Ever feel like you just can't take it anymore? Have you reached your limit with your spouse, your kids, or your coworkers? You are not alone. Discover true stories that will keep you laughing and give you the tools you need to transform your most difficult relationships. Backed by decades of research and clinical experience, Dr. Nealy Brown has provided thousands of people across the globe with life-changing truths to help them succeed with even the most challenging people in their lives. Restore your marriage even after your spouse has walked out. Heal that relationship with your teenager who s slipping away. Revive your work life in the job you dread to face each day. Strengthen your healthy relationships even further. "Out of all the relationship books I ve read, this one's at the top of my list The first book I would recommend to anyone. It's funny, inspiring, with incredibly powerful ideas." Dr. Mike Nichols The principles in this book have literally changed my life, and given me practical tools for every relationship. I am confident it can do the same for you, wherever you are on your journey." Melissa Drobnak This book gives hope to the hopeless relationship. Each chapter gets straight to the heart of relationship issues and provides the know how to make change happen. Chelsea Wells Dr. Nealy Pardee Brown has spent over 15 years working with difficult relationships, as a counselor, speaker, professor, and chaplain in the US Air Force Reserve. She is a licensed as a counselor and supervisor, has a MA in Counseling and PhD in Psychology, and serves as the Discipline Chair for Psychology and Sociology at Azusa Pacific Online University. But, her favorite roles are wife and mother. Sarah Tierney is a licensed professional counselor with a MA in Counseling. She enjoys teaching, counseling, writing, and blogging at www.lovetoolbox.blogspot.com. Sarah is loving life with her husband and daughter in Illinois. Shannon Hunt has a MA in Counseling and has served as a counselor, life coach, crisis interventionist, and professor. Shannon has been blessed with a wonderful husband, partner, and best friend in life. Having been married for over 15 years, they celebrate each day with their two children. *A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to charity Chapter excerpt: Plan B, C, . . .or Z If I want it, I m responsible for it. He was a big executive in the company and worked all the time. Quality time was extremely important to her, but she could not cajole this man into committing to a date night. She told me, I ve tried everything and I said, Well, tell what you ve tried, because it s helpful to know both what works and what does not work. So she listed off all the many occasions that she had asked him, at different times and in different ways (because it s not only important what you say and how you say it, but also when you say it). After we made a long list, I turned to her and said, You ve only tried one thing. I actually thought she might smack me: What do you mean I ve only tried one thing? I said, You ve tried this one thing in a lot of really creative ways but it seems to me that all you ve ever done is talk about it with him. Sounds like talking doesn t work. No matter how she tried to have that conversation and she had devised a number of creative, kind, and respectful ways to have it he still would not commit. Plan A had failed, so we devised Plan B

The year is 1883, and spiritualism is in vogue. Nineteen-year-old Alice Boyden doesn't believe in spirits-she is a sensible young woman who is preparing for college-but her mother, an avid seance-goer, insists that the family attend a spiritualist summer camp in Onset, Massachusetts. There Alice falls in love with a charismatic medium, Thomas Chester Holloway, who convinces her that she has the power to correspond with the dead. She follows Thomas to the Midwest, where she finds herself caught between spirit-seekers and skeptics. Far from home, Alice is no longer sure what to believe-or whom to trust-but she finds herself drawn to a stranger who needs her help.

How do you land a rover on Mars, resolve a perpetual traffic jam or save a herd of caribou from potential extinction? Ask an engineer! Author Shannon Hunt presents nine real-life problems for which engineers designed inventive (and even crazy!) solutions. Each was solved using a different field of engineering --- from aerospace and mechanical to the new field of geomatics. A helpful seven-step flowchart of the engineering design process is also featured: define the problem, investigate the requirements, develop solutions, design a prototype, test it, improve it and share the idea. These steps are highlighted in each chapter with helpful icons that refer back to the flowchart. Sidebars, biographies of the engineers and fun detailed illustrations by James Gulliver Hancock help flesh out the stories and bring them to life.

This terrific introduction to some fascinating practical applications of engineering is sure to inspire the natural engineer in every child. With its emphasis on real-world connections to the math, science and technology skills applied with critical thinking and creative problem solving, this book is a natural for encouraging STEM education (science, technology, engineering, math). With so many direct curriculum applications for grades three to seven, and in following with the guidelines in the Next Generation Science Standards, this book is a perfect resource for classrooms and libraries, as well as anywhere a makerspace is found. Includes a table of contents, glossary and index.