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A warm, empathetic guide to understanding, coping with, and healing from the unique pain of sibling estrangement "Whenever I tell people that I am working on a book about sibling estrangement, they sit up a little straighter and lean in, as if I've tapped into a dark secret." Fern Schumer...

It is easier to build a child up than it is to fix a broken adult. This book’s mission is to provide a new perspective, not on how to raise our children, but on how to incorporate life lessons, ancient wisdom, and new age philosophies into their lives at an early age so that they will be well equipped to handle what life throws at them as they get older. It’s much easier to learn something than it is to “unlearn” bad habits or ways of thinking.

Shared Moments with a Stranger is a moving true story of resilience, intuition, and holistic healing through the eyes of Martine, a mother navigating the terrifying yet hopeful journey of premature birth during the COVID-19 pandemic. After an unexpected pregnancy just a month into lockdown, Martine gave birth at only 24 weeks.

Amanda, a graphic designer from OH, invited Melissa, a NY stay-at-home mom on her podcast. Melissa, who has been hunkered down for decades after a cool but soul-crushing brush with fame on MTV’s Real World New Orleans, didn’t really do this sort of thing but Amanda seemed nice. They recorded twice due to technical difficulties, but ended up chatting for hours. Who the fuck talks on the actual phone? They do! Two strangers getting to know each other the old-fashioned way. Get to know Melissa all over again as she gets to know Amanda for the first time. Bonus! One’s white and one ain’t.

In The Stranger in My House, author Corrie Corrigan helps you interrupt the pattern by giving you a new way of thinking and being for both you and your child. Step by step, you’ll learn to reconnect to your child and start reclaiming the life mental illness took away when it moved into your house.

In this anthology of creative nonfiction, 28 writers set out to discover what they know, and don't know, about the person they call Mother. Celebrated writers Samia Serageldin and Lee Smith have curated a diverse and insightful collection that challenges stereotypes about mothers and expands our notions of motherhood in the South. The mothers in these essays were shaped, for good and bad, by the economic and political crosswinds of their time.

Author Cris Beam left her mother's home at age 14, driven out by a suburban household of hidden chaos and mental illness. Her mother, a descendant of William Faulkner, told neighbors and family that her daughter had died. The two never saw each other again. Nearly twenty-five years later, after building her own family and happy home life, a lawyer called to say her mother was dead. In this story about the fragility of memory and the complexity of family, Beam decides to look back at her own dark history, and for the secret to her mother's madness.

Welcome to my first podcast , I hope you enjoy listening to it!

Hi its me your host Shalini Manohar..."Hey strangers" is my podcast. Its a good platform to share interesting topics, stories and experiences with you all. So stay tuned and enjoy listening to my Podcast...Thank you for your support and time.😊

In Modern Families, Joshua Gamson brings us extraordinary family creation tales - his own included - that illuminate this changing world of contemporary kinship. Combining personal memoir and ethnographic storytelling, Modern Families tells a variety of unconventional family-creation tales - adoption and assisted reproduction, gay and straight parents, coupled and single, and multi-parent families - set against the social, legal, and economic contexts in which they were made.

Una pequeña Conversación es el núcleo de nuestra comunicación cuando interactuamos con nuevas personas y conocemos a conocidos. Si alguna vez ha luchado con los aspectos básicos de una conversación, le resulta difícil encontrar temas que promuevan una discusión saludable, aprender el arte de la pequeña conversación es para usted. En este Libro,tomamos un enfoque general para aprender cómo definimos con precisión la conversación pequeña y por qué es una habilidad útil para aprender, refinar y convertirnos en adeptos.