Have you ever been the last one picked for a team?

Everyone knows what it's like to have a bad day. And when Norbert comes home from school, he has had a really bad day. As he and his mother talk through the day's mishaps, she gently imparts The Blessing on him through spoken word, meaningful touch, attachment of high value, portraying a special future, and genuine commitment.

By the end of the book, Norbert knows

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A national epidemic of exhaustion is raging across all cultures and social statuses with a huge price being paid in our lives and relationships. Chasing Skinny Rabbits gets at the root of why we're so prone to exhaustion. As award-winning author John Trent advises, if you don't understand and deal with life's Skinny Rabbits-those things that distract you and lead you to a negative place-more can't-miss strategies for gaining time and energy will...

Do you feel stuck? Unsure of how to get your life on track? You are not alone! With all the current social challenges facing individuals today, it isn't unusual to feel stuck. We long to move toward health, freedom, and life, but we are unsure how to get there. This new edition of Dr. Trent's popular book LifeMapping sees him joined by his daughter, Kari Trent Stageberg. Together they provide an effective method to help everyday people learn to navigate...

Making your marriage healthy-and making it last-has never been harder. In an age when the pressures on marriage are heavy and divorce is more accepted and easier to obtain, marriages seem to fail as often as they succeed. When you come from a home of divorce, making your own marriage work is even tougher than the norm. Fortunately, in Breaking the Cycle of Divorce, author John Trent, an adult child of divorce himself, gives you the encouragement,...

Find the balance between tough love and tender love. Do you and your loved ones sometimes seem poles apart? Do you long for greater affection in your most important relationships? Do you wish you could communicate in a way that's both loving and effective? In The Two Sides of Love, best-selling authors Gary Smalley and John Trent explain how to find a healthy balance between the protective, consistent, 'hard side' love and the tender, understanding,...

In this newly revised and abridged version of John Trent and Gary Smalley's bestseller The Blessing--more than one million copies sold--learn how the biblical gift of "The Blessing" is key to your self-worth and emotional well-being. People of every age long for the gift of The Blessing--the unconditional love and approval that comes from healthy relationships with your family and with the world around you. This life-changing gift is essential for...

A spider tells all the reasons that she loves her sister.

His whole life has been a story of hurt and rejection. Is one family's love enough to turn it all around? Josh lost his parents in a drunk-driving accident and lost track of his two brothers after a tragic fire. By age eighteen, he is an angry young man who only wants a job, an apartment, and to be left alone. Instead, he meets Mike and Anna, an unusual son-and-mother team who draw him into their lives. For the first time, Josh receives unconditional...

This book offers a time-tested method (over 500,000 copies sold) of bridging communication gaps . . . opening the door to greater intimacy and delivering lasting change.Are you speaking the wrong language?Words have incredible power, especially when they say what you mean (and mean what you say). But that same power can be self-defeating, even destructive, when the message heard doesn't match the message intended. Make the most of your communications...