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The Marriage Habit by Casey and Meygan Caston
Get ready to upgrade your marriage and life. In this candid and relatable guide, Casey and Meygan Caston show you how to implement simple habits that create massive results, such as:
- The power of offering a daily “60-second blessing” to affirm your spouse
- Taking regular “awareness inventories” to appreciate how your partner’s preferences, opinions, and differences are evolving
- Offering an unsolicited apology can break down walls of resentment and disconnection
- Removing assumptions and being clearer about the specific ways you want to be loved
Focused on action and practicality, and filled with advice from a relatable couple who’s been there themselves, The Marriage Habit takes readers from striving to thriving, offering hope for couples in any circumstances to solve their own problems as they work to create the relationship of their dreams.
Parenting a Spicy One by Mary Van Geffen
Tired of negotiating with a tiny tyrant? Feeling drained by extreme emotions and unpredictable outbursts—including your own? Do you fear you might be raising a menace but also want to avoid dimming their sparkly light? Does “gentle parenting” advice make you chuckle bitterly because it doesn’t work on your kid?
Welcome to parenting a Spicy One—a child more loyal to their own soul than to your agenda. Parenting coach and adult Spicy One Mary Van Geffen knows raising these future world changers requires courage and compassion. Based on her experience guiding thousands of parents through her program, she offers a transformative approach to staying calm during five-alarm tantrums; choosing connection over control; maintaining boundaries without crushing their spirit; finding joy and confidence in parenting this prickly creature; being okay when they are not; and parenting with a tenderness you never experienced as a child.
Good Girl Bad Mom by Dr. Danielle Dowling
If you’ve ever felt overwhelmed, resentful, touched out, ragey, guilty, invisible, or quietly unsure of where you went in all of this, this book is for you.
Good Girl, Bad Mom is a raw, deeply compassionate look at modern Motherhood and the emotional toll of trying to be a good Mom inside a system that asks too much and names too little. It gives language to the invisible labor, identity loss, pressure, and self-doubt so many Mothers carry, often in silence, and helps explain why so many capable women end up blaming themselves for something that is not their fault.
Written with warmth, humor, and honesty, this book reads like sitting down with your smartest, funniest best friend, the one who tells the truth, makes you laugh, and helps you feel less alone. It is emotionally resonant without being heavy to read, insightful without being clinical, and easy to move through even while tackling deeply real parts of Motherhood.
