The following are Web Site links and descriptions of various resources that concern mental and physical health. We pray that they will help your marriage to become healthier.

• BPrayer for Christians with Bipolar Loved Ones This web site gives wonderful emotional and spiritual support, education, and prayer group support for Christians who have Bipolar loved ones BUT ARE NOT THEMSELVES BIPOLAR. This web site was recommended to us highly by those who have used it.

• Christian-depression.org This is the web site for Christian Depression Pages which contains various information, testimonies, Bible Studies, and articles for Christians who are dealing with depression.

• Christian Testimonies About Depression and Suicide This particular web site page contains an index plus links to Christian testimonies that are true stories about people who have struggled with depression and thoughts of suicide. Each story reveals a life transformed by Christian faith. The testimonies are submitted by the members and visitors to About.com.

• Focusonthefamily.com This is the web site for the great ministry of Focus on the Family. One of the many features of this web site can be found when you place your cursor over the side bar that says “Life Challenges.” A side-bar box will show up and you can select “Emotional Health” and then “Depression” to read a number of articles.

• Griefnet.org Their groups operate 24-hours/day, 365 days/year to help those who are grieving with the loss of a spouse, child, parent, friend, and other unique losses. Members participate when they wish and are able to, not at a set time. When one member of a group sends an email message to the group, everyone in the group receives a copy. This allows many people to respond with love and caring to the thoughts and feelings of an individual, day and night, year-round. Since 1994 these groups have helped thousands of people around the world deal safely with their grief.

• Iquestions.com The goal at iQuestions is to gather the “best and brightest experts, authors, and teachers under one roof to share their years of experience with you.” These iQuestions Faculty, deal with topics ranging from marriage and parenting to money and career. They do this through videos that they present on their web site for you to watch and listen to on the subject you select. To see/hear what they have on in-law concerns, select”Wellness” and in their drop-down box select the issue you want help with.

• Joniandfriends.org This is a terrific Evangelical Christian ministry that extensively works with people with disabilities, their families, and churches across the U.S. and around the world.

• Outreachofhope.org This is the web site for Dave Dravecky. The mission of Dave Dravecky’s Outreach of Hope is to serve suffering people, especially those with cancer and amputation, by offering resources for encouragement, comfort and hope through a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. They accomplish this mission by providing resources, The Encourager Magazine which is an online Library, Links to helpful organizations, prayer support, and more.

• Realrelationships.com This is the web site for Dr Les and Dr Leslie Parrott who are a husband-and-wife team who not only share the same name, but the same passion for helping others build healthy relationships. The Parrotts founded the Center for Relationship Development on the campus of Seattle Pacific University — a groundbreaking program dedicated to teaching the basics of good relationships. Their web site has free videos that you can view on your computer which gives relationship advice on many different subjects you will deal with in your married lives together including “Health.” We highly advise that you visit their web site to see what they can offer you.

• Soulhealinglove.com This is the web site for Drs Bev and Tom Rodgers who are a husband and wife team and co-directors of a private practice as Christian counselors. They speak across the globe, and share a passion for healing wounded individuals, couples and families. The Rodgers have authored several books on healthy relationships and train counselors, pastors, and mentors in the Soul Healing Love Model.

• Today’s Christian Woman Magazine. This is a woman’s magazine for Christian women. They have a variety of helpful information that today’s Christian women can use to help them. If you go into their “Strength” section you will find a variety of topics you can choose to read about including Health, Wellness, Chronic Illness, Disabilities, Depression, and other topics. You can visit their web site by clicking HERE.

• Troubledwith.com This web site is put together by the ministry of Focus on the Family. It deals with a lot of the complex issues that people deal with today. They have different sections on Alcoholism, Eating Disorders, Gambling, Depression, Stress and many others that you may find helpful.

• Walking-Wounded.Net The idea of this web site is that visitors will be encouraged by the articles that they have written, and be helped by writing and submitting their own articles and testimonies. Also, by reading the articles and testimonies of others, people may gain insight and encouragement from the experiences of others. Furthermore, the contacts and web links where provided, are intended to provide contact to organizations, web sites, newsgroups and chat rooms which specialise in different problems.

RESOURCE DESCRIPTIONS:

• THE ANXIETY CURE -by Dr Archibald Hart, published by Thomas Nelson. This book is written from a Christian perspective with proven strategies that will help you to overcome panic disorders and to find emotional tranquility and wholeness. As Dr Hart says, “Your mind and body were designed for camel speed. Your life is moving at the speed of a cheetah. It’s no wonder you’re having anxiety attacks.” In this book you will learn the role between: brain chemistry, physiological responses, and patterns of thinking. Preview or Purchase this book now.

• ADVENTURES IN HOLY MATRIMONY is written by Julie Anne Fidler, published by Relevant Books. In this book author Julie Anne tells about the painful journey her first years of marriage have been—a marriage that stood on the brink of divorce and, happily, remains intact. “But this is no fairy tale.” With her husband having a medical condition that began to affect “his ability to have sex almost immediately after their wedding, and every area of communication broke down for them in their relationship, troubles mounted up. Scott got sicker, jobs were lost, surgeries were had, bills piled up, and the newlyweds drifted apart. They also struggled with Julie’s bipolar disorder.

We love what one reviewer said of this book because we couldn’t say it any better ourselves: “ADVENTURES IN HOLY MATRIMONY isn’t your typical ‘rah-rah’ book about marriage. It’s actually a lot more useful (and hopeful) than most of those books. The problems in the Fidler marriage aren’t sanitized or presented in a certain light just so they can be neatly resolved at the end. And because of that, anyone in a less-than-perfect marriage is going to recognize themselves here and take away this message: if Julie and Scott are making it work, my partner and I can too.” Preview or Purchase This Book Now

• BECOMING A FAMILY THAT HEALS: How to Resolve Past Issues and Free Your Future (a Focus on the Family book) – by Drs. Beverly and Tom Rogers. This book deals with wounded people becoming whole. It presents the information that wounded people tend to gravitate toward each other and when they establish their own families, they perpetuate those wounds in their offspring. It discusses how families can break those patterns and stop the unwanted legacy of pain, and can be a helpful resource for someone who recognizes this issue in their own family and has a desire to discontinue these behavior patterns. Preview or Purchase This Book Now.

• SOUL-HEALING LOVE – by Drs. Beverly and Tom Rodgers, published by Selah Publishing Group. This book is about dealing with our own woundedness hand-in-hand with God, and then applying what we have learned to other areas of our lives such as marriage and parenting. The Rodgers tell of their own soul-healing journey and then explain the “map” they have learned to teach others to take on their own healing journey. Sprinkled throughout this book are case studies of actual couples who have learned to use the Soul Healing Love Model successfully. Tom and Beverly say that “this book was written for brave souls who desire active duty in the war of love and marriage. And make no mistake– the enemy of our souls is at war with us, fighting against the success of our marriages as we speak.” And oh, how true that is! Preview or Purchase This Book Now.