This is Your Brain in Love

I always knew sex and love are brain-related. This is Your Brain in Love – New Scientific Breakthroughs for a More Passionate and Emotionally Healthy Marriage by Dr. Earl Henslin confirms my hunch.

Henslin explains what happens in the brain when a person is in love, and why the initial intoxicating sensation fades. More importantly, he explains how to develop a satisfying marriage by recognizing your type and thus your potential brain hang-ups. It all starts in the brain.

According to Dr. Henslin brain imaging highlights the precise area where our hang-ups hang out. Identifying them helps us to learn how to bring our best brain into our marital relationship so that it sizzles—or at least satisfies.

Henslin describes five prominent lover styles: scattered lover (ADD), over-focused lover (living inside your head), blue mood lover (pessimistic, depressed), agitated lover (makes you walk on eggshells) and the anxious lover (overly stressed).

Explaining how brain patterns differ in these different types, Henslin shows how to regain lasting passion no matter what your lover type is.

As a pastor’s wife counseling women about marriage, I find this book practical and revelatory—useful to anyone who wants to enhance their marriage, or help others do just that.

I reviewed this book as a Thomas Nelson book review blogger and I’ll use it as a useful resource in counseling couples.

Janey L. DeMeo M.A.
February 2010 © Copyright
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Fireproof

Everyone should see Fireproof. No exception. It could change your life – and certainly equips you to strengthen your marriage, or someone else’s marriage.

Starring Kirk Cameron and made by the creators of Facing the Giants, Fireproof is another motivating movie that makes you want to make changes and fix the broken things in your life. It tells the story of Caleb and Catherine Holt, a struggling couple who find themselves caught in a downward sliding spiral of events that cause them to drift apart. It is the story of you and me, of our neighbors or friends . . . It is today’s story of western marriage. And today’s struggle.

It is also the story of honor and victory. Victory over the pressures that surmount against marriage.

Frankly, I also found the movie entertaining. The filming was delightful with beautiful colors. The characters were fun and humor was a plenty.

Don’t miss Fireproof. See it while it’s still in theaters. Watch the trailer here.
http://www.fireproofthemovie.com/

And if you want a great resource website to help strengthen marriages, go here.
http://www.fireproofmymarriage.com/

Janey L. DeMeo M.A. © October 2008