Now What Do I Do?: A Guide to Help Teenagers with Their Parents’ Separation or Divorce
In Now What Do I Do? author Lynn Cassella-Kapusinki offers a workbook for teens that helps them flush out their feelings and fears. The author writes with a style that teens can easily relate to without feeling talked down to. The empathetic tone of Now What Do I Do? helps teens confront and define their losses, guiding them through their grief and other difficulties that can result from their parentsÂ’ separation or divorce, whether the breakup is recent or years in the past. Each chapter includes exercises and activities that can be done alone or with friends. Now What Do I Do? helps teens:Remove feelings of guilt; Know the steps to emotional recovery; Improve communication with parents; Reexamine family...
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Moving Forward After Divorce: Practical Steps To: Healing Your Hurts; Finding Fresh Perspective
Divorce is a time of loss—it also becomes a time of change with the possibility that each partner might move forward toward personal restoration and wholeness. But how? David and Lisa Frisbie, authors of Happily Remarried, share godly wisdom, sound advice, and encouragement to help readers: heal from feelings of anger and abandonment discover the sufficiency of God develop interests, dreams, and skills raise healthy kids alone or as a co–parent manage money (or the lack of it) This excellent resource provides great help for those with children and will guide any divorced reader to see the hope of a second chance as they learn to depend on God’s grace, sufficiency, and promises. About...
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Divorce and Remarriage
There are many views today on morality, relativity and right and wrong. Dr. Tony Evans refuses to let the voice of God be drowned out amidst the clamor of the crowd. In the age where people can get a “no-fault” divorce (When is it ever nobody’s fault?) believers who claim to live by God’s word cannot dodge the issue: we cannot skip it, run from it, or ignore it. God has spoken clearly on this subject and while it is far from easy to address, it must be dealt with. Combining a high view of marriage, compassion, and biblical authority, Tony Evans gives invaluable insight into divorce and remarriage as he explores real-life fears and questions by looking at...
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The Divorce Dilemma: God’s Last Word on Lasting Commitment
So you find yourself at one of life’s most important crossroads with an extremely difficult decision to make. Whether you’re married and considering divorce, single and considering marriage, or divorced and considering remarriage, you’re battling tough questions: Am I doing what’s best? Am I doing what’s right? Maybe you think no one knows exactly how you feel–no one understands the pressures shaping your decision. If that’s the case, you’ll be relieved to know you are wrong. God’s Word offers the most comprehensive guide to answering those questions. In The Divorce Dilemma, John MacArthur looks directly to the Bible to dig out the solutions and advice you need. This book can help to strengthen good marriages and heal troubled ones,...
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Two Homes for Tyler: A Story about Understanding Divorce
Children never want their children to get a divorce and most have a very hard time dealing with it if it happens. They fear everything will change and that can be very scary. Here Pamela Kennedy tells the story of a child whose parents get divorced, and how the life they have after the divorce is different than what it was before. While things are different for the family, they learn that different doesn’t always mean bad. This book includes a “Note to Parents” in which Vicki Wiley-Director of Children’s Ministries at First Presbyterian Church in Honolulu-gives suggestions on how parents can talk to their children about divorce and reassure them of their parents’...
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From We to Me: Embracing Life Again After the Death or Divorce of a Spouse
While we don’t like to think about it, marriages eventually do come to an end, either with the death of a spouse or tragically through divorce. This “end” of a relationship leaves the other partner alone and facing an uncertain future. Whether widowed or divorced, the feeling and experience of aloneness–moving from being a “we to a me”—is a common one. This latest book from noted grief experts and authors Zonnebelt-Smeenge and De Vries focuses on two of five grief journey tasks–separating oneself and reinvesting fully in one’s own life–offering a unique self-help, psychological, and spiritual guide for the process of helping either the widowed or divorced to redefine and reinvest in...
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