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How Should We Think About Grief?

 One of my early readers of Happy School asked me about the emotion of grief as she had recently lost a dear, older relative. Another reader in a different group lost her baby girl when the infant was 3 months old. Many of us have experienced heart-wrenching grief. Grief is an important human emotion and is a…

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Happy School is now available!

 Although bright and attractive, 32-year-old Darby McKesney has struggled with heavy discouragement for several years. Many areas in Darby’s life—her love life, her job, her family-of-origin, etc.—are a huge disappointment. A Wisdom Character arrives and enrolls Darby in Happy School, where he promises to teach her the 10 secrets that will transform her mindset. Walk along with…

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Increase the Satisfaction in Your Marriage

 No matter what stage of life you are in, your satisfaction in your marriage will greatly increase after going through the 12-week Joint Reading Schedule for Husband School and Wife School with your spouse. Just as you must learn to drive a car, the skills required to have a great marriage are not in-borne and must be learned. But learning what your spouse wants…

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How to Enjoy the Thanksgiving Holidays

 When we’re traveling, we often stop at Cracker Barrel to eat breakfast. The gift shop cracks me up. One of their whimsical signs that you can purchase says, “I’ll be home for Christmas and in therapy by New Year’s.” If your family is like the TV show, the Waltons, then you probably don’t need to…

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Introducing Skinny School LIVE

 The mindset that is changing women’s lifelong struggles with weight– from the book, Skinny School, Where Women Finally Learn the Secrets of Getting Thin Forever — is now available in a 9-week format of LIVE, interactive weight loss coaching with Julie Gordon and co-host, Elizabeth Gordon Gullett. Skinny School LIVE will be held on Tuesday nights from 7 to 8:30 p.m.,…

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Husband School Update, Skinny School Online Update, and New Wife School Session

 Dear Friend, Husband School Update: The first draft of Husband School, Where Men Learn the Secrets of Making Wives Happy is almost finished. Jason York is a Henry Cavill (of Superman fame) look-alike. He’s charming, gorgeous, and talented. Being a personal trainer to multi-millionaires in Dallas, he now wants to embark on opening a unique line of gyms across the mid-south. Everything in Jason’s life seems amazing, except his exasperating wife, Christina, who continually tells him she feels unloved and uncherished. Jason would like to get out of the marriage, but now he has a mortgage and three kids. Things are also complicated by one of Jason’s clients, Shannon Rutherford. The Genie arrives and…

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Weight, Marriage, Happiness, and Money…You Can Learn It All

 Of course, the best way to learn anything is to see it modeled–or hear it taught–while you were a child. That’s the best way to learn what a good marriage looks like, seeing it in your parents. The best way to learn how to handle money wisely is to have your parents handle money well while you were a child. The best way to learn about the Lord is to see your parents follow Christ while you were young. And of course, the best way to learn how to eat correctly is to see it modeled when you were growing up. But guess what? I’ve never ever met one person…

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Two Monumental Secrets Every Wife Needs to Know

 I am in counseling appointments all the time when wives reveal they don’t feel cherished and loved by their husbands. And shortly after that disclosure, they show disgust at the husband’s huge sex drive and his large ego that wants to be constantly padded and pumped. After that complaint, the next sentence I say is:…

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Skinny School is Now Available!

 Skinny School, Where Women Learn the Secrets to Finally Get Thin Forever is the humorous story of 28-year-old single-but-savvy Jackie Holbrook, who has struggled with an excess 40 pounds for 13 years. The secrets that Jackie learns in Skinny School “flip the switch” and enable her to achieve her goal weight by teaching her the right mentality…

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New Session of Wife School Online Starting February 19.

 Women take tennis lessons to improve their backhand, they sign up for cooking classes to improve their gourmet flare, but few women spend the necessary time to learn the Biblical principles—as well as the art—of being a fabulous wife. If you are ready to transform your marriage, a new session of Wife School Online is beginning February 19. The foundational Scripture for this study is Proverbs 14:1. I will quote it here and I want you to look for the “husband part” of this verse. Ready? “The wise woman builds her house, but the foolish woman, with her own hands, tears hers down.” Did you notice the husband part of that verse?…

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