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In this vulnerable memoir of transformation, Rebekah Lyons shares her journey from Atlanta, Georgia to the heart of Manhattan, where she found herself blindsided by crippling depression and anxiety. Overwhelmed by the pressure to be domestically efficient, professionally astute, and physically attractive, Rebekah finally realized that freedom can come only by facing our greatest fears and fully surrendering to God's call on our lives.

Spilt Milk Yoga is a companion guide for mothers who want to experience the happiness, peace, and purpose available in each moment, and who want to be more present and connected to themselves and their children.

Simple yet profound practices reveal how conscious mothering is an inherently spiritual endeavor, bringing grace, balance, and peace to busy, on-the-go moms. Denise Roy combines the hard-won wisdom of a parent with the insights of meditation to create a spiritual practice that goes to the heart...

Marc Sedaka stood by while he and his wife endured endless rounds of drug therapies, 16 artificial inseminations, 10 in-vitro fertilizations, three miscarriages, and finally, a gestational surrogate (“womb for rent”) who carried their twin girls to term. He was as supportive and loving as he could be, but he really wished he'd had a book like What He Can Expect When She's Not Expecting during the process.

Suzy and Demi were carefree twenty-somethings. They had fun! They didn’t have responsibilities! And then they decided to have a baby. Goodbye lazy weekends, hello sleepless nights, arguments and an addiction to industrial-strength hot chocolate. Follow Suzy on the ultimate make-over - from nervous-wreck new mother to happy families. In this hilarious and refreshingly honest account for parents who prefer the realistic to the utopian, Suzy debunks the myths and takes us all along for the (bumpy) ride.

Suddenly it dawns on you, and you exclaim, "I'm a mom!" But after the elation, you are overwhelmed, apprehensive, bewildered about the huge responsibilities of parenting. You know intuitively that the way you respond to your new role has eternal implications in the life of your child. You need help! The Power of a Positive Mom offers seven time-tested principles that will transform your role, to make you not just a mother but a Positive Mom.

Tired of the cycle- ask, repeat, yell, regret? You’re not alone. With constant pings, packed schedules, and big feelings, parenting today can feel impossible. Written by Todd Sarner, MFT, psychotherapist, parenting coach, and founder of Transformative Parenting, this warm, science-based guide draws from over two decades of clinical experience and mentorship with attachment pioneer Dr. Gordon Neufeld, where Sarner also served as a former Faculty Member of the Neufeld Institute.

My name is Betty Freeman. I was a working mom and pastor’s wife while raising our family. We experienced trials, challenges and celebrations and persevered through all of them. I am finally in the stage of caregiver for a loved one. This book contains many special memories and teaching moments from my 65+ years of motherhood, as well as my favorite scriptures, recipes, motherly quotes, and nurturing stories. Let the Lord guide you in finding a recipe for each situation in life.

Mom’s Guide to Balance is the honest, empowering roadmap every modern mom needs to break free from burnout, reclaim her identity, and thrive in the beautiful chaos of parenting. Whether you’re a working mom, stay-at-home warrior, or somewhere in between, this is your permission slip to stop surviving and start thriving. Rediscover the version of you who doesn’t just “get through the day” but feels seen, whole, and in control.

What does it mean to raise a truly high-value child? In a world that prioritizes fast trends and fleeting success, Raising High-Value Kids is a refreshing guide to cultivating refinement, confidence, and lifelong excellence in the next generation. This book is for parents who want more than just well-behaved children—they want to raise cultured, poised, and socially intelligent individuals who stand out in every room they enter.

Author of Take Back the Magic and co-founder of the beloved non-denominational fellowship The Way of the Rose Perdita Finn offers a profound invitation to remember and recover the power, presence, and wisdom of the Mother Figure. "This book is not optional reading for our moment. It is essential...

Your doctor gives you medical advice. Your mother buys you baby clothes. But who can give you the real skinny when you’re pregnant? Your girlfriends, of course - at least, the ones who’ve been through the exhilaration and exhaustion, the agony and ecstasy of pregnancy. Four-time delivery room veteran Vicki Iovine talks to you the way only a best friend can - in the book that will go the whole nine months for every mother-to-be.

Full-time FindingJoy.net blogger, speaker, marketer, podcaster, and single mom of seven, Rachel Marie Martin presents a rallying cry to anyone who believes the lie that she is "just a mom." Over the years, you willingly pour everything you have into your family, but in the process, you lose the...

You know Jillian Michaels as the world's leading fitness expert and a renowned nutritionist, but she's also a proud mother of two. In Yeah Baby!, Jillian, along with her team of top-notch experts, will change everything you think you know about pregnancy, arming you with the most cutting-edge information available, so you can make the right choices for you and your little one.

Best-selling author Naomi Wolf demythologizes motherhood and reveals the dangers of common assumptions about childbirth. With uncompromising honesty, she describes how hormones eroded her sense of independence, ultrasounds tested her commitment to abortion rights, and the keepers of the OB/GYN establishment lacked compassion. Wolf's courageous willingness to talk about the unexpected difficulties of childbirth will help every woman become a more knowledgeable planner of her pregnancy and better prepare her for the challenges of balancing a career, freedom, and a growing family.

Elena Alvarez is living a cursed life. From the deadly fire she accidentally set as a child to her mother's abandonment and now an unwanted pregnancy, she knows better than most that small actions can have terrible consequences. Yet when her grandmother calls and asks her to watch over the children of a recent widower in a small, isolated town in Colorado, she takes it as a chance to finally organize her life.

In Uniquely Human: Raising Leaders and Creators in an AI World, occupational therapist and parenting expert Aubrey Schmalle delivers a transformative roadmap for raising empowered kids in a world increasingly shaped by screens, algorithms, and artificial intelligence.

This is a documentary of an open letter to a Black Son from the pain and frustration of being a single black mother. The author is a born witness to their tears of joy and pain, their cries of frustration and discovery, and the difficulties that they have encountered growing up black and male. This is her love for them poured out onto the pages, a document that traces her unspoken words on the journey to try and raise happy and healthy black son in America.

Mariola, una madre divorciada, moderna, con estudios, con un buen trabajo, activa y segura de sí misma, se embarca en el que será el mayor reto de su vida: conseguir que sus hijos adolescentes recuperen el rumbo perdido y se hagan dueños de sus vidas y sus decisiones. Lo que no sabe es que, de esa lucha agotadora, ella saldrá también mejorada, renovada, mucho más consciente de su maternidad, de sí misma y de su lugar en el mundo.

A searing portrait of a mother’s body—a resurrection and reclamation of pleasure after abuse, a study of intergenerational trauma, and a love letter to the bodies of women: as alive and unbound as the teeming Mississippi wilds that bear witness Four months postpartum with her second child...