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Joi Counseling Center uses many books and programs to better help our clients. Below are some selections that we use regularly and recommend.

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Good Days Ahead is the critically acclaimed computer program that is being hailed as a breakthrough in helping people overcome their problems and get their lives back on track.

People who use Good Days Ahead learn how to change negative thinking, control their moods, and use scientifically tested methods to fight depression and anxiety.

Good Days Ahead is an easy-to-use multimedia program with videos, high quality graphics, and stimulating self-help exercises that help you make positive changes in how you think and feel.  

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"You can't be a peer. You can't be a parent. It took me five years to figure it out."

"I was in our house looking out the window, watching the kids with my husband and his parents playing together on the lawn, and I thought: I don't like these people. I don't belong. My life rotated around them, always what was best for the children. How can you argue against that moral argument? But I resented it a lot."

As a stepmother, you are initially perceived, falsely or not, as a rival to the most traditionally revered and respected biological force in the family -- the mother. If that's not enough to put some drama into your life, there's plenty more.

By Cherie Burns.

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This is a unique book with a new slant on step parenting that will make stepmothers feel better rather than worse.

Wednesday Martin’s Stepmonster: A New Look at Why Real Stepmothers Think, Feel, and Act the Way We Do will hit a cord with “stepmonsters” struggling with their new families everywhere.

Whether they’re being too nice or appearing to overstep boundaries too soon, stepmothers often get the shaft no matter what they do. Wednesday explores the various dynamics with depth, reassuring women that they’re not monsters and they’re not alone.

In the introduction she shares her own personal experiences and struggles with her attempts to fit in and bond with her new stepchildren. She admits her mistakes, but also helps others feel okay about being imperfect. Martin also does an amazing job of giving good advice in Stepmonster to stepmothers without preaching.

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