"From the author of the self-help hit Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, this essential guide offers daily tips and tools to help readers heal the invisible wounds caused by growing up with immature parents. Readers will learn how to nurture self-discovery, trust their emotions, and stop putting others' needs ahead of their own, so they can improve their relationships and build confidence in handling life's challenges"--

Young Astrid Ingebritson has more problems than just a difficult name. In this prequel to “The Dark River Secret”, follow Astrid from one of her earliest memories to the moment she decides to change her life.

After the shocking, life shattering realization that her husband was living a secret life, she is determined to get real answers. In her pursuit to understand how this seemingly strong, stable, committed thirty-three-year marriage had been anything but, she reaches out to the one person she knew would have answers. Through painful and heartbreaking discussions, she realized that her life with him was an astonishing manipulation and distortion by this...

My testimony is really one of the hardest and most painful life situations to share. I have a magnitude of mixed emotions and thoughts that I encountered throughout my 26-year traumatic ordeal with my son Aaron. There was a time in Aaron's life it was hard for me to believe that I'd brought a monster into the world. Yet, God turned even the unimaginable worst case that a human can go through into something good; He answered my prayers, and He will...

"Chronicles of Temporal Revelation" is a captivating tale of mystery, adventure, and the timeless quest for truth. Set in a world where time travel is both possible and heavily regulated, the story follows the journey of Sarah, a young woman who discovers a hidden talent to manipulate time. As Sarah navigates through different eras, she unravels secrets about her family's past and the true nature of time itself.Driven by a relentless curiosity and...

A violent grandfather, a stoic grandmother, a narcissistic aunt, a juvenile delinquent, an alcoholic father. Damaged people exist in every family. Surviving them is the goal.

Behind the Scene is a personal story of one little girl's experience growing up on a small Midwest farm. She was born into a large family, living in poverty, where her family's mode of transportation was a horse and buggy. This was required by the Amish religion her family belonged to. Early in her life, her dad wanted a car. They left the Amish and joined the Mennonites. The deep, dark secrets of her family's dysfunction, she vowed never to expose...

Whether solo parenting for night, a week, half time or for the rest of time; this book offers cheats to get your parenting zen on. These tips on cooking, laundry, first aid and taking care of yourself prioritize saving you money, time, sanity, energy and letting your kids f' up in a supported way. Going it alone will challenge you to the core more than any reality TV show. Somedays you will feel like superhero, other days a melted mess on the couch....

Skeletons Out of Closet is about a middle-class family that dates as far back as the late '50s. Knowing that there was no help from the outside world because things were handled differently in those days, you have the Ponder family. The children lost their mother to situations unknown and only had the love of their beloved grandmother to help them to cope. The grandfather was a wealthy and well-respected member of the town, so things were hidden...

Growing up on the family tree of an American dynasty did not protect D.T. Shanti from the darker legacies of sexual abuse, addiction, and domestic violence. This story is one of survival in the face of peril, redemption despite self-hatred, and the impact that abusive legacy has on establishing the trajectory of a child's life. Whether she was walking the streets of her small hometown in North Carolina or being presented to American and international...