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You can listen your way to better relationships. This often humorous book, loaded with practical tips, examples, and techniques, will bail you out of touchy situations. Dr. Jim Petersen's powerfully intuitive yet tongue-in-cheek Flat Brain Theory shows how and why we get upset and confused and what to do about it. We may think we're good listeners, but not many of us are. When others talk, we focus on what we think, rather than what they are trying...
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This book is about getting rid of our strongholds (which are nothing but false and distorted beliefs). Most times, we plant rocks and boulders in our own path, thinking we are planting seeds for growth. It's time to do away with the finger-pointing and accept accountability for ourselves. In order to see the bigger picture of things, you must be willing to let go of old beliefs that never helped you in the first place. This book will lead you to the...
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"The Art of the Committed Relationship" ingeniously takes Sun Tzu's ancient military strategy, "The Art of War," and applies its timeless wisdom to the landscape of personal relationships. This insightful guide offers readers a new way of looking at their committed relationships or the ones they plan to enter. The book is an invaluable resource to all those who have found the initial gloss of their relationship dimming over time and are seeking ways...
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We live in an age of rapid change and instant communication. We also live in a Culture of Blame and Disrespect. Managing your responses to high-conflict emails, texts, letters, and social media meltdowns is imperative. A BIFF response can be applied in any communication anywhere - on the Internet, in a letter or in person. It can be used at work, earning you respect and success. It can help you get along with difficult family members, friends, neighbors...
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Life happens one conversation at a time, and almost everything you want is on the other side of a tough conversation. The problem? Communication is hard. You were born with a voice box, but it didn't come with instructions on how best to use it.
That changes now. Communications expert AmyK Hutchens shares how to confidently and competently navigate your toughest conversations without saying something you regret, giving your power away, or damaging...
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A Family Torn Apart is a heart-wrenching true story of an eleven-year-old boy seeing and experiencing his family being torn apart. The mother and father had four children, all of them boys. The family definitely had its ups and downs. The parents separated in 1954, and three of the boys were sent to foster homes. The youngest boy lived with his mother. The family reunited in 1958, and lived for four years on a farm in Montezuma, Kansas. After a horrible...
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LASTING IMPRESSIONS romance series introduces characters that draw you in and hold your attention. They may even remind you of people you know. Each book in this trilogy looks at the characters view of why this relationship ended so abruptly.
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This book discusses a multi-thronged approach to bullying prevention. The intent is to describe in detail a wide variety of methods and strategies proven successful to reducing or even eliminating bullying in schools. Principals learn how to hold successful bully prevention meetings with school personnel and student leaders. Teachers are provided with a wide number of creative exercises to help students reflect on bullying. Teachers are also presented...
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Every relationship goes through a few ups and downs. However, if you feel that yours has been in the "down" stage for a little too long then it is time to do something about it. Every partnership has the capability of being absolutely wonderful and amazing – if you know the secrets that all of the top experts know and use (both with their own clients and in their own personal lives too). Take a few minutes and read this e-book to discover these...
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Creating peace in our lives is a life-long journey. The author, a successful conflict resolution and mediation consultant, draws on knowledge and techniques from many different disciplines: neurology, psychology, teambuilding, communication skills, negotiation, martial arts, alternative dispute resolution, law, education, diversity training, and spirituality.
All her concepts and tools are solidly based on accepted research; nevertheless the book...
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The Way of Conflict teaches strategies for using ancient wisdom and modern techniques to confidently engage in any dispute and reach a balanced resolution. This groundbreaking book integrates the wealth of conflict skills found throughout the world's major religious and indigenous traditions with the latest scientific systems and conflict resolution theory. It uses the crosscultural metaphor of the four natural elements - earth, water, fire, and air...
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HAPPINESS, HORSE APPLES AND HAND GRENADE: A Guide for Creating a Stable Relationship with a Man (or a Horse) makes the humorous but insightful observation that "Women and men are different. Women and horses... still different. Men and horses... not so much." By breaking down the similarities of man and horse, Connie teaches women how to see their partners as the unique beasts they are and how to truly appreciate the differences between them and us...
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We are living in one of the most stressful times in human history. This abundance of stress is impacting families and in many cases, manifesting itself in children with difficult and severe behaviors. Homes often turn into intense fighting grounds of power struggles and control battles parents find themselves in us against them scenarios with their children. Tension continually builds and before long, parents are feeling completely overwhelmed, powerless,...
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Nobody likes conflict, but you can't avoid it. Top performers just like you face problems every day. If you know how to deal with conflict well, you can turn it into your biggest opportunity for success. The Top Performer's Guide to Conflict is your essential conflict handbook, giving you the tools you need to manage conflict and come out on top. Discover: --Why you must know how to handle conflict --How to recognize conflict before it happens --The...
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Fear. Avoidance. Division. The safest path can feel like the one without dialogue regarding conversations about equity and diversity. What if you offend the other person? What if they challenge your beliefs? What if you ruin a relationship?
When it comes to hard topics, effective communication skills are an asset, vulnerability is necessary, and forgiveness is vital. In Let's Talk About Race (And Other Hard Things), communication expert and equity...
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Le présent ouvrage traite du programme Crise-Ado-Famille-Enfance (CAFE), un outil d'intervention pour les familles en crise.
Il est l'aboutissement de plus de 15 années de collaboration entre des chercheurs, des étudiants, des dizaines d'intervenants et plusieurs gestionnaires. Le programme a été créé en 1999 en réponse à une situation critique en Montérégie: 70 % des interventions effectuées auprès de jeunes et de familles non connus...
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Naughty or Nice - Whose List Are You On? brings you value and benefit by revealing ten red flag behaviors and personality traits that can be observed in people's handwriting. These traits may be warnings that bear further investigation as you build relationships throughout your life. Being aware of others' characteristics naturally allows you to modify your own actions and behavior, and that can help save your life. Has anyone ever asked if you've...
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Let's Major in The Minors?
Teddy Jones offers us a trenchant analysis from God's word spoken to the prophet Obadiah and through the New Testament books of Philemon, II John, III John and Jude. The fact that these books contain a mere single chapter has caused them to be easily dismissed, ignored or assumed to be minor. These one-chapter books are among some of the most neglected parts of the Bible.
Pastor, Lecturer, Mentor and Theologian, Teddy A....
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Break the silence and heal the rift. Estrangement or partial estrangement from an adult son or daughter is one of a parent's worst nightmares. It can mean angry silences and anguished days and nights wondering what went wrong. Becoming estranged from a parent can be equally painful for an adult child, who may miss the relationship they once shared. Written by Kathy McCoy, one of the nation's more revered experts on family relationships, We Don't Talk...
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