In relationships, we experience both the best and worst of ourselves. Growing Yourself Up helps you understand yourself by understanding your relationships. Drawing on Bowen family systems theory, the book explores each life stage to see predictable relationship patterns and then make self-adjustments to facilitate change. This 2nd edition of the bestselling book also examines how to effectively help others. The result is a sturdier self and a new view of life’s challenges and opp...

To be human is to be in relationships. We cant survive without them but at the same time its in our relationships that we so easily come unravelled. Either we feel like we lose ourselves or we feel burnt out from unsuccessful efforts to make things right for another. Its in our relationships that we can experience the very best of ourselves and the very worst. The message of Growing Yourself Up is that you cant separate understanding the individual from understanding relationships; they go...

Retirement isn't the end of the road. It's a great escape.For many Australians, retirement is seen as something to cautiously manage. But what if it could be a bold new chapter created on your terms?In Retirement: The Great Escape Plan, award-winning financial adviser Jenny Brown challenges outdated ideas of retirement and offers a practical, reassuring roadmap for creating a life that is rich in every sense of the word. Drawing on decades of exper...

When House Speaker Paul Ryan urged U.S. women to have more children, and Ross Douthat requested “More babies, please,” in a New York Times column, they openly expressed what policymakers have been discussing for decades with greater discretion. Using technical language like “age structure,” “dependency ratio,” and “entitlement crisis,” establishment think tanks are raising the alarm: if U.S. women don’t get busy having more children, we’ll face an aging workforce, slack consumer d...

In relationships, we experience both the best and worst of ourselves. Growing Yourself Up helps you understand yourself by understanding your relationships. Drawing on Bowen family systems theory, the book explores each life stage to see predictable relationship patterns and then make self-adjustments to facilitate change. This 2nd edition of the bestselling book also examines how to effectively help others. The result is a sturdier self and a new view of life’s challenges and opp...

Parenting is a paradox: to truly love our children, we must also give them the space to grow.Many devoted parents instinctively step in to protect and guide their children yet struggle knowing when to step back. While “helicopter parenting” is widely discouraged, parents are often left without clear, practical alternatives.In The Parenting Paradox: Loving Our Children by Giving Them Space to Grow, Dr. Jenny Brown offers a new perspective--not about...

Anytime you watch the news, read a magazine, surf the internet, or read the newspaper one thing is clear is that we are concerned about our health.There are several different ways to achieve a better state of health. You can make diet and lifestyle changes that result in you reaching your goals. But unfortunately, we often turn to fad diets and extreme exercising in order to achieve what we believe to be a normal state of health.Raw Foods Diet is amazing! Doing things that ...

Many devoted parents instinctively step in to protect and guide their children yet struggle knowing when to step back. While "helicopter parenting" is widely discouraged, parents are often left without clear, practical alternatives.In The Parenting Paradox: Loving Our Children by Giving Them Space to Grow, Dr. Jenny Brown offers a new perspective—not about loving less, but about shifting the anxious energy that often comes with deep parental care to a more constructive typ...

Texas, Being: A State of Poems collects more than forty-five poems from a beautiful and brutal state. Some are about the music of their languages. Some speak to the dead, some to the sun, and others to omissions of history. One concerns a hedgehog cactus, and another a roller rink. From “Happy, Texas” to “Palestine, TX,” from seashores to skeletons to Selena, all are in one way or another about Texas, but good poems are always about more than one thing.Sel...

This book, Asperger’s/ASD: Making Life Easier, Safer, Better (A Parent’s Roadmap to Sanity), is a narrative, a handbook, and a toolkit all rolled into one. As a narrative it details the personal history of one family’s struggle with their son’s Asperger’s. As a handbook it addresses the whole set of problems that come with Asperger’s/ASD. And as a toolkit it better equips you to confront these problems, so they are easier to visualize and break down into manageable pieces. With this book y...

The Prophet, the Shepherd, and the Star picks up where The Amazing Tales of Maxand Liz left off. The Maker has been building a team of animal friends for thousands of years to be his envoys for pivotal points of history.With this new, critical mission, the team will finally be completed by Messiah and known forevermore as the Order of the Seven. A talking, musical scroll, a pigeon-flying-and-camel-driving mouse, a writing cat, a courageous lamb, and two lion-fighting dogs provide non-stop ...

Kick off your boots and read a while with these three bestselling cowboy romances!Lucky in Love by Carolyn BrownHunky rancher "Lucky Beau" Luckadeau accuses spitfire Milli Torres of stealing his prize bull, and…she promptly shoots at him, triggering a neighborly feud that only gets resolved when they discover they share a steamy hot memory from a night long ago...Reckless in Texas by Kari Lynn DellOutside the rodeo ring, Vio...