Mango media jun 2020 (3 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A Novel of Redemption from Addiction and a Broken Family'A Clean Heart picks at the knot of addiction and recovery insistently and with a wholesomeness intriguingly at odds with its subject. I enjoyed this book.' -Thomas Beller, author of The Sleep-Over ArtistCarter Kirchner struggles to stay sane and sober as a counselor at Six West, an adolescent drug treatment center run by Sister Mary Xavier, a hard-drinking nun with an MBA. The young Kirchner is caught between Sister Mary's plan to rescue the center by reforming a hard-case kid and the dysfunctional staff's clumsy plan to intervene on their boss's drinking. Meanwhile, Carter's mother-who never forgave him for giving up a promising hockey career to treat his own addiction-lands in the hospital with an advanced case of cirrhosis. Before Carter can help the young addict commissioned to his care or safely navigate the staff's dysfunctional intervention effort, he must rescue himself from his family's broken past.A Clean Heart is a novel by John Rosengren, a writer and recent nominee for a Pulitzer Prize who knows the territory of addiction. He went through treatment at age 17 and has been clean and sober since 1981. He also worked in adolescent treatment centers when he was younger. John Rosengren's articles have appeared in more than 100 publications, including The Atlantic, New Yorker, Reader's Digest, Sports Illustrated, and Utne Reader.If you are a fan of the 2018 films Ben is Back or David Sheff's Beautiful Boy or have read addiction memoirs such as If You Love Me or We All Fall Down, you will love reading John Rosengren's A Clean Heart.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Practical and Positive Parenting that Promotes Your Boy's Emotional IntelligenceFrom nationally recognized parenting expert and spokesperson, Will Glennon, come two hundred suggestions for raising emotionally aware and healthy boys.Encouraging emotional intelligence from boyhood to manhood.Raised against a backdrop of gendered social and cultural norms, it's no wonder that boys are more likely to struggle with their emotional intelligence. In this quick read, Glennon lists two hundred ways to nurture young men and, in turn, teach them how to nurture back.Parenting tips and quotes.Avoid fragile masculinity, frat boy culture, and everything in between with a better understanding of male child behavior. Designed to help raise compassionate, emotionally intelligent boys and supplemented with emotional intelligence examples and child rearing anecdotes,Nurturing Boysencourages playful, thoughtful, and deliberate parenting styles.Inside, boys will learn how to:- Connect with and manage their feelings- Use their feelings constructively, not destructively- Communicate their feelingsIf you've asked, "What is toxic masculinity " or "What is emotional intelligence," and enjoyed books likeDecoding Boys,Wild Things,Raising Cain, orHow to Raise a Boy, then you'll love Will Glennon'sNurturing Boys.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Fear in Contemporary Society and its Consequences"A delightfully fearless and deeply sensitive examination of that most primal and formative human experience." ?Alan Burdick, author ofWhy Time Flies: A Mostly Scientific Investigation#1 New Release in Evolutionary Psychology and BuddhismFor anyone suffering from global pandemic anxiety caused by the new coronavirus, comes an exploration of one of the most powerful and primitive human emotions.A history and culture of fear.Over the last five hundred years, life for the average human being has changed dramatically?plagues no longer routinely wipe out entire families, and we no longer empty our chamber pots into the street. But, progress has shown that no matter how many dangers we neutralize, new ones emerge. Why Because our level of fear remains constant.Fear in contemporary society.For years, Dr. Frank Faranda studied a state of fearfulness in his patients?an evolutionary state that relentlessly drove them toward avoidance, alienation, hypercriticism, hyper-control, and eventually, depression and anxiety. He began to wonder what they were afraid of, and how embedded these fears might be in contemporary society. This book aims to break us free from what he found.Fear not.Faranda's Fear Paradox is simple?even though fear has a prime directive to keep us safe and comfortable, it has grown into the single greatest threat to humanity and collective survival. As a consequence, fear is embedded in our culture, creating new dangers and inciting isolation. With rising anxiety levels, now is the time to shine a light on our deepest fears and examine the society that fear is creating.But fear not?inside, you'll learn about:- The fear of pain and the fear of the unknown- How fear has driven progress in the West- The price paid to eradicate fearRead books likeFear,The Culture of Fear, orThe Science of Fear ThenThe Fear Paradoxis your next read. Come on, what are you afraid of.…