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Roadblocks to Intimacy and Trust I: The Ambivalent Mother

By Joan Cusack Handler — 2017

We learned early on that we had no control over her moods or our own rewards or punishment. She was entirely unpredictable.

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We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.

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Harriet Lerner
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Love and Asperger’s: Practical Strategies to Help Couples Understand Each Other and Strengthen Their Connection

Everyday techniques to strengthen empathy and connection in neurodiverse couples Life with a partner whose neurotype is different than yours is filled with moments that are surprising, unique, and sometimes challenging.

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Kate McNulty
2020
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Intimacies

Two gifted and highly prolific intellectuals, Leo Bersani and Adam Phillips, here present a fascinating dialogue about the problems and possibilities of human intimacy.

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Leo Bersani, Adam Phillips
2010
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The Upside of Being Down: How Mental Health Struggles Led to My Greatest Successes in Work and Life

After graduating from college, Jen Gotch was living with her parents, heartbroken and lost, when she became convinced that her skin had turned green.

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Jen Gotch, Rachel Bertsche
2020
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Parenting: Raise Yourself Before You Raise Your Kids

Sadhguru looks at how a child needs a friend, not a boss. If we enforce our ideas upon a child, he will lose his sense of independence, and this could result in rebelliousness later on. Once you become a parent, the most important thing is that you have to be 100% straight.

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Sadhguru
2015
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Cultivating Wisdom: The Power of Mood - Lisa Feldman Barrett

Do you believe that what you see influences how you feel? Actually, the opposite is true: What you feel—your “affect”—influences what you see, hear, smell, taste, and touch.

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Lisa Feldman Barrett
2018
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How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain

The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology.

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Lisa Feldman Barrett
2018
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Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive (10th Anniversary Edition)

In Parenting from the Inside Out, child psychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and early childhood expert Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., explore the extent to which our childhood experiences shape the way we parent.

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Daniel J. Siegel, Mary Hartzell
2025
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Sex and Love in Intimate Relationships

Illustrates how experiences and messages from our parents during childhood create internal defenses that, in turn, support negative views of ourself and others.

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Robert W. Firestone, Lisa A. Firestone, Joyce Catlett
2008
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How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Nicole LePera often found herself frustrated by the limitations of traditional psychotherapy.

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Nicole Lepera
2025
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