Most Popular Books by Gary Chapman

Marriage counselor Gary Chapman wrote this book for the countless people who want their marriages to work but haven''t been able to find the answers. There is no quick fix, but he does present workable solutions.

Everybody wants a strong, loving, God-centered marriage. Here, "New York Times"-bestselling relationship expert Chapman provides trusted words of wisdom designed to encourage and inspire couples, alongside key Bible verses that illuminate God''s plan for marriage and for nurturing healthy, happy relationships.

Start Developing the Best Habit of All To become a person who consistently loves others, you first need to be a loving person. In this companion devotional to Love As a Way of Life, you’ll find inspiration for letting love guide the way you respond to others in every situation. The daily readings capture God’s wisdom and direction in practicing the seven traits of a loving person. Compelling stories and biblical illustrations will show you how to live out the characteristics of kindness, patience, forgiveness, courtesy, humility, generosity, and honesty. These ninety short devotionals–perfect for reading on your own, with your spouse, or with a friend over coffee–deliver the inspiration and encouragement you need to make love a lasting habit. Whatever your love language, you’ll enjoy richer, more rewarding relationships as you embark on an exciting daily adventure in loving others.

Are you and your spouse speaking the same language? He sends you flowers when what you really want is time to talk. She gives you a hug when what you really need is a home-cooked meal. The problem isn’t love—it’s your love language. Each one of us responds well to a different type of expression of love. The 30-Day Love Language Minute Devotional Volume 1 is your daily guide for a month to express heartfelt love to your mate in a way that he or she can appreciate it.

"A compilation of inspiring true stories of lives changed by love"--Provided by publisher.

Socially, mentally, and spiritually teenagers face a variety of pressures and stresses each day. Despite these peer pressures; it is still parents who can influence teens the most. Are you equipped to love your teenager effectively? Get equipped to be a better parent as The Five Love Languages of Teenagers explores the world in which teenagers live; explains the developmental changes; and give tools to help you identify and appropriately communicate in your teens love language. Get practical tips on loving your teen effectively and explore key issues in your teen’s life including anger and independence. Finally learn how to set boundaries that are enforced with discipline and consequences, and discover useful ways for the difficult task of loving when your teen fails. Get ready to discover how the principles of the five love languages can really work in the lives of your teens and family. Over 400,000 copies sold!

How do you communicate love? Are you and your spouse speaking the same language? He sends you flowers when what you really want is time to talk. She gives you a hug when what you really need is a home-cooked meal. The problem isn''t love--it''s your love language. People express and receive love in different ways. Who better than relationship expert Dr. Gary Chapman, author of the bestselling The Five Love Languages, to show you how to effectively communicate love in a genuine, thoughtful way. Whether your relationship is strong or struggling, stable or challenging, take the next 100 days with the Love Language Minute for Couples to grow closer to the person you love most.

Strong, functional families do exist today. But if you want jto establish healthy patterns in your own family, you''ll need to learn how to recognize and apply the qualities they share. Gary Chapman introduces them in Five Signs of a Functional Family.

Este libro nos explica que la ira, esa emocion tan mal entendida, va mano a mano con el amor. Lleno de sugerencias y tecnicas que ayudan a resolver mejor la ira. [This book explains how the much-misunderstood emotion of anger goes hand-in-hand with love.]

Workplace conflict is inevitable. When it happens, how can you get back on track? Like all relationships, the ones we have at work are subject to stresses—maybe even fractures that can really take a toll on the workplace. Productivity is lost. Time is wasted. Tension mounts. Cooperation is reduced. And the workplace becomes toxic. What’s the solution? In Making Things Right at Work, Dr. Gary Chapman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The 5 Love Languages®, is joined by business consultants Dr. Jennifer Thomas and Dr. Paul White to offer the strategies you need to restore harmony at work. You’ll learn: How to discern the causes of workplace conflict How to avoid unnecessary disputes How to repair relationships when you’ve messed up How to let go of past hurts and rebuild trust Don’t let broken relationships taint your work environment. Take the needed steps to make things right . . . not tomorrow, but today. The success of your career depends on it!

What to do when you feel like giving up When you said, “I do,” you entered marriage with high hopes, dreaming it would be supremely happy. You never intended it to be miserable. Millions of couples are struggling in desperate marriages. But the story doesn’t have to end there. Dr. Gary Chapman writes, “I believe that in every troubled marriage, one or both partners can take positive steps that have the potential for changing the emotional climate in their marriage.” Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away, the revised and updated edition of the award-winning Desparate Marriages, teaches you how to: Recognize and reject the myths that hold you captive Better understand your spouse’s behavior Take responsibility for your own thoughts, feelings, and actions Make choices that can have a lasting, positive impact on you and your spouse An experienced marriage and family counselor, Gary Chapman speaks to those whose spouse is any of the following: Irresponsible A workaholic Controlling Uncommunicative Verbally abusive Physically abusive Sexually abusive Unfaithful Addicted to alcohol or drugs Depressed Marriage has the same potential to be miserable as it does to be blissful. Read Loving Your Spouse When You Feel Like Walking Away to learn how you can turn things around.

OVER 600,000 COPIES SOLD! Based on the #1 New York Times bestseller The 5 Love Languages® (over 20 million copies sold) Dramatically improve workplace relationships simply by learning your coworkers’ language of appreciation. This book will give you the tools to create a more positive workplace, increase employee engagement, and reduce staff turnover. How? By teaching you to effectively communicate authentic appreciation and encouragement to employees, co-workers, and leaders. Most relational problems in organizations flow from this question: do people feel appreciated? This book will help you answer “Yes!” A bestseller—having sold over 600,000 copies and translated into 24 languages—this book has proven to be effective and valuable in diverse settings. Its principles about human behavior have helped businesses, non-profits, hospitals, schools, government agencies, and organizations with remote workers. PLUS! Each book contains a free access code for taking the online Motivating By Appreciation (MBA) Inventory (does not apply to purchases of used books). The assessment identifies a person’s preferred languages of appreciation to help you apply the book. When supervisors and colleagues understand their coworkers’ primary and secondary languages, as well as the specific actions they desire, they can effectively communicate authentic appreciation, thus creating healthy work relationships and raising the level of performance across an entire team or organization. **(Please contact [email protected] if you purchased your book new and the access code is denied.) Take your team to the next level by applying The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace.

"With a frank and honest observation on how disability can unravel family unity, this book inspires and equips us to live out our faith as we interact with those we love." -Joni Eareckson Tada, founder & CEO, Joni and Friends Between the worry, the doctor’s appointments, and the thousand small challenges of everyday life, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed and exhausted. The idea of showing abundant love to every member of your family can feel like a daunting task. Jolene Philo has been there. And in this wise, warm, practical guide, she and Dr. Gary Chapman show you how the 5 love languages can help strengthen your marriage and family life—whatever your needs. Sharing dozens of stories from parents of children with special needs children, they teach you how to: protect your marriage amidst the stress discover and speak the love language of your child—even if they’re nonverbal accommodate the love languages for children with special needs and disabilities show love to every member of your family when you have limited time, money, and energy Having a special needs child shouldn’t mean sacrificing a full family life. Learn to share love abundantly no matter your circumstances.

Inspiring true stories of lives changed through love in action, with devotional thoughts for personal application following each reading.

Un sistema fácil de entender y utilizar para una pareja con el fin de entender su matrimonio y fortalecer su relación. Gary Chapman utiliza el concepto de las cuatro estaciones para que una pareja pueda observar su relación e identificar factores que pudieran ser utilizados para mejorar su matrimonio. Las estaciones no son etapas cronológicas sino momentos en la mente y el corazón de la pareja durante su vida al experimentar situaciones diversas que producen cambio, alegría o dolor. An easy-to-grasp system for a couple to use to understand their marriage and to strengthen their relationship. Gary Chapman utilizes the concept of the four seasons so that a couple can look at their relationship and identify factors that could be utilized to improve the marriage. The seasons are not chronological stages, but are passages of the mind and the heart as the couple goes through life and experiences various situations that cause change, joy, or pain.

Working with a discouraged, disorganized, cynical team? Learn how to turn it around. Sync or Swim is a small tale with enormous insight on ways you can empower, engage, and energize employees or volunteers facing discouragement or cynicism. Sam, the new CEO, was ready to hit the ground running. But his team members—and Mother Nature—had other plans.An ambitious yet naïve sheepdog is called upon to lead Monarch Enterprises, a troubled organization on a beautiful isle. Confronted with broken systems and challenging personality types, Sam must learn how to marshal his team before the imminent storm washes everything away. Along the way, he gleans valuable lessons from an unlikely mentor: a wise, old puffin. This delightful, quick read will: Teach you communication techniques that enhance teamwork and productivity Bring to life the principles used by hundreds of successful organizations Provide relevant, practical insights based on real-world experiences Stimulate lively and positive interaction (discussion guide included) Based on the principles successfully used by major corporations, health organizations, over 250 colleges and universities, government agencies, churches, and non-profits

New York Times bestseller Dr. Gary Chapman teams up with Dr. Jennifer Thomas to share relational survival skills for every teen. A Teen’s Guide to Conflict—a complement to the bestselling, A Teen’s Guide to the 5 Love Languages®—helps teenagers tame the powerful emotion of anger, apologize (and receive apologies) in ways that actually work, and handle difficult or damaged relationships. Gary Chapman and Jennifer Thomas’ new book with Paige Haley Drygas answers questions like: What’s the difference between good and bad anger? How can my anger accomplish positive change? What if I’m angry with myself? Are there different ways to manage conflict—friends and family vs. people online? When do I make things right, and when should I set boundaries? Why do some apologies fall flat? Teens’ relationships matter. The principles they learn in this book will equip them for relationships that thrive now and in the future.

Charlie and Esther Moore have been married nearly fifty years when the contented life they''ve built together begins to crumble. Esther has been forgetful recently, but it''s rarely a problem until the day she puts her car in drive instead of reverse, flying off the end of the carport and into the backyard. Esther''s accident and declining health shatter their reverie, and the couple must come to terms with all the paths their lives have not taken if they ever hope to pull their marriage out of winter. As always, the quirky characters of Deepwater Cove will pop in and out of the story and delight readers. This is the third book in a new fiction series from best-selling authors Gary Chapman and Catherine Palmer, based on the marriage principles found in Gary Chapman''s nonfiction book The Four Seasons of Marriage. Each book includes a study guide that talks about the four seasons of marriage and the healing strategies depicted in that particular storyline.

Every couple has disagreements. All too often, though, when we engage in arguments, our goal is not to resolve the conflict at hand, but rather, to win the fight. Unfortunately, when you win an argument, your spouse is the loser, and nobody wants to be or live with a loser. When you resolve a conflict, your spouse becomes your friend. Good marriages are based on friendship, not on winning arguments. Now, Gary Chapman provides couples with a simple blueprint for achieving win-win solutions to everyday conflicts and disagreements. By learning how to listen empathetically, respecting each other''s ideas and feelings, and understanding why particular issues are so important to their spouse, couples can find solutions that result not only in resolving the conflict at hand, but also leave both partners feeling loved, listened to, and appreciated.

Chapman provides practical advice on how to make money an asset--as opposed to a headache--in a marriage. His straightforward conversational style will help spouses quickly identify weak areas and reframe the way they view finances.

In both private and shared time exercises, you''ll explore Bible study, prayer, and Scripture memory. You will learn how to have a brief daily sharing time with your spouse. And you will cultivate deeper friendships with others through group activities.

Los hábitos molestos pueden dañar una relación en el largo plazo. Hay esperanza para el cambio. El Dr. Chapman proporciona un sistema personal para ayudar a las parejas a aprender cómo superar los malos hábitos. Al aprender y usar el sencillo proceso de tres pasos del Dr. Chapman (admitir y pedir perdón por sus faltas pasadas; descubrir y hablar el lenguaje del amor de su pareja; y aprender la manera, el momento y el lugar adecuados para pedir el cambio de comportamiento), las parejas podrán negociar con éxito el cambio, sin recurrir a las discusiones o la manipulación. Those annoying habits can be damaging to a relationship over time. There''s hope for change. Dr. Chapman provides a do-it-yourself approach to helping couples learn to overcome bad habits. By learning and using Dr. Chapman''s simple 3-step process (admitting and asking forgiveness for your own past failures, discovering and speaking your spouse''s love language, and learning the proper time, place and way to request behavioral change), couples will be able to successfully negotiate change without resorting to arguing or manipulation.

"A concise devotional for every couple looking to deepen their relationship with one another--and with God. Are you and your spouse speaking the same language? He sends you flowers when what you really want is time to talk. She gives you a hug when what you really need is a home-cooked meal. The problem isn''t love--it''s your love language. This book is the perfect gift for the couples in your life--or for you and your spouse to read together! As you learn how to express heartfelt love to each other, you''ll find yourselves deeper in love and growing closer to God as a result."--Back cover

Formas sencillas de fortalecer cualquier relación. Casado o soltero, joven o anciano, todo ser humano tiene la necesidad emocional de sentirse amado. Cuando se satisface esta necesidad, nos movemos para alcanzar nuestro potencial para Dios y para el bien en el mundo. Sin embargo, cuando no nos sentimos amados, batallamos sólo para sobrevivir. Sin duda alguna, las verdades de este libro les permitirán a los solteros aprender las habilidades que conducen a amar y a ser amados. Así que únete al autor en un viaje que te llevará a las vidas personales de muchos solteros que han aprendido que el mayor descubrimiento de la vida está en la forma de dar y recibir amor. Siguiendo las pautas, los solteros podrán: Entenderse mejor a sí mismos y a los demás. Estar más cerca de la familia, los amigos y otras personas que le importan. Ganar valor para expresar sus emociones y afecto. Descubrir el ingrediente que faltaba en las relaciones anteriores. Tener citas exitosas. "Nada tiene más potencial para mejorar la sensación de bienestar que amar y ser amado de forma efectiva. Este libro está diseñado para ayudarte a hacer ambas cosas con eficacia." - Gary Chapman Simple ways to strengthen any relationship. Married or single, young or old, every human being has an emotional need to feel loved. When this need is met, we move to reach our potential for God and for good in the world. However, when we do not feel loved, we struggle just to survive. Without a doubt, the truths in this book will enable singles to learn the skills that lead to loving and being loved. So, join the author on a journey that will take you into the personal lives of many singles who have learned that life''s greatest discovery is in how to give and receive love. By following the guidelines, singles will be able to: Understand yourself and others better. Grow closer to family, friends, and others you care about. Gain courage to express your emotions and affection. Discover the missing ingredient in past relationships. Date more successfully. "Nothing has more potential for enhancing one''s sense of well-being than effectively loving and being loved. This book is designed to help you do both of these things effectively." -- Gary Chapman

Learn how to thrive in—or escape from—a toxic work environment. Toxic organizations are rife with conflict, fear, and anger. The environment causes people to have physiological responses as if they’re in a fight-or-flight situation. Healthy people become ill. Colds, flu and stress-related illnesses such as heart attacks are more common. By contrast, in resonant organizations, people take fewer sick days and turnover is low. People smile, make jokes, talk openly and help one another." - Annie McKee (author, consultant) Many employees experience the reality of bullying bosses, poisonous people, and soul-crushing cultures on a daily basis. Rising Above a Toxic Workplace tells authentic stories from today''s workers who share how they cope, change, or quit. Candidly they open up about what they learned, what they wish they had done, and how to gain resilience. Insightfully illustrating from these accounts, authors Gary Chapman, Paul White, and Harold Myra blend their combined experiences in ministry and business to deliver hope and practical guidance to those who find themselves in an unhealthy work environment. Includes a Survival Guide and Toolkit full of strategies and realistic insights

Parenting doesn''t end at 18 .Has your nest not emptied? Has your adult child made lifestyle choices you don''t agree with? Has becoming an in-law made you consider becoming an outlaw? Many parents today answer an exasperating "yes" to these and many other questions that describe the frustration encountered between them and their adult children. Parenting no longer ends at 18, yet very few resources are available to help parents better communicate with their child who is no longer a child. Ross Campbell and Gary Chapman, authors of The Five Love Languages of Children, have teamed up again to bring us another tool for parenting. They will help you deal with such issues as helping your child find success, dealing with anger, when adult children return with their children, religious choices, and positive parental love. You can survive this stage in your life. And with the excellent advice from Drs. Campbell and Chapman, you can even enjoy it!

Loving Your Adult Children Without Losing Your Mind (Or Your Heart, Or All Your Money, Or Your Soul) Your kids will always be your kids. The trick is figuring out how to adapt to the new phases in that parent-child relationship. No question, it can be tricky. And if you fail to navigate that transition well, the result will be stress, alienation, and maybe a broken relationship. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In Your New Life with Adult Children, Dr. Gary Chapman—author of the worldwide bestseller The 5 Love Languages®—teams up with clinical psychiatrist Dr. Ross Campbell to provide the insights you need when your child moves into adulthood. You’ll find help for those moments when: Your adult child isn’t succeeding Your nest isn’t emptying Your child moves back home You have conflict over lifestyle issues You become an in-law or grandparent And much more . . . The book includes brief sidebars from parents of adult children, as well as stories from adult children who relate what works best for them. An online study guide is also available. Stop wondering how to connect with your adult child. Instead, learn to love them in the ways they so desperately want.

More than 10 years after Parenting Your Adult Child was published, much has changed - including young adults themselves, as well as their parents. Economic upheavals, challenges to traditional values and beliefs, the phenomenon of over-involved "helicopter parenting" - all make relating to grown children more difficult than ever. Yet at the same time, being a parent of an adult child can bring great rewards. This revised and updated version of Dr. Gary Chapman''s and Dr. Ross Campbell''s message will help today''s parents explore how to really love their adult child in today''s changing world. The book includes brief sidebars from parents of adult children and adult children themselves with their own stories. An online study guide will also be available.

Research and real-life examples from the author''s counseling experience reveal why people get angry, what they can do about it, and how they can use anger for good.

Based on Chapman’s best-selling The 5 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.

The bestselling author of The Five Love Languages series guides believers toward tapping into God''s divine love and helps them relate to God in a way that will totally revolutionize their will to love one another.