How can you strengthen your bond with your son and communicate love to him in a way he can receive? The respect effect in Dr. Emerson Eggerich’s book Mother and Son: The Respect Effect could make all the difference in your relationship.. Continue reading The Power of Respect: Transforming Mother-Son Relationships
How can you strengthen your bond with your son and communicate love to him in a way he can receive? The respect effect could make all the difference in your relationship.. Continue reading Build Stronger Mother-Son Relationships. Mother & Son: The Respect Effect by Emerson Eggerichs
Through blessing, we communicate God’s heart about the inherent worth and value of every individual we bless. Why is an active commitment vital for this, and how can we show it? What specific questions can you ask your kids to help them live out the blessing? Continue reading The Blessing: An Active Commitment
We have the unique privilege of inviting others to picture their special future through the eyes of the One who knows them best. Why is this a vital part of the blessing, and how can we live it out? Continue reading The Blessing: Picturing a Special Future
Through blessing, we communicate God’s heart about the inherent worth and value of every individual we bless. The absence of blessing in a person’s life leaves a void where love, acceptance, and emotional connection should reside. How can we call others up into the value that they already have (but may not experience)? Continue reading The Blessing: Attaching High Value
Speak life by speaking blessing into the lives of others. When we speak God’s heart over another, this is a key element of the blessing that everyone’s heart is designed to desire. How did Jesus do this (and how can we)? Read on. Continue reading The Blessing: A Spoken Message
The blessing is a bridge that connects hearts. Meaningful and appropriate physical touch is a significant part of this blessing and can literally extend life. Do you regularly give and receive this aspect of the blessing? Read on to find out more. Continue reading The Blessing: Meaningful and Appropriate Physical Touch
Through blessing, we communicate God’s heart about the inherent worth and value of every individual we bless. The absence of blessing in a person’s life leaves a void where love, acceptance, and emotional connection should reside. What is the blessing? And how can it be redeemed? Continue reading The Blessing
If your spouse keeps bending over backwards for others and getting hurt themselves, they might have the victim love style. What can you do to help them be fully the person God designed them to be? Continue reading Help! I’m Married to Someone with a Victim Love Style.
If you feel overwhelmed, helpless, and unsafe, it’s easy for your children to be unprotected and unsafe, too. If you have the Victim Love Style, what can you do to transform your parenting for your children to be able to live their best life. Continue reading Transformational Parenting for the Victim Love Style
So, you have a victim love style. What now? Life to the full is available to you. Find out how to get and stay safe and valued. Continue reading I Have a Victim Love Style. What Now?
Do you find yourself taking whatever junk other people throw at you to avoid being alone? If so, you might have the victim love style. Find out what the victim love style means, how it develops, and keys to growth. Continue reading The Victim Love Style
If you desire a partnership but feel trapped in the push and pull of control, you might be married to a controller. Learn more about this Love Style and what you can do to be fully yourself in this relationship. Continue reading Help! I’m Married to A Controller
When you have a high need for control in your life, you might just be a controlling parent. What landmines ought you avoid and how can you do that? Continue reading Transformational Parenting for the Controller
Do you feel like you need to control or be controlled? You can get control over that feeling and be more successful in your work and family life. Here’s how. Continue reading I’m a Controller. What Now?
Do you (or someone you love) dislike authority and hate it when people disrespect or interrupt you? Do you see those you care about acting weak and fearful around you? Perhaps your love style has something to do with it.. Continue reading The Controller Love Style
If your spouse vacillates between “I love you and need you close to me all the time” and “I am so angry with you, go away!” you might need to read this. Continue reading Help! I’m Married to a Vacillator
How can you raise your children to have healthy, lasting, loving relationships if you don’t feel that is possible for you? Continue reading Transformational Parenting for the Vacillator
Am I doomed to search forever for the affection and attention I long for? Find hope for the vacillator. Continue reading I’m a Vacillator. What now?
Do you feel like no one has ever really understood you, and that everyone you care about lets you down? Perhaps you are a vacillator. Find out more. Continue reading The Vacillator Love Style
If your spouse is annoyingly interesting in caring for and pleasing others and assessing your mood, but can’t stand to be alone or set boundaries for the kids, you might need to read this. Continue reading Help! I’m Married to a Pleaser
So, I’m people-pleasing and care-taking. How does that affect my kids and how can I protect them from myself? Continue reading Transformational Parenting for the Pleaser
If you have the imprint of a pleaser love style, you aren’t doomed to a life of perpetual over-commitment and of one-sided relationships. You can become a secure connector. Here are some steps in that direction. Continue reading I’m a Pleaser, What Now?
Are you a great empathizer and giver, often giving more than you receive to help others? If so, you may be a pleaser love style. Find out what this means for you. Continue reading The Pleaser Love Style
Much of marriage is about being a team and loving and comforting one another through the joys and trials of life. So, what do you do when your spouse doesn’t give and receive comfort and affection well? Continue reading Help! I’m Married to an Avoider
If you have an avoider love style, how can you raise integrated, whole-hearted children? What do you need to keep in mind as you parent? Continue reading Transformational Parenting for the Avoider
So, you have the avoider love style. What practical steps can you take to change? (And why should you?) Continue reading I’m an Avoider. What Now?
Are you independent and self-reliant, preferring not to talk about emotions? Perhaps you are an avoider love style. Find out why this might be wreaking havoc on your relationships. Continue reading The Avoider Love Style
Do you have a destructive love style, or are you a secure connector? Secure connectors are a rare gem, and a gift to the world. Are you one? Find out… Continue reading The Secure Connector
Ask yourself the following question, “Can you recall being comforted as a child after a time of emotional distress? How you answer that question could reveal a lot about your love style even today. Continue reading First Lessons in Love
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