Respected Christian counselor H. Norman Wright draws from his extensive experience to help couples establish strong, loving marriages. Whether divorced or widowed, people who marry again face unique challenges. Through 101 questions, Norm helps readers know their own views and understand where they agree and disagree with their future mates on finances, roles, sexuality, children, responsibilities, and previous relationship issues.

Couples will work together to:

• make sure they're ready for a new marriage
• discover the essentials for successful remarriages
• clearly communicate personal and family needs
• establish realistic expectations for their new marriage
• handle common problems in remarriage: previous partners, in-laws (past and present), merged families, money, sexual issues

Offering plenty of room for written responses, this essential premarriage guide helps couples work through problem areas before they become issues. They will also discover areas of strength and agreement that will help them establish a solid foundation for success.

Ideal for couples, study groups, ministers, and counselors.

Build a Love that Lasts

At a time when more people are delaying marriage or writing it off altogether, those ready to walk the aisle will appreciate a frank and trusted resource to help them start marriage on the right foot.

This practical guide will help you explore your relationship in depth and will

- provide new insight into your partner and how the two of you relate to one another

- establish your wants and needs as individuals and a couple before your marriage begins

- lay the groundwork for open and honest conversation for a stronger, healthier marriage

- reveal how life events and family background can influence decision making in finances, family, education, faith, and career

- engage you in activities that lead to thought-provoking discussion addressing your past experiences and current expectations

Engaging and easy-to-use, Before You Say "I Do" is full of tried and true wisdom to help you plan for your future and build a lasting relationship with the one you love.

You can make it through Life is marked by losses. Some are life changing, such as leaving home, the effects of natural disasters or war, the death of a loved one, or divorce. Others are subtle, like changing jobs, moving, or a broken friendship. But whether you encounter family, personal, or community disaster, there is always potential for change, growth, and new insight. Writing from his own experience and expertise, certified trauma expert and best-selling author H. Norman Wright shows you how to work through loss and come out a stronger person on the other side. He tackles tough issues like the meaning of grief, blaming God, and learning how to express yourself and share your pain in times of loss. Whether you've gone through a great tragedy or are just trying to deal with the small sorrows in life, this book can help you resist the pull toward despair and start on the road back to joy. H. Norman Wright is a certified trauma specialist, a licensed marriage and family therapist, the founder and director of Christian Marriage Enrichment, and the author of more than sixty books. He and his wife, Joyce, live in California.

Open Your Heart a Lasting Love

Before you tie the knot, make sure the rope is strong. Let these insightful and inspiring devotions minister to your heart as you begin to develop a daily habit of spending time with God.

Best-selling author and counselor H. Norman Wright's has mentored more than a million dating and engaged couples with his interactive and easy-to-use books on marriage. Through Scripture, storytelling, and thought-provoking questions, each of these devotions serve as a tool to initiate honest and heartfelt conversation between you and your partner.

Whether you're already engaged or still getting to know each other, you can build a strong and healthy relationship with open communication, respect for one another, and trust in God.

Enrich your brain, enrich your life! Do you ever feel like you're losing your way around your own brain? Words you know vanish off your tongue, and you write down all your appointments so you don't risk forgetting them. These changes can be alarming, but the good news is they don't have to be permanent. In How to Keep Your Brain Young, bestselling Christian counselor H. Norman Wright breaks down the basics of how your brain works and gives you easy yet successful strategies for bettering your brain. You'll learn ways to improve your memory, overcome stress, and transform negative thought habits into positive ones. Make the most of this incredible gift God has given you! Whether you're young or old, right-brained or left, How to Keep Your Brain Young is packed full of simple yet invaluable tips to help you stay sharp for a lifetime.

"The Perfect Remedy for Cold Feet "

More than half of all couples who become engaged this year will never make it to the altar. Why? Leading experts believe it's because couples fail to really get to know their potential mate before getting engaged. Relationship expert and noted couples counselor Norm Wright steers potential brides and grooms through a series of soul-searching questions to discern if they've really met "the One."

Couples will be much more confident about whether or not to pursue marriage after completing these in-depth and personal questions. Norm also addresses the delicate subject of calling off the wedding if readers discover that a potential mate isn't actually meant to be a life partner.

How to Counsel a Couple in 6 Sessions or Less makes it easier to counsel couples over a brief period of time, but also addresses major marital issues of communication, family issues, decision making, and more. This highly practical resource for pastors, or anyone in ministry, can be used with The Marriage Checkup Questionnaire or as a stand-alone tool for quickly diagnosing problems and referring couples to a professional, as necessary.

A tremendous conflict occurs between men and women when unfulfilled expectations exist. In this important book, widely acclaimed marriage counselor H. Norman Wright reveals the "secret" behind the psychological makeup of men-how they think, what they want, what they fear and how they respond to women.

Is Your Yesterday Getting in the Way of Today and Tomorrow? Release your past to God once and for all with the help of respected Christian counselor H. Norman Wright, who has worked with grief-stricken individuals in the aftermath of 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and mass shootings. Whether you've experienced a major ordeal or a series of disappointments, it's impossible to move forward when painful emotions remain unaddressed and broken relationships stay unresolved. Reclaim hope for the future by... sorting through memories identifying lingering hurts overcoming former traumas grieving previous losses claiming forever freedom in Christ Leave the past behind, experience fullness of life in the present, and look forward to the future. Healing awaits.

Losing a family member is one of life's most difficult experiences. Whether you are facing the death of a spouse, parent, child, sibling, close friend, or pet, the weeks and months that follow such a loss can be overwhelming. "Experiencing the Loss of a Family Member" is a trustworthy companion for your journey through grief. With gentle honesty and wisdom, bestselling author and respected family therapist H. Norman Wright shares about the process of mourning, the disruption and reordering of family life, and the conflicting and confusing emotions that follow a death in the family. He also shows how it's possible to grow closer to God and other family members as you face the darkness together. You are not alone in the valley--God's Spirit, the Comforter, walks with you every step of the way. He will guide you toward true peace and renewed hope.

In this freshly designed trade edition of the bestselling daily devotional Quiet Times for Couples (more than half a million copies sold), noted counselor and author Norm Wright provides the help couples need to nurture their marriages. In just a few moments together each day, couples will discover a richer intimacy with each other and with God. They are encouraged to share their fondest dreams and deepest thoughts?creating memories in these quiet times together.

A couple will look forward to closing the doors on the frenzied world and taking turns reading the devotions. The Scripture verses and meditations guide them in applying God's Word to their lives and marriage, and the daily discussions will fill their relationship with a new expression of God's promises and an everlasting love toward one another.

This is the perfect gift?thoughtful and inspirational?for all couples at any stage of life and relationship.

I'll Never Forget That Day The unexpected strikes each of us at some point in our lives. Those days when the sky feels as though it's closing in and our world is crumbling around us. A loved one dies... We survive a natural disaster... We witness a horrific event or act of terrorism. And we live in fear of what might happen as we step onto an airplane or watch as someone we love is admitted into the hospital. How can we best respond to such shock and grief? Is it possible to feel safe again or to make sense of life in the aftermath? Christian counselor H. Norman Wright has helped individuals cope in the wake of 9/11; Hurricane Katrina; the mass shootings at Aurora, Colorado and Las Vegas, Nevada; and other traumatic events. Here he offers compassionate guidance on facing-and growing from-the circumstances you fear most. You'll discover practical ways to prepare for the unexpected, and find a path to real hope and peace-even in the midst of tragedy.

Let Comfort Find You in the Quiet There are no words to instantly take away the deep pain of your loss. Grieving is a personal path--one that takes time to traverse. But genuine expressions of comfort and understanding can help you make gradual steps toward healing. H. Norman Wright, a respected Christian counselor, offers these daily devotions from a heart that has endured difficult loss--yet found God faithful through it all. In these profound and practical reflections, you'll find... gentle guidance through the grieving processcomforting reminders that you're not alonehope--and the space you need to uncover it When you're grieving, give yourself quiet moments to rest in God's limitless love and peace.

Many pastors and lay counselors have had minimal training in clinical methods of grief and trauma counseling. The Complete Guide to Crisis and Trauma Counseling is a biblical, practical guide to pastoral counseling written by one of the most respected Christian therapists of our time. Dr. H. Norman Wright brings more than forty years of clinical and classroom experience to this topic. He shares real-life dialogues from his decades in private practice to demonstrate healthy, healing counseling sessions. Readers will learn how to counsel and coach both believers and nonbelievers who are in crisis, how to walk alongside them through the hours, weeks, and months following their trauma, and how to help them find the path to complete restoration.

Impossible people may be possible after all. Filled with case histories, dialogue, self-inventories, and practical suggestions for building loving and lasting relationships, this book offers a step-by-step strategy for getting along with difficult people.

What does it take to make a marriage intimate, loving, and fun? It all starts with communication, the key to a vibrant, happy, lifelong partnership. In this new updated edition of the bestselling classic, trusted marriage and family counselor Dr. Norman Wright does not just show readers the different ways men and women communicate. He shows how to do it right! Readers will find practical ways to reduce marital conflict, manage anger, build up one another's self-esteem, and listen and understand each other at deeper and more satisfying levels. This updated edition also includes all-new reflection questions at the end of each chapter for couples or groups.

Start Your Days Together

To have a marriage that works, you must work at it. Whether you've just put a ring on it, or have been married for years, you don't have to figure marriage out on your own.

Best-selling author and relationship counselor H. Norman Wright has mentored millions of couples through interactive and easy-to-use books on marriage. Through Scripture, storytelling, and thought-provoking questions, this devotional will minister to your heart and draw you closer to your spouse. Each devotion offers heartfelt daily readings that will encourage and uplift you and provide practical and creative problem-solving tools for a joy-filled marriage that lasts.

Make the most of your marriage by starting each day reading the Word together. As you draw closer to God, you will grow closer together.

Existe un vacio en tu corazon que se llama papa?

Cada hija sabe lo importante que es la palabra "papi." Cuando el padre nos desilusiona podemos ser afectados profundamente por el resto de nuestra vida. Ya sea que tu papa abuso de ti o te abandono, el resultado es un vacio que necesita ser llenado. Aqui encontraras ayuda para soportar la herida y encontrar la sanidad. Algunos de los temas que se incluyen son: perdiendo al padre por causa del divorcio, muerte o abandono; viendo la negacion tal y como es y como esta negacion no te deja avanzar; descubriendo como mejorar la relacion con tu papa; encontrando al Padre celestial, real y perfecto.

Utilizando la Escritura, testimonios reales y la percepcion que comparte Norman Wright por medio de su experiencia de muchos anos como consejero, este libro puede llevarte del sufrimiento y dolor a un gozo renovado, mientras descubres que tu Padre celestial siempre ha estado a tu lado.

Work Together Toward a Lasting Love

If you've been married for more than five minutes, you know that marriage isn't all long-stemmed roses and heart-eye emojis. Marriages that stand strong under pressure take work--and lots of it.

Whether you've just tied the knot or been together for years, After You Say "I Do" is the tool you need to strengthen your bond. This interactive guide offers creative resources to help you and your partner navigate your differences and resolve conflict through open and healthy communication. Learn how to

- understand and navigate your different personalities

- handle and talk about your finances in productive ways

- prepare for the unexpected life events that are sure to come

- build healthy relationships and boundaries with in-laws

A marriage that lasts is not a thing of the past. You can build a happy, healthy marriage one step at a time.

One of the most devastating losses a family can experience is the loss of a child. Whether the loss is through illness, accident, drugs, suicide, or other tragedy, the pain is overwhelming and often paralyzing. Often we think of "loss" as death. However, in our broken world there are many ways to suffer the loss of a child. This book discusses how a family can learn to cope with loss of a child due not only to death, but also to a custody battle, addiction (and other choices a child makes), chronic illness, crime (human trafficking, kidnap), and other issues where hopes and dreams disappear. Wright helps readers through the grieving process and assists them in finding God's grace and comfort during this very difficult time of life. This book is unique as it is for parents as well as grandparents.

How to handle the painful journey through grief after a traumatic loss. Everyone experiences the death of significant people in their lives. Certified trauma specialist, Dr. Norman Wright has written Grieving the Loss of a Loved One to help people handle a traumatic loss in their life and move forward through the painful journey of grief. Readers will learn that they are not alone in their experience of loss and grief. They will learn what to expect and how to manage grief thru topics like: The purpose of grief and what is appropriate in grieving, Steps to take in moving through grief, Discovering the stages of saying goodbye and moving on in life, Preparing for death and anticipatory grief, Handling sudden death and its aftermath, How family members grieve and the disruption of family and Helping a neighbor or friend who has experienced a death.

H. Norman Wright, bestselling author and noted Christian counselor, encourages readers with ways they can decrease stress and achieve the simpler life they desire. Through helpful stories, hands-on examples, and down-to-earth practicality, Wright provides steps anyone can take to have more energy for the things that really matter by...

• simplifying work and home life
• establishing livable goals and priorities
• taking control of finances
• releasing emotional baggage
• experiencing God's presence more fully

Packed with sound advice and biblical wisdom, Success over Stress guides readers toward making manageable changes to their activities, relationships, and possessions to obtain the rich, satisfying life they long for.