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LGBTQIA+ & Other Identities
LGBTQIA+ & Other Identities
FAQ: Things you might be interested in knowing!
FAQ: Things you might be interested in knowing!
Guidebooks
Guidebooks
Separation & Divorce
Separation & Divorce
FAQ: Things you might be interested in knowing!
FAQ: Things you might be interested in knowing!
Recommended Reading for Children
Recommended Reading for Children
- Two Homes, by Claire Masurel: Synopsis: At Mommy’s house, Alex has a soft chair. At Daddy’s house, Alex has a rocking chair. In each home, Alex also has a special bedroom and lots of friends to play with. But whether Alex is with Mommy or with Daddy, one thing always stays the same — Alex is loved.
- Dinosaurs Divorce, by Laurie Kransy Brown and Marc Brown: Synopsis: A comprehensive, sensitive guide for changing families, Dinosaurs Divorce helps readers understand what divorce means, why it happens, and how to best cope with everyone’s feelings.
- The Invisible String, by Patrice Karst: Synopsis: Parents, educators, therapists, and social workers alike have declared The Invisible String the perfect tool for coping with all kinds of separation anxiety, loss, and grief. It’s also been joyfully embraced as a year-round celebration of love–gifted at births, graduations, weddings, Valentine’s Day, and beyond.
- The Kids’ Book of Family Changes, by Catherine Stephenson: Synopsis: This gentle book supports children’s emotional wellbeing during a divorce or separation, offering them reassurance, comfort, and practical tools.
- Two Homes Filled with Love: A Story about Divorce and Separation, by Steve Harman: Synopsis: Join Drew and his dragon Diggory Doo on this uplifting story to help a friend during the most difficult change in his life when his parents live apart and he’s now living in two homes. This is an essential book to help discuss and explain to children the hard but important topic in a simple and appropriate way that children could relate to and understand.
- Why Do Families Change? Our First Talk about Separation and Divorce by Jillian Roberts: Synopsis: Often young children blame themselves or are unsure of their place in the family if these events occur. Child psychologist Dr. Jillian Roberts designed the Just Enough series to empower parents/caregivers to start conversations with young ones about challenging subject matter.
Recommended Reading for Older Children & Pre-Teens
Recommended Reading for Older Children & Pre-Teens
- Divorce is Not The End of The World: Zoe and Evan’s Coping Guide for Kids, by Zoe and Evan Stern: Synopsis: Zoe and Evan Stern know firsthand how it feels when your parents divorce. When their parents split they knew their lives would change but they didn’t know how. A few years later, when they were 15 and 13 years old, they decided to share their experience in this positive and practical guide for kids.
- Mum, Dad, Can You Hear Me?, By Despina Mavirdou: Synopsis: Irene is a 10-year-old girl whose parents are getting a divorce. Amid her confusion and helplessness, Irene turns to her diary to express her feelings and better process her parents’ divorce. With the help of her grandmother and her teddy bear, she finds a way to make her parents listen to her.
- The List of Things That Will Not Change, by Rebecca Stead: Synopsis: After her parents’ divorce, Bea’s life became different in many ways. But she can always look back at the list she keeps in her green notebook to remember the things that will stay the same. The first and most important: Mom and Dad will always love Bea, and each other.
Recommended Reading for Teens
Recommended Reading for Teens
- Stuff That Sucks: A Teen Guide to Accepting What You Can’t Change and Committing to What You Can, by Ben Sadley, PhD: Synopsis: Stuff That Sucks offers a compassionate and validating guide to accepting emotions, rather than struggling against them. With this book as your guide, you’ll learn to prioritize your thoughts, feelings, and values. You’ll figure out what you care about the most, and then start caring some more! You’ll learn the skills based on acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT).
Recommended Reading for Adults
Recommended Reading for Adults
- The Truth about Children and Divorce: Dealing with the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive, by Robert E. Emery, PhD: Synopsis: Nationally recognized expert Robert Emery applies his twenty-five years of experience as a researcher, therapist, and mediator to offer parents a new road map to divorce. Dr. Emery shows how our powerful emotions and the way we handle them shape how we divorce—and whether our children suffer or thrive in the long run. His message is hopeful, yet realistic – divorce is invariably painful, but parents can help promote their children’s resilience.
- The Co-Parenting Handbook: Raising Well-Adjusted and Resilient Kids from Little Ones to Young Adults Through Divorce or Separation, by Karen Bonnel and Kristin Little: Synopsis: A valuable parenting guide for divorced or separated couples with kids, this handbook offers tools for navigating conflicts and setting boundaries so both children and co-parents can thrive.
- Divorce, Simply Stated: How to Achieve More, Worry Less, and Save Money in Your Divorce, by Larry and Laila Saretzky: Synopsis: Ranked in October 2020 by Book Authority as the #1 best family law book of all time, this superlative divorce guide offers a laser-focused yet compassionate approach to divorce and separation. You will be empowered with knowledge and insight to maximize results, reduce costs, and care for yourself and your children during this very difficult time.
- Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay, by Mira Kirshenbaum: Synopsis: To make up or break up? Whether you’re just getting serious or have a long-term commitment, no other question causes so much heartache and self-doubt. Many other books tell you how to fix your relationship. This groundbreaking bestseller is the first one to help you choose whether you should try—or you need to go.
- Putting Children First, by JoAnne Pedro-Carroll: Synopsis: The breakup of a family can have an enduring impact on children. But as Dr. JoAnne Pedro-Carroll explains with clarity and compassion in this powerful book, parents canpositively alter the immediate and long-term effects of divorce on their children. The key is proven, emotionally intelligent parenting strategies that promote children’s emotional health, resilience, and ability to lead satisfying lives.
- Putting Children First, by JoAnne Pedro-Carroll: Synopsis: The breakup of a family can have an enduring impact on children. But as Dr. JoAnne Pedro-Carroll explains with clarity and compassion in this powerful book, parents can positively alter the immediate and long-term effects of divorce on their children. The key is proven, emotionally intelligent parenting strategies that promote children’s emotional health, resilience, and ability to lead satisfying lives.
- Conscious Uncoupling: 5 Steps to Living Happily Even After by Katherine Woodward Thomas: Synopsis: We enter our romantic relationships with great love, hope, and excitement—we’ve found the ‘one’, so we plan and forge our futures together. But sometimes, for many different reasons, relationships come undone; they don’t work out. Commonly, we view this as a personal failure, rather than an opportunity. And instead of honoring what we once meant to each other, we hoard bitterness and anger, stewing in shame and resentment. Sometimes even lashing out in destructive and hurtful ways, even though we’re good people at heart. That’s natural: we’re almost biologically primed to respond this way. Yet there is another path to the end of a relationship—one filled with mutual respect, kindness, and deep caring.
- It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way by, Lysa TerKeurst (Christian-based): Synopsis: New York Times Best-Selling author Lysa TerKeurst unveils her heart amid shattering circumstances and shows listeners how to live assured when life doesn’t turn out like they expected. What do you do when God’s timing seems questionable, His lack of intervention hurtful, and His promises doubtful?
Substance Use
Substance Use
Support Groups
Support Groups
- In The Rooms- A Global Recovery Community: In The Rooms is a free online recovery tool that offers 130 weekly online meetings for those recovering from alcoholism or drug addiction. The meetings require only an internet connection and a device, and provide support from those in recovery from around the world. But we also have a host of other great features!
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