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.

• Borderlines_4_Christ This group is a Christian support group for people who are struggling with Borderline Personality Disorder. To become a member, you will be asked to send a response to the group owners to confirm your address and reason for joining. They do this to help prevent spam and keep the group safe.

• 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.

• www.family.org 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 top bar that says “Life Challenges.” A drop-down box will show up and you can select “Emotional Health” 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.

• Hope_4_you This group is dedicated to encouraging and supporting one another as they grapple with this “thing” called Bipolar Disorder. Bipolar often carries a certain stigma. Especially those who are Christians are all too often faced with well-meaning people who say, “If you had more faith, prayed more, gave more, quoted enough scripture (and so on), you wouldn’t be in ‘this mess.’” While this is a Christian group, People of all faiths — or no faith — are welcome on this web site and will be accepted unconditionally! This is a place where they can be REAL with each other.

• HoyWeb.com — This web site provides articles that you can read on various topics including several listed in their Frequently Asked Questions section on the subject of “Anxiety” “Bi-Polar” “Depression” and other emotional health issues. To select the articles you would like to read, please click HERE.

• www.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.

• www.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.

• www.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.

• 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.

• www.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.

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. Buy this book now.

• Adventures in Holy Matrimony is written by Julie Anne Fidler, published by Relevant Books, www.relevantbooks.com. In this book author Julie Anne Fidler 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.