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Based on Chapman’s best-selling The Five Love Languages®—a specialized resource of intentional love for families of adopted children.

Adoption brings unique challenges. Love and bonding don’t always come naturally. There can be emotional distress, frustration, and disappointment. In Loving Adopted Children Well, Dr. Gary Chapman along with professor and mom of adopted kids Dr. Laurel Shaler share how The 5 Love Languages® provide concrete steps to infusing love, hope, and attachment in your family.

In addition to the beauty and healing you’ll discover in the chapters on the love languages—Service, Gifts, Physical Touch, Quality Time, and Words of Affirmation—the authors provide essential chapters on subjects such as:

  • When You Don’t “Feel the Love”
  • Getting Spouses on the Same Page
  • Help for Single Parents
  • Stopping Sibling Rivalry
  • Support—Why it’s Needed and Where to Find It . . . and more.

With empathy for adoptive parents, Chapman and Shaler provide an honest and invaluable resource of wisdom, joy, and healing. Apply the lessons from Loving Adopted Children Well, and you will see love grow and flourish in your home.

Found lots of great advice

This was a very timely book for me. I have a daily devotional that is emailed to me and this author happened to write a brief devotion for the day. I enjoyed it so much I purchased this book. We have a lot of stuff going on in our family, and this was helpful for me… even some “hard to hear” wisdom. I think it’s very fitting for the day we live in. For example, she discusses how it isn’t wise to have difficult conversations via texts or email, but to do it face-to-face if possible because things can be so easily misconstrued or seem emotionless.

– Julie

A Great Book!

This book is just what I needed for such a time as this. I recommend this book to everyone…we are all in relationships with someone, somewhere! This is really helping ME to see ME! This is a book to be reviewed every year….speaks volumes!!

-Eugenia

Easy guide for biblical wisdom on relationships

This book is a great resource for anyone wanting an easy to read guide for relationship help with a Christian worldview. Each chapter contains a different topic relating to the issues that hinder or harm relationships in our lives. For example, some topics included insecurity, disappointment, envy, and more. The chapters also included biblical wisdom on how to overcome them and avoid falling into a destructive habit. I found myself convicted several times over the way I communicate or express my insecurities within my relationships.

One aspect that I admired in this book was the clear stance it took on sin affecting our relationships. Sin affects every part of life, and it is extremely evident in the way people relate to one another. I appreciated that Dr. Shaler did not shy away from this very important point. Another point I liked that she stated was our most important relationship is the one we have with God. If that one is not healthy, we cannot expect to improve the relationships in our lives without His guidance and grace. In conclusion, this book is a good resource to have on hand when counseling others (and yourself!) to strengthen your marriage and friendships. Consider reading this book if you are interested in practical relationship advice rooted in scripture

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Are your relationships all that you want them to be?

Do rough patches ever catch you by surprise, causing you to think Why is it so hard right now? Why is there tension? Was it something I did? Despite our best intentions, we all have blind spots—bad relational habits that are keeping us from enjoying our relationships fully. And since relationships stand at the center of all we do, if we can learn to do relationships even fractionally better, every aspect of our lives improves. Whether you struggle to overcome past wounds, insecurity, blame, or envy, it’s time to reflect on your relational habits and reset.

An experienced counselor, Dr. Laurel Shaler is passionate about helping women thrive in all of their relationships. Relational Reset will reveal unhealthy patterns that may be holding you back, give you practical steps for improving your relationships, and help you find your ultimate security and identity in Jesus Christ. When you reset your relationships, you honor God, yourself, and the ones you love.

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Strengthening Your Relationships

“Relational Reset” is an eye opening book which gets you thinking about how you handle yourself in your relationships. It helps you see yourself from another’s perspective and point of view so that you can have those relationships that have deep roots and are long lasting. It helps you strengthen the most important relationship you need in your life which is with Jesus Christ. When you strengthen your relationship with The Lord it shows how your relationship with others will become stronger as well. Instead of starting by blaming the other person in the relationship it tells you first how to look inward at yourself to see how you can fix the situation so that the relationship does not dissolve but grows stronger.
This book is written as though you are having a conversation with the author which keeps your attention and mind centered on resetting relationships. This book has so many good points and ideas to improve your relationships that you will want to read it again and again.

-Melissa

A Great Book!

This book is just what I needed for such a time as this. I recommend this book to everyone…we are all in relationships with someone, somewhere! This is really helping ME to see ME! This is a book to be reviewed every year….speaks volumes!!

-Eugenia

Very Wise and Practical Ideas

Dr. Shaler’s uncanny insight into relationships and how to reframe them in a positive direction is extremely helpful. She blends relational psychological principles and biblical wisdom in a seamless fashion that makes a lot of sense!

-Ryan

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With a girlfriend’s companionship and a professional counselor’s expertise, Dr. Laurel Shaler walks readers through personal stories and biblical insights that shed light on daily and traumatic stress. In Reclaiming Sanity, she shows:

  • How to find freedom from the past
  • Five myths about anger and how to overcome them
  • The antidote for nagging worry and sleepless nights
  • Ways to rebuild trust in others
  • How Christ gives true strength

Offering effective action steps toward reclaiming sanity, Dr. Shaler guides readers through the healing process, whether they are dealing with a one-time traumatic event or years of hidden pain.

Amazing Book!

“Reclaiming Sanity is an amazing book! It may have been written for women, but as a Christian, a Veteran, and a Man who has definitely thought he was crazy and or “losing my mind” many times over the last dozen years, Reclaiming Sanity made me realize I AM NOT! The stories these ladies share through Dr. Shaler are moving. I recommend this book to ANYONE struggling with their sanity.“

-C. Brown

Dr. Laurel Shaler didn't disappoint

“I love that this book starts out with how to silence insecurities. I think that is a wonderful way to start this book in learning how to better understand and communicate with other people. I think that books that help you with your self worth are truly amazing tools and Dr. Laurel Shaler didn’t disappoint. Not only does she remind you who you are in Christ but she follows it up with scripture so you can further study it. I love how she left space to answer the questions she asked you, how different things have affected your life and looking into what can help you. She helps you with dealing with disappointment, envy, and so much more in a biblical way. I think that her book will help anyone that needs a relationship to reset no matter if its a mother relationship or a marriage. She gives amazing advice and helps that will truly turn your life around.” 

-MD @ Christianbook

Something to offer everyone

“Whether you are a victim of stress, trauma, or just overwhelming life events, or are someone wanting to support someone in your life, Reclaiming Sanity: Hope and Healing for Trauma, Stress, and Life Events has something to offer.Dr. Shaler writes from a person, compassionate and first-hand knowledge about the subject. The book was easy to read and contained a wealth of knowledge, insight and more. I appreciated how she was able to differentiate between the types of trauma and stress while recognizing the lasting effects any of the above might have on a person’s life.

I love her Biblical examination of anger and other situations found in life. One of the most relevant pieces of the book to me is her discussion about forgiveness. Forgiveness is not necessarily for the sole benefit of the one being forgiven. A lack of forgiveness provides the potential for long-term and even unnoticed effects on the one that needs to grant forgiveness.

I also love how in the last part of the book she describes how to have your own mini retreat. Truly, everyone at one time or another may benefit from experiencing a mini-retreat. The details and suggestions in this suggestion The options include everything from calming breaths to progressive muscle relaxation, to a Reclaiming Sanity retreat. Reclaiming Clarity, Reclaiming Me, Reclaiming peace, and Reclaiming Sanity all play a role. It is a matter of going through the steps and searching our hearts for God’s wisdom and knowledge.

So if you are looking for a book about taking back your life or helping someone else take back their life from stress, hard life happenings, or other traumatic events, check out this book for yourself.”
-Patti @ Amazon