Marriage
His Needs Her Needs: How to Affair Proof Your Marriage (Willard Harley). Classic on helping spouses reach each other's emotional needs.
Communication
Love Busters (Willard Harley)
Do I Have to Give Up Me to be Loved by You (Margaret Paul). Great illustrations on understanding and resolving conflict in marital communication.
The Five Love Languages (Gary Chapman). Looks at the five ways in which we commuicate and seek love from our spouses.
The Five Apologies (Gary Chapman). From the Author of The Five Love Languages. A biblical approach to making apologies hit the mark.
Singles
Boundaries in Dating (Henry Cloud and John Townsend). A must for those entering the dating world and keeping perspective.
Finding the Love of Your Life (Neil Clark Warren). From the founder of eharmony.
Freeloaders, Renters, and Buyers (Willard Harley). Along with the above "boundaries" book, a must!!!
The Five Love Languages for Singles (Gary Chapman)
Before You Say I Do (Norman Wright)
Before You Remarry (Norman Wright)
Divorce
Fresh Start for Divorce Recovery
Children of Divorce (Debbie Barr)
Parenting
The Strong Willed Child (James Dobson)
Hide or Seek (James Dobson)
Taming the Dragon in Your Child: Solutions for Breaking the Cycle of Family Anger (Meg Eastman)
Boundaries with Teens (Cloud and Townsend)
Self Esteem
The Search for Significance (Robert McGee)
The Sacred Romance (John Eldredge)
Healing for Damaged Emotions (David Seamands)
For Men Issues
Wild at Heart (John Eldredge)
The Way of the Wild Heart (John Eldredge)
For Women
Captivating (Staci and John Eldredge)
Sexual Abuse
The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse (Dan Allender)
Door of Hope (Jan Frank)
When Victims Marry (Jan Frank)
Sexual Addiction
Healing the Wounds of Sexual Addiction (Mark Laaser).
The Game Plan (Joe Dallas) Founder of Pure Online, a 30 day program on sexual addiction.
Relating to God
The Sacred Romance (John Eldredge and Brent Curtis)
Waking the Dead (John Eldredge). One of the best contemporary treatments of the heart and spirtual warfare and walking with God daily.
The Journey of Desire (John Eldredge)
Codependency
Love Must Be Tough (James Dobson)
Codependent No More (Melody Beattie)
Boundaries (Henry Cloud and John Townsend)
The Twelve Steps: A Spiritual Journey (Friends in Recovery). A workbook that helps eliminate survival skills of living in dysfunctional families.
Links to
Dr. Wolstencroft's
Favorite Sites
www.ransomedheart.com
The ministry of John Eldredge. This site includes a signup for daily devotionals, newsletters, free downloads, audio conferences and lectures, ways to become involved in the work, and upcoming retreats and conferences. See also www.ransomedheart.net.
www.bpdresources.com
The flagship site for understanding domestic violence in the home. This website is important as it can help an individual and family manuever through living with someone with a personality disorder, how to deal with these potentially high conflict people in legal disputes, and the mental illness personality disorder that often is at the core. It has links to very helpful books, discussions, checklists, and wisdom in working through the maze of marital and family disruption as a result.
This website, especially Helen's Forty" provides many helps for a spouse or others connected with someone with these core character problems. A must website for pastors, counselors, attorneys and others in the ecclesiastical, legal and mental health fields.
www.family.org
The website for Focus on the Family and Dr. James Dobson. It is complete with many helps for the family, broadcasts of their broadcasts, and keeping abreast of the defense of the family in America.
www.insight.org
The teaching ministry of Dr. Charles Swindoll. Dr. Swindoll is considered one of the best communicators of the Bible in the 20th Century. His website includes archives of five years of sermons which can be heard as well as study guides to these bible studies or topics.
www.northpoint.com
The teaching ministry of Northpoint Community Church and Andy Stanley. These messages can be watched in streaming format.
www.marriagebuilders.com
The website for author Dr. Willard Harley, noted writer of His Needs Her Needs. This wedsite contains approximately 1,000 pages of material helping couples to become stronger in their marriage.
