Relationship Counseling

Pastors and counselors regularly minister to people whose marriages or families are in crisis. Tempers run high and feelings are brought low when a marriage is hurting or a family is in disarray. Pastors and counselors need practical, biblical help in order to connect their theological training to the reality of modern messy relationships. These how-to training manuals provide relevant, user-friendly equipping for pastors, counselors, lay leaders, educators, and students, enabling them to competently and compassionately relate God's word to marriage and family life.

Según los “altos ideales del amor romántico”, la “vida real en pareja” sólo podrá ser imperfecta. Por eso hay que entender el amor real, es decir, la contradicción entre la atracción y el rechazo, entre lo que damos y pedimos, entre la certeza de estar y la duda, entre la cercanía anhelada y la distancia necesaria.

This is the book relationship therapist Jacoline Steegstra wished she had read before she married, now more than 30 years ago. "The Art of True Love and Connection" distills insights from her personal journey, education, and extensive work with couples into seven key principles for a fulfilling and enduring relationship. This book is an essential guide in times where many relationships are falling apart not from a lack of love, but from partners growing apart. Steegstra tackles the tough questions and patterns that lead to conflict in relationships, offering a hopeful perspective that with ...

You may already be married, or you may be planning to be married soon. In either case, you are probably looking for scriptural information on marriage, or you would not be looking at this book. After having been out of print, this book has now been republished. It was first published in 1992 by Northwestern Publishing House. It was very well received and printed three times. It was used by many congregations with their members for marital and premarital counseling and was given as a gift to couples being married. It had been regarded by some as their Bible on the subject of marriage. It was...

Love After Infidelity is a handbook on all things that you may have questioned after the revelation of an affair. Was it you? Why has this happened to you? What are your options? You'll be guided on how to overcome the trauma and deal with obsessive thought and learning to manage those emotions of self-doubt and self-pity. You'll be encouraged to stand up, taking care of your emotional, mental, and physical strength.

WHEN HE'S A KEEPER - BUT YOU FEEL LIKE THROWING HIM AWAY All humans are the same. We dream of finding that one great love, having a wonderful relationship and living happily-ever-after. I call this love a Keeper – someone who will love and cherish you, respect and honor you until the end of your years. Many of us are lucky enough to meet this kind of soul-mate but then something happens to this love. Love bites, love lives and then love dies. In the US and Australia every third marriage ends in divorce. Approximately fifty percent of these divorces also involve children. WHEN HE’S A ...

Marriage should be for life. Those are the commitments that are made right at the beginning, and most of us will do whatever it takes to ensure that they are fulfilled. But what happens when a marriage breaks down or a relationship starts getting into trouble? Inside the Marriage Counseling Book: The Ultimate Guide to Making Marriage Work by Building a Strong and Lasting Relationship, you will find chapters that will help you to reinforce your marriage.

When a child comes out as LGBTQ+, Christian parents often find themselves navigating unfamiliar, unsettling terrain. Mark Yarhouse and Olya Zaporozhets, therapists and researchers with decades of experience, provide perspective, insight, and the chance to learn from others who've shared a similar journey. Using data from studies of Christian parents of LGBTQ+ children, they deliver research-based insights and faithful wisdom that is accessible for parents, their friends, and church leaders.

Before embarking on an endless string of costly therapy sessions, today you have the chance to try a method at home that has already helped thousands of people improve relationships with their partners. Here's a taste of what you'll discover with Relationship Therapy for Couples: how to build trust and communicate with love and respect; how to manage difficult emotions together; how to create intimacy and build new ways of relating to each other; how to communicate openly and face the future together; how to communicate your needs without anxiety; and more.

The story of fatherlessness is being written into the heart of this generation. It can be heard in our songs, seen in our movies, read in our blogs. It is a story of grief, pain, and loss. A story of shame, loneliness, and rejection. A story of missed potential and wasted opportunity. A story that desperately needs to be heard. But fatherlessness is more than a personal tragedy. It is a growing epidemic affecting more than the single life of an individual. Fatherless youth are the driving force behind our society’s biggest problems such as: gangs, drug abuse, and suicide.

This Too Shall Pass unflinchingly deals with major issues relating to: family, love, work, health and identity. We follow the personal narratives of 20 or so everyday people in their 20s to 80s during their most vulnerable and transformative experiences. We follow Jackson's character-building story of first love; Rachel's difficult return from maternity leave; Maria's mid-life love crisis; Sara's hopeful new life as a refugee and Owen's well-received coming out. These are unforgettable and deeply intimate yet universal stories.

In this book are strategies for understanding and identifying abusive individuals. Being able to understand abusive behavior and identify its first stage, verbal abuse, is the key to freeing yourself from the grasp of an abusive person.

“The devil’s War Against Your God-ordained Marriage” is an exposé on some of satan’s most potent weapons against relationships, both in his efforts to prevent them from forming and to destroy the ones in existence. The apostle Paul warned us to not be ignorant of the devil’s devices, lest he get an advantage over us (2 Corinthians 2:11). The Lord said His people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (Hosea 4:6). Sadly, many Christians were not aware of satan’s SINister covert war against their relationships, especially God-ordained marriages. Consequently, many fully armored ...

This book will help you to rekindle the affection and love that all marriages are built on. There's no better guarantee than expert opinions and in-depth discussions on communication, positivity, trust, and more to rediscover what a marriage can bring. Have you ever felt as if your discussions with your spouse are going nowhere? Ever felt as if there's something lacking between you and your spouse? This book is going to help you overcome those problems and improve your marriage!

The secret to a deep, loving, relationship… …is well within your grasp. Are you willing to take the steps to make it happen? Dr. Gay Hendricks had written numerous books. A scientist of human psychology, with over 25 years in the field, he has the insights that will become a primer for taking a new path. Can Ten-Seconds bring a miracle? Learn to: - Get What you Need in a Relationship - Inner Shift - Listen in a New Way - Find the Ten-Second Windows - The Seven Relationship Mistakes - And much more This book will become a resource to be used over and over on the path to happiness and ...

You remember the dreams you had when your child was born. The innocence and You remember the dreams you had when your child was born. The innocence and possibilities. But lately, things have taken a troubling turn. Sure, you do your best to keep up appearances in public. But you live in constant worry about what’s happening behind your teenager’s closed bedroom door. Now it’s time to turn the tide with The E.M.B.R.A.C.E. Parenting Method.

It is said that the true test of a society is how it treats its most vulnerable members. As many as one in four girls and one in six boys experience sexual abuse during childhood, and it's estimated that as many as half of the incidents are never reported. This means that countless millions in our societies, both children and adults, carry this complex, often hidden pain. What does the path to healing look like for survivors? And how can ministry leaders, pastors, and counselors best help them as they walk this difficult road? Drawing on both his own experience and his wife's experience as survivors of childhood sexual abuse, minister and lecturer Tim Hein offers his expertise.

D.J. Burr is a man on a mission; successful business owner, highly respected psychotherapist, and survivor of a dysfunctional life. At a young age, all he wanted was to be loved, but instead found himself targeted by a sexual predator. D.J. slipped into a life of addiction and clawed his way through broken relationships and seedy sex clubs - looking for love in all the wrong places. D.J. will take listeners on a roller coaster of emotions as he details his search for grace and love.

Once every generation or so a book comes along that has the power to change the world. This is such a one that is a groundbreaking and transformative guidebook that every individual, couple, parent, family and school will want to implement. Most agree that our education systems are antiquated and have been failing to provide students with the tools they need to truly succeed in life. Well, this masterpiece not only makes a great gift but fills in the void to give every man, woman and child the knowledge they need to not only create a better quality of life but the virtuous constructs they ...

Weaving together these three true stories, Jessie Stephens captures the painful but wholeheartedly universal experience of heartbreak. Deeply relatable, addictive to the very last word, and powerfully human, Heartsick reminds us that emotional pain can make us as it breaks us and that storytelling has the ultimate healing power.