Relationships & Intimacy Audiobooks | Health & Wellness

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Lives of Adolescent Girls

"Why are more American adolescent girls prey to depression, eating disorders, addictions, and suicide attempts than ever before? According to Dr. Mary Pipher, a clinical psychologist who has treated girls for more than twenty years, we live in a look-obsessed, media-saturated, "girl-poisoning" culture. Despite the advances of feminism, escalating levels of sexism and violence--from undervalued intelligence to sexual harassment in elementary school--cause girls to stifle their creative spirit and natural impulses, which, ultimately, destroys their self-esteem. Yet girls often blame themselves or their families for this "problem with no name" instead of looking at the world around them. Here, for the first time, are girls' unmuted voices from the front lines of adolescence, personal and painfully honest. By laying bare their harsh day-to-day reality, Reviving Ophelia issues a call to arms and offers parents compassion, strength, and strategies with which to revive these Ophelias' lost sense of self."

Mary Pipher (Author), Mary Pipher (Narrator)

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It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now: How to Create Your Second Life at Any Age

"New York Times bestselling author Barbara Sher has transformed the lives of millions with her phenomenally successful books, workshops, and television appearances. Now, in a work that explores and demystifies one of life's most challenging and bewildering passages, she shatters the myth that turns midlife into a crisis and offers a bold new strategy for creating a new life after forty. Barbara Sher shows you how to rediscover the inspired, enthusiastic adventurer you wanted to be before you became the responsible adult you had to be. According to Sher, it's never too late to start over. In fact, midlife is the perfect time to do so, a time when dreams for the future and experiences of the past finally come together. "The second life," as Sher calls it, can be even better than the first. More important, it would have been impossible to make these crucial realizations until now. Discover: How to make life's built-in "time limit" work for you Which of your "regrets" can point the way to a more rewarding life How to identify--and overcome--the illusions that stop you from living your dreams Dozens of ways to recapture your freedom... without succumbing to "road fever," trophy-mate collecting, or other midlife maladies. Combining step-by-step strategies with provocative exercises and motivational techniques, this extraordinary book reminds you of the dreams you abandoned along the path to adulthood, providing all the tools you will need to weave those aspirations into a richly textured, meaningful life. Beginning with the empowering notion that everyone has a future, Barbara Sher shows you how to turn each of midlife's challenges into a catalyst for dynamic change. Indeed, no matter what your age, it's only too late--to reclaim your creativity, recapture your long-lost dreams, and embark on an exciting new life--if you don't start right now!"

Barbara Sher (Author), Barbara Sher (Narrator)

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If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules

"Do you wish you knew the rules for the game of love? In her #1 New York Times bestseller If Life Is a Game, These Are the Rules, Chérie Carter-Scott gave us ten rules for conquering life's challenges and managing its unpredictable ups and downs. Now, in If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules, she presents ten simple rules to help us find true love and create long-lasting, authentic relationships. After twenty-five years of conducting workshops and seminars, Chérie has discovered that the most important--and often the most difficult--part of the human experience is partnership. Everyone is either looking for love or trying to find a way to sustain and feed the love that they already have. Chérie's ten rules are universal truths that we inherently know but often lose sight of in the confusing game of romance--rules as simple as "You Must Love Yourself First," "Communication Is Essential," and "You Must Nurture the Relationship for It to Thrive." Once understood and embraced, her rules help us learn more about our true selves and our needs--and make us better able to meet the needs of others. As the ten rules show, building and sustaining authentic love is a delicate process that requires negotiation and communication, and while love is often challenged by change, it provides a variety of opportunities for us to grow as individuals. In her inimitably warm and inviting style, Chérie shares her own insights into love's journey, from building intimacy and taking the risk of commitment to rekindling the faded flame by bringing back the "sizzle factor." Her inspirational stories, coupled with practical exercises--such as creating a criteria list for a potential mate or making an outline for a formal relationship "check-in"--will bring out the authentic lover in each of us. Fresh and inspiring, If Love Is a Game, These Are the Rules is a perfect guide to living a real-life "happily ever after"."

Cherie Carter-Scott (Author), Cherie Carter-Scott (Narrator)

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How One of You Can Bring the Two of You Together: Breakthrough Strategies to Resolve Your Conflicts

"Susan Page's groundbreaking approach to relationships gives readers the tools and encouragement they need to bring positive changes to their relationship, even when their partners are unwilling to do the work. Based on the premise that what you do in a relationship makes changes faster than anything you discuss, Page introduces the concept of 'Loving Leadership' and offers fourteen empowering and doable strategies for recapturing the positive feelings, including how to: * Overcome resentment and move beyond blame * Solve major problems--one at a time * Recapture lost intimacy Step-by-step, Page demonstrates that with tangible goals, and new ways of thinking, one partner can bring new levels of harmony and love to a relationship."

Susan Page (Author), Susan Page (Narrator)

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The Shelter of Each Other

""Simple solutions for survival in this family-unfriendly culture. . . . Eye-opening. . . heart-wrenching and uplifting."-San Francisco Chronicle Even more resonant today than at its original publication in 1996, The Shelter of Each Other traces the effects of our society's "anti-family" way of life, where parents are overtaxed, children are undersupervised, and technology is rapidly dictating how we interact. As she did in her number-one bestseller Reviving Ophelia, Mary Pipher illuminates how our families are suffering at the hands of shifting cultural norms, and she snaps our gaze into crisp focus. Drawing on the fascinating stories of families rich and poor, angry and despairing, religious and skeptical, and probing deep into her own family memories and experiences, Pipher clears a path to the strength and energy at the core of family life. Compassionate and heart-wrenching, The Shelter of Each Other is an impassioned call for us to gather our families in our arms and hold on to them for dear life."

Mary Pipher (Author), Mary Pipher (Narrator)

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Real Moments for Lovers: The Enlightened Guide for Discovering Total Passion and True Intimacy

"Here is a liberating vision of love that offers couples powerful new ways of using words and touch to create levels of intimacy they have never reached before. Barbara De Angelis, Ph.D., reveals how partners can experience deeper sexual and emotional connections as she helps them become better lovers in--and out of--the bedroom. Interweaving the sensual and the spiritual, Real Moments for Lovers offers inspiration for finding profound meaning in our most intimate relationships. It shows couples how to make their relationship a sanctuary from stress and distress, and how lovemaking can not only satisfy the body but nourish the spirit. Combining wisdom, clarity, and exciting new insights, it is the unique and essential guide for all those seeking true spiritual and sexual fulfillment."

Barbara De Angelis (Author), Barbara De Angelis (Narrator)

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The Art of Everyday Ecstasy

"According to tantric philosophy, sexual energy is the creative force of the universe. In this uniquely informative dialogue between Margot Anand and Deepak Chopra, M.D., this concept is discussed with humor, openness, and honesty.Some of the points that are brought to light in this audio program include the following:-Sexual energy is the physical manifestation of our spiritual power, so if we honor sexual union in its sacred dimension, then we can acknowledge our need to be creative, playful, and free and to produce more and more of the god and goddess within us.-The peak experience of sexuality, otherwise known as orgasm, is in fact a state of unity consciousness where the lover and the beloved become one. At that moment of ecstasy, our true nature is revealed, and it is eternal and unbounded.-We need to heal our relationship to our ancestors, because our relationship to sexuality is totally colored by our first interaction with the opposite sex, which is through the father for women and the mother for men.The knowledge you will absorb by listening to this fascinating audio program will help you experience ecstatic moments each and every day of your life!"

Deepak Chopra, Margot Anand (Author), Deepak Chopra, Margot Anand (Narrator)

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Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing and Dying

Ram Dass (Author), Steve Susskind (Narrator)

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Forgiveness: The Greatest Healer of All

"Why should we forgive? Why is it so difficult to forgive? How can we forgive? These questions and more are explored in a unique and easy-to-understand manner that shows us the power of forgiveness. This simple, down-to-earth guide explains the toxic, negative side effects of being unforgiving and the havoc it can play on our body, our relationships, and on our life. It also shows the physical and spiritual benefits of forgiving. It's time to choose forgiveness, develop a peaceful sense of well-being, and a quiet mind."

Gerald G Jampolsky (Author), Gerald G. Jampolsky (Narrator)

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The Inner Bitch Guide To Men, Relationships, Dating, Etc.

"What is the Inner Bitch Way to Intimacy? It's pretty simple: 1. You'll be free to be yourself in the most intimate relationship in your life. 2. You'll be getting what you want and need from your relationship. 3. 3. You won't exhaust yourself wasting time on prospective relationships that are actually romantic cul-de-sacs. 4. 4. You'll be more comfortable with your romantic situation, no matter what it is. In other words, the odds of having a successful relationship are better if you try it this way. Which means that any relationship you have will enhance your life. You'll feel happy, content, and secure; your chances of getting what you want and need from your relationship will be better; you'll feel connected to the other person; and even though you know you can live without him, you'd really rather not!"

Elizabeth Hilts (Author), Alyssa Bresnahan (Narrator)

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Cracking the Love Code

Janet O'Neal (Author), Janet O'Neal (Narrator)

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Comrades: Brothers, Fathers, Sons, Pals

"From the author of Undaunted Courage and D-Day comes this celebration of male friendship, taken both from the pages of history and from Ambrose’s own life. Acclaimed historian Stephen Ambrose begins his examination with a glance inward—he starts this book with his brothers, his first and forever friends, and the shared experiences that join them for a lifetime, overcoming distance and misunderstandings. He writes of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who had a golden gift for friendship and who shared a perfect trust with his younger brother Milton in spite of their apparently unequal stations. With great feeling, Ambrose brings to life the relationships of the young soldiers of Easy Company who fought and died together from Normandy to Germany, and he describes with admiration three who fought in different armies on different sides in that war and became friends later. He recounts the friendships of Lewis and Clark and of Crazy Horse and He Dog, and he tells the story of the Custer brothers who died together at the Little Big Horn. Comrades concludes with the author’s moving recollection of his own friendship with his father. “He was my first and always most important friend. I didn’t learn that until the end, when he taught me the most important thing, that the love of father-son-father-son is a continuum, just as love and friendship are expansive.”"

Stephen E. Ambrose (Author), Stephen E. Ambrose (Narrator)

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