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Self-defeating behavior is something that many people struggle with, but it's not always clear where the behavior stems from. These self-imposed limitations are toxins, preventing us from achieving the love, success and happiness we deserve in our lives.
Author Nicole Musap knows this first-hand and has your detox plan. Nicole shares her experiences growing up in an atmosphere where addiction, denial, lying, and keeping secrets was the norm. Within...
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In this revised and updated edition of Repeat After Me, Dr. Claudia Black's revolutionary self-help workbook, readers are provided with a step-by-step framework and a guide that takes them through a process to recognize how present challenges are influenced by growing up in a troubled family system, release the parts of the past they wish to leave behind, and take greater responsibility for how they live today.
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Claudia Black's bestselling classic on the experience and legacy of being raised in an addictive household.
In an all too familiar scenario, played out in millions of homes every day, children who grow up in addictive families abide by certain rules: don't talk, don't trust, don't feel. The rigid survival roles and youthful coping behaviors they take on, such as the responsible child, the adjuster, the placater, and the acting-out child can eventually...
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In Changing Course-now fully revised and updated-Claudia Black extends a helping hand to anyone overcoming the complex trauma of growing up in an impaired family system.
Don't talk. Don't trust. Don't feel.
Being raised in a dysfunctional family system, whether unpredictable and chaotic or overly rigid and joyless, can set the course for chronic emotional pain in adulthood. Changing Course is a gentle, affirming guide to healing from childhood experiences...
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From the Heart of An Abandoned Daughter is about the trauma of family violence. It highlights the inner struggle of the author's attempt as a child to cope with a terrorizing father and a mother, who was so focused on survival that she had to block her own feelings, and consequently, disconnect from her children, leaving them to feel emotionally abandoned rather than protected.
Without passing judgment on her parents, author Helen Gennari tells the...
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Alcohol use, drug use, and addiction are challenging topics for parents to discuss with children. These subjects are even more complex, and more urgent, for recovering parents to discuss with their children. Best-selling recovery author Claudia Black introduces readers to five different families and reveals how each of the parents talked with their kids about recovery, relapse, and the child's own vulnerability to addiction. Discussion tips and clearly...
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"As the older sibling to identical twins Violet and Lily, Cami Porter was always the odd sister out. The divide grew even wider when their parents split up--while the twins stayed in Cape Sanctuary with their free-spirited mother, Rosemary, fourteen-year-old Cami moved to LA with her attorney father. Nearly twenty years later, when Cami gets the terrible news that Lily has drowned saving a child s life, her mother begs her to return home to help untangle...
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MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
�1995
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Widescreen.
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1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Claudia Larson is a divorced single mom who just lost her job and now has to fly home for the traditional family Thanksgiving in Baltimore. From the plane, she calls for reinforcements--and her brother Tommy makes it down from Boston with a little surprise: a handsome friend named Leo. Between dropping the turkey in their sister's lap and a few fist fights on the front lawn, Claudia and Tommy recapture their childhood and Claudia and Leo explore the...
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Bloomsbury Publishing
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2014
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English
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In her first memoir, Roz Chast brings her signature wit to the topic of aging parents. Spanning the last several years of their lives and told through a mixture of cartoons, family photos, documents, and a narrative as rife with laughs as it is with tears, Chast's memoir is both comfort and comic relief for anyone experiencing the life-altering loss of elderly parents. When it came to her elderly mother and father, Roz held to the practices of denial,...
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC
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2013, 2012
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1 videodisc (89 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Country music's hottest young superstar, Jana Kramer, plays the lead role in this romantic tale of a prodigal daughter's inspirational journey home. When her husband is arrested, wealthy New York socialite and singer Faith Carraday (Kramer) returns to her Southern roots and the family she left behind years ago. Amongst the beautiful fields of rural North Carolina, Faith will try to rebuild her shattered life, her marriage and her belief in herself....
91) To survive caregiving: a daughter's experience, a doctor's advice, on finding hope, help, and health
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Infinity Publishing.com
Pub. Date
2007
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168 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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English
93) The letters
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Bantam Books
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2008.
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199 p. ; 20 cm.
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English
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Sam and Hadley West are both trying in their own ways to survive after the unthinkable loss of their only son in Alaska. Sam goes to the arctic wilderness to find the place where Paul died. Hadley rents a cottage off the Maine coast where she begins to paint again. At opposite ends of the country, waiting for their divorce to be finalized, they begin to exchange letters, missives filled with longing and truths they've never before voiced, as they...
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HFC Productions, Inc
Pub. Date
c2013
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1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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"Sisters Kate and Melanie haven't spoken to each other in years since a hurtful scene at Melanie's wedding. Their parents, Wendy and Al, have let the pain of their daughters' absence drive a wedge between them, and their tensions have led to a separation. Kate is determined to reunite the entire family for Christmas, and has the perfect spot...their old family home. The only problem is there's someone else living there now." -- container
95) The way
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ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
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Widescreen version.
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1 videodisc (121 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Tom goes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France, to collect the remains of his adult son, who was killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking the Camino de Santiago. Rather than return home, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage to honor his son's desire to finish the journey. What Tom doesn't plan on is the profound impact the journey will have on him as he begins to learn the difference between the life one lives and the life one chooses....
97) Post grad
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
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1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Ryden Malby has a master plan. Graduate college, get a great job, hang out with her best friend and find the perfect guy. But her plan spins out of control when she's forced to move back home with her eccentric family. By the time she lands her dream job, Ryden realizes it's meaningless without the man of her dreams, and the people she loves.
98) That evening sun
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Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
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Widescreen.
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Fleeing the retirement home where his son abandoned him, Abner Meecham sets out to reclaim his beloved Tennessee farmstead, only to find it's been leased to an old enemy, the volatile Lonzo Choat. After Abner intervenes to protect Choat's daughter from her drunken father's abuse, events spiral toward a startling, violent climax.
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Harlequin Enterprises, Limited
Pub. Date
2019.
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315 pages ; 17 cm.
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English
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The Christmas Basket: More than ten years ago, high-school sweethearts Noelle McDowell and Thomas Sutton planned to elope--but then he jilted her. This Christmas, Noelle is home to celebrate, and she and Thom discover they are still in love. Now only the decades-old rivalry between their mothers stands in the way of a second chance together.
Let It Snow: When Shelly Griffin's plane is rerouted due to weather, she's stuck sharing the last available...
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