101 Tips for a Happier Marriage
Simple Ways for Couples to Grow Closer to God and to Each Other
Author: Jennifer Roback Morse
Author: Betsy Kerekes
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101 Tips for a Happier Marriage: Simple Ways for Couples to Grow Closer to God and to Each Other offers Catholic couples concise, practical, and at times humorous suggestions for creating and sustaining a more joyful, peace-filled marriage that is steeped in the beauty and mystery of Catholic faith.

Just Married
The Catholic Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the First Five Years of Marriage
Author: Gregory K. Popcak
Author: Lisa Popcak
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In Just Married: The Catholic Guide to Surviving and Thriving in the First Five Years of Marriage, nationally syndicated radio hosts and international family life speakers Greg and Lisa Popcak combine decades of counseling, the latest findings in marriage research, more than twenty years of marriage, and the wisdom of Catholic teaching to offer couples the most up-to-date look at what it takes to create and sustain an incredible Catholic marriage that will last a lifetime.

Are You Really Listening?
Keys to Successful Communication
Author: Mary Siegel
Author: Paul Donoghue
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Listening is an essential skill worth every effort to learn and to master. Listening takes us out of our tendency toward self-absorption and self-protection. It opens us to the world around us and to the persons who matter most to us. When we listen, we learn, we grow, and we are nourished.

The Good Listener
Author: James Sullivan
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The power of everyday interactions, says James Sullivan, is much greater than we suspect. We have the power to offer profound healing, comfort, and affirmation, or to create deep wounds.

Healing the Wounds of Divorce
A Spiritual Guide to Recovery
Author: Barbara Shlemon Ryan
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After 30 years of marriage, Barbara Leahy Shlemon’s (now Ryan) divorce was a jolting experience, a tragedy that plunged her into psychological and spiritual isolation. “To feel cut-off, dis-owned or condemned by the Father adds a heavy burden to a heart already weighed down with sadness,” she writes.

 

Finding Your Way After Your Spouse Dies
Author: Marta Felber
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There is nothing you need more than the warm, reassuring voice of one who has traveled this path before. . . and survived after suffering the death of a spouse. In Finding Your Way After Your Spouse Dies, Marta Felber offers just such a voice-caring, hopeful, always pointing ahead to a tomorrow that will be a little easier than today.

When Your Spouse Dies
A Concise and Practical Source of Help and Advice
Author: Cathleen Curry
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Writing about her own journey as a widow, Cathleen Curry helps others deal with theirs. She establishes eight practical guideposts for getting through the first year and deals with a variety of topics including the stages of grief for adults and children, the expressions of mourning, loneliness and sexuality, financial priorities and planning, good health practices, and the importance of spiritual growth to the healing process.

Finding Your Way After Your Parent Dies
Hope for Grieving Adults
Author: Richard Gilbert
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Rev. Richard Gilbert has created a compassionate guide for those struggling with the loss of a parent. Bringing many years of experience in bereavement counseling, Gilbert sketches out some of the issues that arise in the wake of a parent's death and offers practical suggestions for navigating these difficulties.

Should We Marry?
Author: Joseph M. Champlin
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This book challenges couples to seriously ponder the questions "Is this really love?" and "Is this the person for me?" And it speaks directly to the church's teaching on cohabitation! It's must reading for those anticipating marriage and a superb resource for all Marriage Preparation Ministers. We all know the statistics. In fact, we've heard it so often that we may have become resigned to the fact that better than 50% of marriages will not endure. Yet thousands of people in churches across the country continue to labor in the ministry of marriage preparation, doing their utmost to prepare couples for the significant sacramental commitment of marriage.

Fun? But We're Married!
A Wise and Witty Guide to a Lasting Marriage
Author: Lois Davitz
Author: Joel Davitz
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Co-authored by long-married Columbia University professors of psychology, Fun? But We're Married is about what it takes to sustain a healthy and happy marriage. Emphasizing the value of having fun together, Lois and Joel Davitz also suggest that: more communication is not always better; you can be just too sensitive; your marriage can survive a few good fights—if you know the rules; getting out of sync is not necessarily fata

Courage to Love ... When Your Marriage Hurts
Author: Gerald Foley
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Your Marriage Hurts offers help and hope instead. Building on the experience of Retrouvaille, a successful church-sponsored ministry, it focuses on building relationships.

Your Sexual Self
Pathway to Authentic Intimacy
Author: Fran Ferder
Author: John Heagle
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The authors invite us to understand and accept our sexuality as the energy and power that enables us to share real intimacy; that enables us to look closely at the process of personal growth that we must pursue to fulfill the hunger for love.

Walking Together
Discovering the Catholic Tradition of Spiritual Friendship
Author: Mary DeTurris Poust
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In Walking Together: Discovering the Catholic Tradition of Spiritual Friendship, author, journalist, and speaker Mary DeTurris Poust examines rich and nurturing examples of spiritual friendship from well-known saints, writers, and spiritual Catholic leaders who serve as exemplars for cultivating meaningful Catholic friendship in a world of Twitter and Facebook.

Closer
Musings on Intimacy, Marriage, and God
Author: Valerie Schultz
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In this delightful and heartfelt appreciation of intimacy in marriage, award-winning essayist, wife, and mother Valerie Schultz explores how the bonds between husband and wife, and parent and child draw us ever closer to God and one another.

Once More with Love
A Guide to Marrying Again
Author: Bobbi Coyle-Hennessy
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Once More with Love takes readers on a journey of growth and awareness as they examine the complexities and issues of remarriage. It is a book born out of the author's own painful experiences of divorce and the challenges of remarriage. And it has been developed and refined over ten years of use with those who have remarried or are planning to do so, drawing on the personal experiences of the author along with over four hundred people who have participated in her remarriage preparation sessions.

Sex, Love & You
Making the Right Decision
Author: Tom Lickona
Author: Judy Lickona
Author: William Boudreau, MD
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The pressure on teens to be sexually active only increases and multiples as the years go on. Today, teens are under enormous pressure to be sexually active. Popular culture tells them that uncommitted responsible sex is possible.

God Knows Marriage Isn't Always Easy
12 Ways to Add Zest
Author: Maureen Law
Author: Lanny L. Law
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Is there a secret to a good marriage? Lanny Law and Maureen Rogers Law don't propose any hidden formula for success. Rather, they retrace the steps of a loving relationship that all couples pledge to at the time of their wedding and remind husbands and wives of twelve essential ways to improve their relationship.

The Bride's Bible
A Treasury of Inspirational Verses from the Bible
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An ideal bridal shower or wedding gift, The Bride's Bible is an anthology of scripture readings drawn from a variety of translations of the Bible, plus inspiring reflective quotations from spiritual teachers such as Henri J. M. Nouwen, Thomas a Kempis, and Mother Teresa. Each two-page spread combines full color reproductions of artistic masterpieces (including works by Rembrandt, Van Eyck, Monet, Renoir, and Gainsborough) along with text chosen to suit the needs and emotions of couples from the early days of marriage and on through their many years of family life together. The Bride's Bible includes a presentation page and an attractive and durable slipcase.

One Day He Beckoned
One Woman's Story of the Difference Jesus Made
Author: Antoinette Bosco
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One Day He Beckoned is the story of the difference that Jesus has made in journalist Antoinette's Bosco's life. It's a story of adversity and heartache most of us can only imagine. It takes us through a childhood cut short as she helped care for her younger siblings when her troubled mother could not. Through a disastrous marriage arranged by her traditional Italian father. Through life as a single mother of six children. And through the unspeakable pain of losing two children, one to suicide and one to murder.

Facing Forgiveness
A Catholic's Guide to Letting Go of Anger and Welcoming Reconciliation
Author: Loughlan Sofield, S.T.
Author: Carroll Juliano, S.H.C.J.
Author: Archbishop Gregory M. Aymond
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Out of the wealth of their shared experience, authors Sofield, Juliano, and Aymond have fashioned an inviting exploration of the process of forgiveness that blends compelling personal narrative, wise spiritual guidance, and sound practical suggestions.

Finding Your Way to Say Goodbye
Comfort for the Dying and Those Who Care for Them
Author: Harold Ivan Smith
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Written by a person who has been comforting and counselling terminally ill people for years, this book offers guidance, support, and encouragement for both those who are approaching death as well as their families, friends, counselors, medical and hospice practicioners, and chaplains. Consisting of short "chapters," each including a spiritual reflection, Smith moves the reader or caregiver from "admitting that you know" to "finishing the race.

From Hurting to Happy
Transforming Your Life After Loss
Author: Barbara Bartocci
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Barbara Bartocci has been widowed, divorced, fired from a job, lost both of her parents at a young age, and raised three children with special needs. With each loss—because she had to—she got beyond her grief and went on with living.

Finding Your Way After Your Child Dies
Author: Kenneth Wezeman
Author: Phyllis Vos Wezeman
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Finding Your Way After Your Child Dies offers parents a comforting way to grieve whenever the need arises, whether occasioned by the passing of a school bus or a glance at a family portrait.

The Fabric of Friendship
Celebrating the Joys, Mending the Tears in Women's Relationships
Author: Joy Carol
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Exploring the emotional hurdles that women face in their relationships, The Fabric of Friendship reveals a simple truth: friendship is never simple. Weaving her own experiences together with real-life stories of other women, Joy Carol will remind readers of the amazing gifts friendship holds and inspire them to reclaim the power of their relationships.

God Knows Grandparents Make a Difference
Ways to Share Your Wisdom
Author: Cynthia Tambornino
Author: Priscilla Herbison
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Grandparents have always tackled a mixed bag of joy, sorrow, energy, exhaustion, fear, laughter, anger, and peace. And today there are new challenges, too—providing one-parent families with emotional and financial support, adjusting to ethnic, racial, and religious diversity, even taking on the parenting of a grandchild.

Finding Your Way through Divorce
Author: Kathy Brewer Gorham
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Blending theory, stories, and spiritual components with tools for recovery, Kathy Brewer Gorham takes a Christian perspective in Finding Your Way through Divorce to guide readers through the myriad emotions and difficulties that surround any divorce

Your Truest Self
Embracing the Woman You Are Meant to Be
Author: Janice Lynne Lundy
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Within every woman there is an essential Truth waiting to be claimed, a Truth that will empower her to claim a spiritual life that is real and authentic, one that will nourish and sustain her every day. Drawing from her personal encounters with twelve spiritual mentors—activists, artists, writers, and teachers, including Frances Moore Lappé, Iyanla Vanzant, Naomi Judd, and Joyce Rupp—author Janice Lynne Lundy has created twelve Transformational Truths to guide and enable women to live more peaceful, confident, and open-hearted lives. Each chapter includes peaceful pauses for meditation and reflection questions that will help readers unpack their own personal meaning from each Transformational Truth's profound wisdom.

We Really Need to Talk
Steps to Better Communication
Author: Paul Donoghue
Author: Mary Siegel
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In We Really Need to Talk: Steps to Better Communication Paul J. Donoghue and Mary E. Siegel, Best selling authors of Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired, expertly guide readers past the pitfalls of poor interaction and offer six steps to communication for healthy, honest, and constructive relationships with spouses, family, friends, and coworkers.

Finding Your Way Through Domestic Abuse
A Guide to Physical, Emotional, and Spiritual Healing
Author: Connie Fourre
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All too often resources for coping with domestic violence and physical abuse overlook the equally painful aspects of emotional and verbal abuse. Even fewer address the ongoing dynamics after a relationship ends, the long process of grieving, and the role of forgiveness. In Finding Your Way through Domestic Abuse, Connie Fourre offers victims of domestic abuse the information they need to move through this difficult, painful time. Fourre, a survivor of domestic abuse, guides readers through every step of the journey, from realizing the warning signs of an abusive relationship, to leaving the abuse behind, to coping with the aftermath.