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Healing the Wounds of Anger in Marriage is geared for Couples who want to enhance their individual and relationship anger and conflict management skills and bring healing to their relationships. Couples will gain a new perspective on anger and how to gain control over unhealthy anger thus, preventing the damage that results. Spouse will better managing responses to provoking situations in their relationships and begin to restore healthy communication. This combination book/workbook provides the steps for HEALING and restoring your marriage relationship. Couples will learn to: -reduce levels of anger -direct anger into healthy ways of relating and problem-solving -learn effective coping behaviors such as time-outs, prayer to stop escalation -address issues with assertiveness and requests -identify triggering situations -establish a strategy and plan of action -learn to forgive -apply skills to more effectively control unhealthy anger responses and manage conflict -develop emotional intelligence skills to build an intimate relationship -HEALING scenarios, 'What If?' questions for application. The lessons include: Anger's Many Faces, The Power of Anger - identifying triggers, What IS Good About Anger?, Defusing Anger by Managing Stress, Handling Anger Effectively, Anger and Assertiveness, Managing Conflict, Turn Your Anger into Forgiveness, Couples Time-Out, Plan to Change Your Life by Changing Your Thinking, How Emotional Intelligence Impacts Anger, Building a Healthy and Successful Relationship, Steps for HEALING the Wounds in Your Marriage, Stopping the Blame-Game, Enjoying the Benefits of Good Anger.