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How To Be A Couple and Still Be Free  (Revised Third Edition) (New Page Books  2002)

Newly revised and released to counter today's couples' challenges, this workbook and step by step guide shows you and your partner how to be yourselves and still be close and loving. Take the online course for CE-credits!  More Info
 

The follow-up to the overwhelming popular 1998 title, The 10 Smartest Decisions a Woman Can Make Before 40, this book covers how to make the most of life through middle age and beyond.  TOP

The Unofficial Guide to Dating Again
(Wylie, 2002)

If it's been a long time since you've surveyed the dating scene, the rules have changed. How do you get started? Where do you go to meet new people?

What are the unwritten rules? What if you're a single or divorced parent? And what about.......sex? Here's how to meet, greet and compete in today's dating world, complete with strategies for success and safety. The inside scoop for making dating fun and worthwhile -- on the Internet, in everyday life, and specifically tailored to your age, situation and personal preferences. TOP

The 10 Smartest Decisions
a Woman Can Make Before 40
(Health Communications 1998)

"One of the best books for women that I have read. It takes desires and dreams and shows you a step-by-step practical way to achieve them.   For any woman who wants to do more than talk about changing her life, a road map to her goal."  --Sonya Friedman, PhD,          "Sonya Live"

This no-nonsense guide  shows women how to create the futures they want for themselves by making some fundamental choices.

Now in Spanish!

Published by Pearson Education, October 1999. TOP
     

The Real Thirteenth Step: Discovering Confidence, Self Reliance and Autonomy Beyond the Twelve Step Programs  Revised edition (New  Page, 2002)

"The Real Thirteenth Step contains a wealth of astonishingly practical information.  Very few therapists can provide better tools for personal growth"   -San Francisco Bay Guardian "A well written, important book that provides an invaluable corrective to the dependency orientation of the recovery movement.  It lucidly points the way to the next step: the cultivation of independence and personal autonomy. 

Imperative reading for every graduate of the twelve-steps." --Nathaniel Brandon, PhD  Psychologist and author of Honoring the Self "Offers strategies that can help people struggling with addictions develop the skills and abilities they need to make clear, effective choices about their own lives - with or without the continuing support of a formal recovery group."   - Yoga Journal

"A therapist's prescription for avoiding addiction to a recovery group." -New Age Journal

"Hope of freedom, self-confidence and completion to people in self-help or 12-step recovery programs who have been told they will never be fully recovered."  - American Bookseller

Discover the six steps necessary to create real inner change: techniques so powerful, they're called "magical tools".  These tools are taught through exercises proven in therapy and workshops to help clients gain control of their lives and remain free of relapse.  With the exercises and guidelines in this book, readers can learn what they need to complete their recovery and achieve self-confidence and autonomy. Dr. Tessina invites you to move beyond recovery to a satisfying life of joy and healthy relationships.  Online Course
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The British Version of True Partners. Contains "The Negotiation Tree", a step-by-step diagram for instantly turning any argument into a negotiation. You can use it to stop fighting and begin solving problems!  TOP
 

The more you and your partner are different, the more you need this book. It explains why you don't always understand each other, and what to do about it. You can learn to celebrate and appreciate your differences.  Currently out of print.  TOP
 

Contains "The Negotiation Tree", a step-by-step diagram for instantly turning any argument into a negotiation. You can use it to stop fighting and begin solving problems! TOP