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I Want My Dad: Helping teens and children understand a parent's dependency to drugs or alcohol

by Leo DeBroeck

This book for teenagers and children is about understanding parents and unhealthy lifestyles during and after a parent’s drug or alcohol dependency and abuse. Children of alcoholic or addicted parents often have difficulty understanding what is happening to their parent. The story goes through the life of Alex whose father suffers from the disease of addiction and dependency on drugs or alcohol. It explores how Alex thinks, feels, and acts to his father’s dependency and how family separation may... more

When Dad Got Scared: A child's guide to adults after trauma

by Leo DeBroeck

This book is intended for family members and counselors help young children understand trauma. The book describes the story from the perspective of a child of a parent with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). This helps the child understand how the parent may behave as a result of high stress and trauma experiences. It explains how the parent may change over time and how therapy is a slow, but helpful, process that can be even more difficult to the parent and child. Trauma effects every part ... more

I'm Fine

by Karen Jaye

How many times have you felt awful and, when asked, “How are you?” you respond with, "I'M FINE" “I’m fine” is the usual answer, typically the expected answer that rolls off the tongue without thought, a habit. The question is why. Because others don’t want to hear about problems? Because it would be viewed as complaining? Or, more importantly, because others wouldn’t understand? It is true, our culture as a whole does not understand psychological distress, such an essential topic. I’m Fin... more

Where Tenderness Lives: On Healing, Liberation, and Holding Space for Oneself

by Heather Plett

Where Tenderness Lives is a loving exploration of what it means to unravel what we’ve learned from our families, societies, religions, and cultures in order to heal and create a purposeful and joyful life. Each chapter in this heartfelt and honest book contains a revelation about how to move from shades of fear and doubt to freedom and joy. Through stories that range from what it meant to grow up Mennonite to surviving a horrific assault; from leaving a marriage that no longer worked to the poig... more

Level Up! 50 Game-Changing Life Skills for Young Adults+

by Steve M. Scott

What will it take to live the life you’ve always imagined?

Building the life of your dreams takes more than ambition—it requires mastering the key skills that fuel real success. Level Up! empowers you to unlock your potential, inspired by heartfelt letters the author wrote to his children while navigating the uncertainties of a war zone.

This isn’t just a book—it’s your playbook for mastering life with confidence and clarity.... more

A Few Good Cardinals

by Vincent Vanderbent

How many people cheat when they can? Between 63 and 71% it seems. Is this about the right time to find out why? "For the toxic narcissist, life is essentially war. Win or lose a battle, move on to the next. Rules and consequence don't matter. This is the first exciting meaningful explanation I have seen."

Guidance For New Clinicians In A Chaotic World: How To Practice Your Craft While Preserving Your Traditional Values

by Steven Melman

The book is unique because it seeks to help new clinicians find confidence and competence as they begin their careers. It offers professional experiences and scenarios that the reader will most likely encounter. My book is also tailored to appeal to the Christian and Conservative clinicians who ascribe to more traditional values. It seeks to expose the liberal direction the profession has taken and supports clinicians who are choosing not to accept this indoctrination.

Revolutionary Optimism: 7-Steps to Living As a Love-Centered Activist

by Dr. Paul Zeitz

Dr. Paul Zeitz is a preventive medicine physician, epidemiologist, author, and award-winning champion of global justice and human rights. He has been on the front lines of the call for a permanent ceasefire in the Israel / Gaza War. Dr. Zeitz joined the Rabbis for a Ceasefire at the Israel/Gaza Erez border crossing point as they attempted to bring food aid into Gaza. The U.S.-based organization included eleven U.S. rabbis, several Israeli rabbis, and many other Israeli Jews. Ordained by ... more

DEBUNK

by Sam McCollough

The book is a reference for how to be a good critical thinker, exploring several different aspects of critical thinking. Some of these include logical fallacies, cause and effect reasoning, axioms of science and the scientific method, conspiracy theories, and debunking. The debunking chapter provides tactics and resources for spotting misinformation and disinformation, fake news, and deep fakes. This is a timely book, much needed in this era of disinformation.

Ascending the Ladder

by Benny A. Benjamin, Ph.D.

This self-help book offers the reader cutting edge insights and advice for advancing their career through an unconventional lens: The Five Books of Moses. Career insights are derived from the biblical text and are reframed to help the reader confront contemporary career challenges. Among the key topics are forging a career identity, coping with career uncertainty, and seeking career purpose and meaning. Cutting edge research is offered to substantiate the career insights along with practical tip... more

Authenticity and Grace

by David Smith PhD

Authenticity and Grace: Uncovering the Authentic Self is a quick guide for readers to easily identify their true authentic life. In this concise exploration, Dr. Smith reveals how we discover the nature of Grace, what it is, and how awareness about it can help us uncover the deep purpose we have been searching for. Looking for and discovering what he calls ‘Gracepoints’, Dr. Smith teaches readers how to remove barriers that inhibit the natural flow of Grace in our lives such as anxiety, depressi... more

What's Wrong with My Teen? Finding Answers to Teenage Addiction and Family Crisis

by Susan Raphael

Most parenting manuals end at the toddler years—when raising your child is far from over. "What's Wrong with My Teen?" is the missing guide every caregiver of a teenager has been desperately searching for, especially when addiction and mental health crises hit home. You and your teenager are nearing a point of no return. Their lack of respect for the values your family holds is bad enough. But what most concerns you is knowing that the teen you love is in crisis—and you’re not sure how to hel... more

Invaluable: Achieving Clarity on Value

by Somik Raha

In today’s complex world, it can be difficult to make decisions that align with our values. Invaluable introduces a remarkable new approach to decision-making: achieving clarity on our values and integrating them into our decisions consciously. As a working professional, you, dear reader, already possess unique values waiting to be unpacked and articulated. Invaluable offers a holistic framework to aid their discovery, establish their validity, and simplify their communication. This homage to va... more

Brain Flowers

by Johnny Scifo

Brain Flowers is the culmination of Johnny Scifo's ten year career as a master yoga teacher, integrating research and his own journey into a context that supports spiritual transformation through universal ethics promoting personal responsibility and mindful living. It focuses on relatable aspects of the human condition, serving as a reminder that in a culture overemphasizing our differences, we are mostly the same, and should embrace our similarities for a more peaceful coexistence.

Get Your Mind Right

by Kenneth Wyche

As life traverses it's ever continuing trajectory forward it can be difficult to find your place. So many things are out of your control or have little buy in from you in terms of function, structure, and operation. Getting your mind right is about being made aware of contributing factors to your context and then using that revelatory information to conduct yourself in a way where you can live a more satisfying life that reflects and proliferates your values and interests in a way that insulates... more

Mastering Mentalization

by Anique van der Putten

Mastering Mentalization translates cutting edge scientific research in the field of mentalization into actionable mentalization insights that help you to become a powerful social actor. Mentalization makes it possible for you to truly understand what is going on in the minds of others, and in your own mind. This book will show you how to use those insights to better predict and explain human behavior.

What sets this book apart from other books on mentalization?

This book is design... more

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