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On the surface, Victoria Jackson is the American Dream personified: from a troubled childhood and unfinished high school education, she overcame immeasurable odds to create a cosmetics empire valued at more than half a billion dollars. Married to Bill Guthy - self-made principal of infomercial marketing giant Guthy-Renker - Victoria’s most treasured role is mother to three beautiful, beloved children, Evan, Ali, and Jackson. Suddenly, Victoria’s dream life is broken....

Author and Instagram star Heather Avis has made it her mission to introduce the world to the unique gifts and real-life challenges of those who have been pushed to the edges of society. Mama to three adopted kids - two with Down Syndrome - Heather encourages us all to take a breath, whisper a prayer, laugh a little, and make room for the wildflowers.

The principal mission of this book is to provide a simple and easy guidebook with proven tactics to help women tune into their body’s natural “language” and increase their chances of conceiving. The book introduces listeners to The Four Fertility Foes ("The Big Four") that may be compromising their efforts to get pregnant. These culprits—inflammation, insulin, stress, and toxicity—are more persistent in the lives of women today than any pre-existing medical condition. Identifying the issue is an empowering first step to taking action.

It can feel nearly impossible to raise good kids without reactive parenting; however, the good news is that it is possible! The change starts with you—developing a better understanding of your child’s needs and emotions while having the tools to respond as a more positive parent is key! Positive Parenting and Discipline Tools to Raise Good Kids has everything you need. This book lays out an encouragement model based on both kindness and firmness. I

In this data-driven birth book, award-winning childbirth writer and educator Henci Goer brings her 30-plus years of experience analyzing the obstetric research to the table, delivering the most thorough synthesis on the market. Yet she structures the book thoughtfully so you can take in information however suits you. Dig into every detail or skip to the summaries. Henci creates a judgment-free zone where you're in the driver's seat. You're the best person to decide what's right for you. Here's your opportunity to get the data. Make a plan. And take charge of your birth.

Lina was a precocious toddler - charming, chatty, joyful. At the age of three, in the aftermath of her second MMR vaccine, first came a seizure, and then, to her parents’ horror, the loss of Lina’s ability to play, use language, and control her impulses. Over the next few years they continued to lose Lina. She communicated her acute discomfort by biting, screaming, hitting, laughing maniacally, and throwing violent tantrums.

Discover simple and powerful self-care techniques that will help new moms conquer postpartum - find joy and fulfillment in motherhood without feeling guilty!

This book, Alpha Parents, is a profound blend of some highly beneficial ideas that are essential for strong family relationships. It consists of some real-life stories that emphasize the role of Alpha parents and how their behaviors and norms can impact their children. Alpha parents are responsible for incorporating the sentiments of love, kindness, helpfulness, and empathy in their children by setting examples.

Over the years, you willingly pour everything you have into your family, but in the process, you lose the essence of who you are. In her characteristic raw and visceral style, Rachel teaches you how to rewrite the pages of your story, follow your passion, and discover the beauty of who you are. Drawing on lessons from her own incredible journey - together with insight from conversations with thousands of other women - Rachel encourages moms to break cycles, take off masks, and prevent fear from taking control.

As a parent myself, I know what it feels like to be at the end of your rope. Looking after three energetic boys can be a handful. But we are the window to the world for our children. How you interact with them in their early years determines the course of their lives. 101 Ways of Speaking to Your Child is a parenting manual that teaches you how to create a loving and nurturing relationship with your children.

Four months postpartum with her second child, Catherine Simone Gray is back at her doctor’s office, surveying a childbirth wound that refuses to mend. Proud flesh: tissue that overheals to become its own wound. Pregnancy and motherhood had been physically vulnerable for Gray, but this renders her most intimate parts unrecognizable, like her body is no longer her own. Has it ever been her own? As she gets to know her body in its new form, she encounters, too, the girl she’d been at seventeen.

Are you mom enough? The cover of a popular magazine asked this haunting question in bold red letters that hung over the startling image of a young mother nursing her four-year-old. When the issue hit newsstands, it re-ignited a longstanding mommy war in American culture.

The book Parenting Preschoolers 2 to 5 years old: 20 Tips for Parents from Preschool Teachers presents 20 simple, practical, tried-and-tested techniques used by successful preschool teachers over the years as they handle kids who are between the ages of two and five years old. It will help you to effectively motivate, discipline, and get your child to behave appropriately.

Through compelling true stories and solid principles, this book offers a blueprint for what sons need from their moms to become healthy, caring, confident young men. With specific advice for boys' different ages, moms will learn the balance between controlling and letting go, how to cultivate their sons' unique masculinity, how to encourage a lasting relationship with God, and much more.

Leaders like you have the knowledge, curiosity, and imagination that goes into successfully coaching executives...but how do you create a successful business doing meaningful work and be fully present in your children’s lives? If fear and doubt keep you stuck in the safety zone, then Passion Purpose Profit is the key to becoming a leader who transforms lives. You can help others fulfill their potential by modeling an integrated life. The best reward? Your children will chase their passions too!

There is an epidemic that is going on. It is estimated that one out of every two mothers are affected by it. No one is talking about it, but a lot of women feel it. Intense fatigue, emotional fluctuations, memory issues, hormonal and other health complications, which for some, can be debilitating and even life-threatening.

One would think that sleep would be the easiest thing in the world for a baby. After all, sleep is natural. But anyone with a new baby knows that it’s anything but simple. Between waking up at all hours and failing to go to sleep at bedtime, babies and school-aged children alike experience a spectrum of sleep troubles.

When Chitra Ramaswamy discovered she was pregnant for the first time, she longed to listen to something that went above and beyond a biology book or prescriptive manual; something that, instead, got to the heart of the overwhelming, thrilling, and often misrepresented experience she was embarking on. She couldn’t find one. So, she wrote Expecting. Expecting is a creative memoir. Through nine chapters exploring the nine months of gestation and birth, Ramaswamy takes the listener on a physical, intellectual, emotional, literary, and philosophical journey through the landscape of pregnancy.

Steph Herrington runs a successful hair salon—she can make your hair look amazing but she's no gardener! An allotment was her late husband's dream. But when her daughter, Jessie, decides to take the plot on in her dad's memory, Steph sees a chance to bridge the gulf that grew between them as their loving, close-knit family fell apart. Only the gnarly tangle of weeds and thorns—and working together to tame it—is far worse than they'd imagined!

This book is for all the mamas out there who want to leave a life of burnout and find one of balance, who want to find their Mama Groove, and get their energy back. It will show you how to start enjoying life and sharing more fun, love, and laughter with your partner and kids. It may seem like a big journey, but it's broken down into simple, doable steps for the busiest moms. It takes you through the five steps of The Family Balance Method, which has been developed by conscious family coach and mother, Joanna Hunt.