself from this cycle of self-sabotage, so you can nurture greater self-acceptance and cultivate secure, healthy, and lasting relationships.
$38.95
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Matthew McKay, Patrick Fanning The Interpersonal Problems Workbook: ACT to End Painful Relationship Patterns
Here are evidence-based techniques for strengthening relationships in all areas in life - at home, at work, with a significant other, a parent, or a child. Based in both schema therapy and acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), it's designed to help you connect and communicate effectively with those around you. ACT skills include present moment awareness, diffusion, and flexibility-all of which will help you to improve your relationships with others. Learn what your schema is, and how to act on your values to communicate and get along with others. This book presents powerful, effective tools for change.
$35.95
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John M. Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman The Love Prescription: 7 Days to More Intimacy, Connection, and Joy
What makes love last? Why does one couple stay together forever, while another falls apart? And most importantly, is there a scientific formula for love? Drs. John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman are the world's leading relationship scientists. For the past forty years, they have been studying love. They've gathered data on over three thousand couples, looking at everything from their body language to the way they converse to their stress hormone levels. Their goal: to identify the building blocks of love. The Love Prescription distills their life's work into a bite-size, seven-day action plan with easy, immediately actionable steps. There will be no grand gestures and no big, hard conversations. There's nothing to buy or do to prepare. Anyone can do this, from any starting point. The seven-day prescription will lead you through these exercises: Day 1: Make Contact; Day 2: Ask a Big Question; Day 3: Say Thank You; Day 4: Give a Real Compliment; Day 5: Ask for What You Need; Day 6: Reach Out and Touch; Day 7: Declare a Date Night. There is a formula for a good relationship, and this book will show you how a few small changes can fundamentally transform your relationship for the better.
$22.00
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Ed Tronick, Claudia M. Gold The Power of Discord: Why the Ups and Downs of Relationships Are the Secret to Building Intimacy, Resilience, and Trust
Dr. Tronick was one of the first researchers to show that babies are profoundly affected by their parents' emotions and behavior via "The Still-Face Experiment." His work, which brought about a foundational shift in our understanding of human development, shows that our highly evolved sense of self makes us separate, yet our survival depends on connection. And so we approximate, iteratively learning about one another's desires and intentions, and gaining confidence in the process as we correct the mistakes and misunderstandings that arise.
$40.50
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Julia Colwell The Relationship Skills Workbook: A Do-It-Yourself Guide to a Thriving Relationship
Dr. Julia B. Colwell presents a practical guide for building a conscious partnership based on communication, cooperation, and trust-offering a much-needed guide for helping couples disarm the explosive conflicts that most commonly break apart relationships. "While relationships often seem mysterious,"she says, "there are a few elegantly simple concepts that can help any couple through the most difficult spots." Here is a friendly and easy-to-use resource of proven tools for getting unstuck from power struggles, ending the blame game, creating win-win agreements, using on-the-spot crisis and conflict first aid, healing and forgiving after clashes, and much more.
$25.99
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The Relationship Workbook: Activities for Developing Healthy Relationships and Preventing Domestic Violence
Ages 16 - Adults. This book is a practical resource addressing domestic violence prevention and intervention. This collection of 72 reproducible worksheets will help individuals and couples develop skills for creating and maintaining healthy relationships. The program can be easily customized for group facilitators working with older teens and adults. Each of 50 topics covered has one or more reproducible worksheets and a facilitator's information sheet. The language, illustrations and content are applicable to diverse client populations, including male and female perpetrators and survivors of domestic violence, people in same-sex relationships, adults healing from childhood exposure to violence and people in nonviolent relationships.
$72.95
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John M. Gottman The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples
In this new work, Dr. Gottman presents his newest findings on trust, trustworthiness and betrayal in a breakthrough approach to understanding and helping couples. Based upon empirical data from five studies across the life course, Gottman reveals the dynamics in everyday couples' interactions that either build or erode trust. And there are surprising results. For example, the relationship process that dissolves trust has nothing to do with the process that finally ends in betrayal - they are two separate processes. Most important, Gottman shows clinicians how to block the avalanche towards betrayal by teaching clients the fine art of emotional attunement, and if trust has already fallen prey to poor relationship skills or betrayal, how to reconstitute trust and renew commitment.
$72.99
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Patricia Evans The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How To Recognize It and How to Respond
For anyone who has been in a verbally abusive relationship, whether it is a family member, a friend, partner, or someone in the workplace, this book can help. It is a practical approach to dealing with the dysfunction in a verbally abusive relationship.
$24.95
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Therapy Talking Tools: Mom Days Dad Days
These sentence completion cards pair with the storybook and are designed to support kids and families with important conversations about making the transitions between two homes feel easier.
$19.95
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Amy Mariaskin Thriving in Relationships When You Have OCD: How to Keep Obsessions and Compulsions from Sabotaging Love, Friendship, and Family Connections
Don’t let OCD be the third wheel in your relationships! This practical guide will help you build and nurture the connections you deserve. If you have obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), you may seek constant reassurance from others, lose time to compulsions, struggle with unwanted thoughts and intense emotions, or act out in ways that are ineffective. These symptoms can put a major strain on your relationships—whether it’s with family, friends, partners, or other relationships. And you may feel alone, embarrassed, and ashamed of your symptoms, which can lead to further withdrawal and social isolation. So, how can you reduce the impact of OCD on your relationships? Drawing on evidence-based practices grounded in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), exposure and response prevention therapy (ERP), acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), and mindful self-compassion, psychologist Amy Mariaskin offers a comprehensive guide for managing your toughest symptoms—before they hijack your relationships. With this book, you’ll find hands-on skills to move toward what you truly want in your relationships and strengthen feelings of intimacy, trust, and connectedness. And finally, you’ll learn how to cultivate self-compassion, mindfulness, and curiosity—all while challenging the beliefs and behaviors that keep you feeling stuck in isolation. If you’re tired of OCD sabotaging your relationships, this book will help you take control of your symptoms—and your life.
$28.95
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Mira Kirshenbaum Too Good To Leave, Too Bad To Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship
There are many books that promise to help you fix a bad relationship. This groundbreaking bestseller is the first one to help you choose whether you should even try—or if you need to go.Psychotherapist Mira Kirshenbaum draws on years of research and her work with real-life couples to help you make the right decision. She shows you how to diagnose your unique situation with self-analysis and questions like these, which get to the very heart of your problems:• What sins are forgivable and which ones are unpardonable?• Is your partner questioning your opinions to the point where you doubt yourself?• What is your sex life really like, and how important is it?• Is there real love left between you, and how does it stack up against all that you find unlovable?Mira Kirshenbaum provides expert guidelines that are the key to making all your choices, concrete steps that you can implement right now, and the ultimate way to determine your personal bottom line—what you need to be happy. This remarkably insightful and probing guide offers advice that lets you see the truth about your relationship—and with wisdom and compassion, it helps you act with the confidence of knowing that whether you decide to go or stay, you are doing the very best thing.
$27.99
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Claire Masurel, Kady MacDonald Denton Two Homes
Alex has two of everything. His parents are divorced and he goes back and forth to each separate home. He has two rooms, two favorite chairs, two sets of friends, and two of everything. This book is a wonderful way to validate a very real event in the lives of many children. It is positive and uplifting. Ages 3 to 7 Kindergarten to Grade 2
$10.99
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Steve Herman Two Homes Filled with Love (My Dragon Books - Volume 37)
A Cute Children’s Book to help Kids understand and get through Parental Divorce or Separation. Join Drew and his dragon Diggory Doo on this uplifting story to help a friend during the most difficult change in his life when his parents live apart and he’s now living in two homes. This is an essential book to help discuss and explain to children the hard but important topic in the simple and appropriate way that children could relate to and understand. Parents and educators will find this book the perfect tool to help children cope with parental separation, breakup or divorce, and to teach them that whether living in one home or two, they’re always loved and supported. Read this book to children to give them the empowering affirmation that they are loved wherever they are, and wherever their parents are.
$21.95
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Heather Fraser & Kate Seymour Understanding Violence and Abuse
An Anti-Oppressive Practice Perspective In this book, the authors examine violence and abuse from an anti-oppressive practice perspective and make connections between interpersonal violence and structural, institutional and cultural violence. Using case studies from Canada and elsewhere, the authors discuss topics ranging from class oppression, street violence, white privilege, war, shame, Islamophobia and abuse in intimate relationships, and introduce the core tenets of anti-oppressive social work practice. They encourage readers to reflect upon hierarchies of identity and difference in relation to the ways in which violence and abuse are defined, understood, and addressed. This book also discuss several responses to violence using an anti-oppressive framework.
$40.00
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Upside Down Divorce Board Game
Ages 6-12. Most children don't want to talk about divorce, but this game makes talking easy. As they go around the colorful board they flip their playing pieces upside down. To turn them right side up, they have to learn new coping and communication skills. Children are also challenged to think of creative ways to solve the problems that typically come with divorce and to express positive feelings about themselves and their future. For 2-4 players. Game board, 6 pawns, 12 stands, die, 24 Question cards, 24 Idea cards, 24 Upside Down cards, instructions.
$86.95
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Michael Paymar Violent No More Workbook
The exercises in the Violent No More Workbook are specifically designed to help men who batter understand, monitor, and stop their abusive and controlling behavior. Also included are exercises designed for couples who are working through basic relationship issues such as negotiating, communicating, compromising, and disagreeing without becoming abusive or controlling. Mental health counselors or facilitators in domestic abuse programs make the book Violent No More and the Violent No More Workbook available to men in their domestic abuse groups or the clients they are seeing on an individual basis. Some programs provide the book and workbook to participants as part of their fee; others require participants to purchase the book and workbook, or contribute to the cost. The Violent No More Workbook is an easy to use, step-by-step process that is written directly to men. Men who batter can change if they have the courage and motivation to change. The exercises in this workbook will help them on their journey.
$40.95
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John M. Gottman, Nan Silver What Makes Love Last?: How to Build Trust and Avoid Betrayal
In this insightful book, celebrated research psychologist and couples counselor John Gottman plumbs the mysteries of love and shares the results of his famous Love Lab: Where does love come from? Why does some love last, and why does some fade? And how can we keep it alive? Based on laboratory findings, this book shows readers how to identify signs, behaviors, and attitudes that indicate a fraying relationship and provides strategies for repairing what may seem lost or broken.
$26.00
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Jill Cory, Karen McAndless-Davis When Love Hurts: A Woman's Guide to Understanding Abuse in Relationships
When Love Hurts was first published in 2000, it was designed to help women recognize the signs of abuse in a relationship and the abusive strategies their partner uses to control and disempower them. It also provides tools on what to do if a woman is experiencing abuse. Along with stories of women who have experienced many forms of abuse, When Love Hurts also offers exercises that allow readers to make their own decisions about their lives, or to understand what a friend or family member may be going through.
$27.99
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