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Book Preview: #1 Louise Robinette was first attracted to David when he was seventeen and she was ten. They had secret hand-holding during fiery Pentecostal services at the Church of God in Princeton, West Virginia. She would later say she would marry him and have twelve children.
#2 King Turpin Jr. had a religious experience in Kentucky that led him to become a preacher, and he moved...
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Get the Summary of Lindsay C. Gibson's Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary and not the original book.
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If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you probably still struggle with anger, sadness, resentment, or shame. As a child, your emotional needs were not met, your feelings were dismissed, and you likely took on adult...
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Book Preview: #1 When we become parents, we bring with us issues from our past that influence the way we parent our children. These issues can easily get triggered in the parent-child relationship, and our responses toward our children can be strong emotional reactions, impulsive behaviors, or distortions in our perceptions.
#2 I had similar experiences as a parent, and found that...
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Get the Summary of T.A. Williams' A Little Piece of Paradise in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Having worked in Rome for four years, Sophie's excited to revisit to Italy, even if it reignites memories of a cheating ex who soon learns of her return and wants to rekindle their spark. Sophie realises that distance does indeed make the heart grow fonder — but for her friend back home,...
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Get the Summary of Natalie Franke's Built to Belong in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Many of us feel more alone than ever despite living in the most connected society in human history. We need to belong in the same way that we need oxygen—our physical bodies require it. We perform better and have greater successes as individuals when we are connected to the collective.
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Book Preview: #1 In 1978, I was asked to teach a thirteen-week course on marriage at my church. The topic was: what must a couple do to stay happily married. The book that resulted from this course, His Needs, Her Needs, was a bestseller and continues to be one of the most popular books on marriage today.
#2 The beginning of the end of the traditional nuclear family in America was in 1960, when I was 19 years old. I had been trying to become a marriage...
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Get the Summary of William Kamkwamba & Bryan Mealer's The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he...
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Book Preview: #1 You've been working on your relationship, hoping that love would be enough. But you've been agonizing over whether or not to stay. Now you're ready to make the choice that's been weighing on your heart.
#2 Leaving your relationship means finally freeing yourself from the confusion and pain that comes with it. It means getting on with a new and better life. Until now,...
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Get the Summary of Sloane Crosley's Grief Is for People in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Grief Is for People" by Sloane Crosley is a poignant exploration of loss and the complex emotions that accompany it. The narrative begins with Crosley's personal experience of a burglary on June 27, 2019, where she loses forty-one pieces of jewelry, including heirlooms from her grandmother. This event becomes a prelude to...
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#1 The more you can recall how you felt and what you did in your youth, the better a parent you will be.
#2 Parents should remember how difficult the teen years can be and connect with their teens, as that will help them empathize with them.
#3 Parents want to be remembered by their kids as someone who stuck with them, helped them make sense of the world, and learned...
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#1 The prisoner-warden approach to parenting is when the parent is the warden, constantly watching the child's actions. The child, in the role of prisoner, does something right or wrong, and the parent responds with either a reward or a punishment.
#2 When we discipline our children, we assume that they are inherently undisciplined and need to be civilized. But what...
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#1 I phoned the social services on Monday and was told that they had an advertisement about fostering Mary. They sent me a single photocopied A4 sheet with pictures of smiling children, and no details about what was actually involved.
#2 I was eventually approved to foster, but it took a long process. I was told to describe in fifty words why I wanted to foster, and...
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Get the Summary of Abigail Shrier's Bad Therapy in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Bad Therapy" by Abigail Shrier explores the complexities and potential pitfalls of therapy, particularly for children who lack the agency to question therapeutic practices. Shrier shares her own experiences with therapy, contrasting her ability to make informed decisions as an adult with the vulnerability of children in therapeutic...
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#1 I was five years old when I was taken into care, to live in a Catholic children's home called Nazareth House in Glasgow. I was reunited with my two older sisters. I missed the easy affection of my grandparents' home.
#2 I loved being in the home. I preferred the predictability and safety of it to the uncertainty and chaos of my mother's home. I was happy there, day...
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#1 The pain of intimate betrayal is real and comes from a primitive part of the brain that developed to protect us from leaving the tribe. It is highly irrational, but it is nonetheless powerful.
#2 Intimate betrayal is defined as a sudden revelation or a gradual realization of your partner having lied, manipulated, stolen, or cheated. It can be difficult to deal with,...
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Book Preview: #1 When I am explaining the neurobiology of grief, I start with a metaphor that is based on a familiar experience. However, you have to accept a premise in order for the metaphor to make sense. The premise is that someone has stolen your dining room table.
#2 We know a lot about how the brain creates virtual maps. We have found the location in the hippocampus where the...
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#1 I have gone on the journey of figuring out how to make life less sucky, and I have written this book to share with you the lessons I have learned. I was not taught in school or at work the importance of self-love, positive self-talk, happiness, or personal growth.
#2 The lack of value placed on mental health, and all things associated with it, during my childhood...
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#1 I was moved again, this time to a house with my sisters Camille, Gi, and Norm. We were wards of the state, and our mother had abandoned us. We were all very skinny because we were constantly hungry.
#2 I was the eldest of three girls, and we had survived a lot in our short lives. We had seen and experienced a lot, but we rarely cried. Until that day, when my sister...
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#1 I began working as an escort, and every day I had sex with between six and eight men. Jak always went with me in a taxi to drop me off at their homes or hotel rooms. Then he would wait for me in a café to take me to the next job. I hated it.
#2 I was 14 when I got pregnant. I was ecstatic, but Jak seemed pleased about it. I had two regular clients who didn't use...
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#1 I remember my grandfather having a heart attack and being extremely despondent about his health and the future of the farm. My mother and father stayed because of this, despite my grandmother dying and my father being offered a job in Bloomington.
#2 My grandfather, who had been a full-time hobby farmer, suddenly became very ill. He was rushed to the hospital, where...
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