Creating Well-Being for Couples and Families: Increasing Health, Spirituality, and Happiness

Individual, couple, and family health and happiness give you energy, time, and well-being to build unity with friends and family, participate in excellent work, and engage in community service. You are kind to yourself and others. You show up. You make a positive contribution. When you are united in creating well-being, you are healthier as individuals and in your relationship.

This book features 28 short focus topics for young couples and young parents with full lives; aspects of physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being; content based on science and the Baha'i Faith; and tools for couples to collaborate, accompany, and encourage each other and their children. Throughout are stories from couples and families building well-being.

Topics include: exercise, nutrition, relaxation, sleep, illness, time, friendship, dates, cleanliness, sex, parenting, family, work, money, communication, listening, appreciation, feelings, decisions, humor, nature, creativity, resilience, resourcefulness, spirituality, service, unity, and character.

Consider this: "Eating right and moving more--especially if we want to do these things on a regular basis and over a long span of time--are easier when we are inspired, cajoled, praised, and supported by the people who matter the most to us in our daily lives." (T. N. Bradbury, PhD, and B. R. Karney, PhD, Love Me Slender, p. 8)

Susanne M. Alexander is a Relationship and Marriage Educator and coach, book author, and publisher with Marriage Transformation(R) www.marriagetransformation.com; www.transformationlearningcenter.com; www.bahaimarriages.com. She is certified to offer couple's assessments through Prepare-Enrich and offers individuals the Character Foundations Assessment(TM). Susanne meets with clients globally via the internet for relationship and marriage preparation and marriage strengthening. Susanne is passionate about accompanying and assisting individuals and couples to make good relationship and marriage choices. Clients build knowledge and skills, something that contributes to healthy relationships and marriages and prevents divorces. Susanne, a former journalist, writes articles about relationships and marriage for www.bahaiteachings.org and www.bahaiblog.net. She serves as a course developer and faculty member for the Wilmette Institute relationships, marriage, parenting, and family online courses (www.wilmetteinstitute.org). Susanne has been single, dating, engaged, married, divorced, and widowed. She is a child, stepchild, parent, stepparent, and grandparent. All of this has given Susanne a diversity of experience to share! Susanne is originally from Canada and is married to a wonderful man in Tennessee, in the United States.