Family Communication

When the cell towers go dark, will your family hear your voice or just static? We live in a fragile illusion of connectivity. You rely on your smartphone for everything, but in a true grid-down emergency, whether from a natural disaster, cyber-attack, or severe weather, that expensive glass screen becomes useless.

What if you could defuse tension and create accord in even the most volatile situations—just by changing the way you spoke? Over the past 35 years, Marshall Rosenberg has done just that, peacefully resolving conflicts in families, schools, businesses, and governments in 30 countries all over...

This extraordinary book presents scenarios of one family's therapy experience and explains what underlies each encounter. You will discover the general patterns that are common to all families - stress, polarization and escalation, scapegoating, triangulation, blaming, and the diffusion of identity - and you will gain a vivid understanding of the intriguing field of family therapy. 

We raise our children to be independent and lead fulfilling lives, but when they finally do, staying close becomes more complicated than ever. And for every bewildered mother who wonders why her children don't call, there is a frustrated son or daughter who just wants to be treated like a grownup. Now, renowned editor Jane Isay delivers the perfect gift to both parents and their adult children-real-life wisdom and advice on how to stay together without falling apart.

A groundbreaking approach for practicing courageous love and resilient intimacy—from the creator of Internal Family Systems therapy Do loving relationships end because couples lack communication skills, struggle to empathize, and fail to accommodate each other’s needs? That’s a common...

How to Communicate with Your Spouse Without Fighting—EVEN If You Have a Difficult Spouse. Do you find it difficult communicating with your spouse? Are you tired of arguing and fighting with your spouse whenever you try to communicate? Have you ever wanted to cry in frustration after yet again another fruitless argument with your spouse? Is your spouse not talking to you anymore?

“A refreshingly honest approach to modern dating . . . Serena Kerrigan is the big sister you never had, and this book is the friend who grabs your hand and tells you like it is. Consider this your reminder to raise your standards.”—Paige DeSorbo, New York Times bestselling author of How to...

FORENSIC LINGUISTICS --- Decode the mysteries of language and the law with this definitive guide to the intersection of linguistics and forensic science. This book explores how linguistic principles and methodologies are applied to legal contexts, revealing the complexities of legal language and communication. Here are the key areas covered: Authorship Attribution in Legal Contexts - Methods for identifying authors of disputed texts. - Use of stylistic and linguistic features in forensic investigations. Forensic Phonetics in Speaker Identification - Analysis of acoustic features and speech ...

There is a whole line of people breathing inside you. This book is their voice. A woman lights a candle for her dead grandmother. She isn't quite sure why. And yet that gesture—so ordinary almost no one notices it—carries more than five thousand years of documented history. The Sumerians did it before their clay niches. The Romans did it before the lararium. The Yoruba do it for their Egun, the Chinese for their ancestral tablets, the Mexicans on the illuminated night of the second of November. We are the first generation in human history to have decided—collectively, loudly—that ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An award-winning guide to the sometimes erratic and confusing behavior of teenage girls from the author of Under Pressure and The Emotional Lives of Teenagers Dr. Lisa Damour worked as an expert collaborator on Pixar’s Inside Out 2! “The most down-to-earth...

The perfect companion for family caregivers—frank talk, wise words, real-life tools “We’re family caregivers, you and I” is how this remarkable book begins. Told through the voices of family caregivers and counselors, this emotional survival guide gives you straight talk and wise words that will help you make your way through the toughest—and possibly most rewarding—job you’ll ever have. Today’s longer lives mean longer caregiving. If you’re caring for a parent, spouse, or friend over the long haul, this book is your essential companion, from beginnings, through the ups ...

The instant New York Times bestseller! “Emily Oster dives into the data on parenting issues, cuts through the clutter, and gives families the bottom line to help them make better decisions.” –Good Morning America “A targeted mini-MBA program designed to help moms and dads establish best...

For nearly 25 years, Dr. Kim Van Dusen—a licensed family therapist, registered play therapist, creator of The Parentologist blog, and mom of two—has provided parents with practical, effective ways to transform their parent-child communication by learning to speak in a way kids can understand: the universal language of play. In this pioneering guide, Dr. Kim shares her solution-focused strategies designed to meet kids where they are and elicit positive behaviors.

From the acclaimed author of Awake, Not Woke comes this incisive exposé of the widespread, politically motivated no-contact movement that deconstructs the ideology behind this trend and equips readers to avert estrangement and repair broken relationships. “Refusing easy villains or easy...

Selective mutism is often described as a childhood condition, yet many young people continue to experience significant difficulties with speaking well into adolescence. In secondary school environments, these difficulties can easily be overlooked. Quiet students may appear compliant and capable, while the anxiety behind their silence remains hidden. This practical guide focuses specifically on teenagers with selective mutism and the unique challenges they face in school, social relationships, and the transition to adulthood. Drawing on clinical experience and the perspectives of young ...

This book is a prayer book particularly for commanding total deliverance, restoration, breakthroughs and victories in night’s seasons. Take time to read every bit of it in order to have better understanding of the breakthrough and prophetic prayers of the night seasons. Whatever you don’t understand is above you but what you understand keeps you above. Good understanding giveth favour… Proverb13:15a. Nothing happens in life on its own. Everything happening and that will still happen is by a deliberate act and orchestration. Whatever will be, will not be until you make it be. There are...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER More than 1 million copies in print! The authors of No-Drama Discipline and The Yes Brain explain the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures in this pioneering, practical book. “Simple, smart, and effective solutions to your child’s...

The definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries—from their rise to power to their eventual downfall. "A feat of both scholarship and storytelling." —Wall Street Journal In The Habsburgs, Martyn Rady tells the epic story of a dynasty and the world it...

Discover the powerful way to transform your relationships with friends, loved ones, and even coworkers, with proven strategies that you can put to work immediately on improving the way you communicate with anyone in any environment.

‘Love doesn’t fail because people stop caring. It fails because people stop feeling seen’ WE NEED TO TALK offers up a new definition of intimacy: not just physical or emotional closeness, but the ongoing act of making space for someone else to exist fully. Most of us don't know how to...