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Families are in crisis this back-to-school season

Urgent Need: As the back-to-school season begins, families are facing mounting pressure—tough choices, cultural confusion, and strained relationships.

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Leslie Vernick

Leslie Vernick is a popular speaker, an author, a licensed clinical social worker, and a relationship coach. She has more than three decades of experience helping individuals, couples and families with her expertise on a variety of issues including personal and spiritual growth, marriage improvement, conflict resolution, depression, domestic violence, and child abuse. Leslie is the author of seven books, including her best-seller, The Emotionally Destructive Relationship, which is now in its ninth printing. She and her husband, Howard, have two grown children and three grandchildren. Learn more about Leslie by visiting her website, www.leslievernick.com.

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Shake Out the Selfishness

Have you ever felt like you’re doing all the work in your marriage, but your spouse isn’t giving anything back? The truth is, we’ve all been selfish at some point. Erin, Greg and John describe how they’ve worked through selfishness in their own marriages.

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Reclaiming Hope and Safety in a Destructive Marriage (Part 2 of 2)

Drawing from her years of work as a counselor and her own life experience, Leslie Vernick offers guidance and hope to women who are in need of finding safety and healing from an abusive marriage. (Part 2 of 2)

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Reclaiming Hope and Safety in a Destructive Marriage (Part 1 of 2)

Drawing from her years of work as a counselor and her own life experience, Leslie Vernick offers guidance and hope to women who are in need of finding safety and healing from an abusive marriage. (Part 1 of 2)

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Responding Well in Marital Conflict (Part 2 of 2)

Author and counselor Leslie Vernick discusses how to respond wisely and biblically when wronged by your spouse. (Part 2 of 2)

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Responding Well in Marital Conflict (Part 1 of 2)

Author and counselor Leslie Vernick discusses how to respond wisely and biblically when wronged by your spouse. (Part 1 of 2)

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Living for Christ in a Me-First World

Author and speaker Leslie Vernick explains how an excessive love of self prevents us from becoming everything God intended us to be, and offers practical ideas for avoiding pride and pursuing godly humility.