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 the many detours and distractions impacting their careers, families, and ministries so that they can build a more positive life plan for the future. LifeMapping® is a powerful tool developed by Dr. John Trent that teaches people a creative device called “storyboarding.” It helps us gather key pictures and events of our own life stories. Utilizing the biblical truth that Jesus can and does change our pictures and bring us new capacities, it helps us lay out a map toward an even more positive future. Specifically, you’ll learn how to accomplish the following: -create a clear path to close relationships; -turn many pieces into masterpieces; -recognize your strengths, successes, and acceptance levels as well as your -emotional freeze points and your individual flash points; -live authentically instead of constantly worrying about your image; -storyboard your positive life plan; -practice learned hopefulness; and much more!
Get the guidance you need to help your child—and help yourself!—experience full, lasting relationships.
Most parents today understand brokenness and loneliness when it comes to relationships. Then comes the need to teach relationship skills to their children! Having experienced isolation and loneliness on their own, parents can be terribly aware of how much their own children need and long for relationships.
The Relationally-Intelligent Child teaches parents the crucial insights of a must grasp concept: relational intelligence. This tool for growth and connection will not only change a child’s life, but also a parent’s own relationships. You’ll discover five key elements that can engage and equip your child with skills for being relationally intelligent with family, friends, and others.
This book also includes a special online version of the Connect Assessment® to help parents understand their children’s relational strengths. You’ll find a hands-on application plan, as well as links to powerful podcasts, videos, and resources. Your child was created for connection and designed for loving relationships. Get the help you need to guide them to develop the skills they need to do so.
Find the balance between tough love and tender love. In The Two Sides of Love, bestselling authors John Trent and Gary Smalley explain how to find a healthy balance between the protective, consistent, 'hard side' of love and the tender, understanding, 'soft side' of love.
This is the groundbreaking book that introduced the four 'animal' personality types (Lion, Otter, Golden Retriever, and Beaver) and it will show you how to best demonstrate both sides of love in all your relationships-with your spouse, children, and friends. Included in this thoroughly updated edition is a free assessment of your core personality type.
This updated edition is a helpful tool for personal growth, small group studies, and couples' classes.
