Raising Empowered Children The Codependent Perfectionists Guide To Parenting

Now in paperback, a timely guide for mindful parenting and family connectivity. Do you feel like you and your kids are caught in a cycle of passing greetings, technological distraction, and fatigued interactions? Do you feel overwhelmed by parental stress and anxiety? Know that you are not alone. There are techniques available that you can use today to help you better connect with and raise your kids. Pedram Shojai, O.M.D., New York Times best-selling author of The Urban Monk and The Art of Stopping Time, and Nick Polizzi, author of The Sacred Science, offer advice and actionable tips for: · Nurturing your family unit into a cohesive whole · Connecting with your kids amid technology overload · Confronting real-world existential threats and fears Filled with the wisdom and insight from the world's top parenting consultants, therapists, pediatricians, and child educators, this book offers you a path to embracing conscious parenting as a way of life right now rather than some day in the future, helping your children build a foundation of confidence, a deep sense of self, emotional and spiritual resiliency, and mental fortitude.

A parents' guide to recognizing and breaking intergenerational patterns of co-dependence to help their children learn self-respect and integrity.

Codependency is much more widespread than originally thought. You don’t even have to be in a relationship. Codependents have trouble accepting themselves, so they hide who they are to be accepted by someone else. Codependency for Dummies is the most comprehensive book on the topic to date. It describes the history, symptoms, causes, and relationship dynamics of codependency and provides self-assessment questionnaires. The majority of the book is devoted to healing and lays out a clear plan for recovery with exercises, practical advice, and helpful daily reminders to help you know, honor, protect, and express yourself. It clarifies deep psychological dynamics that underlie codependency, yet is written in a conversational style that’s easily understandable by everyone. You will learn: How to raise your self-esteem The difference between care-giving and codependent care-taking The difference between healthy and dysfunctional families How to set boundaries How to separate responsibility for yourself and for others How to overcome guilt and resentment

Shari Schreiber learned about healing people by having to surmount her own painful life experiences. Tenacious about her pursuit of wholeness and wellness, she invented tools in her mid-twenties to help her grow beyond mere survival and learn to thrive. She imparted these tools and methods to her clients for eighteen of the twenty-five years she was passionately dedicated to helping others repair themselves. Returning to school at forty-one, she’d hoped to legitimize the talents she’d always had, but found that experience lacking. Ms. Schreiber has not worked as a state-licensed professional, because in her view, “psychotherapy” or mind work never seemed to resolve or remedy human pain. Her own approach was extremely unconventional, unique and effective in contrast to other forms of intervention, even within the realm of addiction recovery. Having retired from her wellness practice in late 2017, she hopes to publish many more books that might help you gain clarity, wholeness, contentment, inner peace and joy.

People affected by a loved one's addiction suffer silently in church pews. I was one of them. I'm Juliet. Sometimes I wish I could be someone else, with another name altogether, someone whose life is more comedy than tragedy. During the twelve years I was married to a cocaine-addicted Christian, I was overwhelmed with isolation and shame as I sat next to my ex-husband in church week after week. No one fathomed our family skeletons. How could I tell anyone? God stirred my spirit to seek personal healing and give voice to my reality. Through Him, I found freedom from silence and redemption for the life dreams I thought were forever lost. Same Dress, Different Day: A Spiritual Memoir of Addiction and Redemption chronicles my journey from victim to victor as I struggled to break free from codependency's suffocating cycle. I learned to see my Savior as the soul mate and provider my chemically dependent spouse could never be. God's healing grace is not only for the addicted, but also for the broken ones who love them.

Letting Go of Perfect pinpoints a state of mind that manifests in unhealthy ways among kids and teens today--the need to be perfect--and gives parents and teachers the guidance and support they need to help children break free of the anxieties and behaviors related to perfectionism. This second edition features updated advice and stories from real parents, educators, and students who have learned to use their perfectionistic behaviors in healthy way. For children who believe their best is never good enough, perfectionism can lead to excessive guilt, lack of motivation, low self-esteem, depression, pessimism, obsessive or compulsive behavior, and a sense of rigidity. This engaging, practical book is a must-have for parents and teachers wanting to help children overcome perfectionism, raise self-confidence, lessen guilt, increase motivation, and offer a future free of rigidity.

The Instant-Series Presents "Instant Parenting" How to Be a Good Parent and Raise a Child with Fewer Conflicts Instantly! Ah kids...what parents wouldn't do for their child? From the very first moment they are born into your arms, they instantly become the cherished apple of your eyes, and you would do anything for them. As much as you love them and would give the world to them, let's be honest, raising a child is no quick walk in the park... There will be times of conflicts, difficulties, and tensions along the way - not to mention those rebellious streak of teen years. Driven by the need to get whatever they want whenever they want and the need to fit in and be cool and popular, then playing the guilt card and blaming you for not loving them enough for not giving in to their demands, can wreck havoc on any parent's nerve. You can blame it on pop cultures, but remember...you, as a parent, need to be their GPS (guided parental system) guiding them in a world that they think they're know it all, into well-respected successful individual and good outstanding citizen. Now what parent wouldn't want that? That is the biggest priority of a parent and the biggest prize you can offer to your kid(s). They need you to! Within "Instant Parenting": * How to be a good parent by adopting the fundamental "6 Golden Rules" of parenting to raising children more easily and guiding them through life. * How to apply the "art of codependent parenting" where you and your child both have mutual respects and need each other for survival as one form of parenting styles. * How to improve interactions with your children by working on your "parental communication skills" so they will always respect and listen to you. * How to manage yourself and your kids when they have done something wrong against your wishes and everything you've taught them, leading to arguments. * How to get your kids on your side, by being ON their side, so they will always let you in on their life without hiding any secrecy, but always want you in on their life. * Plus, custom practical "how-to" strategies, techniques, applications and exercises for better parenting skills for raising kids better. ...and much more. Parenting should be a privilege to shape your children into the molding image of your lasting legacy for future generations to come; and you only have a limited time to do that for they do grow up so fast. Don't let this one-time parenting opportunity to enjoy the good times (and even the bad times) to raise your kid(s) into who they will be, before it slips you by!

In the 1980's, Janet Woititz broke new ground in our understanding of what it is to be an Adult Child of an Alcoholic. In this updated edition of her bestseller she re-examines the movement and its inclusion of Adult Children from various dysfunctional family backgrounds who share the same characteristics. After decades of working with ACoAs she shares the recovery hints that she has found to work. Read Adult Children of Alcoholics to see where the journey began and for ideas on where to go from here.

Pia Mellody creates a framework for identifying codependent thinking, emotions and behaviour and provides an effective approach to recovery. Mellody sets forth five primary adult symptoms of this crippling condition, then traces their origin to emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical and sexual abuses that occur in childhood. Central to Mellody's approach is the concept that the codependent adult's injured inner child needs healing. Recovery from codependence, therefore, involves clearing up the toxic emotions left over from these painful childhood experiences.