Rock Solid Families Resources

At Rock Solid Families, we meet with most clients just a couple times a month. Therefore, it’s important that clients realize that the majority of work happens on their own and outside our office.  We know healthy relationships take work, and we want to give you practical tools and biblical resources to help you on your journey.  So, here are some resources we recommend to help you build a Rock Solid foundation for you and your family.

CHANGES THAT HEAL BY DR HENRY CLOUD

This book is a down-to-earth plan to help us recover from the wounds of the past and grow more and more into the image of God.

Many of us struggle with anxiety, loneliness, and feelings of inadequacy. We know that God created us in his image, but how can we be loving when we feel burned out? How can we be free when we struggle with addiction? Will we ever enjoy the complete healing God promises? These are just some of the questions one of our favorite authors tackles and answers in this classic, Changes That Heal.

LOVE AND RESPECT by Dr. Emerson Eggerichs

This book is a great resource for couples wanting to get out of the crazy cycle and into a full, rich relationship. We use Dr. Eggerichs’ work a lot working with couples in our office.

The Five Love Languages by Dr. Gary Chapman

This favorite of ours outlines five general ways that people express and experience love. It’s a helpful tool for any couple as well as parents trying to learn how to love their children in the most effective way.

The Collapse of Parenting: How We Hurt Our Kids When We Treat Them Like Grownups.  by Dr. Leonard Sax

This parenting resource has been a HUGE help in working with clients. Working as a family physician for over 40 yrs., Dr. Sax identifies major parenting shifts that have occurred in our culture and how to restore sanity in the home.

Boundaries: When to Say Yes and How to Say No by Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend

This book is one of our favorites. The concept of boundaries is biblical and foundational for every healthy relationship. It’s a must read.

Sacred Marriage: What if God Designed Marriage to Make Us Holy More Than to Make Us Happy? By Gary Thomas.

This book invites Christians to view marriage differently than the world does. It’s an insightful book that opened our eyes to what marriage is really all about.

Reset Your Child’s Brain: A Four Week Plan to End Meltdowns, Raise Grades, and Boost Social Skills by Reversing the Effects of Electronic Screen Time by Dr. Victoria Dunckley

This book is an eye opener when it comes to kids and technology. Dr. Dunckley offers extensive research as well as a step by step plan on helping your child disconnect from technology and reconnect to you.

you can’t make me: strategies for bringing out the best in your strong willed child by cynthia ulrich tobias

This book was a huge help to us personally and to others who have a strong willed child in the house. It’s packed full of useful strategies to reduce the level of tension in your home.

parenting by the book; biblical wisdom for raising your child by dr. john rosemond

This classic was one of our first parenting favorites. It’s jammed pack full of practical parenting tools built on biblical principles.

HOW WE LOVE BY MILAN AND KAY YERKOVICH

Did you know the last fight you had with your spouse began long before you even met? Are you tired of falling into frustrating relational patterns in your marriage? Do you and your spouse fight about the same things again and again? We have found this book to be an amazing resource helping couples identify core love patterns they learned growing up.

Focusonthefamily.com

This website and app is full of practical tools and biblical resources for couples and families. From blog articles to podcasts, Focus on the Family is the place to go to help build a rock solid family.

Familylife.com

This website and app is another great family resource filled with all kinds of support for couples, families, and ministers. It also has great resources for blended families. Family Life is also the host of great weekend events for couples young and old.

Prepare-Enrich.com

As a certified facilitator, Rock Solid Families uses the PREPARE-ENRICH assessment tool with all their premarital couples as well as an enrichment tool for married ones.

newlife.com

New Life Ministries help people do the hard work that leads them out of pain and isolation caused by trauma, betrayal, addiction, and sin to wholeness and true healing. New Life Live is America’s #1 Christian Counseling Call-In Radio Program helping folks find spiritual, emotional & relational health.

making marriage work by dr john gottman

Click HERE to watch Psychology professor and relationship researcher, Dr. John Gottman share his 40+ years of research on how to make a marriage not just survive but THRIVE.