Empowering couples
Book Description
When relationships face challenges, couples often possess more strength and wisdom than they realize. Duane R. Bidwell presents a transformative approach that helps partners discover their inherent capacity for healing and growth through spiritual guidance.
Drawing from desert spiritual traditions and research on thriving marriages, this practical guide offers spiritual caregivers a framework centered on five essential tasks. These conversations focus on helping couples explore their identity, reclaim their agency, and discover deeper meaning in their partnership. Rather than lengthy counseling processes, this method creates meaningful change through just three to five focused discussions.
The book champions mutuality and genuine partnership within committed relationships, showing how couples can forge alliances strong enough to withstand destructive patterns like criticism, contempt, defensiveness, and emotional withdrawal. Bidwell encourages spiritual guides to step back from traditional power dynamics, creating space for couples to recognize their unique strengths and connection to the divine.
This resource empowers both caregivers and couples themselves, demonstrating how appropriate guidance can unlock a relationship's potential for renewal. By integrating spiritual wisdom with practical insights about successful marriages, the approach helps partners move beyond surface-level fixes toward authentic transformation.
For pastors, counselors, and couples seeking a spiritually grounded path to relationship healing, this book offers hope that meaningful change is not only possible but achievable through focused, caring conversations.
Who Is This For?
📖 Reading Level: Short (< 200 pages) (~4 hours)
📄 Length: 144 pages
What You'll Discover
- ✓ Explore Spiritual life, christianity
- ✓ Explore Spiritual formation
- ✓ Explore Christianity
- ✓ Explore Married people
- ✓ Explore Church work with married people
- ✓ Explore Religious life
- ✓ Explore Pastoral counseling
- ✓ Explore Religion
