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12 Practical Steps to Making Your Marriage Heaven on Earth: No Matter Your Current Situation, Good, Bad, or Ugly; Your Marriage Can Be Better Is your marriage experiencing the bliss of love or the strain of everyday life? Are you seeking a transformative journey to elevate your relationship to divine heights? Look no further! "12 Practical Steps to Making Your Marriage Heaven on Earth" is your ultimate guide to rejuvenating and revitalizing your marriage, regardless of its current state. Imagine waking up every day to a marriage that feels like heaven on earth. This book offers 12 ...

Using the written word as her witness statement, Jessica Willis Fisher tells a lacerating story of finding her voice after two decades of silence and an unforgettable story of risk and faith.

We need companions on our spiritual journey. The modern world has taught us to value autonomy and individualism. Our churches often see spirituality as personal and private. But we cannot go long in our Christian pilgrimage before realizing that isolation leads to spiritual barrenness. We soon discover that our souls long for accompaniment, intimacy, and spiritual friendship. As a result, many Christians today are rediscovering the ancient practice of spiritual direction.

The New York Times best-selling guide to transforming an intimate relationship into a lasting source of love and companionship, now fully revised with a new foreword and a brand-new chapter.

Children and families burdened with attachment disruption, emotional distress, or psychological disorders need effective and immediate assistance. They do not have the time to wait for long-term interventions or developmental changes to improve the parent-child relationship. Here, psychologists Elizabeth A. Sylvester and Kat Scherer provide the most effective approach in such situations: interventions that impact the entire family at relational, emotional, and cognitive-behavioral levels.

If You're In My Office, It's Already Too Late. James Sexton knows this. After dealing with over 1000 clients whose marriages have dissolved over everything from an ill-advised threesome with the nanny to the uneven division of carpool duties, he also knows all of the what- not-to-dos for couples who want to build - and consistently work to preserve - a lasting, fulfilling relationship. Described by former clients as a "courtroom gunslinger" and "the sociopath you want on your side", Sexton tells the unvarnished truth about relationships. These usually derive from dishonest communication.

We all spend a lot of energy trying to get people to listen to us, and despite our best efforts, we often fail. But what if the secret to influencing others was to demonstrate acceptance? Enter validation—communication where one accepts and sees the validity in another person’s experience. Research on validation shows that it has profound effects, from improving relationships and de-escalating conflicts to increasing one’s influence and self-compassion.

You can't put it into words, but something is happening to you. Your stomach churns, your heart aches, and the tension in your marriage is making you feel weary and a little crazy. The constant criticism, disrespect, cruelty, deceit, and gross indifference are eroding your confidence and breaking your spirit. For any woman caught in an emotionally destructive marriage, Leslie Vernick offers a personalized path forward.

Christian Singles: Beware Prowling Wolves Are you a single Christian, praying to meet the spouse God has for you? Has someone who almost seems too good to be true already come into your life? Written with your heavenly Father's protective heart for the innocent, this Bible Study is especially for you. No matter what that suitor says or how much you long to marry, before you say I do: R E A D T H I S B O O K . Maybe you've been intentional about finding the right relationship. You want someone who shares your faith. Perhaps you're searching Christian Dating websites. But horror stories of ...

A worship disorder: This is how Edward T. Welch views addictions. "Will we worship our own desires or will we worship the true God?" With this lens the author discovers far more in Scripture on addictions than passages on drunkenness.

In the day & age of social media the fear of infidelity takes on new sharpness. It is truly painful when your partner unjustly accuses you of infidelity. It is difficult to talk about, clarify, and end the accusations in a way that nurtures the relationship rather than tears it apart. These accusations can impact mental health, create codependency issues, decrease sex drive, and lead to divorce. But there is a book that answers your burning questions about why the accusations happen and what can be done to help resolve them. Accused of Cheating & You’re Not! will show you how to ...

Every relationship has its highs and lows, but we often don't know what to do with our "lows," or how we ended up there. What is creating friction, exacerbating our pain, and standing in the way of intimacy? More often than not, it is the stories of our past drifting into the present. But if we are willing to look at them closely, we will be able to write a new story for the future. With more than seventy years of therapeutic experience combined, Dan Allender and Steve Call demonstrate how God is inviting you and your partner to a wild faith journey with the hope of transformation.

Questioning thousands of parents and educators, Dr. Wayne Dyer learned firsthand what people really want for their children. They don't particularly want their kids to go to fancy schools, acquire riches, or live "the good life". They do want them to have personal integrity and high self-esteem, and to grow up with love and peace in their hearts. Children raised the Wayne Dyer way feel useful and needed. They are inner- rather than outer-directed. They live a stress-free life naturally, without resorting to drugs.

Whether your marriage is feeling the affects of full blown starvation or just suffering from the munchies, this presentation will help you lift your relationship to an entirely new level. With his humorous and energizing presentation style, Matt Townsend will help you and your partner to connect your heads, hearts, hands and hopes.

Developed by Harville Hendrix and Helen LaKelly Hunt in the 1980s, imago relationship therapy helps couples - and everyone in significant relationships - shift from conflict to connection by transforming the quality of their interactions. Joining theory and practice with elegance, and filled with examples, exercises, and dialogues, this is a book no couple's therapist can afford to be without.

Reclaim your joy and thrive through the storms of life when you find your strength in God. The human soul has a built-in yearning for joy and beauty and all good things. But that craving for life is so easily lost in the pace and demands of modern life. Join New York Times bestselling author John Eldredge as he gives you the tools you need to follow Jesus' path of supernatural resilience. Between false promises of ease and comfort on one side and the sheer busyness and stress of daily life on the other, people today are facing a shortage of peace, happiness, and strength.

Uncover the Secrets to a Flourishing Relationship! Are You and Your Partner Stuck in a Relational Rut? Do you find yourself repeatedly arguing about the same things—money, intimacy, or whose turn it is to do the dishes? Do you feel like you’re in an endless cycle of misunderstandings, only to make up and repeat it all over again? Enter a New Paradigm with Our 11-Week Workbook Take a deep breath and prepare to be amazed because our Couples Therapy Workbook is designed to transform your relationship from rocky to rock-solid. How? You can combine cutting-edge psychological theories with ...

Are you happy in your marriage? Do you want to make it better? Do you have the perfect marriage? Do you ever have problems with your spouse? Do you ever wish they would be different in how they do thing? Do you wish your partner was more like when you met them? Thinking about these questions and your answers will make you think about if things could be better, and how together you can make things great. In this book we will discuss what God says, and what Jesus did, and what Godly men in the Bible did to make their love stronger and their marriages better. Then we will discuss some very ...

Has your husband or wife had an affair? Are you finding it impossible to forgive them? Is the lack of forgiveness threatening to destroy your marriage? If you have been the victim of infidelity you will know that this is one of the most painful things you can experience in a marriage. Yes there is a solution. You CAN forgive your partner, heal the hurt between you and go on to rebuild the intimacy and passion in your marriage that you really want to have, In this book in the acclaimed Growing in Love for Life series, you will learn: - the seven steps to forgiving your partner, totally and ...

An affair: It can rob a couple of their relationship, their happiness, their very identity. And yet this extremely common human experience is so poorly understood. Adultery has existed since marriage was invented, and so, too, the prohibition against it - in fact it has a tenacity that marriage can only envy. Iconic couples' therapist and best-selling author of Mating in Captivity Esther Perel returns with a groundbreaking and provocative look at infidelity, arguing for a more nuanced and less judgmental conversation about our transgressions.