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With so many parenting styles to choose from, when it comes to giving your child the best start in life it can be difficult to know which way to turn. Psychiatrist and mother Robin Burman’s brilliant new book shows you the way: Hate Me Now, Thank Me Later is the definitive guide to helping your child grow with both love and discipline.
“For twenty years, this “beautifully written” (USA Today), “moving, comprehensive and insightful look at the lifelong ramifications of the loss of a mother” (San Francisco Chronicle) has been the book a woman can turn to for understanding and comfort when her mother dies. Building on interviews with hundreds of motherless daughters, Hope Edelman’s unique and courageous work also reflects her personal experience with the continued legacy of mother loss. An exploration of a profoundly life-altering rite-of-passage, Motherless Daughters is for any woman who wants to better understand the mother-daughter relationship. “–.
How do you define success? In the current model that we have come to accept, success is equated with overwork, burnout, sleep deprivation, never seeing your family, being connected through email 24 hours a day and exhaustion – put simply it isn’t working. It’s not working for women. It’s not working for men. It’s not working for companies, for any societies in which it’s dominant or for the planet. In this book, Arianna Huffington rebuts – and extends – the debate launched with Sheryl Sandberg’s international bestsellerm ‘Lean In’, arguing that a successful life is made up of more than just money and success and must also include what she calls ‘The Third Metric’: personal care, health, and fulfilment.
At 26, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family disbanded and her marriage crumbled. With nothing to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life: to walk 1,100 miles of the west coast of America – from the Mojave Desert, through California and Oregon, and into Washington State – and to do it alone. She had no experience of long-distance hiking and the journey was nothing more than a line on a map. But it held a promise – a promise of piecing together a life that lay in ruins at her feet.
Comedian, writer and mental health campaigner shows us why and how our minds can send us mad and how we can rewire our thinking, especially through mindfulness, to calm ourselves in a frenetic world.
Becoming a dad can be a daunting time – especially when most pregnancy and parenting information is targeted towards women. This book, from a leading expert in working with expectant dads, doesn’t sideline or speak down to men. Instead it provides an array of targeted information to fully prepare men for their new roles – as both birth partners and fathers. ‘The Expectant Dad’s Handbook’ is a one-stop guide to prepare men for their path to fatherhood. It provides practical answers to all the questions on the mind of a dad-to-be.
Gina Ford’s parenting advice is valued by thousands of mums. Her practical guidance and sensitivity to mothers’ needs allows parents to keep their sleep and sanity during their babies’ first weeks and beyond. Now, in this guide to pregnancy and birth, Gina Ford extends her advice to caring for yourself and your baby before birth. Covering not only all of the essential medical and health advice for pregnancy, it also contains unique information on how to prepare your life, your home and yourself for becoming a parent.
Combining the work of the some of the most insightful travellers of the past 2000 years with his own experience, Tristan Gooley demonstrates how it is possible to connect profoundly with the lands we travel through.
Jessica Fox was living in Hollywood, an ambitious 26-year-old filmmaker with a high-stress job at NASA. Working late one night, craving another life, she was seized by a moment of inspiration and tapped ‘second hand bookshop Scotland’ into Google. She clicked on the first link she saw. A month later, she arrived 2,000 miles across the Atlantic in Wigtown, on the west coast of Scotland, and knocked on the door of the bookshop she would be living in for the next month.
You are not doomed by your genes and hardwired to be a certain way for the rest of your life. A new science is emerging that empowers all human beings to create the reality they choose. This book combines the fields of quantum physics, neuroscience, brain chemistry, biology and genetics to show you what is truly possible.
This text tells you everything you need to know about your pregnancy. On a week-by-week basis, you can learn how your baby is developing, how and why your body is changing, and what you can do to ensure a smooth and comfortable pregnancy.
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