“Full of insights and lessons you can use throughout your life—especially in challenging times—to create and enjoy better relationships.” —Sarah Beckman, author of Hope in Hard Places Listen, Learn, Love shows those who are feeling overwhelmed, bored, frustrated, stressed, or lonely with the people closest to them how to make changes for the better quickly—even if the other person isn’t willing or engaged. It is a user-friendly guide filled with practical suggestions and simple skills anyone can use to create better relationships. And who doesn’t have at least one relationship in their life they would like to be better? While wanting a good relationship is a great beginning, building great relationships takes a few skills. Listen, Learn, Love is packed with concise and actionable tips shared with clarity, humor and authenticity, and shows readers how to dramatically improve their relationships in thirty days or less. “Susie Miller gets to the heart of what makes relationships thrive in all the messiness and stress of life. This book is a treasure that you can read in a couple hours but that will benefit you for the rest of your life.” —Brian D. McLaren, author of Faith After Doubt “Every once in a while a fresh voice arrives on the scene that cuts through the jargon and meets us right where we are. Susie Miller is exactly that! Her sage advice and authentic, upbeat style had me hooked from page one. Listen, Love, Learn is for everyone who longs for those deep, abiding relationships that make life meaningful.” —Ann Vertel, PhD, author of Take Charge of Your Confidence

Knowing how to listen is essential to learning, growing, and getting along with others. Simple words and inviting illustrations help children develop skills for listening, understand why it’s important to listen, and recognize the positive results of listening. Includes a note to teachers and parents, additional information for adults, and activities.

Are you addicted to your cell phone? Are you green and growing or brown and dying? Do you know the 5 Steps to Happiness? Do you like you? These are just a handful of the simple messages presented in this book. This book certainly can be read from cover to cover. The way I like to read a book like this is to just randomly open it to a page. Do it this way, and that is the message you are suppose to hear! A special "SMILE" reflection page accompanies each message. I encourage you to put pen to paper. There are many benefits to journaling and reflection; offers a deeper level of learning, order, action, and release. However you choose to read it, I hope you will enjoy it! And if I'm lucky these simple messages will inspire you!

America's baby doctor tells the inspiring story behind a half century of caring for, understanding, and championing children.

Many faithful children of our Heavenly Parents find it difficult to stay in the Church, not because of doctrine or a lack of desire to keep the commandments, but because of Latter-day Saint culture. The good news is that we need not wait to be more welcoming and inclusive. We can all be part of the solution. In these pages, you'll find stories about improving our culture by being: - less judgmental and more loving - not measuring progress by Church callings - better hearing and valuing women - acquiring a better framework for ending pornography use - hope-filled repentance - creating better understanding of mental illness and suicide - overcoming scrupulosity (religious OCD) - embracing early-release and service missionaries - manifesting love in political differences - and compassionately ministering to those with questions. Through the power of storytelling, former YSA bishop Richard Ostler invites all of us to listen, learn, and love so we can do our part to improve Church culture. This book-which is supportive of the Church, its leaders, and doctrine-is an extension of Ostler's enormously popular podcast Listen, Learn, and Love and his earlier book, Listen, Learn, and Love: Embracing LGBTQ Latter-day Saints.

Essays by popular children's authors reveal the books that shaped their personal and literary lives, explaining how the stories they loved influenced them creatively, politically, and intellectually.

Our culture is self-obsessed – in our schedules, relationships, and especially online. (Can you say selfie?) But in this near-narcissism, people are less content than in decades past. Why? Because we forgot the joy that comes from putting others first. Doing so requires us to live alert, listening for “heart drops,” hints from those in our lives who need a helping hand or a generous dose of encouragement. Living alert lifts our own spirits, showing us that blessing others blesses us even more. Listen, Love, Repeat offers biblical teaching and suggests doable actions that are simple, heart-tugging, sentimental, even sneaky and hilarious. This message: • Presents scriptural examples of those who lived alert, including Jesus, who noticed those who least expected to be seen. • Explains the role of good works for followers of Christ. They aren’t our ticket to heaven but they are our marching orders on earth. • Gives creative ideas for showing love to friends and family, and suggests practical ways to reach out to the lonely, the marginalized, the outcast, and the odd duck. Additionally, it helps you comfort the grieving, showing what you can do when you don’t know what to say. • Provides inspiration for blessing the “necessary people” in your life, those often-overlooked souls who help you get life done every day, and teaches you how to hug a porcupine by genuinely loving the hard-to-love. As we scatter love, we create a safe space where we can openly share the gospel. We get to see lives changed right before our eyes. Most importantly, Listen, Love, Repeat will enable you to live a life that is full of kind deeds, not to selfishly shout, “Hey! Look at me!” but to humbly implore, “Will you look at Him?”