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Repartnered Families: Creating New Ways of Living Together Beyond the Nuclear Family by Jan Rodwell
$27.00 NZD
Category: Stepfamilies
What can we do when our 'blended' families just won't blend? One of Auckland's most experienced and respected Auckland family therapists, Jan Rodwell, has examined this and other key questions on 'new', 'reconstituted' or 'repartnered' families. From her work and her personal experience, Rodwell unders ...Show more
Trapped in the Mirror: Adult children of narcissists in their struggle for self by Claire Golomb
$39.00 NZD
Category: Personality Disorders
In this compelling book, Elan Golomb identifies the crux of the emotional and psychological problems of millions of adults. Simply put, the children of narcissist - offspring of parents whose interest always towered above the most basic needs of their sons and daughters - share a common belief: They bel ...Show more
Running on Empty No More - Transform Your Relationships with Your Partner, Your Parents and Your Children by Jonice Webb
$40.00 NZD
Category: Families
Since the publication of Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect, many thousands of people have learned that invisible Childhood Emotional Neglect, or CEN, has been weighing on them their entire lives, and are now in the process of recovery. Running on Empty No More: Transform Your R ...Show more
Children of the Self Absorbed: A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents (3rd Ed) by Nina W Brown
$43.00 NZD
Category: Personality Disorders
Do you have a self-absorbed or narcissistic parent who's made you feel rejected, unloved, or unworthy? Being a parent is usually all about giving of yourself to foster your child's growth and development. But what happens when this isn't the case? Some parents dismiss the needs of their children, asser ...Show more
Your Child's Divorce: What to Expect... What You Can Do by Marsha Temlock
$47.00 NZD
Category: Separation/Divorce
For parents of adult children who just got the unhappy news, and are struggling with a ton of emotions and questions. You're confused, disbelieving, saddened, and determined to help -- somehow. Addresses parental dilemmas with clear, friendly expert advice, exercises and self-examination work, authorita ...Show more
The Empty Nest: How to Survive and Stay Close to Your Adult Child by Celia Dodd
$40.00 NZD
Category: Families
More than half a million parents confront the empty nest for the first time each year. It is one of the most challenging phases of parenting, often creating feelings of loss, lack of purpose and crisis of identity which can lead to depression. Yet it receives little recognition. And contrary to popular ...Show more
The Crowded Nest: Surviving the New Togetherness by Sue Jackson
$35.00 NZD
Category: Families
How do middle-aged parents cope with sharing their homes with young adult children? Examines this modern phenomenon with sympathy, humour and wisdom. Offers strategies and insights to help parents and adult children survive and learn to live together.
They F*** You Up: How to Survive Family Life by Oliver James
$29.99 NZD
Category: Families
Do your relationships tend to follow the same destructive pattern? Do you feel trapped by your family's expectations of you? Does your life seem overwhelmingly governed by jealousy or competitiveness or lack of confidence? In this ground-breaking book, clinical psychologist Oliver James shows that it is ...Show more
More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory by Franklin Veaux; Eve Rickert; Tatiana Gill (Illustrator); Janet Hardy (Foreword by)
$52.00 NZD
Category: Families
Can you love more than one person? Have multiple romantic partners, without jealousy or cheating? Absolutely Polyamorous people have been paving the way, through trial and painful error. Now there's the new book More Than Two: A practical guide to ethical polyamory to help you find your own way.
When Your Parent Remarries Late in Life by Terri P. Smith
$35.00 NZD
Category: Families
'Grey divorceees' are remarrying in record numbers, as are their widowed and single counterparts, a trend that is shaking up their grown-children, and sending shock waves through extended families everywhere. The issues that come up when parents and their adult children clash over remarriage pack an emo ...Show more
You Can Fix Your Family by H Charles Fishman MD
$25.00 NZD
Category: Families
Your family is falling apart and everyone is grudgingly unhappy, the kids are misbehaving and in trouble with the law, your dreams are disintegrating as midlife pokes through, you want your children to thrive and do well. … Trying to solve family problems? This wise, practical book will guide you. You ...Show more
The Step-tween Survival Guide by Lisa Cohn
$28.00 NZD
Category: Families
Life as a preteen (a.k.a. 'tween') can be challenging. Life as a step-kid can be equally tough. Put them together, and it can be like climbing Mount Everest...daily. Step-tweens are not only caught between childhood and teenage - they're also often caught between two parents, two families, and two homes ...Show more
