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A LIFE Manual for Couples: Mad Love
Mad Love is a practical and compassionate guide to understanding what happens between two people when love meets real life.
With humour, relatable examples, cartoons, reflection questions, and practical tools, Mad Love helps you recognize the dance you and your partner can fall into and, more importantly, understand your own part in it.
You will learn how to listen without losing yourself, speak more clearly, question the stories you tell yourself, set healthier boundaries, work with differences and find your way back to one another.
Sidestepping the Power Struggle
Sidestepping the Power Struggle has helped thousands of parents move beyond conflict by understanding why children behave the way they do and by learning practical, respectful ways to respond. Rather than relying on punishment, rewards, or endless negotiations, this book offers a clear framework for raising children who
are responsible, resilient, and capable of thinking for themselves. A combination of developmental psychology, temperament research, and practical parenting strategies offers an engaging, easy-to-use guide. Whether you’re parenting a spirited preschooler, navigating the elementary years, or supporting a teenager’s growing independence, you’ll discover practical tools that strengthen relationships while reducing conflict.
The Parent-Child Connection
Every parent wants a close and lasting relationship with their child, but love alone does not always show us what to do. The Parent-Child Connection helps parents understand what strengthens the bond with a child and what can quietly weaken it. Explore how our own upbringing influences the way we parent, and how familiar patterns of control, guilt, overprotection, criticism, or giving in can be changed.
You do not have to be a perfect parent. What matters is your willingness to keep learning, repairing, and reconnecting.
A LIFE Manual: A Pathway to Growth for Pre-teens and Teens
Growing up often raises questions about friendships, feelings, and how to handle the challenges that come with relationships. A LIFE Manual: Living in Friendships Effectively offers young people a thoughtful and practical guide to understanding themselves and the people around them.
Drawing on working with youth in private practice and training high school students to present to peers, Allison helps readers explore important ideas such as emotions, temperament, boundaries, communication, and personal responsibility. Through clear explanations and cartoons young people are encouraged to think about skills that support healthier relationships.