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My Book....and my NEW website...coming soon!
New Unhooked Books author, Shehrina Rooney, has over 8,000 subscribers on her YouTube channel with more than 250 videos on Borderline Personality Disorder. Watch this video where she announces her new book, The Big Book on Borderline Personality Disorder, and her new website soon to be launched.
4 Toxic Personalities You Should Steer Clear of
We all relish a good love story about the couple who “just knew” within minutes of meeting each other that they were meant to be together. They moved in and got married quickly. Years later, they’re still holding hands and eating off each other’s plates. But most of us also know that’s not how love usually shows up in real life.
3 Real Love Lessons We Can Learn From Actual Reality TV Shows
Relationship Expert Megan Hunter talks about real life lessons we can learn from reality television using examples from actual reality shows, on the Lowdown.
Are You Dating a Crazy?
How many times have you heard a friend say, “It seems that I am always picking the wrong kind of person to date?” Maybe you’ve even said this yourself, after coming out of a true nightmarish relationship. But what if you never allowed that first or second date to go any further?
Review: 5 Types of People Who Can Ruin Your Life by Bill Eddy
No discussion of ADR is complete without reference to the works of Bill Eddy. This is an essential book for divorce professionals, both as interesting and informative reading and as a book to keep on one’s desk “just in case.
Are You the Target of Blame for a Narcissist?
Is someone verbally attacking you at work, at home or in your community? Telling you that you’re a loser, saying "It's all your fault," publicly humiliating you, spreading false rumors about you or claiming credit for your hard work? Such people are often narcissists who are also high-conflict people (HCPs).
4 Ways to Start Protecting Kids from Potential Sex Abusers
We live in a world where an abuser can spot a vulnerable child from a mile away, or from across a crowded room, yet every other adult in the child’s life is likely to miss it.
What is Vicarious Trauma?
“How do you do this all day?” How many times have we as helping professionals been asked this question only to respond with a look on our faces that hardly represents our true feelings?
Why “Stranger Danger” Isn’t Enough
There is a video that went viral on Facebook titled The Dangers Of Social Media (Child Predator Social Experiment). Watching it hits you right in the feels, especially if you’re a parent. The video shows a guy pretending to be a 15-year-old boy on social media who lures three girls from different families to meet with him. It turns out he is not a 15-year-old boy and he gets the surprise of his life to find the parents waiting for him along with their daughters.
Why Dialectical Behavior Therapy for Borderline Personality Disorder?
I love dialectical behavior therapy. As a highly sensitive person who experiences their emotions intensely, learning dialectical behavior therapy (or DBT) has made a profound and lasting difference in my own life. Now that I’m a social worker, I continue to use the skills I learned in DBT every single day but I’m also in the position of sharing my joyful enthusiasm for this compassionate and highly-effective treatment with others.
The price I paid for being a ‘good judge’
As a longtime judicial officer, I was excited to be summoned for jury duty in January 2017. When I arrived at the jury assembly room, I wondered why there were so few potential jurors. The jury commissioner explained: There was only one trial set that day, a criminal case.
BLOOM Published in Indonesia
We are happy to announce that BLOOM: 50 Things to Say, Think and Do with Anxious, Angry and Over-the-Top Kids by Unhooked Books authors, Lynne Kenny and Wendy Young has been released in the Bahasa Indonesia language across Indonesia, the 4th most populated country in the world.