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Recommended Resources

Curated with care for your journey

These books, workbooks, and tools have been personally selected to support healing, growth, and deeper faith across every season of life.

For Parents

10 Resources

4 Habits of Raising Joy-Filled Children

Marcus Warner

Building Bounce with Kids

A Faith-Based, Trauma-Informed Approach to Building Resilient Kids

Raising Teens in a Hyper-Sexualized World

Eliza Huie

Raising Emotionally Healthy Kids

Eliza Huie

Raising Kids in a Screen-Saturated World

Eliza Huie

Parenting ADHD Children: 12 Principles for Raising a Child with ADHD

Russell A. Barkley

Teaching Your Children Healthy Sexuality

Jim Burns

How God Makes Babies

Jim Burns

Step-Parenting the Grieving Child

Dianne Ingram Fronne

The Anxious Generation

Jonathan Haidt

How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness

"The greatest gift you can give your child is your own healing."

For Children

Books & Games

Count Yourself Calm

Taking BIG Feelings to a BIG God

His Grace is Enough

Melissa Kruger

How God Makes it Right When We've Got it Wrong

Thought Spot: I Know What to Do

The Invisible String

Patrice Karst

The workbook is also recommended.

Something Scary Happened

Darby A. Strickland

Beautiful Oops

Barney Saltzburg

You Are Special

Max Lucado

God Made All of Me

Justin S. Holcomb

A book to help children protect their bodies.

3,000 Questions About Me

Games

CBT 123: The Game

Thought Spot Mad Smartz

The Chameleon

Mental Health

10 Resources

Untangling Emotions

J. Alastair Groves

Atlas of the Heart

Brené Brown

The Christian Codependence Recovery Workbook

Stephanie Tucker

When the Dust Clears: The Story of Our Re-covering

Kim McDonald

The House that Grace Built

Stephanie Tucker

The Cry of the Soul

Dan Allender

How our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions about God

Living From the Heart Jesus Gave You

James G. Friesen & E. James Wilder

Taking Every Thought Captive

Alaine Pakkala

Spiritual Slavery to Spiritual Sonship

Jack Frost

The Ancient Paths

Craig Hill

Grief & Suffering

Books & Online Resources
Online Resources 🔗

GriefWatch

www.griefwatch.org
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When Families Grieve

Sesame Street — www.sesamestreet.org
For Adults

Suffering is Never for Nothing

Elisabeth Elliot

Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss

Pat Schwiebert & Chuck DeKlyen

Fears, Doubts, Blues and Pouts

H. Norman Wright & Gary Oliver
For Children & Teens

The Memory Box: A Book About Grief

Joanna Rowland

Giving Hope: Conversations with Children About Illness, Death, and Loss

Elena Lister, MD & Michael Schwartzman, PhD

I Will Remember You

Laura Dower & Elena Lister

What to Do When Someone You Love Dies — A Guidebook Through Grief for Teens

Marriage & Engagement

5 Resources

Cherish

Gary Thomas

The One Word That Changes Everything for Your Marriage

Tying the Knot

Rob Green

A Premarital Guide to a Strong and Lasting Marriage — recommended for all couples as a starting or re-starting point.

4 Habits of Joy-Filled Marriage

Marcus Warner

Intimate Allies

Dan Allender

The Meaning of Marriage

Timothy Keller

Pornography & Narcissism

3 Resources
Pornography

The Death of Porn

Ray Ortlund

Men of Integrity Building a World of Nobility

Narcissism

The Pandora Problem

E. James Wilder

Facing Narcissism in Leaders & Ourselves

Bold Love

Dan Allender