10 Effective Steps to Navigate Divorce with Renewed Hope and Purpose. In this guide by psychologist Dr. Judy Kennedy and divorce recovery coach Julie Connolly, you'll learn three key questions and ten transformative steps to chart an empowered course into a fulfilling new life. Divorce is about reorientation and remaking the meaning of your life after the end of a relationship. It invites you to re-learn who you are and create a new relationship with yourself. Judy and Julie draw upon their own divorce experience and share stories from their clients to give you a deeper understanding of the nature of this transition. Based on powerful therapeutic and coaching models, the content and exercises in the book will help you: -Gain tools to survive the initial shock, hurt, and grief -Reduce feelings of overwhelm and gain a sense of control over your life -Reclaim your power and strengthen your boundaries -Recover from your heartache and move beyond your fears -Create a new story for your life filled with meaning and hope -Reconnect with yourself and rediscover what truly matters With proven research to aid in an intelligent recovery, you'll come to understand the end of marriage can provide an incredible new beginning. You are part of a large community of people who share your experience and understand your feelings. You are not alone. There is hope. There is renewal. Turn north at divorce.
Dreamhouse is the story of marital conflict, family tragedy, and mystery, interwoven with a tale of friendship among a group of women navigating the dawn of the women's liberation movement. Part family drama, part recent history, McConnell traces one women's journey from her role a giddy new bride steeped in the conventions of the early 1960s to a seasoned, mature woman who understands that compromise is not a dead end, but a doorway to a new understanding.Radley and Sam Gallagher are a golden couple in the world of the1960s and '70s. They have moved from New York City to Minneapolis with their two young children so that Sam could start a new job. Attractive and educated, their success seems assured on all fronts. Sam will steadily climb the corporate career ladder and Radley will become a happy mom busy creating an ideal home. They've even found their dream house in an upscale suburb that offers the best of everything. The Gallaghers throw dinner parties, take the children boating, and attempt to lead the conventional life that couples sought after the horror of WWII. But as the Vietnam War drags on half-a-world away, disillusionment settles in closer to home. The marriage is threatened by the rising tide of civil protest and feminism that sweeps society in the late sixties. Radley is frustrated by the endless work of mothering and homemaking, and Sam doesn't really like traipsing off on weekends on family outings. He'd much rather stay home with his family and his highball. Radley becomes more and more discontent as she struggles to manage two unruly toddlers and come to terms with a silent, sedentary husband. A lingering interest in the political scene, left over from her former hippie days in California, leads her to the lecture of a local political activist, which in turn leads to the formation of the West Suburban Council for Women's Liberation. Here she teams up with women with similar needs struggling against the tight conventionality of the times. After a period of consciousness-raising, the group decides to take up social action. They mount a successful public demonstration against the city's flagship department store for women's right to obtain credit cards in their own name.Confronting her lack of domesticity and her desire for personal fulfillment, she strikes out to forge a new path in ways that threaten to destroy the marriage. As her involvement in the women's movement deepens, Sam retreats, too. Deeper into alcohol.Only when an accident nearly claims one of their children are Radley and Sam shocked into looking at what they've become-and what they've lost through their idealized expectations. Radley is forced to reevaluate her core values. She is torn between the emerging sexual and legal freedoms that have become her passion and personal attachment that more and more seems to lie within her devoted family. But it could be too late. Set against the backdrop of the social movements of the '60s and '70s, Dreamhouse is realistic and disturbing, while offering a promising ray of hope. It simultaneously looks at both the light and dark personal sides of the struggle for needed social change in a period that changed our society forever. The final resolution signals the heart of the story-that anything is possible if we can look deeply into our motives and learn to grow up.
Hope for Families Struggling with Addiction. Real-life solutions to help you now Watching a loved one immersed in an intense battle with alcohol and drugabuse may be the most difficult, complex and harrowing experience you'llever have. This book offers a message of hope to families and friends, giving practical solutions so they can help anyone struggling withaddiction to begin the road to recovery. Updated Edition: Contains new chapters and info on: Heroin, Shame & Stigma, Harm Reduction, Marijuana, Synthetic Drugs, 12-Step Groups & The Church, and much more You'll discover: -How to effectively intervene.-Why a person doesn't have to hit rock-bottom. -When helping is actually hurting. -Why quitting is not the same as recovering.-How to deal with relapse. -The importance of faith and hope in recovery. -Why a parent would leave their child due to their addiction. Answers to over 30 common, and not so common questions.Inspiring first-hand recovery stories from real people Praise for Why Don't They Just Quit?This book is a must read. . . I consider Why Don't They Just Quit?to be one of the top five recovery books for families. --Nicholas Taylor, Ph.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist, National Expert on the Treatment ofMethamphetamine AddictionEveryone needs to read this book. After 25yrs of drinking it has savedmy life. --Craig M., New Philadelphia, Ohio God bless you. Al-Anon and AA are a Godsend, but I have found otherbooks to be very general and a little outdated with today's times.Joe's book has answered so many questions for me that I can relate toand put into practice. --D.B., Lakewood, Colorado . . . stayed up late last night reading various parts of it; inspiring This book is for people like me; someone with chemically addicted people intheir life-- a must read for the addicted and those who care aboutthem. --Donna Schwartz, MFT, CAC III Valley Hope Treatment Services inColorado, former Family Program Therapist of Parker Valley Hope TreatmentCenterThis book was a God send I have struggled as a parent of an addictfor years, and now I am finally able to see that it is not in my ability toheal him This book was life changing, LIFE CHANGING I can now begin torecover myself, even if my child doesn't Thank you Joe, for writing thisbook --Shelley K. (parent)Joe's book helps us to understand the addiction and recovery process. Hecombines a lifetime of personal and professional experience dealing withthis issue in a practical and highly personal overview. The book isexcellent. I wish I had read it a year ago. --Sheriff Joe Pelle, Boulder County, Colorado As a Mother, I found this book to be full of empathy, tough-love andpractical information. I especially appreciate that Joe included thespiritual part of recovery, which other resources often avoid. --Vicki Beatty, Celebrate Recovery Leader/Covenant Chapel, Leawood, Kansas This book will be valued by many, many people. A very meaningfulgift of God's grace to families who need sanity in the middle of theirrunaway insanity. --Mike Richards Jr., Director of RecoveryMinistries/International Bible Society, Houston, Texas Many of you reading this book are facing the battle of your life. Alcoholand drugs consumed my daughter's life. I can't put into words the anguishof attending my daughter's funeral. I wish I would have had this book longago. Maybe Mia would still be here. I didn't know how to help her. Thisbook is full of answers I could have used. --Pam M. (Mia's Mom), Niwot, Colorado
There's something cheesy going on around here...Thirty-year-old Amalia Kis just opened a new bistro that specializes in selling mouth-watering platters of cheeses, salamis, artisan breads and wines with quirky names like Broke Ass, Well Hung and The Accomplice. But when she's greeted by the body of the local town hoarder hanging from the coat hooks at her bistro, she finds herself in the midst of an unsavory murder investigation, and her plans for success are quickly thwarted. After a second body turns up in her stairway, the list of suspects steadily grows, as does Amalia's desperation when her Hungarian parents decide to visit for a few days. To further complicate her life, Matt, an ex-cop who now owns his own private investigating firm, takes a sudden interest in her, but getting cozy with him proves to be difficult amidst concussions, break-ins, and her overprotective parents.Amalia's savings are quickly dwindling, as are the customers at the bistro amidst all the scandal. Desperate not to lose her bistro, and since the police don't seem to be making much headway, Amalia starts investigating on her own.Without a clue as to what she's doing, will she end up pasteurized or live to Whine another day?
This book is a testimony of my journey of faith which includes the highest highs and the lowest lows. The story includes God's infinite love mercy and grace and how his continued relentless pursuit of my soul ended in a love story like no other. God has transformed every aspect of my life and put back together the pieces of my shattered and broken heart. He has renewed he has restored and he has given me so much more than I could've ever asked dreamed or imagined.
