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How Do I Live With A Basically Good Man Who Is A Tyrant?

By Leslie Vernick | November 12, 2014 |

Morning friends, Thanks for your prayers.  I had an amazing weekend speaking on Saturday in Iowa at Faith Community Church to over 500 women on how God Weaves Our Story into His Story.  Women can hungry and broken and left hopeful, healed, and filled. Our God is so good. One more big event I need your prayers for next week.…

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My Husband Refuses To Let Me Help My Mother

By Leslie Vernick & Co. | September 17, 2014 |

Morning friends, Don’t forget to sign up for tonight’s (Wednesday, September 17th) free live streaming event, 7:30pm to 9:00 ET with my guest, family law attorney Maryann Modesti.  She and I will be discussing how to be more informed of your legal rights and responsibilities if you are considering separating from a destructive spouse.  There will be time to ask…

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My Mother’s In A Destructive Marriage With My Father

By Leslie Vernick | October 21, 2013 |

                Morning friends, I’m heading off to Liberty University in Virginia this morning (October 21) to speak to their counseling students tonight on Destructive Marriages. Tomorrow (October 22), I’ll be speaking to a group of pastors in the morning, and then in the evening I’m going to be doing a 3 hour webinar…

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Raising Good Sons

By Leslie Vernick | March 25, 2013 |

Good morning friends, I’m in sunny California celebrating my granddaughter’s third birthday.  She is such a joy to watch growing up. She wanted to be a princess, so here are some pictures of her in her princess dress as well as pictures of her two sisters enjoying her birthday party.    In light of the tragic incident in Steubenville, Ohio,…

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My Daughter In-Law Won’t Speak to Me

By Leslie Vernick | August 27, 2012 |

Morning friends, My new website is up and our blog will be permanently moved over to the website in the near future. If you haven’t already signed up to receive it, go there and sign up to get my free webinar, Does God Want Me To be Happy? You will also receive my newsletter and on the website I have…

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How to Get Negative Words Out of Your Head

By Leslie Vernick | August 20, 2012 |

Morning Friends, My new website has launched, and we will be moving the blog over there permanently in a few weeks, so please go there and sign up to receive it if you haven’t already done so. Just go to www.leslievernick.com and, on the home page in the upper right hand corner, sign up for your free recording of Does…

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How To Forgive

By Leslie Vernick | August 13, 2012 |

              Morning friends, I needed lots of prayer this weekend. Had writer’s block and didn’t feel like I could put two sentences together. It finally broke late Saturday afternoon after 8 hours and one page I wrote 8 pages in 2 hours. Thank you Jesus and thank you friends for your prayers. Sunday I…

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Topic: Honoring dysfunctional parents when there is no reconciliation

By Leslie Vernick | March 12, 2012 |

Good morning dear friends, It’s been a great week. I just returned from speaking at a Morning Star Friends Church women’s retreat this weekend. Our topic was humility and we together we learned how freeing humility can truly be. So many of us are afraid to think about humility because we associate it with humiliation (which wounds our ego) or…

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Grieving in the Holiday Season

By Leslie Vernick | December 19, 2011 |

Merry Christmas Friends, Are you all ready for Christmas? Is the tree up and decorated, stockings hung, cookies baked, gifts bought, cards signed and sent, and presents all wrapped? I didn’t think so. But if there is such a person out there who has all this done, please share your magic secrets with the rest of us who are scrambling.…

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