Best Selling Books by Linda Dillow

Over 500,000 copies sold Fear and anxiety tend to creep into all areas of women''s lives. We worry about our children, our friends, our careers, our families, our spouses―and the list goes on. It can be a constant struggle to let go and be free from the burden of worry and overthinking. Designed to help Christian women finally experience the calm and contentment the Bible promises, Calm My Anxious Heart is an established and time-tested classic. Filled with solid encouragement, Bible verses, and compassionate, practical help for soothing and processing anxiety, it offers meaningful and helpful ways to refresh your spirit with Scripture and calming insight. Experience the contentment, peace, and joy that comes from trusting God, whether it is through: Contentment in circumstances Contentment in self-image Contentment in relationships through forgiveness Trusting God with your questions and worries Now including a 10-week Bible study to help you dig deeper, and a companion journal designed to help you embrace the present, experience better mental health, and live with joy. "An incredible tool for anyone seeking to find rest in an anxious and ambitious world." ― Priscilla Shirer, Bible teacher and bestselling author "A timeless treasure whether you are in a season of great stress or navigating the challenges of daily life." ― Dr. Juli Slattery, psychologist, cofounder of Authentic Intimacy

Offers advice about the mechanics of sex, developing and maintaining a sexual relationship within a marriage, and how to overcome past sexual issues.

"A Creative Counterpart is more than just a helper. She is a woman who, having chosen the vocation of wife and mother, decides to learn and grow in all the areas of this role." The author tells how to become such a person in this unique book that is entertaining, practical, and biblically based. More than just challenging the reader, it offers a concrete plan for change that can work for you. The key to this plan is understanding how to order your priorities.

This companion journal to the 12-week Bible study Calm My Anxious Heart by Linda Dillow helps women focus on growing in contentment and faith. Learn to trust God completely and have victory over the fears that can overwhelm you.

Grow in Greater Intimacy with God As a woman who wants to follow Jesus in her everyday life, you yearn for intimacy with God. You long to know His presence, to be satisfied in heart and soul, but you don''t know how. You feel like you''re trudging through your days, making sure you''re doing everything you can for Him . . . but you can''t shake the feeling that something is missing. Linda Dillow understands. She longed for depth of intimacy with God, but in the middle of a busy and complicated life, realized that she''d settled for serving Him. And when our actions for God are our primary focus, we miss the extraordinary honor of getting to be with Him. So how can we be with Him? Through a life of worship. True worship is both a specific act and a lifestyle. As you learn what it means to bow your knee (the act of worship), you''ll gain a renewed intimacy with God. And as you learn to bow your thoughts, words, work, attitudes, will, and even pain (the lifestyle of worship), you''ll be drawn into God''s holy and life-giving presence—the place where He will truly satisfy your thirsty soul.

As women, we sometimes face difficult seasons in life. We need help dealing with the waves of trials, depression, and discouragement that threaten to overwhelm us. During such times, we long for comfort and yearn to be reminded of the hope that we have in the Lord. In A Deeper Kind of Calm, Linda Dillow demonstrates how the Psalms can teach us how to positively handle the disappointments of life, discern the comforting truth found in God''s Word, and be encouraged during difficult times. One reassuring promise found in the Psalms is that as we walk through the "valley of weeping," it can be transformed into a place of blessing. Hidden throughout the Psalms are pictures of what faith looks like in times of trial. This book will encourage you to remember God''s faithfulness, motivate you to cling to Him and hide in His presence, and drive you to praise Him for what He is doing—even when you can''t see it. Included is a four-week Bible study to help you further unpack the comforting truths of God''s Word.

What''s It Like to Be Married to Me? is about knowing the difference between having a desire for a better marriage and setting the goal of a better marriage—as readers look in the mirror to see how they can change. Bestselling author Linda Dillow understands that most women want more from their marriage but don''t know how to get it. In What''s It Like to Be Married to Me?, Dillow challenges readers to ask the riskiest questions: What is is like to be married to me? What is it like to make love with me? Why do I want to stay mad at you? Extremely intimate and honest, What''s It Like to Be Married to Me? is not a book about marriage at all. It is a book about how to live out marriage, day-by-day and year-by-year, and watch who you become as a wife impact the intimacy in your marriage!

As a woman who wants to follow Jesus in her everyday life, you yearn for intimacy with God. You long to know His presence, to be satisfied in heart and soul, but you don''t know how. You feel like you''re trudging through your days, making sure you''re doing everything you can for Him . . . but you can''t shake the feeling that something is missing. Linda Dillow understands. She longed for depth of intimacy with God, but in the middle of a busy and complicated life, realized that she''d settled for serving Him. And when our actions for God are our primary focus, we miss the extraordinary honor of getting to be with Him. So how can we be with Him? Through a life of worship. True worship is both a specific act and a lifestyle. As you learn what it means to bow your knee (the act of worship), you''ll gain a renewed intimacy with God. And as you learn to bow your thoughts, words, work, attitudes, will, and even pain (the lifestyle of worship), you''ll be drawn into God''s holy and life-giving presence--the place where He will truly satisfy your thirsty soul. This journal will help you move into a life of worship and discover deeper intimacy with God in an intentional and life-giving way.

With practical features and inspirational words, this bestselling classic planner is the ultimate scheduler for the busy woman. Undated page-per-week schedules include a priority list, menu, and cutout shopping list.

A Companion Journal to Calm My Anxious Heart, a Book that Has Helped More than 500,000 Women Trust God and Overcome Anxiety--Now Revised for a New Generation of Journalers Read the book, learn through the 10-week Bible study, and reflect through journaling on your journey to contentment to create lasting change as you overcome worry. As women--whether single women, married women, moms, grandmothers--we worry a lot. We worry about our children, our friends, our careers, our families, our spouses--and the list goes on. We want to be content and trust God with our worries, but it''s a struggle to let go and free ourselves from the burden of anxiety. If you''re tired of worrying about all the what-ifs in your life and want to experience the calm and contentment that the Bible promises, practice self-care by using the Calm My Anxious Heart Journal along with the new and updated Calm My Anxious Heart book to find lasting freedom. Record your thoughts as you listen to God''s teaching, embrace the present, and live with joy. With Calm My Anxious Heart book and companion journal, you can let go of anxiety and experience contentment that comes from trusting God.

A Bible study about sex for women? Now that’s different! This new study, Passion Pursuit: What Kind of Love Are You Making?, lets God’s Word speak about sex as being holy and erotic, blessed by God, and satisfying far beyond what the world can even imagine. Picture that as a headline on the cover of Cosmopolitan! By using scripture throughout the Bible, Passion Pursuit not only urges women to pursue passion but details how God has given them permission to do so. Though there is fun to be had along the way in this study, it hits hard on the questions women have but are hesitant to ask, like: What does God say is okay and not okay in the bedroom? I’m 54 years old; how can my husband still be attracted to me? Why did God make men and women so different? This audaciously bold study combines the psychological expertise of Dr Juli Slattery, formerly of Focus on the Family, along with moving stories from trusted Bible teacher and best-selling author Linda Dillow. The groups who have already done this study have seen their marriages come alive, whether they’ve been married four months or forty years; be next! PLUS! Check out the Passion Pursuit DVD for even more great teaching from Lisa Dillow and Dr. Slattery. It''s the perfect resource for individuals or small groups.

Women worry a lot. They worry about their children, their friends, their careers, their families, their spouses—the list could go on and on. Yes, they want to be content and trust God with their worries, but it’s a struggle to let go and find freedom from the burden of anxiety. For women who are tired of worrying about all the what-ifs, if-onlys, and whys of life and want to experience the calm and contentment promised in Scripture, Trusting God with My What-Ifs and Whys is an excellent companion. Excerpted and adapted from Calm My Anxious Heart by Linda Dillon, this booklet is filled with encouragement and practical help for overcoming anxiety. It was designed to help women discover what the Bible says about contentment and offer ways to apply it to daily life.

Includes 8-week Bible study When you are crushed and brokenhearted, where do you go to find hope? Jesus said that in this life we will have pain, heartbreak, and trials. So how do we deal with our pain? What does it look like to walk with God in our grief? In Hope for My Hurting Heart, bestselling author Linda Dillow offers practical wisdom, real-life stories, biblical teachings, and encouragement to help you navigate pain, and loss and find hope and healing through God''s love. This insightful guide includes: Heart Skills: Learn 8 essential Heart Skills to move from grief to gratitude: hope, love, loss, lament, trust, forgiveness, encouragement, and praise. Personal Stories: Read about Linda''s own struggles with a traumatic brain injury and her daughters'' cancer battles, as well as stories from real-life men and women who are struggling with pain and loss. Biblical Insights: Turn to God''s Word and the Holy Spirit to cultivate sustaining hope and spiritual growth. 8-Week Bible Study: Includes a structured study to delve deeper into the teachings and apply Heart Skills daily. No loss is beyond our Heavenly Father''s understanding. Learn what it looks like to experience peace and comfort in God''s presence in the midst of suffering and find hope.

Discover the freedom, holiness, and beauty of sex in marriage. Intimacy and sex should flow from an attitude of true selflessness. A verse-by-verse look at the Song of Solomon, Intimacy Ignited shows couples how to fire up and maintain the flames of a passionate marriage. Sex plays a vital role in every healthy marriage, yet there''s more to intimacy than just sex. If your marriage doesn''t have the passion it once did, learn why romance and intimacy is all about being a servant lover. Part marriage manual, part commentary, and part Bible study, Intimacy Ignited is a great resource.

Women who have maintained their sexual purity often ask, “Is it really that important for me to wait until I get married?” Meanwhile, single women who have been sexually active mourn the loss of their innocence, wishing they could somehow start again. Women want to protect the purity that is God’s gift to them, and they also long to be loved. This volatile combination makes them vulnerable to temptation. That is why it is vital that women know not only that God wants them to wait, but why God wants them to do so. They need solid reasons, conviction, and a strategy that will prepare them to live out their sexual purity as God intends. Filled with powerful true stories of hope and healing, Gift-Wrapped by God provides compelling emotional and spiritual reasons for choosing God’s path of sexual purity, as well as practical help for following it. Whether women have held onto their sexual innocence, have become prematurely sexually active, or have had their purity taken by force, they can express and fulfill their desire to come to their wedding day--and live out every day–-sexually pure and whole.

The Healer is inviting you… God’s word declares that there is healing for your deepest pains, hope for your biggest disappointments, and victory over your addictions, past hurts, and past failures. His name is Jehovah Rapha, the God Who Heals, and He can redeem your broken story. In these pages, you will meet nine courageous women who have agreed to tell their stories, to share with you how they moved from hopelessness and brokenness to hope and healing. Whether from sexual abuse, betrayal in marriage, or other harrowing experiences, the Healer invited them on a unique journey of redemption in the midst of deep pain. He is inviting you, too. Linda Dillow and Dr. Juli Slattery, cofounders of Authentic Intimacy, have been writing and ministering to women in the church and clinical context for several decades. Their wisdom and experience overflow in this work to give you a trusted resource in journeying toward healing. Includes a study guide for each chapter in the back of the book.

In this compendium of activities for kids, the authors give practical instructions for more activities than even the most energetic parents could use in a year. Tried and approved, they include creative ideas for building self-image, reading challenges, motivation techniques, and spiritual growth activities.

Sanity during the summer school vacation can be a reality for moms and kids with the help of this creative guide to summer survival. Includes: car games, daily activities for kids, learning skills, ideas for earning money, rainy day activities, and recipes for kids.