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Positive parenting a strong-willed child is easier when you stop yelling at your kids. Show your love by dealing with anger, and reduce stress using simple self-help techniques to increase emotional intelligence for moms and dads. In this book, you will find a combination of simple yet highly effective self-help strategies to help you turn your angry reactions into a much calmer and considered way of being around your children, and much more able to deal calmly with each situation as it arises.

A collection of insights, Life Hacks is meant to bring you to a new awareness of how we are constantly experiencing life from the inside out. You are invited to join the author on a journey towards discovering how our "negative" attributes have not only been helpful to us, but essential to our survival; How our thoughts and ideas about life sometimes get us "stuck" (and how to get unstuck), and how we always will and have always had access to an internal GPS system.

The terrorized children of Governor's Road grew up without resolution or closure to the most devastating event of their young lives. Their friend, a child their age, disappeared one afternoon and somehow, they never seem to learn what happened. Saddened parents decide to protect their children, and the obvious fear recedes in the face of the calm that settles back over the neighborhood. But, fear never really disappears until it's confronted.

A collection of previously published columns describing life in Florida for North Carolinians.

We all have trauma and we all have unpacked issues, Christy Dunaway Smith and Laurie C. Mitchell decide to sit down and unpack those issues in a series of episodes covering various topics. A therapist and previous client turned friends, cover it all. Family, friendship and self reflection. These are stories of personal triumphs and failures, unpacking them together and for all of you. So sit down, listen, and let’s unpack together - because things are heavy and we all carry a lot and if they can lighten the load, let them!