Kategoria BISAC: Family & Relationships >> Abuse - Domestic Partner Abuse

Thawing Toxic Relationships is number three of a four part series entitled Thawing the Iceberg. The Thawing the Iceberg Series is designed to address various issues outlined in the author's bestselling book, Thaw - Freedom from Frozen feelings. The other two books in the Series are: Thawing Adult/Child Syndrome and Thawing Childhood Abandonment Issues.

Thawing Toxic Relationships is a book about healing and co-creating healthy, functional relationships for those who grew up in a dysfunctional family. If you relate to Don Carter's Iceberg Model, would like to have a genuinely happy and...

This is a young individuals' poetic journey, though the emotional roller coaster we call, love. The story this book tells is one that we all in some way experienced. The love and pain in this book we either directly or indirectly faced. A "Broken Heart is Never Broken," speaks to you and guides you to the path you already know to take, while walking you back to the questions in your heart. This is a poetic experience like no other. This is a story about two divided back to one, about love found, troubled, and then lost. This is a rejuvenation, a "They don't miss it until it's gone,"...

Unveiling the Silent Cries documents the events suffered by Sherry Bevill Moss at the hands of her husband. Unthinkable abuse plagued Sherry during a nineteen year period while she endured eleven pregnancies, three of which ended in miscarriages. The book details the types of abuse she suffered. Sherry thought she alone suffered sexual abuse but discovered differently from one of her children. When the chance arrived to free herself of this man, she acted quickly. He took the coward's way of dealing with his secret's explosure and the legal system's discipline for his years of marital...

Mainstream counselling in domestic violence often fails to address critical issues, such as gender socialisation processes and the abuse of power that allows violence against women, and focuses primarily on the intra-psychic nature of individual women. In contrast, feminist counselling is an effective alternative model, owing to its ability to address the fundamental correlation of abuse with power. In going beyond the individual, it helps women locate the source of their distress in the larger social context of power and control, manifesting in intimate, interpersonal relationships, and...

Readers who praised this story of coming of age -- and coming into grace -- will love this new book club edition

More than a memoir, this book is a promise of hope for anyone who was abandoned as a child, to anyone who woke up hungry and went to bed hungrier every day, for every wife who has loved a husband who left bruises on her heart and on her body.

Somewhere between stealing cold cuts from stray cats and watching a stranger leave her mother's bed after breaking in through their bedroom window, Mary figured out that her family was dirt poor. Worse than her empty stomach,...

Readers who praised this story of coming of age -- and coming into grace -- will love this new book club edition

More than a memoir, this book is a promise of hope for anyone who was abandoned as a child, to anyone who woke up hungry and went to bed hungrier every day, for every wife who has loved a husband who left bruises on her heart and on her body.

Somewhere between stealing cold cuts from stray cats and watching a stranger leave her mother's bed after breaking in through their bedroom window, Mary figured out that her family was dirt poor. Worse than her empty stomach,...

Scorned, but Not Broken is a collection of stories, poems and prayers that were documented during one woman's journey to escape abusive relationships, and her quest for healing, redemption and freedom. In this memoir, Mrs. Tonya Ward-Blackshear shares personal stories of how she encountered tragedies that are all too common among women-- sexual abuse, physical abuse and verbal abuse. After suffering through these situations on multiple occasions, she felt like her life was completely broken and shattered. During such horrible events, she ran to the only one who could give her the...

It's Okay to Have Needs of Your Own

You fell in love with him. But over time you've come to realize he's in love with himself--and you feel trapped. His needs, his problems, and his plans always seem to take precedence over yours.

Dr. David Hawkins, director of the Marriage Recovery Center, offers a guide to help you identify signs of narcissism, understand how your loved one's issues are affecting you, and prepare a biblical game plan for freeing yourself to live courageously in light of God's love.

Whether the man in your life can be diagnosed with...