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Get the Summary of Lindsay C. Gibson's Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you probably still struggle with anger, sadness, resentment, or shame. As a child, your emotional needs were not met, your feelings were dismissed, and you likely took on adult...
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Get the Summary of William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer's The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he...
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Book Preview: #1 Louise Robinette was first attracted to David when he was seventeen and she was ten. They had secret hand-holding during fiery Pentecostal services at the Church of God in Princeton, West Virginia. She would later say she would marry him and have twelve children.
#2 King Turpin Jr. had a religious experience in Kentucky that led him to become a preacher, and he moved...
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Get the Summary of T.A. Williams' A Little Piece of Paradise in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Having worked in Rome for four years, Sophie's excited to revisit to Italy, even if it reignites memories of a cheating ex who soon learns of her return and wants to rekindle their spark. Sophie realises that distance does indeed make the heart grow fonder — but for her friend back home,...
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Book Preview: #1 In 1978, I was asked to teach a thirteen-week course on marriage at my church. The topic was: what must a couple do to stay happily married. The book that resulted from this course, His Needs, Her Needs, was a bestseller and continues to be one of the most popular books on marriage today.
#2 The beginning of the end of the traditional nuclear family in America was in 1960, when I was 19 years old. I had been trying to become a marriage...
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Book Preview: #1 When we become parents, we bring with us issues from our past that influence the way we parent our children. These issues can easily get triggered in the parent-child relationship, and our responses toward our children can be strong emotional reactions, impulsive behaviors, or distortions in our perceptions.
#2 I had similar experiences as a parent, and found that...
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Get the Summary of Natalie Franke's Built to Belong in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Many of us feel more alone than ever despite living in the most connected society in human history. We need to belong in the same way that we need oxygen—our physical bodies require it. We perform better and have greater successes as individuals when we are connected to the collective.
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Book Preview: #1 You've been working on your relationship, hoping that love would be enough. But you've been agonizing over whether or not to stay. Now you're ready to make the choice that's been weighing on your heart.
#2 Leaving your relationship means finally freeing yourself from the confusion and pain that comes with it. It means getting on with a new and better life. Until now,...
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#1 I was moved again, this time to a house with my sisters Camille, Gi, and Norm. We were wards of the state, and our mother had abandoned us. We were all very skinny because we were constantly hungry.
#2 I was the eldest of three girls, and we had survived a lot in our short lives. We had seen and experienced a lot, but we rarely cried. Until that day, when my sister...
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#1 I began working as an escort, and every day I had sex with between six and eight men. Jak always went with me in a taxi to drop me off at their homes or hotel rooms. Then he would wait for me in a café to take me to the next job. I hated it.
#2 I was 14 when I got pregnant. I was ecstatic, but Jak seemed pleased about it. I had two regular clients who didn't use...
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#1 I eventually managed to visit Christoph and told him that my mother wanted to visit me. He took a photograph of me standing next to the café owner, smiling and holding some cups on a tray. The next day, he gave me a print of the photo and said, Put it in your bag. You can show it to your mum when she comes.
#2 I was excited to see my mother again, and I was excited...
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#1 My new housemate is 85 and widowed. She likes to garden and talk about paintings. I'm not fussed by her idiosyncrasies, as long as I can keep my distance from her.
#2 I live with a very old and very peculiar woman named Winnie who doesn't like to cook, but who is surprisingly easy to live with otherwise.
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#1 This book will teach you how to craft a deeply meaningful apology, and decode apologies that are blame-reversing, ambiguous, and downright mean. We will also be looking at heroic apologies that can open the door to forgiveness and healing in even the most difficult situations.
#2 The simplest apology, I'm sorry, is not always offered. It can be difficult to extend...
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#1 We have to stop overparenting our babies. We have to recognize that they are already learning everything in the early months, and that they are strong and capable. We must provide them with simple, beautiful spaces instead of rushing them to learn everything we think they should.
#2 The Montessori approach can be applied from birth to raise secure babies who are ready to explore...
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#1 I am in a hotel room in Baltimore, the morning after speechifying at a girls' school a few miles away. I wake to receive a text from my eldest son, who is about to become a father. I am about to become a grandmother.
#2 The baby is the homunculus, the small human dreamed up by alchemists hundreds of years ago. He is the beginning of his own story, but he is also a...
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#1 I had night terrors as a child, and I would wake up in the middle of the night feeling my chest tighten and my heart race. I would never let boys see my privates, even if they were tricked into doing so.
#2 I was the difficult child, and I knew it. I was always getting in fights, and my mother never seemed to understand or believe me when I told her about them.
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#1 I was adopted, and my dad wanted me to have clear skin so people wouldn't stare at me. He gave me a Clearasil regimen, which didn't work.
#2 My dad, a biology professor at an Ole Miss, was the academic advisor for the premed football players. He cooked for them, and they would come over for dinner. As I got older, this became less and less, until it was just premed...
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#1 In 1951, Soraya was born in the village of Kupayeh, near the city of Kerman in southwestern Iran. She had come into the world on the Shah's wedding day, and was named after his bride, Princess Soraya.
#2 When Soraya was ten, her parents took her to the city to apprentice with the arbab, the wealthy landowner. The children who apprenticed there were given food and...
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#1 When our children are most challenging, our minds begin their commentary. We evaluate our actions as parents, our choices in the moment, and the behavior of our children. We often listen to what our minds say, and this can lead to problems in how we behave toward our children and how they behave toward us.
#2 The parents we work with are always ashamed or embarrassed...
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#1 I was excited to go to Nepal and help the children, but I was also excited to travel around the world for a year. I had spent the previous eight years working for the EastWest Institute, an international public policy think tank, out of their Prague office, and was bored.
#2 I had decided to travel to Nepal, and I was excited about it. But I was also nervous. I had...
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