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My Adult Children Blame Me Because I Refuse To Apologize

By Leslie Vernick | July 22, 2020 |

Morning friends,  Thanks for the book and movie recommendations. I’d especially appreciate your prayers over the next few weeks. I have a lot of moving parts on my plate and sometimes I don’t keep track of them all as well as I need to. Pray that I stay focused, that I am productive, and also take some time out to…

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Do Christians Have Rights?[Guest Post]

By Leslie Vernick & Co. | November 15, 2017 |

Morning Friends, We’ve had a great discussion regarding narcissism this week and whether or not it’s possible to stay well. I appreciate all of your contributions and your desire to stay Biblically true and compassionate for the real-life pain that many of you live with day after day as you try to stay sane in a crazy-making environment. One of…

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Does Grace and Forgiveness Erase Negative Consequences or Amends Making after Serious Sin?

By Leslie Vernick | April 13, 2016 |

Morning friends, I’m home. Although I miss the sunny California warmth, it is so good to be back to my own house and bed. This week I am doing a free webinar on Thursday night on Healing a Destructive Marriage: The Roadmap. Click here for more information.   Today’s question was written by a man who challenged my theology and I think…

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How I Got Covered In Poison

By Leslie Vernick | July 8, 2015 |

Morning friends, Please pray for me. I am covered with poison ivy. I will get through this but for the moment it’s pretty miserable. Last week I went out to my front door, which I rarely do since we have a side entrance garage. I wanted to plant some geraniums in my two pots on my porch. I was shocked.…

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How Can I Know God Better?

By Leslie Vernick | February 25, 2015 |

Morning friends, WOW! I’m so grateful for the level of support you give to one another on this blog and your willingness to go deeper inside, to discover hidden or unknown parts of yourself. I was talking with a friend this week about this whole idea of knowing who you are and growing up to be all that God created…

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Controlling abuse verses reactive abuse

By Leslie Vernick | July 16, 2012 |

Morning friends, I’ve been writing all weekend for my new book on Emotionally Destructive Marriages and because of that, I did not write a new blog for this week. But I want to share a blog I wrote for American Association of Biblical Counselors, and much of the content will be included in my new book. I would love your…

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Topic: My husband won’t change, my pastor can’t help, and I am a mess!

By Leslie Vernick | October 17, 2011 |

Morning friends, Today I’m flying home from sunny (and I mean SUNNY) California where I just spent nine wonderful but exhausting days cooking and taking care of my grandbabies. The weather has been unusually hot and I can’t believe I’m saying this, as a girl who LOVES the sunshine, but I think I’m looking forward to getting back to my…

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Thigs you can do to get healing if you can’t afford a counselor or coach

By Leslie Vernick | August 15, 2011 |

Hi Friends, I’m heading out to Dallas, Texas to be a part of a women’s ministry training in Logos Bible software. I am so excited to learn how to use this amazing program. I have had it for years but not being very computer savvy, I struggle with figuring out how to use it. I am thankful for this opportunity…

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Topic: How do I know someone is truly sorry?

By Leslie Vernick | April 25, 2011 |

Good morning friends: Thank you for all your responses last week to my question “what keeps you stuck and unchanged”. I’ll talk some more about that next week but today I thought I’d try something different. I’m going to respond by video to the question asked by The Good Wife in last week’s blog responses. If you want to read…

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