The Resourceful Mother's Secrets to Emotional Health


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Just as Meredith's first book, The Resourceful Mother's Secrets to Healthy Kids, set a high standard in helping families raise the healthiest child possible physically, this book explains everything a parent needs to know to raise the healthiest child possible emotionally. It all starts with you, the parent, and your own emotional health. Meredith shows how we can come to understand ourselves and our past to ensure a healthier today for us and our children. She clearly explains how our emotional pain manifests itself in our appearance, behaviours and physical health. Most importantly, she teaches us how to heal by parenting ourselves and coming to love all parts of ourselves. With her emotional healing tools, we transform ourselves into the most confident, loving, positive people - and parents - we can be. But The Resourceful Mother doesn't stop there. Her book goes on to explain how to truly understand our children, prevent emotional blocks by teaching them healthy ways to release their negative emotions, speak their truth, set boundaries, avoid taking things personally, live with integrity, become emotionally strong and much more. This book is not just for the parents who want to raise the happiest children possible; it is for all adults who want to parent the way they wish they had been parented. This book is for everyone who wants to learn how to look at life through the lens of their heart. Meredith Deasley, BA, RNCP, RHN, ACC, is an author, speaker, teacher, pediatric nutritionist and life coach. She has been providing natural, easy to understand and implement, time-proven nutritional information to parents for the past fifteen years. After she had two daughters, both with multiple food sensitivities and allergies, she came to understand the power of food. Her first book, The Resourceful Mother's Secrets to Healthy Kids, assists parents in tackling food sensitivities and allergies. Her second book, The Resourceful Mother's Secrets to Emotional Health, assists parents in raising emotionally healthy children. Meredith owns The Resourceful Mother, a company that helps parents heal their children physically and emotionally. She graduated from the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition, where she now teaches pediatric nutrition, allergies, and body, mind, spirit. She regularly conducts seminars, and her book is the pediatric textbook at the Edison Institute of Nutrition, a worldwide correspondence nutrition program. For more information, go to www.theresourcefulmother.com. Praise for The Resourceful Mother's Secrets to Emotional Health "In this practical book, packed with tips to help you uncover and clear what holds you back, Meredith shares her own life's journey of healing and coming to wholeness. She shows the reader how to reflect on their own lives and turn the spotlight inside to find the truth of what is driving their own games." --Brandon Bays, Internationally Bestselling Author of The Journey and The Journey for Kids and world renowned teacher in the field of mind-body healing. "We had an awesome summer and school has been wonderful; I can't remember the last time I could say that. I got my head in such a better place and I got my son back....I am crying thinking of how much better our lives are now....I owe you the world." --Jen P.




Mama, You Are Enough


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An Honest and Revolutionary Guide to the Emotions Moms Feel But Seldom Talk About A few years ago, Dr. Claire Nicogossian began noticing a trend in her therapy room: Mothers are struggling with the challenging and unexpected emotions that surface during their journey through motherhood. In the confines of a safe, judgment-free space, they share about the heavy guilt they carry from losing control and yelling at their children; the crippling fear that they are failing their families; and the exhaustion of juggling work, home, and family. Dr. Claire calls these our shadow emotions. While varying in intensity, our shadow emotions take some form of sadness, anger, fear, embarrassment, or disgust, often a combination. In this breakthrough book, Dr. Claire sheds light on these shadow emotions and provides a path to thriving joy, inner calm, and radiant confidence. Drawing upon her own experiences of raising four children and many years of counseling mothers as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Claire shares practical tips, strategies, and encouragement to help women in all stages of motherhood. By creating new language for the feelings moms experience but seldom talk about—inspired by the groundbreaking work of Carl Jung—this book has the power to create a radical shift in the way we understand and navigate modern motherhood. With Dr. Claire’s guidance, mothers everywhere will discover the deep joy, fulfillment, and inner peace that are already within their reach.




Will I Ever be Good Enough?


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The first book specifically for daughters suffering from the emotional abuse of selfish, self-involved mothers,Will I Ever Be Good Enough?provides the expert assistance you need in order to overcome this debilitating history and reclaim your life for yourself. Drawing on over two decades of experience as a therapist specializing in women's psychology and health, psychotherapist Dr. Karyl McBride helpsyou recognize the widespread effects of this maternal emotional abuse and guides you as you create an individualized program for self-protection, resolution, and complete recovery.An estimated 1.5 million American women have narcissistic personality disorder, which makes them so insecure and overbearing, insensitive and domineering that they can psychologically damage their daughters for life. Daughters of narcissistic mothers learn that maternal love is not unconditional, and that it is given only when they behave in accordance with their mothers' often unreasonable expectations and whims. As adults, these daughters consequently have difficulty overcoming their insecurities and feelings of inadequacy, disappointment, sadness, and emotional emptiness. They may also have a terrible fear of abandonment that leads them to form unhealthy love relationships, as well as a tendency to perfectionism and unrelenting self-criticism, or to self-sabotage and frustration.Herself the recovering daughter of a narcissistic mother, Dr. McBride includes her personal struggle, which adds a profound level of authority to her work, along with the perspectives of the hundreds of suffering daughters she's interviewed over the years. Their stories of how maternal abuse has manifested in their lives -- as well as how they have successfully overcome its effects -- show you that you're not alone and that you can take back your life and have the controlyouwant.Dr. McBride's step-by-step program will enable you to:(1) Recognize your own experience with maternal narcissism and its effects on all aspects of your life (2) Discover how you have internalized verbal and nonverbal messages from your mother and how these have translated into a strong desire to overachieve or a tendency to self-sabotage (3) Construct a step-by-step program to reclaim your life and enhance your sense of self, a process that includes creating a psychological separation from your mother and breaking the legacy of abuse. You will also learn how not to repeat your mother's mistakes with your own daughter.Warm and sympathetic, filled with the examples of women who have established healthy boundaries with their hurtful mothers,Will I Ever Be Good Enough?encourages and inspires you as it aids your recovery.




The Resourceful Mother's Secrets to Healthy Kids


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Does your child experience colic, eczema, chronic congestion, constipation, multiple ear infections, behavioural challenges, poor sleeping habits, obesity, ADD, Autism or any other health challenge? The Resourceful Mother, Meredith Deasley, will help you understand exactly what you need to know in order to raise the healthiest child. possible. She is a Pediatric Nutritionist that has been providing natural, easy to understand and implement, time-proven nutritional information to parents for the past decade. Meredith helps parents make responsible decisions for their child's health by examining the hidden epidemic of children reacting to food. In her breakout book, The Resourceful Mother's Secrets to Healthy Kids, Meredith guides parents through the maze of conflicting information surrounding food sensitivities and allergies, providing them with the tools they need by: Teaching how to prevent, detect, manage and eliminate reactions to food Identifying which foods are the main culprits for symptoms, conditions and disease Sharing fast, healthy, non-allergenic and scrumptious meal ideas and recipes Explaining which foods and supplements every child needs and why Uncovering how holistic practitioners & remedies can help your child Meredith Deasley, BA, RNCP, RHN, ACC, is an author, speaker, teacher, pediatric nutritionist and life coach. She has been providing natural, easy to understand and implement, time-proven nutritional information to parents for the past sixteen years. After she had two daughters, both with multiple food sensitivities and allergies, she came to understand the power of food. Her first book, The Resourceful Mother's Secrets to Healthy Kids, assists parents in tackling food sensitivities and allergies. Her second book, The Resourceful Mother's Secrets to Emotional Health, assists parents in raising emotionally healthy children. Meredith owns The Resourceful Mother, a company that helps parents heal their children physically and emotionally. She graduated from the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition, where she now teaches pediatric nutrition, allergies, and body, mind & spirit. She regularly conducts seminars, and her book is the pediatric textbook at the Edison Institute of Nutrition, a worldwide correspondence nutrition program. For more information, go to www.theresourcefulmother.com. Praise for The Resourceful Mother's Secrets to Healthy Kids ..".now I understand more about food's impact than all of my years of study. And thank you for sharing your most vulnerable moments, prior to making each discovery." --Kim Hewitt, RHN, mother. "Finding you has been one of my most significant discoveries. Thank you for turning your challenges into help for other parents." --Richard Em, PhD, father. "Dr. Rona's book came to you when you needed it most...that is YOUR book for me. I admire your determination, your attitude and the loving strength that you have for your children and their health. You have been a role model for me. Thank you. Your book is a gift to all of us Resourceful Mothers in training." --Jessika Fiorillo "I started reading your book tonight and could not put it down. I'm already halfway through. You've done a fantastic job and written it in easy to read, every day language. You impart your knowledge in such an interesting way. I find myself wanting to read more and more just for the enjoyment of reading. Well done, Meredith " --Laurie Francis




Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts


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Over 90 percent of new mothers will have scary, intrusive thoughts about their baby and themselves. What if I drop him? What if I snap and hurt my baby? Mothering is so hard—I don't know if I really want to do this anymore. Gosh, I'm so terrible for thinking that! Yet for too many mothers, those thoughts remain secret, hidden away in a place of shame that can quickly grow into anxiety, postpartum depression, and even self-harm. But here's the good news: you CAN feel better! Author Karen Kleiman—coauthor of the seminal book This Isn't What I Expected and founder of the acclaimed Postpartum Stress Center—comes to the aid of new mothers everywhere with a groundbreaking new source of hope, compassion, and expert help. Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts is packed with world-class guidance, simple exercises, and nearly 50 stigma-busting cartoons from the viral #speakthesecret campaign that help new moms validate their feelings, share their fears, and start feeling better. Lighthearted yet serious, warm yet not sugary, and perfectly portioned for busy moms with full plates, Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts is the go-to resource for moms, partners, and families everywhere who need help with this difficult period.




Mothering Our Boys (US Edition)


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"Maggie is earthy and real, full of love and knowledge, especially on raising sons." - Steve Biddulph "Maggie's perspective on raising boys is spot on. She writes with humor and depth, providing insight and strategies for many of the most important issues facing moms. There is a lovely ease to her writing and a powerful honesty. I hope every mother of a son (and everyone else!) will read this book. The future of the world, to a great extent, depends on how we raise our boys." - Michael Gurian, New York Times Bestselling Author of The Wonder of Boys and Saving Our Sons If we can see the world through boys' eyes a little better, we will make different choices in the way we mother them… and we will find them less confusing, and love them more deeply. Mothers of sons are worried about raising their boys in a world where negative images of masculinity are front and centre of our media, almost every day. Not only that, but statistically our boys are still struggling in many ways. Even though we live in a time where we recognise that nothing in gender is fixed, it remains a fact that the influence of a mother on her son is massive. A mother of four sons herself, Maggie Dent draws on her personal experience - and over four decades work as a teacher, counsellor and now author and speaker - to help build understanding, empathy and compassion for our boys. Maggie shares her five key secrets that every mum needs to know and uses the voices of men she has worked with and surveyed to reveal what really matters in a boy's relationship with his mother and other mother figures. Maggie is one of Australia's most popular parenting authors and educators, and her seminars about boys have sold out all across Australia and in the UK. She is finally sharing her insights, her reflections, and (as always) her humour around mothering boys to help you be the mum your son needs you to be.




A Lethal Inheritance


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Every family has secrets; only some secrets are lethal. In Victoria Costello’s family mental illness had been given many names over at least four generations until this inherited conspiracy of silence finally endangered the youngest members of the family, her children. In this riveting story—part memoir, detective story, and scientific investigation—the author recounts how the mental unraveling of her seventeen-year-old son Alex compelled her to look back into family history for clues to his condition. Eventually she tied Alex’s descent into hallucinations and months of shoeless wandering on the streets of Los Angeles to his great grandfather’s suicide on a New York City railroad track in 1913. But this insight brought no quick relief. Within two years of Alex’s diagnosis of paranoid schizophrenia, both she and her youngest son succumbed to two different mental disorders: major depression and anxiety disorder. Costello depicts her struggle to get the best possible mental health care for her sons and herself, treatment that ultimately brings each of them to full recovery. In the process, she discovers new science that explains how clusters of mental illness traverse family generations. Artfully weaving the scientific into the personal, Costello takes a journey to the far reaches of neuroscience and reports back on the startling findings it is yielding about the complex interplay between genes and environment that drives mental illness, and what it now tells us about how parents can trump a lethal inheritance. She shares the results of long-term U.K. and European family studies identifying the earliest signs of mental illnesses that can be passed on from grandparents to parents and grandchildren. She tracks ongoing clinical trials to reverse the courses of these diseases through early intervention with the latest evidence-based treatments and offers brain-healthy choices individuals and families can make to prevent mental illness—freeing future generations to live healthier, happier lives.




Get Me Out of Here


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With astonishing honesty, this memoir reveals what mental illness looks and feels like from the inside, and how healing from borderline personality disorder is possible through intensive therapy and the support of loved ones. With astonishing honesty, this memoir, Get Me Out of Here, reveals what mental illness looks and feels like from the inside, and how healing from borderline personality disorder is possible through intensive therapy and the support of loved ones. A mother, wife, and working professional, Reiland was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder at the age of 29--a diagnosis that finally explained her explosive anger, manipulative behaviors, and self-destructive episodes including bouts of anorexia, substance abuse, and promiscuity. A truly riveting read with a hopeful message. Excerpt: "My hidden secrets were not well-concealed. The psychological profile had been right as had the books on BPD. I was manipulative, desperately clinging and prone to tantrums, explosiveness, and frantic acts of desperation when I did not feel the intimacy connection was strong enough. The tough chick loner act of self-reliance was a complete facade."




How to Raise Successful People


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Outlines simple, counterintuitive approaches to raising happy, healthy, and successful children through parental demonstrations of respectful examples and child-directed activities that facilitate early independence and problem-solving skills.




Understanding the Borderline Mother


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Some readers may recognize their mothers as well as themselves in this book. They will also find specific suggestions for creating healthier relationships. Addressing the adult children of borderlines and the therapists who work with them, Dr. Lawson shows how to care for the waif without rescuing her, to attend to the hermit without feeding her fear, to love the queen without becoming her subject, and to live with the witch without becoming her victim.