This insightful and respected book shows readers how to unlock past hurts, confront emotional scars, and resolve negative feelings.

Whether it is acknowledged or not, mothers leave an indelible impression on their children. This enlightening book can help readers connect with their past to correct self-defeating behaviors, reach their full emotional potentials, and live happier, more fulfilling lives.

In this relevant new book, a journalist husband and his psychologist wife offer wise and inspiring advice to middle-aged adults on how to have more meaningful relationships with their adult children and elderly parents.

Meet the Mitchells: Joyce, a New Englander with time-honored ideas about family, work, and childbearing. And Elizabeth, a young woman who makes unconventional choices about where to live, ways to support herself, and how to give birth. A mother and daughter, half a world apart, who stay connected by writing letters -- intimate, honest, loving letters.Through their letters, you will enter the worlds of two fascinating women. Visit Elizabeth's home in an idyllic corner of New Zealand. Join Joyce's whirlwind life in New York City and Vermont. Share their joy, their excitement -- and their anxious moments -- as they await the birth of Elizabeth's first child, Joyce's first grandchild.From Elizabeth's announcement, I have a new love, to the tense hours leading up to her baby's birth, these letters will captivate you.

The father factor is the conscious understanding, awareness, and appreciation of the critical influence that your father had, still has, or could have in your career development and future potential. Noting that the father-son or father-daughter relationship is one of the least understood relationships in adult life, Dr. Poulter helps you become acutely aware of the immeasurable impact (negative or positive) that your father has on your ability to relate to other people. From this recognition you will also learn to move past the career roadblocks that frequently stem from the lingering effects of your father''s influence. Defining five main styles of fathering, Dr. Poulter devotes a chapter each to: The Superachiever Father The Time Bomb Father The Passive Father The Absent Father (whether physically or emotionally) The Compassionate / Mentor Father. By becoming aware of how your father related to you, particularly in a destructive relationship, you''ll understand how your career relationships in many ways mirror your degree of comfort with your father''s emotional legacy. In this way, career roadblocks-often based on interactions with people on the job-will be more easily transformed into career building blocks that will lead to advancement and success.

The Art of Successful Failure is a personal road map to discovering the incredible purpose (nothing is random), meaning and important life lessons that we all have. Dr. Poulter brings a fresh perspective as a former law enforcement officer, seminary graduate, psychologist, father and author to some of the timeless questions: What does all this mean; How do all the different pieces of my life fit together; Where is the Universal (God) force when I need it? The Art of Successful Failure is the blending of the spiritual wisdom of the East with the Western scientific values for addressing the deeper concerns we all have. The book explores the dynamics of your karma, past and present lives, shame, forgiveness, you and your higher power (God) with modern day spiritual insights. There are no coincidences in your life regardless of your anxiety, fears, disappointments and despair, all your life experiences are the fabric and material necessary for your spiritual awaking. The Art of Successful Failure goes below the surface events of your life to introduce the next chapter of your journey.

Poulter offers a welcome resource to anyone trying to move forward beyond the pain of divorce and rediscover the joys of loving again regardless of prior history, circumstances, old baggage, or fears.

Trusted counselor H. Norman Wright and his daughter, Sheryl, reveal why the mother-daughter relationship doesn't have to control your life or your future. With godly wisdom and practical insights, this book shows readers how to start building a new relationship with their mothers--today.

I will always and forever feel I have a 'hole' in my life where my mother once existed. I think, when you have to think about the fact you might have to take care of your parents someday and juggle kids at the same timeIt's a scary proposition. We had open communication during and before the breast cancer. But then after the breast cancer, I was often afraid to bring things up, in trying to protect Mom. This insightful book tells the stories of women whose mothers had breast cancer. It uses their own voices to express the common fears and expectations of daughters in the periods before and during their mothers' illnesses, involving genetic risks, death and dying, and changes in their relationships. The case studies, tables and figures, and two appendices will benefit health professionals and counselors, while the poignant narratives will help mothers and daughters better understand their experiences with breast cancer. I was kind of surprised to be alive and free of cancer at age 42, when at this point my mother was crippled by metastases. When I get to be 43the age at which my mother died, or maybe when I get to 44it's like, 'what do I do?' I have this life that I didn't expect to have. Breast Cancer: Daughters Tell Their Stories presents the results of a qualitative, grounded theory study of breast cancer survivors, providing in-depth information about an aspect of breast cancer that has been previously overlooked. The book examines the daughters' experiences through four phasesthe period prior to mother's illness, the period during mother's illness and treatment, the period following mother's death (if mother dies), and the long-term impact. From this study, recommendations are compiled for providing or improving services for tomorrow's daughters. The radical mastectomy left her scarred and disfigured below her nightgown. It was bruised and nasty looking. That was kind of scary. I think that has terrified me since. Sometimes I'll have pains in my left breast and that's what I visualize. It's terrifying. I'm not really obsessed about dying of cancer. I'm more along the line of, 'If this is going to happen to me, and there's a chance it's going to, I'm gonna survive. I'm not going to die from it. From an empathetic perspective, this book reveals how many daughters react to and deal with their mothers' diagnoses, depending on their age and family situation at the time of their mothers' illnesses. It shows how daughters can gain a more accurate idea of their level of risk by providing educational materials and developing new strategies for communication. It also helps breast cancer survivors see how their illnesses can shape their daughters' future outlook, offering new inspiration for resolving and preventing family crises.