Pat Harvey Livres

Parenting a teen with intense emotions can be extremely difficult. This much- needed book will give you the tools needed to help your teen regulate his or her emotions. In addition, you'll learn the skills for managing your own reactions so you can survive these difficult years and help your teen thrive.

Temper tantrums in the supermarket. Tears that seem to come out of nowhere. Battles over homework that are more like wars. When your child has problems regulating his or her emotions, there's no hiding it. Children with intense emotions go from 0 to 100 in seconds and are prone to frequent emotional and behavioral outbursts that leave parents feeling bewildered and helpless. Other parents may have told you that it's just a phase or that your child needs discipline. In reality, your child may have emotion dysregulation, a tendency to react intensely to situations other children take in stride. Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions is an effective guide to de-escalating your child's emotions and helping your child express feelings in productive ways. You'll learn strategies drawn from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT), including mindfulness and validation skills, and practice them when your child's emotions spin out of control. This well-researched method for managing emotions can help your child make dramatic emotional and behavioral changes that both of you will be proud of.

At age thirty-seven, Karen Black faces a challenge: join in the sex games at the company retreat or see her husband's career ruined. Then she is offered an alternative, and she begins a journey into the shadowy, secretive realm of erotic power exchange: dominance and submission, bondage and discipline, and the transformation of sensual pain into unimaginable ecstasy. Freed of inhibitions through her voluntary surrender to a man less than half her age, Karen's latent sexuality and saucy personality blossom as she passes through phases of increasing self-realization. Her path is not always easy, but as Karen bonds with her master she accepts, and mostly enjoys, her consensual participation in sexual and sadomasochistic activities. The original Kinsey reports established that a significant percentage of the American population participates in or fantasizes about bondage, spanking, or other forms of power-based sex play. Both educational and arousing, this candid journal describes the reality of a modern-day dominant/submissive lifestyle.