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.

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.

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.

La presente obra ensena como descubrir una crisis y una vez detectada como decidir exactamente que hacer y que decir. Analiza casos reales de distintas situaciones de crisis: depresion, drogas, violaciones, abusos deshonestos, problemas matrimoniales y muchos otros mas, mostrando el diagnostico y tratamiento mas adecuado en cada uno de ellos."

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

When author and counselor H. Norman Wright's beloved wife, Joyce, passed away, he grieved the loss of his partner and the life they shared. Even in his state of sorrow, he knew he had to find a way to live without Joyce, to forge a hopeful path, and to move forward in God's grace and strength.

With vulnerability and emotional insight, Norm shares from his deeply personal journey and illuminates the way back to living when someone you love is gone. Readers who have lost their spouse will discover support and guidance as they

• work through anger, including anger at God, to ease toward God's peace
• move away from denial and "what ifs" to move forward
• allow memories to provide comfort without getting stuck in the past
• create a healthy new, daily routine to care for themselves
• turn their new identity and life over to God's leading and mercy

This tender and inspirational book will help any reader who is grieving or who is walking alongside a grieving friend.

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.

Respected counselor and bestselling author H. Norman Wright releases a spiritually and personally fulfilling daily devotional for men. Known for his insight into the needs of people, Wright shapes 365 devotions to strengthen men at their core?their heart for God.

Short offerings, ideal for busy lives, include Scripture and relatable meditations that lead men to seek their identity and security in Christ as they learn to:

• rely on God's guidance
• connect with other men of faith
• model God's love and strength in practical ways
• trust the Bible as their source of wisdom
• give their needs, hurts, decisions, and future to God

Like a faithful mentor, Wright walks alongside men through every area of their lives, from relationships and family to vocation and contentment. This relevant devotional will be a gift of ongoing influence and inspiration for men of all stages of their journey.