Treating Yourself and Your Partner with Divine Value
Reducing High Levels of Harmful, Emotionally Charged Communication
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Sue Johnson
Heralded by the New York Times and Time magazine as the couple therapy with the highest rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love relationship as an attachment bond. Johnson teaches that the way to save and enrich a relationship is to reestablish safe emotional connection and preserve the attachment bond. With this in mind, she focuses on key moments in a relationship-from Recognizing the Demon Dialogue to Revisiting a Rocky Moment-and uses them as touchpoints for seven healing conversations. Through case studies from her practice, illuminating advice, and practical exercises, couples will learn how to nurture their relationships and ensure a lifetime of love.
Heralded by the New York Times and Time magazine as the couple therapy with the highest rate of success, Emotionally Focused Therapy works because it views the love relationship as an attachment bond. Johnson teaches that the way to save and enrich a relationship is to reestablish safe emotional connection and preserve the attachment bond. With this in mind, she focuses on key moments in a relationship-from Recognizing the Demon Dialogue to Revisiting a Rocky Moment-and uses them as touchpoints for seven healing conversations. Through case studies from her practice, illuminating advice, and practical exercises, couples will learn how to nurture their relationships and ensure a lifetime of love.
Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship by Stan Tatkin PsyD and Harville Hendrix PhD
By learning to use simple gestures and words, readers can learn to put out emotional fires and help their partners feel more safe and secure. The no-fault view of conflict in this book encourages readers to move past a "warring brain" mentality and toward a more cooperative "loving brain" understanding of the relationship. This book is essential reading for couples and others interested in understanding the complex dynamics at work behind love and trust in intimate relationships.
By learning to use simple gestures and words, readers can learn to put out emotional fires and help their partners feel more safe and secure. The no-fault view of conflict in this book encourages readers to move past a "warring brain" mentality and toward a more cooperative "loving brain" understanding of the relationship. This book is essential reading for couples and others interested in understanding the complex dynamics at work behind love and trust in intimate relationships.
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Rebuilding Trust after Infidelity and Dealing with Online Sexual Addiction
Rebuilding Trust after Infidelity and Dealing with Online Sexual Addiction
After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful by Janis A. Spring
After the Affair teaches partners how to heal themselves and grow from the shattering crisis of an infidelity. Drawing on thirty-five years as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Spring offers a series of original and proven strategies that address such questions as: * Why did it happen? * Once love and trust are gone, can we ever get them back? * Can I—should I—recommit when I feel so ambivalent? * How do we become sexually intimate again? * Is forgiveness possible? * What constitutes an affair in cyberspace?
After the Affair teaches partners how to heal themselves and grow from the shattering crisis of an infidelity. Drawing on thirty-five years as a clinical psychologist, Dr. Spring offers a series of original and proven strategies that address such questions as: * Why did it happen? * Once love and trust are gone, can we ever get them back? * Can I—should I—recommit when I feel so ambivalent? * How do we become sexually intimate again? * Is forgiveness possible? * What constitutes an affair in cyberspace?
Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken: Finding Forgiveness and Restoration by Cindy Beall
A few days after an ordinary Valentine's Day, Cindy Beall's life changed forever. She listened with disbelief to her husband, Chris, a respected pastor, confess to pornography addiction, numerous affairs, and the startling news that a woman was pregnant with his child. With raw honesty and intimate knowledge of pain and of God's power to resurrect something new out of the debris of betrayal, Cindy reveals how to: seek guidance, counseling, and prayer support when deceptions surface; help the family heal from the grief and humiliation; rebuild trust after porn, sex, and other addictions undermine a relationship; protect a marriage from lies and unfaithfulness; rely on God to pursue forgiveness and move forward in new promises, etc
A few days after an ordinary Valentine's Day, Cindy Beall's life changed forever. She listened with disbelief to her husband, Chris, a respected pastor, confess to pornography addiction, numerous affairs, and the startling news that a woman was pregnant with his child. With raw honesty and intimate knowledge of pain and of God's power to resurrect something new out of the debris of betrayal, Cindy reveals how to: seek guidance, counseling, and prayer support when deceptions surface; help the family heal from the grief and humiliation; rebuild trust after porn, sex, and other addictions undermine a relationship; protect a marriage from lies and unfaithfulness; rely on God to pursue forgiveness and move forward in new promises, etc
Living and Loving after Betrayal: How to Heal from Emotional Abuse, Deceit, Infidelity, and Chronic Resentment by Steven Stosny PhD
Expert Steven Stosny offers effective tools for healing, He believes that we are more powerful when compassionate than when angry or aggressive, and that true strength comes from relating compassionately to others and remaining true to your deeper values. In this book, you’ll learn practical strategies for overcoming betrayal-induced trauma and the chronic resentment and depression that result, using this innovative compassion-empowerment approach. Most books on betrayal only focus on the obvious issues, such as infidelity, abuse, or sex addiction. This book explores the effects of those kinds of betrayal, as well as less-talked-about types, such as emotional manipulation, dishonesty, deceit, and financial cheating. In addition, the book helps you regain a sense of trust in others so that you might eventually rebuild your relationship with your reformed betrayer.
Expert Steven Stosny offers effective tools for healing, He believes that we are more powerful when compassionate than when angry or aggressive, and that true strength comes from relating compassionately to others and remaining true to your deeper values. In this book, you’ll learn practical strategies for overcoming betrayal-induced trauma and the chronic resentment and depression that result, using this innovative compassion-empowerment approach. Most books on betrayal only focus on the obvious issues, such as infidelity, abuse, or sex addiction. This book explores the effects of those kinds of betrayal, as well as less-talked-about types, such as emotional manipulation, dishonesty, deceit, and financial cheating. In addition, the book helps you regain a sense of trust in others so that you might eventually rebuild your relationship with your reformed betrayer.
Pure Desire: How One Man's Triumph Can Help Others Break Free From Sexual Temptation by Dr. Ted Roberts
There is a battle going on with millions of victims trapped in the struggle and no apparent way out. Church leaders and pastors are often called in to help, but these leaders don’t exactly know what to do. Pure Desire is the answer to this desperate cry for help from men and women who have tried to build sexual holiness in their lives and failed…and failed…and failed. This book is also for the shattered souls of mates who are puzzled, shamed and wounded by their husband’s or wife’s sexual bondage and secret life. And, this book is for the Church to come alongside those who have come to them for help. Here is hope for establishing healthy personal boundaries.
There is a battle going on with millions of victims trapped in the struggle and no apparent way out. Church leaders and pastors are often called in to help, but these leaders don’t exactly know what to do. Pure Desire is the answer to this desperate cry for help from men and women who have tried to build sexual holiness in their lives and failed…and failed…and failed. This book is also for the shattered souls of mates who are puzzled, shamed and wounded by their husband’s or wife’s sexual bondage and secret life. And, this book is for the Church to come alongside those who have come to them for help. Here is hope for establishing healthy personal boundaries.
Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction by Mark Laaser
With today’s rampant availability of Internet pornography, sexual addiction has become a national epidemic that affects up to 10 percent of Christians. As devastating as any drug habit, it brings heartbreak and despair to those it entangles. But there is help for men and women caught in sexual addiction’s downward spiral. This book offers a path that leads beyond compulsive thoughts and behaviors to healing and transformation. Sensitive to the shame of sexual addiction without minimizing its sinfulness, Dr. Mark Laaser traces the roots of the problem, discusses its patterns and impact, and maps out a biblical approach to self-control and sexual integrity.
With today’s rampant availability of Internet pornography, sexual addiction has become a national epidemic that affects up to 10 percent of Christians. As devastating as any drug habit, it brings heartbreak and despair to those it entangles. But there is help for men and women caught in sexual addiction’s downward spiral. This book offers a path that leads beyond compulsive thoughts and behaviors to healing and transformation. Sensitive to the shame of sexual addiction without minimizing its sinfulness, Dr. Mark Laaser traces the roots of the problem, discusses its patterns and impact, and maps out a biblical approach to self-control and sexual integrity.
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Seeking Help When Divorce Looks Like Your Only Option
Seeking Help When Divorce Looks Like Your Only Option
Unbreak Your Marriage: Reconnect Your Marriage In 31 Days Workbook by Brian Murray
Are you in a painful marriage? Are you embarrassed to talk about the crisis in your marriage? Sick and tired of the same old excuses? Has your love grown cold and toxic? Would you consider giving your marriage one more chance? This is a treasure tool for recovering, refining and fixing your marriage. So start today, savor the joy of hope, triumph and devotion by regaining and superseding the marriage you once had. Unbreak Your Marriage's powerful and daring intervention principles help couples to reunite and become better individuals and better yet, partners. Author Brian Murray reveals heart attitudes that help spouses to bond, develop, and become great partners.
Are you in a painful marriage? Are you embarrassed to talk about the crisis in your marriage? Sick and tired of the same old excuses? Has your love grown cold and toxic? Would you consider giving your marriage one more chance? This is a treasure tool for recovering, refining and fixing your marriage. So start today, savor the joy of hope, triumph and devotion by regaining and superseding the marriage you once had. Unbreak Your Marriage's powerful and daring intervention principles help couples to reunite and become better individuals and better yet, partners. Author Brian Murray reveals heart attitudes that help spouses to bond, develop, and become great partners.
The Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7-Step Program for Saving Your Marriage by Michele Weiner Davis
Weiner Davis outlines a realistic, solution-oriented seven-step program for saving your marriage. Using revealing anecdotes and in-depth case studies, she illustrates practical ways for marriage partners to: avoid the "divorce trap"; identify specific marriage-saving goals; move beyond ineffective, hurtful ways of interacting; become an expert on "doing what works"; overcome infidelity, Internet obsessions, depression, sexual problems, and midlife crises; get your marriage back on track -- and keep it there; and much more
Weiner Davis outlines a realistic, solution-oriented seven-step program for saving your marriage. Using revealing anecdotes and in-depth case studies, she illustrates practical ways for marriage partners to: avoid the "divorce trap"; identify specific marriage-saving goals; move beyond ineffective, hurtful ways of interacting; become an expert on "doing what works"; overcome infidelity, Internet obsessions, depression, sexual problems, and midlife crises; get your marriage back on track -- and keep it there; and much more
Hope For the Separated: Wounded Marriages Can Be Healed by Gary Chapman
the biblical ideal for a separated couple is reconciliation. So how do you do it? When doors slam and angry words fly, when things just aren't working out, and even when your spouse has abandoned your trust, there is hope. Hope for the Separated will show you through God's Word that your marriage can be restored. Recognizing that restoration will not happen for everyone, Dr. Chapman also gives insightful advice for those who experience the pain of divorce.
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Finding Pathways Away From Physical and Mental Abuse
Finding Pathways Away From Physical and Mental Abuse