High Conflict Parenting

Escape toxic co-parenting battles and master emotional regulation to protect kids from high-conflict crossfire. Whether you are navigating a stressful separation or managing daily hostility from an uncooperative ex, this empowering listen offers a lifeline. Transform your divided household into...

💡 Protect Your Child — And Your Sanity — While Co-Parenting With A Narcissist When your ex is a narcissist, separation doesn’t end the manipulation — it just changes the battlefield. Every pickup, message, and “small request” becomes another trap meant to drain your energy and control the narrative. You can’t change the narcissist — but you can protect your child and your peace. Written by Lena Falcon, survivor and researcher of narcissistic family dynamics, this practical, no-BS guide shows how to make PARALLEL PARENTING actually work in real life — helping you set ...

A “compulsively readable” (Evan Osnos, National Book Award–winning author) book from the New York Times bestselling author of The Unthinkable and award-winning journalist Amanda Ripley investigating how good people get captured by high conflict—and how they break free. When we are...

With more than three decades of experience as a licensed marriage and family therapist, Dr. McBride guides you through the emotional fallout and challenges of being married to and divorcing a narcissist. The court system assumes that both parties in most high-conflict divorces are at fault, but a narcissist can wreak havoc in the divorce process. Dr. McBride shows how to navigate this kind of divorce and how you and your children can heal afterward.

In this 10th-anniversary edition of Don't Alienate the Kids attorney, mediator, and therapist Bill Eddy shows listeners how to protect children from the harm of alienation and high-conflict divorce, boosting their resilience by teaching them to think flexibly, manage their emotions, and moderate their behaviors.  

Tension often dominates when co-parenting with someone who is high-conflict. Even after dividing responsibilities or forming clear agreements, conversations can easily shift from simple logistics to emotionally charged arguments. Many parents come to dread every new message, apprehensive about potential escalations based on past experience. If you feel anxious before checking your phone or find yourself rehearsing responses, you are not alone. Successfully navigating this landscape requires more than general advice—you need specific, practical tools designed for high-conflict situations. ...

Are you sick of every text with your ex turning into a battle—even when all you want is a simple answer about your kid? Does it feel like you’re the only one trying to keep things civil, while your ex keeps poking old wounds and dragging you back into the same arguments? You’re exhausted from every pickup turning into a power struggle, every text spiraling into an argument, and the constant worry that your child is caught in the crossfire. You want peace, but it feels impossible when your ex seems determined to push every button and nothing you try sticks.

Are you struggling to find your voice amidst the chaos of divorcing a narcissist? Do the constant battles, negotiations, and manipulations leave you drained? Are you overwhelmed by the thought of co-parenting with a narcissist? You can escape the web of a narcissist, and you do not have to sacrifice your well-being for the sake of co-parenting. This starts with drafting a comprehensive co-parenting agreement, to provide a solid foundation for future interactions.

The only way to get over it is to get through it. Help is here. High-Conflict Divorce for Women has everything that divorce books for women should have - practical strategies, helpful scripts, and realistic advice on how to navigate and cope with a difficult divorce. From understanding the legalities of divorce, to developing a post-divorce budget, and more, this book goes beyond other divorce books for women to offer a wide range of strategies for getting through each stage of the process. Plus, you'll discover tips for emotional and physical self-care and mitigating stress.

Adult Children of High-Conflict Parents offers practical skills to help you identify, cope with, and heal from dysfunctional family dynamics. Using a blend of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), internal family systems therapy (IFS), EMDR, and mindfulness, the integrative approach in this guide will help you break unhealthy relationship patterns, set boundaries with others, cultivate self-compassion and self-awareness, and thrive as an adult.

When a high-conflict person has one of five common personality disorders—borderline, narcissistic, paranoid, antisocial, or histrionic—they can lash out in risky extremes of emotion and aggression. And once an HCP decides to target you, they’re hard to shake. But there are ways to protect yourself. Using empathy-driven conflict management techniques, Bill Eddy, a lawyer and therapist with extensive mediation experience, will teach you to spot warning signs of the five high-conflict personalities in others and in yourself.

What happens when the person you once loved turns your child against you? When your identity as a parent is erased through lies, manipulation, and a court system that doesn’t understand emotional abuse? This book is for every mother or father who woke up one day and realized they were no longer seen by their own child. It’s for those who have been called “high-conflict” for telling the truth, who have been painted as the villain while the narcissist plays the victim, and for those who are fighting for their child’s heart in silence. Melissa Rymer, a certified recovery and divorce ...

Winning High-Conflict Custody Battles is the book that terrified, exhausted parents reach for when a custody dispute stops being a disagreement and turns into war. If your ex lies easily, thrives on drama, weaponizes your child’s love, or keeps dragging you back into court, this book shows you how to protect your children and your case with calm, documented truth instead of panic or rage. Written by nationally recognized trial lawyer and award‑winning author Stephen Rue, Esq., this field manual distills nearly four decades of front‑line family law experience and more than 5,000 cases ...

The counselor, teacher, and founder of The Relationship School reveals the origins of conflict styles, and how to stop avoiding and resolve conflict in relationships with loved ones. Conflicts in our closest relationships are scary because so much is at stake. If the conflict doesn't go well, we...

In The Highly Sensitive Person's Guide to Dealing with Toxic People, you'll learn evidence-based skills grounded in cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help you recognize and shut down the common manipulation tactics used by toxic people, such as gaslighting, stonewalling, projection, covert put-downs, and love bombing.

Talk to Me like I'm Someone You Love is a brilliant interactive relationship tool that can help couples stop arguing and begin healing. This revised edition features two new sections - one on making love and another on deepening trust - containing more than 25 new "flash cards for real life", statements that hold the power to express what we wish we could say to the person we love but for which we can't find either the right words or the right tone in which to say them.  

The divorce was supposed to be the end. It wasn't. The narcissist doesn't stop when the marriage ends — she just changes her weapons. And now she's using your children. You've read the books written for women. The ones about narcissistic abuse recovery, gray rock, no-contact, trauma bonding. They helped — until you realized none of them are written for you. None of them explain how to be a father who shares custody with a narcissistic ex-wife. None of them tell you what to do when your seven-year-old comes home repeating things she could not have come up with herself. None of them ...

Many individuals like you are caught in the web of emotional and psychological abuse, wondering how to reclaim their lives and ensure a safe and stable environment for their children. The reality is arduous, but the solution is within your reach. Introducing "Divorcing a Narcissist," your comprehensive guide to navigating the treacherous waters of high-conflict divorce, succeeding in family court, and emerging stronger than ever.

How to Deal with a Narcissistic Ex Wife: The Practical Guide Every High-Conflict Dad Needs. A Practical Guide to Protect Your Peace, Set Healthy Boundaries, Navigate Co-Parenting, Stop Emotional Manipulation, and Rebuild Your Life After Divorce Every text message shouldn't ruin your day. Every custody exchange shouldn't feel like walking into a fight you never wanted. If you're divorced or separated from a wife who shows narcissistic behaviors, high-conflict patterns, or emotionally manipulative tendencies, you already know the exhaustion of never quite winning — and always somehow ending...

How To Leave a Marriage Peacefully Without Ending Your Family. A Practical Guide to Protect Your Children, Avoid Conflict, Co-Parent With Respect, and Build a Stronger Family After Separation. The marriage may end. The family doesn't have to. If you're lying awake at night wrestling with one impossible-feeling question — how do I leave this marriage without destroying everything my children depend on? — this book was written for you. Who this How To Leave a Marriage Peacefully Without Ending Your Family book is for This is for the mother or father who has decided, or is close to ...