Speaking Your Adopted Child's Love Language

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Speaking Your Adopted Child's Love Language

November 1, 2024 • Laurel Shaler

Adoption brings unique joys and challenges. Parents and children often experience emotional distress, trauma, and disappointment. You can’t compensate for what your children have lost. But through the lens of the Five Love Languages, adoptive mom and counselor Dr. Laurel Shaler wants to help you experience love and support for your family. She highlights specific ways that she loves her children – and how you can too!

How to Positively Influence Your Adult Child

November 22, 2024 • Dr. Gary Chapman

Dr. Chapman urges parents of adult children to assess themselves first putting blame on their adult child. These parents need to influence vs control and make requests rather than demands of their adult children. It’s critically important that parents maintain a relationship with their adult children, even when their child’s choices are heartbreaking.

How to Positively Influence Your Adult Child

November 21, 2024 • Dr. Gary Chapman

Five Ways to Grow Closer as a Couple

November 20, 2024 • Dr. Greg Smalley, Erin Smalley, Jean Daly

Strong and healthy marriages don’t need big and expensive romantic events. Often, it’s the simple things spouses do for each other every day like nurturing their relationship, navigating conflict well, accepting each other differences, and finding ways to grow in intimacy with each other.