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The weight of being the family stabilizer shows up in ways most people never see. Anxiety that feels permanent. Relationships where you give until empty. A bone-deep exhaustion from managing everyone's emotions except your own. Oldest daughters and firstborn children inherit more than birth order. They inherit unspoken family roles, unprocessed trauma, and the silent expectation to hold everything together. This pattern doesn't have to define your life.

In this raw and revealing non-fiction work, Chad Calahan delves into the lasting echoes of childhood trauma and its profound impact on adult life, with a lens on his 20-year career in the Air Force. Blending personal experience with hard-earned insight, the book explores how post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) shapes the mind and body, often in ways that remain hidden until the pressure builds beyond breaking points. With a focus on men—who are too often taught to bury their pain—this narrative offers a roadmap to understanding, confronting, and healing from the torque of trauma.

How to Handle Sibling Rivalry helps you understand the real reason siblings clash (even as adults) and gives you practical tools to stop the cycle—without pretending your family is perfect.

SEED is a 30-day spiritual companion for real family life—designed to turn love into practiced wisdom and wisdom into enduring legacy. Using the seedbed as its guiding image, the audiobook shows how small, consistent choices root a home in strength and grow a future that lasts.

Parenting, teaching, or caring for children is messy, unpredictable, and often exhausting. There are tantrums over toys, endless reminders about chores, and classroom moments that make you feel more like a referee than a guide. And yet, in the middle of the chaos, there are also sparks of connection worth holding onto.

Obtener la atención de los padres para hablar sobre nuestras dificultades no siempre es fácil. Muchas veces nos enfrentamos a barreras psicológicas, espirituales y tradicionales que impiden una comunicación sana. Hacerles entender nuestras necesidades como hijos puede convertirse en uno de los mayores retos de la vida familiar. Los hijos tienen mucho que expresar: errores, sentimientos, sugerencias y experiencias que podrían evitar discusiones innecesarias y sanar relaciones dañadas.

A compelling and humorous story that combines two narratives: one an account of the emotional struggle to have a family, the shock of having triplets, and the challenge of raising them; the other a timely and insightful commentary on changes taking place in the America the triplets are inheriting.

Two sisters—one a playwright, one a preacher—excavate their evolving bond. Swinging between irreverent humor and achy tenderness, Sistering: The Art of Holding Close and Letting Go is for anyone who has been lucky enough to find their number one fan, and for those still searching.

Abanye is the sixth of nine children who was born in Ghana. After sharing her life with her big family, Abanye has embraced the importance of experiencing good and challenging times with her siblings. Through her experience and lessons learned throughout her life, she’s now bringing you a tried-and-tested comprehensive guide that will teach how to appreciate your siblings and embrace “climbing the hill of life” together. Are you ready to learn how?

The Mannings have applied these keys in their family for over 30 years and taught thousands of families as well how to use these keys to bring strong, life-long connections into their homes. See for yourself how to create a culture of friendship in your home for life!

It’s no secret that we all struggle with communicating with our family sometimes. There just seems to be some type of barrier that we cannot overcome. This is even more prevalent with siblings. Studies show that 30 percent of siblings have distant relationships. It shouldn’t be that way. Your siblings are your familial best friends! You share a bond that runs on blood. Not to mention, there are just some things that only family members can understand—from family secrets to funny things that happened during family reunions.

After the untimely death of their biological father, triplets Eva, Rosa and Hannah find themselves the unlikely owners of Heatherly Hall, the vast manor house overlooking their home village of Westenbury. But the beautiful house comes with almost as much baggage as it does land, not least high running costs and expectations. It's up to the sisters to find a way to keep Heatherly Hall going and, most importantly, in the family. But with drama in their private lives and secrets about to emerge, can the sisters stick together to focus on the task at hand?

Dare to Compare unravels the quintessential enemy of communication, the hidden weakness in us all: Pride. Simple pride. It’s not about simply communicating. It’s about thinking clearer, feeling stronger, becoming better, and unlocking the powerful communicator inside yourself.

My Story, My Song tells the fascinating tale—sometimes sweet and sometimes not—of the eldest daughter in a family of thirteen children, nine boys and four girls, growing up in the fifties and sixties in rural Ontario.

The brand new novel from bestselling author of The Village Affair, Julie Houston, follows vicar Rosa Quinn as she navigates the highs and lows of being the parish priest of the village of Westenbury, alongside her triplet sisters, Eva and Hannah.

Donna Turner is an urban mother from California sent to prison for almost a decade for a crime she didn't commit. After her release, she began a search to locate her children. On her journey, she discovers pain, heartache, romance, and true love, while trying to determine which paths to cross. A Mother's Torn Toe will keep you on the edge of your seat, from beginning to end. Sit back, and enjoy A Mother Torn Toe: The Donna Turner Story.

In The Mike File, Stephen Trimble grapples with his brother's heartrending life and death and looks behind doors he’s barricaded himself in. Detective story, social history, journey of self-discovery, and compassionate and unsparing memorial to a family and a forgotten life, The Mike File will move every listener with a relative or friend touched by psychiatric illness or disability.

Eileen Garvin’s older sister, Margaret, was diagnosed with severe autism at age three. Growing up alongside Margaret wasn’t easy: Eileen often found herself in situations that were simultaneously awkward, hilarious, and heartbreaking. How to Be a Sister begins when Eileen, after several years in New Mexico, has just moved back to the Pacific Northwest, where she grew up. Being 1,600 miles away allowed Eileen to avoid the question that has dogged her since birth: What is she going to do about Margaret?

The Keane sisters grew up together at Raven House, a luxurious riverside home that their mother inherited. On the day of a party at the house, tension fills the air as Jess, Natalie and Teresa all fear the exposure of things they're desperate to hide. The beautiful evening is marred by tragedy, and a celebration turns into a nightmare when a young life is lost. It is a haunting reminder of a shocking event five years earlier. As guests eye their companions with suspicion, it's the family who have the most to hide. 

When confronting the challenge of disciplining their children, moms and dads often default to the ways their own parents disciplined them, sometimes with harmful results. In High Five Discipline, mom and practicing pediatrician Dr. Candice Jones shows parents a better way.