Bøker av Sharon Martin

Estrangement from one or both parents--even by choice--can take a huge emotional and psychological toll. Guilt or questioning the decision, and trouble with setting or keeping boundaries can prevent a person from thriving and finding peace. This compassionate workbook offers proven-effective strategies to help readers accept their decision, heal emotional wounds, and develop healthy and supportive relationships as they move forward in their lives.

The absence of limits or boundaries is a significant contributor to toxic relationships-often leading to mental, emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. This evidence-based workbook teaches readers how to set healthy boundaries in all aspects of life, and still be kind, caring, and compassionate. In The Better Boundaries Workbook, readers will find practical skills and strategies for being assertive without feeling guilty or afraid, so they can create healthier relationships and take control of their life.

Healthy boundaries are essential to our well-being, and can protect us from toxic relationships, abuse, and burnout. Yet many people struggle to say "no" and find it difficult to honor their own needs. This therapeutic guided journal offers readers a safe space to explore what putting themselves first really looks like--so they can learn to speak up for themselves without feeling guilty or afraid, create healthier relationships, and thrive in all aspects of life.

Silver Lining Journals for Caregivers provide: A means and process for documenting accurate, authentic, time ordered information critical to communication with health care professionals, family and friends. Although my professional background includes rewarding work as a teacher, school administrator, consultant, and manager, my greatest sense of accomplishment and satisfaction stems from twenty years of caregiving for my family. It's the career move for which I was least prepared and most challenged. Yet work as a frontline caregiver for my mother, father, and husband provided more job satisfaction, constructive teamwork, and sense of accomplishment and purpose than I knew possible. - Sharon Martin, Silver Lining Journals. Sharon Martin was born in Beckley, West Virginia, grew up in Fairfield, Ohio, and earned degrees from Cumberland College, University of Memphis, and University of Nebraska, Omaha. After marrying, she worked as a literacy specialist in public schools in Ohio, Tennessee, and Arkansas, before moving with her husband and two sons to her current home in Omaha, Nebraska where she continues to work as an educational consultant and caregiver advocate. Although Sharon has worked as a professional educator since 1971, she, like millions of others in our society, was beckoned to the non-professional role of caregiver. Her caregiving role began in 1988 when one of her teenage sons had a car accident that required 3 months of hospitalization and a year of recovery at home. In 1991, different caregiving responsibilities evolved when her mother fell and broke her hip, and later, suffered a mental and emotional breakdown following a carjacking and murder of her only son, Sharon's only sibling, in 1994. Unanticipated care-giving responsibilities expanded when her husband was diagnosed with stage 4 brain cancer at the same time her father was diagnosed with advanced dementia, macular degeneration, and lymphoma. From that time until June, 2011,