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* Best--Selling Author * Expressive Arts Therapist * Creative Arts Teacher * Creative Coach *Owner of HeartShine Productions
Brave Families
The Ultimate Guide to Long-Lasting, Loving Relationships
"The world keeps changing, and new challenges arise, but the heartbeat of brave families always remains the same. Love is the golden thread that ties generations together throughout eternity.”
—Jean Voice Dart, Lead Author
In Brave Families: The Ultimate Guide to Long-Lasting, Loving Relationships, a diverse group of courageous authors shares heartfelt stories, practical wisdom, and transformative tools for navigating life’s greatest family challenges. From parenting and caregiving to adoption, divorce, disability, grief, identity, and healing from trauma, their real-life stories reveal how ordinary people found extraordinary strength through connection, faith, community, and compassion. It includes an extensive resource directory, providing families with the contacts they need to manage the top 10 challenges they face today.
Whether your family is traditional, blended, chosen, foster, adoptive, interfaith, LGBTQIA+, or beautifully unique in its own way, this book offers guidance, encouragement, and hope for creating deeper, healthier relationships that stand the test of time.
Meet the Authors
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What Are People Saying About Brave Families?
"Brave Families opened me up, made me think,
and made me consider other ways to feel and respond."
—Dr. Pamela J. Pine, MPH, Founder and Director, Stop the Silence® — A Department of the Institute on Violence, Abuse and Trauma (IVAT)
"This book serves as a source of comfort and an
empowering guide for those seeking support, resilience,
and meaningful pathways toward healing and understanding."
—Dr. Carla Stumpf Patton, LMHC, QS, FT, Subject Matter Expert in Bereavement, Trauma, Suicide, and the Service Member, Veteran, and Military Family Communities
"Brave Families beautifully captures the resilience of the human spirit and the ways our families, relationships, and life experiences shape who we become."
—Rachel Vasquez, Founder and CEO of Living Beyond Grief™, Widow Empowerment Coach, and Family Grief and Trauma Specialist
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