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Volume two in the series An American Family follows the Snow family on to the bloody streets of London during Tudor times where they experience the dreaded plagues, horrible executions, and persecution for their religious beliefs. There are ghosts in the monastery and scandals afoot, and an intimate look into the lives of the Tudor royal family. You won't want to miss this chapter in the story of one of America's founding Pilgrim families.

I was able to tackle my social anxiety as an adult by taking the steps mentioned in this audiobook very slowly. I practiced each step in a variety of settings with a variety of people. I continued to push myself through every interaction with other people until I largely overcame my social anxiety. Once a teenager who failed speech class due to my inability to speak in front of others, I suddenly found myself speaking in front of rooms full of doctors and healthcare professionals in my career.

It is said that the average women says four words per day to her husband, most of which is some type of request relating to the house, finances, or children. Is it that men are from a different planet and speak a completely different language from their wives? With the divorce rate higher than it was a century ago, it seems that many couples have given up trying to have any meaningful conversation at all. But why is there a discord between the sexes?

Ever since the DSM scale to differentiate personality disordered individuals was created, there have likely been relationships between men and women who have narcissistic personality-disordered and borderline personality-disordered personalities. It might seem that this dynamic duo shouldn't last, or shouldn't get together at all, but there is a lot of evidence that these relationships can and do work for a number of couples, who are quite happy in their unions.

Many of my readers and listeners email me. They may be in relationships with people who are diagnosed with OCPD, or they have been diagnosed with OCPD themselves. Some of them have parents, siblings, children, or friends with OCPD. Many people who know someone with OCPD want to know how to help the OCPD sufferer from doing some of his or her repetitive or negative behaviors. They may be bothered by the OCPD person's behaviors, or they want to help the OCPD person to live a more fulfilling life overall.

Your mate has you walking on eggshells. It seems that no matter what you do, it isn't right. You are at your wits' end. These type of mates can make you feel crazy, frustrated, and chaotic. Maybe you are experiencing depression and anxiety. The gnawing feeling in the pit of your stomach. You wish that they would just be happy, and you feel responsible when they aren't happy.

This audiobook will explain all the different potential disorders you may be dealing with and how to find the toxic traits in your mother. You will understand the toxic traits, cruel behaviors, and domineering tactics deployed by our mothers. You will learn how you can fall prey to our mother’s narcissistic whim and why we are just a pawn in the whole scheme of things to our parent.

Most of us don't feel that we have thick enough skin to deal with people, like our difficult coworker, our picky spouse, or our overbearing mother-in-law. At the end of the day, our nerves are left frazzled and we seek respite from the seemingly constant chaos that is our lives. This book will help you find your thick skin when you are interacting with the difficult people in your life. It will help you to figure out why they are being that way and what you can do to help yourself deal with them more effectively.

Your perfectionism is holding you back from truly enjoying life. Let yourself finally experience the things that other people are experiencing. Feel the sense of joy and security that comes with being alive. Stop feeling insecure, out of control, depressed, and anxious. We can teach you how to kick the negative perfection that is destroying your life!

Narcissists can have many traits that may be undesirable to others, especially in a relationship dynamic. They often talk down to others or criticize them. They live by their own morals and values, which may change as it suits them. They can be extremely vain and self-conscious, constantly being fussy about little things. They don't enjoy intimacy and connectedness that others enjoy in relationships. The world seems to revolve around the person with Narcissistic Personality Disorder.

This book was written to explain how and why you are in this spot in your life. Its intent is to let you know that you are not alone in this. You will discover what causes you to chronically feel these feelings, and how to get rid of them. It will give you a ray of sunshine and of hope for your future. Once you understand the source of all the things you are feeling, you can finally start to heal and pursue the life that you want to live, instead of the life that you feel confined to living.

Anxiety is one of the most common conditions that are plaguing people all around you. We are in a world that is filled with reasons to worry: from survival to feeding our families to making sure our boss is happy. We see people spending billions of dollars on health care trying to treat the anxiety epidemic.

People never walk into a relationship assuming that they will be abused physically, emotionally, or mentally. The abuse also never starts immediately into the relationship at full force, as you would expect it to. Abusers often start out very subtly in a relationship with the different types of control, blame, and manipulation. They don't tell their partners that they intend to control them or ruin their lives in many ways.

If you are in the midst of a relationship with the narcissist, you know all too well how rapidly he cycles through the different states of his personality. One minute he is the nice, charming, radiant personality. The next minute, he is a raging monster of violence. The sheer rollercoaster ride that is the narcissist is intolerable to nearly every partner that he meets.

Many of my readers and listeners write to me asking how to better help their spouse or partner who has OCPD. After writing my book on OCPD - 35 Underlying Causes of OCPD, I jumped directly into researching everything that I could in order to help these couples to find a way to grow together.

If you have been around a narcissist for any length of time, you become keenly aware that he is doing things behind your back. His covert tactics are meant to beat you to the punch, and he is nearly always two steps ahead of you. The narcissist stops at nothing to demean, devalue, and destroy those around him. And he has propaganda and an agenda that he is always delivering on an overt or covert basis.

Since the beginning of time, mothers have always been portrayed as wholesome and nurturing. They are splashed upon our television screens. We enjoy watching them in movies. Some of us grow up with a wholesome and nurturing mother, while other children aren't so lucky. What causes some mothers to toss aside their inborn nurturing qualities in favor of sadistic and evil behavior?

Do you know that there are predators right under your nose? There are predatory humans just like there are predatory animals. These predatory humans don’t have your best interests in mind. They seek to use and exploit you. When a serial killer is caught, many of us are shocked to realize who it was, how handsome he was, how pretty she was, and how intelligent. The predatory human blends in with everyone else.

This audiobook discusses the anal retentive nature of the narcissist. We talk about how the narcissist is so high-strung and methodical he can hardly get anything done with any efficiency. We discuss how surly he gets when he lives in an environment with other people who clash with him. We will give case examples of people who have had to live with the narcissist’s ridiculous standards, and how it can cause serious emotional damage to try to walk on eggshells in the narcissist’s environment.

Most people who enter into a toxic relationship don’t really know what the definition of a healthy relationship is. They know that they don’t want to get into another toxic relationship that will end in divorce. But what exactly is a healthy relationship? In 20 minutes, we will cover what a healthy relationship looks like. It looks a lot different from the toxicity that you may be used to living under, whether it was with your ex or a narcissistic, or ill-attuned parent.