Helping Marriage & Families with Problems
Resources focused on helping families and marriages with various problems and challenges
Healthy Marriages
A Healthy Marriage
This is a series of articles presented by Focus on the Family related to many aspects of a healthy marriage.
View Course →Helping Someone with Depression
Overcoming Depression
When you want to help a loved one--Overcoming Depression. What are some of the basic starting places in offering help to someone who is struggling with depression?
View Course →How can I help a loved one with a problem?
Are you living with guilt that doesn't belong to you?
This resource examines why so many people struggle with guilt. How do you determine whether the guilt you are feeling is from God, the devil, or yourself? What are God's conditions to living without guilt? A study guide is at the end for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Are you trying to change without changing?
What kind of change does God want to see in our lives? Are you a dysfunctional Christian? What is the process that God uses to bring change into our lives? Why don't some miracles last for people who have been healed? A study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Are you trying to survive on fantasy relationships?
How are fantasy relationships different from real relationshuips? What the dangers of real relationships? What are the benefits of real relationships? The challenge of real relationships vs. fantasy relationships. The study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Dealing with Shame
Dealing with Shame: How do I know if it is from God? Many people struggle with shame. What causes people to be confused about how God wants them to respond to shame? When is shame a delusion? What triggers your shame? How can you get out of the shame trap? A study guide is at the end to be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Delusion, Denial, Deception
Overcoming the trap of delusion, denial, deception. How easy is it for you to spot false beliefs in your own life? In the lives of others? How can you help your loved ones face the delusion in their lives? What are the steps you can take to overcome delusion and false beliefs in your life? The study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Enabling
Are you offering the wrong kind of help to your loved ones? A study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Facing your problems
The path to pure joy.
View Course →How to respond when people hurt you
How can you love those who have hurt you? How can you bless those who curse you? WHat happens when you bless those who hurt you? What is God's plan regarding revenge? A study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →If I don't help them, they won't love me
Many live with the fear that if they fail to help their family member with a problem, they will be responsible for their loved one never getting better. In this article we explore the misconception healthy people have about love. We address the relationship between the right kind of help and how love fits into the situation. A study guide for personal reflection or group discussion is at the end of this article.
View Course →Mending a broken heart
What are the steps to mending a broken heart? What kind of damage can a broken heart do in your life? Where will you let your pain take you? How strong is the urge in your life to get revenge? What place does forgiveness have in mending a broken heart? A study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Moving on with Jesus
When your loved one is in trouble--moving on with Jesus. How do you decide when to help your loved one and when to leave them behind? Does moving on with Jesus mean you have to abandon your family? How do you know when your help in preventing God from doing what he wants to do in the life of your loved one? A study guide is at the end for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Overcoming Fear
When trouble is all around, how can you win the battle in overcoming fear? How is your thought life related to overcoming fear? What are the tools that God has given us to battle our fears? What role does love have in winning the battle over fear? What are steps you can take to overcome fear in your life? A study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Raise the Bottom
You have heard, "They have to hit bottom before they get help." Why not raise the bottom?
View Course →The power of secrets in your life
What is the destructive power of secrets in your life? How can you find the way out of secret sins in your life? Who needs to know about your secret sins of the past? A study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →What are your Triggers?
What are those things that trigger a response in your life? Do you let these triggers pull you down a destructive path?
View Course →When they don't want help
What can you do for your loved one when they don't want help?
View Course →Intervention
Drug Abuse Intervention
Family First http://family intervention.com/programs/drug-abuse - A series of articles that discuss various topics related to drug intervention. This seven-page document includes several articles related to drug abuse intervention and the role of family and friends in this process. It describes the importance of intervention, how family and friends create a codependency and in the end enable their love ones addiction. The articles helps loved ones to recognize this enabling problem and gives directions on what they can do to avoid this. The last article describes an "Intervention Letter" that offers 5 essential components.
View Course →Drug Intervention - Four Emotions Used by a Substance Abuser to Train Someone to Enable Them
This very practical article discusses the four emotions, hope, fear, sympathy and guilt that addicts use to manipulate the people who love them to enable them in their addiction. Addicts are master manipulators and they use the love and care of their parents, family members, or friends to support their addictive behavior. In the end, without knowing it, these well meaning people end up enabling their loved one in a addictive life style that will eventually destroy them.
View Course →Sex and Marriage
Sex Before Marriage
This is a series of articles from Focus on the Family related to sex before marriage. These articles present the reasons that sex before marriage is wrong and why it is harmful to the health of any future marriage.
View Course →Sex in Marriage
This is a series of 7 articles related to the importance of sex in marriage written by various writers from Focus on the Family.
View Course →Signs of drug use in your family.
A Parent's Guide to Drug Abuse
"A Parent's Guide to Drug Abuse" is a series of articles to help parents know how to prevent and recognize drug abuse in their children. There is also an article related to how a parent can avoid being an enabler. Compiled by Daryel Erickson from the Pacific Northwest Teen Challenge website, http://teenchallengepnw.com/resources.
View Course →Drug Abuse and Addiction
This seven-page article addresses the signs, symptoms, and help for drug problems and substance abuse. It begins with some basic reasons people abuse drugs, how drug abuse and addiction can develop and how it affects the brain. It also offers some practical ways a person can get off and stay off drugs. It ends with a discussion on what may cause an addict to relapse and what to do to get back on the right track toward recovery.
View Course →Drug Prevention Tools
Description for a document on drug prevention called, "Drug Prevention Tools" compiled by Daryel Erikson, found on www.Urbanministry.org and Teen Challenge Northwest website: www.teenchallengepnw.com/resources/prevention . This three-page document includes three articles related to drug prevention. The first article discusses with the "the 9 key elements of effective drug prevention curricula." The second article offers tips for facilitators from "Pathways to Prevention: Guiding Youth to Wise Decisions" a drug prevention curricula. The last article provided by Teen Challenge Northwest, USA suggest 12 drug prevention tips for parents.
View Course →Steps to Healthy Living
Boundaries in your mind
What areas of your thought life need new boundaries? How can you build boundaries in your mind? How can you protect the boundaries in your mind? What are the strategies that can help you attack evil thoughts whey they come into your mind? A study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Building positive, safe relationships with boundaries
What are boundaries? What kind of boundaries do you need in your life? We look at 4 kinds of boundaries: 1. Physical boundaries 2. Mental boundaries 3. Emotional boundaries 4. Spiritual boundaries. What is your attitude toward boundaries? How do boundaries relate to have a person with addiction in your family or circle of friends? A study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Finding hope in the midst of life's problems
What do you say to those who have not seen a miracle yet—those who have a son or daughter still trapped in the chaos of their problem? How do you determine the difference between wishful thinking and God's hope? How do you build hope in your life? How do you hold on to hope when everything you have tried does not work? The study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →God's School of Life Training
How good a student are you in God's School of Life Training? What is your typical emotional reaction when faced with a problem? How difficult is it for you to bring God into your thoughts when facing a new problem? What are the lessons God wants to teach you through the problems in your life? A study guide for personal reflection or group discussion is included at the end of this resource.
View Course →Having a passion for Jesus
What does it mean to have a passion for Jesus? How do you develop a passion for Jesus? What can rob you of a passion for Jesus? A study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →How to have a great day every day
What part does God have in me having a great day? What is your part in making sure you have a great day? What part do problems have in robbing me of having a great day?
View Course →Learning the life skill of accountability
Accountability is not your enemy, it's your friend. So how can accountability help you? When it accountability inappropriate? To whom should you make yourself accountable? How can you make sure that accountability will help you? A study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Making Right Choices
This article explores the challenge of making right choices in our daily living. We explore keys to making right choices, including the importance of looking at the consequences before making the decision. A study guide for personal reflection or group discussion is included at the end.
View Course →Renewing your mind
This article focuses on the challenge of renewing your mind. Explores what is your responsibility and what you can expect from God to help you in this process. A study guide for personal or group interaction is at the end of the article.
View Course →Restoring Trust
How do you go about mending broken relationships? How do you know when it is the right time to restore a broken relationship? Who are the people you need to restore your relationship with? How easy is it for you to trust God? How is trusting God different from trusting other people? At the end there is a study guide for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Returning to joy
How do you train your brain for the life skill of returning to joy? What does pure joy look like? When should you start to train your brain to return to joy? How do problems in your life provide opportunities to experience God's pure joy? The study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Seeing God's potential in your life
What is the potential God sees in your life? What can rob you of God's potential for your life? What guarantee do you have that God's potential can be realized in your life? How do you begin to turn potential into reality?
View Course →The Path to Maturity
How to stay on the path to addiction or the path to maturity. How do false beliefs connect to addictions? How does your response to problems set you up for the path to addiction or the path to maturity? How do your relationships with other people hinder or help your maturity?
View Course →What's in your toolbox for life?
What are the tools you need for success in your life? How does one become effective at overcoming temptations to sin? What place do miracles and God's power have in overcoming problems?
View Course →When will your miracle come?
What miracles do you need in your life? Have you asked God for a miracle? Are you afraid to leave your comfort zone and take the risk for stepping out in faith? What if there is no miracle in this situation? A study guide at the end can be used for personal reflection or group discussion.
View Course →Suicide Prevention
Suicide Recognition and Prevention
The following are a series of five important articles related to Suicide and how to recognize its risk factors, warning signs, potential in someone and to assess their situation and what steps can be taken to prevent it.
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A Healthy Marriage
This is a series of articles presented by Focus on the Family related to many aspects of a healthy m...
Read More →Enabling
Are you offering the wrong kind of help to your loved ones? A study guide at the end can be used for...
Read More →Restoring Trust
How do you go about mending broken relationships? How do you know when it is the right time to resto...
Read More →The Path to Maturity
How to stay on the path to addiction or the path to maturity. How do false beliefs connect to addict...
Read More →Finding hope in the midst of life's problems
What do you say to those who have not seen a miracle yet—those who have a son or daughter still trap...
Read More →When will your miracle come?
What miracles do you need in your life? Have you asked God for a miracle? Are you afraid to leave yo...
Read More →Returning to joy
How do you train your brain for the life skill of returning to joy? What does pure joy look like? Wh...
Read More →Boundaries in your mind
What areas of your thought life need new boundaries? How can you build boundaries in your mind? How...
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