**Completely Updated in December/2016** A Guided Imagery is a process where someone is led by a facilitator, a CD, DVD, audio file, or link on their tablet or laptop to relax and actually slow down their brain waves. The goal is to get into the "Alpha Brain Wave State," as that is where we are most suggestible and where healing often has an easier time to take place. This book teaches you the basics of Guided Imagery, while offering many scripts for you to follow to help achieve something wonderful in your life. You will also learn the power of Affirmations in your life and in a Guided...

Teens are suffering under stressors and responsibilities most parents don't understand. They also have an unconscious need, just as most adults do to "medicate' that stress. They just don't have the maturity to know the danger of 'medicating" with drugs and alcohol. Are your teens or pre-teens acting differently? Are they pulling away from you and the rest of the family? This is the book you need to read to understand the powerful dynamic of Drug and Alcohol Abuse in young adults. It is very important to stop drug and alcohol use in your children before it develops into the abuse stage. If...

**Completely Updated in December/2016** Seeking validation is a natural and normal part of human behavior. We seek to be validated on what we say, and do, and even how we appear. Children can experience having healthy validation at home and school, or they can have a lack of validation, or even experience being invalidated. The way a child was raised has a huge impact on how he or she seeks validation as an adult. Seeking validation as a young adult or as an adult becomes obsessive when the validation-seeking behavior becomes unconscious and has a pattern, and perhaps a repetition, which may...

**Completely Updated in December/2016** Sexuality is one of the most important and defining aspects of our lives. The human experience of sexuality not only involves the aim of procreation, but has several other functions as well. Sexuality can strengthen and deepen a relationship; can serve as a method to relieve tension; is widely seen as a way of self-expression; and not to minimize it, it is usually a joyful activity. Humans have a far more complex sexuality than any other species. This kind of complexity broadens the opportunities to have more fun and derive more pleasure from sexual...

**Completely Updated in December/2016** Anxiety is defined as a feeling of extreme fear, nervousness, uneasiness or worry of impending doom, or an event of undetermined outcome. However, anxiety is not always a pathological process. The same feeling occurs naturally in association with an intense desire to do something. Every child or teenager experiences some degree of anxiety as part of their normal social and emotional development. Anxiety only becomes a problem when it is prolonged and starts to interfere with the normal expected daily activities of the child or teenager. Normal anxiety...

The treatment modalities for pre-teen and teenager depression require a multi-factorial approach. Cognitive-behavioral therapy in combination with pharmacotherapy is the main-stay treatment option commonly used today for treating depression. While these drugs are effective in treating depression, careful monitoring of the dosage is extremely important, especially in young children. Holistic therapy can be effective in treating "normal depression" and might include: proper diet, exercise, supplements, emotional expression through acting, singing, and writing, etc. Parents and siblings of...

**Completely Updated in December/2016** Everyone of us has had a day, a moment or perhaps even a lifetime of being critical of ourselves over something. Perhaps it was or is our nose that we don't like. Our height? Our weight? Our parents? Our grades? Our voice? Our clothes? Our lack of athletic talent? Our neighborhood? It just seems to be human nature to be critical of ourselves. This self-criticism coupled with the criticism that exists all around us at school, in the world, and at home can mold us into individuals with low self-esteem. While we occasionally see in the news where people...

**Completely Updated in December/2016** We live in a complex, fast-paced world with lots of demands placed on us everyday. We often forget that our children are also faced with lots of demands everyday and live in this same fast-paced, complex world. This book explains why, as adults, and as parents, we should be paying closer attention to our children's behavior. Many Teens and Pre-Teens are displaying symptoms of Anger, and we aren't aware of it. This book is your eye-opener If your child isolates, screams at you, hides, cuts himself, has poor scholastic results, fights with other...

**Completely Updated in December/2016** Our children need our guidance in almost every aspect of their lives, but we are often too busy or tired to notice subtle changes in them. Weight problems and Obesity are fast becoming a national epidemic in the Western world, and yet our children are leading more sedentary lives, due to the increase in technology. Some schools have cut physical education and health classes, so this leaves it to parents to educate their children about food, and exercise. Most people don't know that Obesity untreated leads to serious health and mental health issues....

** Completely Updated in December/2016** LINKEDIN, FACEBOOK, EMAIL, CHAT, VIDEO-CHAT, SKYPE, TWEETING, TEXTING, SMART PHONES.... Can you operate successfully in this new technological world? Do people always understand the message that you are trying to get across? Have you posted pictures which you regret? Do you get nasty looks sent your way while you are talking or texting on your cell phone? Do you know the proper way to send emails for business vs. personal? We live in a technological world where people stand in line for hours waiting to purchase the newest I-Phones or I-Pads. People are...