Tina B. Tessina

Discovering Confidence, Self-Reliance, and Autonomy Beyond the 12-Step Programs

The Real Thirteenth Step

Tina B Tessina Ph D

Many parents, today and in years past, do not possess the tools to teach their children how to live a satisfying life. Because such parents have little knowledge of how to provide a good example, family dysfunction often runs through succeeding generations like a snowball rolling down a hill, gathering speed and power as it goes. Growing up and learning to be responsible for yourself is often like standing at the bottom of that hill and stopping that huge snowball. The legacy of dysfunction ends with you. In over 35 years of counseling people in recovery, licensed psychotherapist Tina B. Tessina Ph.D has worked with many clients struggling with similar problems: anxiety, depression, feeling out of control, relationship disasters, and a pervasive feeling that they don't know what "normal" is. No matter how old they are, they don't feel really grown up. They never learned the confidence, self-motivation, and emotional management tools they need to live healthy, happy lives, because their families didn't provide good role models, structure, and information. The exercises and guidelines in this book will help you finally understand what a functional family is, how its members are still affected by early experience, and how to develop the skills necessary for successful living and loving.

Grow Up and Out of Dysfunction

It Ends With You

Riley K. Smith

This revised and expanded edition includes instructions on showing couples how to cooperate instead of compromising or competing, thus creating lasting, loving partnerships.

How to be a Couple and Still be Free

The exercises and guidelines in this book will help readers finally understand what a functional family is, how its members are still affected by early experience, and how to develop the skills necessary for successful living and loving. It will help to make sure that the effects of family dysfunction will end with the reader taking responsibility.

It Ends with You

Ilona Boniwell

Bridget Grenville-Cleave

There is a formula for happiness?and now readers can learn it in this unique book. To be happier: have a large family, try new foods, and be courageous. However, being highly educated, envying a friend?s car, and looking inward can cause the happiness level to go down. In this four-color guide, readers will learn how to calculate their happiness factor. They?ll discover what life changes they can make to help it go up and what will happen if it continues to go down. Includes the amount we either add to or subtract from our happiness when we: are married +2; have job insecurity -2; own a pet +5; play a fast-paced sport +2. Delivered in a fun, readable way, this book is perfect for those who want to improve their happiness. After adding and subtracting their way through the book, readers will be inspired to follow the expert advice and take steps to make their lives happier.

Tina B. Tessina

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