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‘If You Focus on Control, You Have Lost the Battle’: How to Win Back Your Kids

By Paula Cocozza — 2019

From screen time to teenage rebellion, it’s easy to feel that children are slipping out of your grasp. Trusting your instincts can help.

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Healing Self-Injury: A Compassionate Guide for Parents and Other Loved Ones

Healing Self-Injury provides desperately-needed guidance to parents and others who love a young person struggling with self-injury.

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Janis Whitlock, Elizabeth Lloyd-Richardson
2019
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Mindful Discipline: A Loving Approach to Setting Limits and Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child

Grounded in mindfulness and neuroscience, this pioneering book redefines discipline and outlines the five essential elements necessary for children to thrive: unconditional love, space for children to be themselves, mentorship, healthy boundaries, and mis-takes that create learning and growth...

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Shauna Shapiro, Chris White, Christine Carter (foreword), Dean Ornish (foreword)
2014
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The Uncontrollable Child: Understand and Manage Your Child’s Disruptive Moods with Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills

Is your child extremely irritable most of the time? Do they have difficulty interpreting social cues? Are they impulsive and prone to outbursts or explosive rages? Parenting a child who has emotional dysregulation can be a bumpy ride.

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Matis Miller
2025
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People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.

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Harriet Lerner
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The best apologies are short, and don’t go on to include explanations that run the risk of undoing them. An apology isn’t the only chance you ever get to address the underlying issue. The apology is the chance you get to establish the ground for future communication.

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Harriet Lerner
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Joseph Goldstein: Wisdom for Troubled Times

For many of us, the current environment, magnified by 24-hour news outlets and social media, has created a level of stress, fear and anger that impacts our lives and relationships.

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Joseph Goldstein
2018
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Resilient: How to Grow an Unshakable Core of Calm, Strength, and Happiness

These days it’s hard to count on the world outside. So, it’s vital to grow strengths inside like grit, gratitude, and compassion—the key to resilience, and to lasting well-being in a changing world. True resilience is much more than enduring terrible conditions.

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Rick Hanson, Forrest Hanson
2020
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Family Dynamics