For when your trust has been broken: discover how to set firm boundaries again, how to connect deeply without being hurt, and how to safely grow your most intimate relationships.

Painful relationships violate our trust, causing us to close our hearts. But to experience the freedom and love God designed us for, we eventually have to take another risk.

In this breakthrough book, bestselling author Dr. John Townsend takes you beyond the pain of the past to discover how to re-enter a life of intimate relationships. Whether you’re trying to restore a current relationship or begin a new one, Townsend gives practical tools for establishing trust and finding the intimacy you long for.

Beyond Boundaries will help you:

• Reinstate closeness appropriately with someone who broke your trust
• Discern when true change has occurred
• Reestablish appropriate connections in strained relationships
• Create a safe environment that helps you trust
• Restore former relationships to a healthy dynamic
• Learn to engage and be vulnerable in a new relationship as well

You can move past relational pain to trust again. Beyond Boundaries will show you how.

Plus, dig even deeper into relational healing with the coordinating video study and study guide. Spanish edition also available.

Establish wise and loving limits that make a positive difference in your teen, in the rest of your family, and in you.

The teen years: relationships, peer pressure, school, dating, character. To help teenagers grow into healthy adults, parents and youth workers need to teach them how to take responsibility for their behavior, their values, and their lives.

From bestselling author and counselor Dr. John Townsend, Boundaries with Teens is the expert insight and guidance you need to help your teens take responsibility for their actions, attitudes, and emotions and gain a deeper appreciation and respect both for you and for themselves.

With wisdom and empathy, Dr. Townsend applies biblically based principles for the challenging task of guiding your children through the teen years. Using the same principles he used to successfully raise two teens, he shows you how to:

• Deal with disrespectful attitudes and impossible behavior in your teen
• Set healthy limits and realistic consequences
• Be loving and caring while establishing rules
• Determine specific strategies to deal with problems both big and small

Discover how boundaries make parenting teens better today!

Plus, check out Boundaries family collection of books dedicated to key areas of life – dating, marriage, raising young kids, and leadership. Workbooks and Spanish editions are also available.

Leading from Your Gut will help emerging and experienced leaders alike to hone their intuition and become the leader they were meant to be. 

As a leader, your decisions are critical. They have a significant effect on you and everyone around you. But the effective leader needs to have more than just logic, facts, and financials to help make the best choices. Leaders also must access their own intuition, that gut feeling inside. 

In¬†Leading from Your Gut,¬†you’ll learn how leaders excel not just through external competencies and skills but by drawing on their internal world and personal experience.¬†You’ll explore how to harness the power of your values, thoughts, emotions, and relationships to better meet the complex demands of leadership.¬†¬†

As you apply Townsend’s principles, you will see great results in your leadership. But more importantly, you’ll experience the kind of personal transformation that will enable you to lead as a whole person.¬†¬†

This book is the revised edition of Leadership Beyond Reason.

Quienes somos interiormente puede determinar el éxito de liderazgo más que lo hacemos o lo que sabemos. En este libro el doctor Townsend explora el papel clave que juega el mundo interno del líder, sus emociones, su intuición, su creatividad, sus valores, su autoconciencia, su vida espiritual, y cómo estos se traducen en el éxito de una organización.

Revelando vínculos entre el éxito o fracaso personal y organizacional, y el contenido del corazón del líder, el autor muestra que los líderes sobresalen no sólo a través de la habilidad e inteligencia, sino también al conectar con otros a través de las competencias, como curiosidad, atención, evaluación de la realidad, detección de distorsión, construcción de relaciones, responsabilidad, y vivir con ambigüedad. Un libro de liderazgo que solo un psicólogo mundialmente reconocido podría haber escrito.

Who we are on the inside can determine leadership success more than what we do or what we know. In Leading with Your Gut, Dr. Townsend explores the critical role of the leader’s internal world, the world of passion, emotions, intuition, creativity, values, self-awareness, conscience, and spiritual life. Unveiling links between personal and organizational success or failure and the contents of a leader’s “heart,” the author shows that leaders excel not just through skill and smarts but by connecting with others using competencies, like curiosity, attention, reality assessment, distortion detecting, relationship building, ownership, and living with ambiguity. A leadership book only a world-respected psychologist could have written, Leading with Your Gut is revolutionary in its insight.

People Fuel outlines the twenty-two relational nutrients we all need to cultivate good relationships that provide energy, focus, and the support to be all you were meant to be.

Just as good nutrition is necessary for a healthy body and physical energy, so the right kinds of relationships are critical to living a successful and confident life. If we don’t take enough iron, we can develop anemia. Too little calcium leads to bone disease. In the same way, we need the twenty-two relational nutrients essential to a healthy, energized, and productive life.

In People Fuel, Dr. John Townsend–psychologist, leadership consultant, and¬†coauthor¬†of the¬†New York Times¬†bestselling¬†Boundaries–shows you how truly good relationships give you energy, focus, and the support you need to succeed. Through stories and clear applications, Dr. Townsend shows you how to:

• Identify the types of people who can be either energy gains or energy drains
• Receive from relationships the help and support that God intended
• Create higher-quality connections with your family, friends, and coworkers
• Boost your productivity and creativity at work
• Build your essential Life Team

As we learn to tap into these vital nutrients from quality relationships, we will experience more energy, positivity, focus, and the exponential growth to become the confident people God created us to be.

People Fuel is also available in Spanish, Gente que Sume.

Reference charts, tables, and appendix available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

Do you have anyone in your life who can’t seem to stick with a project, meet a deadline, or even clean up after themselves? All of us feel we deserve special treatment sometimes. Some people live with this entitled attitude, such as:

• Professionals who wander from job to job looking for a boss who will see them as amazing as they consider themselves to be–whether they’re productive or not
• Young adults who refuse to grow up and so go nowhere
• Spouses or dates who believe, “I’m special, and I deserve more than you’re giving me”
• Leaders who expect special treatment because of their position, not because of their character

If you have a difficult relationship with an entitled person, or if you have discovered entitlement in yourself, understand this: It doesn’t have to stay this way. There is a cure. It’s called the Hard Way and it works.

In The Entitlement Cure, Dr. John Townsend explains that the Hard Way is a habit that focuses on doing whatever is needed even if it is difficult, uncomfortable, takes longer, and requires more energy. Dr. Townsend offers daily steps, such as risk-taking, to help you or those you love choose the Hard Way.

Ultimately, entitlement fails us. We don’t develop the character abilities and relationships necessary to reach success and become the people God intended us to be. By contrast, Hard Way people have better relationships, reach their goals, have a clear job direction, enjoy rich spiritual growth, and are equipped to face and solve challenges.

As Dr. Townsend writes, “Stand against entitlement in every form in which it manifests itself. Resolve your own tendencies toward the disease. Be a loving and firm force for helping those in its trap to find life and hope. And you will make the world a better place.” Discover why the Hard Way is the best way in this practical guide to true success.

Hard times make us look for God.

Everyone has problems. But if we could solve all our difficulties ourselves, would we ever search for God? Psychologist John Townsend says “It is actually the very unfixability of our problems and our powerlessness to bring right results that keep us asking, ‘Where is God?'”

With a compelling narrative, Townsend offers new insights into the pursuit for God’s help and presence. Designed to give readers hope and meaning, he divides the discussion into three parts:

• Why does a loving God allow us to experience difficulties?
• How is God active in the middle of our hard times?
• How can I find God?

With powerful stories and practical applications, Where Is God? assures readers that even when it feels as though God is absent it is his nature to be in relationship, to connect with, love, and guide us. And when we seek him with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength, he shows up in ways that transform us forever.

Button-pushers come in all shapes and sizes, but they have one thing in common: Their behavior drives us crazy and makes us dream of ways to escape the mess we’re in.

The person who pushes your buttons is likely someone who matters to you ‚Äì a spouse, a parent, a boss, a fellow church member. Almost always this difficult person is connected to you by blood, love, faith, or money, so you can’t just end the relationship without causing pain and upheaval in your life.

Our friends and today’s culture will often advise us to abandon such relationships quickly ‚Äì to end this unpleasant chapter and get on with our lives. Psychologist and author Dr. John Townsend disagrees, “Your button-pusher is not someone you would easily and casually leave. You are intertwined at many levels. It is worth the trouble to take a look at the ways the relationship you had, and want, can be revived and reborn.”

In this easy-to-read book he offers

• Expert insights to help you understand your own button-pusher
• Wise assistance in determining the nature of the problem
• Compassionate help in identifying your failed attempts to fix things
• A hope-filled vision for what can be and how to make it come true
• Rich resources to help you navigate the necessary changes