4 Habits Series
You’ll never regret investing in joy!
Our series will help you create habits that will bring joy-filled connections.
Meet the authors
Dr. Marcus Warner
Dr. Marcus Warner has served as president of Deeper Walk International since 2006. Marcus earned three degrees from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School – M.Div., Th.M. Old Testament, and D.Min. He has written numerous books and spoken for both ministry and corporate groups across the country and around the world. A Bible teacher at heart, Marcus has taught Old Testament and Theology at the junior high, high school, college, and seminary levels. His passion is taking complex topics and making them practical and accessible for everyone.
For over 25 years THRIVEtoday president Chris Coursey has been using the Life Model to work with families, communities and individuals with severe trauma. Learning brain science, creating brain-based exercises and working with Dr. Jim Wilder has brought clarity to effectively serve and equip people who are on a journey of growth and recovery.
Chris is passionate about giving support to counselors and teaching people how relational skills can be applied to the important work of walking with people so they reach their God-given potential. Whether you are a licensed counselor, coach, pastor, or lay minister, there are exciting implications for how we can more effectively use relational brain skills to help people heal, mature and grow.
Chris M. Coursey
HOW 15 MINUTES A DAY WILL HELP YOU STAY IN LOVE – BRAIN SCIENCE HACKS THAT BOOST YOUR EMOTIONAL, SPIRITUAL, AND PHYSICAL CONNECTION
What separates happy marriages from miserable ones?
Surprisingly, it’s not healthy communication. It’s not conflict resolution skills. It’s actually the size of the marriage’s joy gap.
Joy Gap /joi gap/ (n.) – 1. The length of time between moments of shared joy
When the joy gap gets bigger, problems are more likely to overwhelm you, resentment creeps in, and you start to feel distant and alone in your marriage. When the joy gap is smaller, you regularly feel connected and happy, problems feel manageable, and your marriage becomes a reliable source of joy. But how do you ensure that you’re experiencing joy regularly?
Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey have studied relationships (and neuroscience) and discovered four habits that keep joy regular and problems small. Some couples do them naturally, but anyone can learn. That’s why each chapter includes 15-minute exercises that boost joy and re-train your brain to make joy your default setting. You’ll learn new skills including how to:
- return to joy more quickly after disconnection
- create stronger bonds and elongate times of happiness
- boost your enjoyment of physical and emotional intimacy
Find out what your marriage looks like after a little work and a whole lot of joy.
A simple model for developing your child’s maturing – at every stage
What moves kids from fear-filled to joy-filled?
There’s no question that parenting is hard. Yet raising kids to become happy, confident, and productive adults is doable – not just by super-parents, but by anyone willing to apply some key principles. It’s as simple as ABCD. When you get attuned to your child, help them bounce back, correct them with care, and help them build life disciplines, they’ll be on the way to the mature adulthood that every parent has in mind.
Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey have spent years studying human relationships. Now they offer parenting principles derived from the way our brains are hardwired. Joy isn’t some abstract concept, but a neurochemical reality that arises from the choices we make. Learn to make the parenting decisions that bring joy to yourself – the essential first step – and then to those young lives in your hands. You’ll never regret investing in joy!
Resources…
Featured on video, podcasts, reading plans and magazines, here are online features you can explore for free!
- Focus on the Family
- YouVersion reading plan
- Cosmopolitan Magazine
- Growing Home Together podcast
- FamilyLife podcast
- Moody Radio
- IM Between podcast
The 4 habits of joy-filled marriages
You’ve been married for a number of years, and you’re starting to feel distant from your spouse. You are experiencing a joy-gap! On this one-day Focus on the Family broadcast, Dr. Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey explain the brain science behind joy and offer easy, practical ways you can increase joy in your marriage by playing together, listening for emotion, appreciating your spouse daily, and nurturing a rhythm of rest. You’ll be inspired to pursue joy with your spouse!
4 Habits Of A Joy-Filled Marriage
This devotional will introduce couples to 4 habits that will help bring sustained joy back into your marriage. This will provide couples with valuable resources to practice all different forms of communication and improve overall marriage health. Explore how just 15 minutes a day will help you and your spouse remain in love.
A 6-day devotional on the YouVersion app.
Cosmopolitan Online Feature
Practical Ways to Put the Joy Back into Your Marriage Today
Cultivating Joy In Marriage
Dr. Marcus Warner and Reverend Chris Coursey encourage couples to cultivate joy in their marriage. They encourage couples to sow seeds of joy for a more satisfying marriage.
staying in love
Healthy relationships produce joy, and joy keeps the relationship healthy. Today, our two guests will incorporate brain science and habit theory to teach you relational skills that will boost your joy and enjoyment of physical and emotional intimacy in your marriage. Learn the habits of playing, listening, appreciating and nurturing your marriage to make it joy-filled!
HOW TO STRENGTHEN YOUR MARRIAGE IN 15 MINUTES
What separates happy marriages from miserable ones? What if we told you that you could have a stronger, healthier, more joy-filled marriage in just 15 minutes a day? Sound too good to be true? Authors Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey have studied relationships (and neuroscience) and discovered the joy gap – a length of time between moments of shared joy.x`
The 4 Habits of Joy-Filled Marriages
What separates happy marriages from miserable ones? Surprisingly, it’s not healthy communication or conflict resolution. It’s the size of the joy gap. Dr. Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey show how 15 minutes a day can transform your marriage. If it feels like years since you’ve really enjoyed your spouse’s company, don’t miss Chris Fabry Live.
Habits of joy
Dr. Marcus Warner and Reverend Chris Coursey reveal four habits to make your marriage happier.
Resources…
Featured on video, podcasts, and reading plans, here are online features you can explore for free!
- Focus on the Family
- YouVersion reading plan
- Chris Fabry Live podcast
- 5 Love Languages podcast
- FamilyLife podcast
- Moody Radio
- Thriving Mamas blog
Our friends at Thriving Mamas wrote a 12-post series on their blog covering the ABCDs of parenting as laid out in the ‘4 Habits of Raising Joy-Filled Kids’ book. The authors shared their insights into each ‘letter’ with a post for each stage of parenting: infants | elementary-age | teens
Nurturing joy in your child
Happiness can be fleeting, but joy is rooted in faith and our confidence in Jesus. On this one-day Focus on the Family broadcast, Dr. Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey share the ABC (and D!) habits of raising joy-filled kids—attunement, building “bounce”, correcting with care, and developing disciplines relationally. By diving into each habit, they share how to strengthen your joy-bond with your child, even if you are a “low-joy” person. You’ll learn how to build and cultivate joy in your family.
Raising Joy-Filled Kids
Raising Joy-Filled Kids plan offers 7 invigorating lessons to reflect on what Scripture and brain science say is essential for relationships: glad-to-be-together joy. In John 15:11, Jesus prayed our joy would be full while brain science says 4 key habits grow more mature children and lead to joyful parents. Each day of this plan offers practice steps to apply what you are learning.
A 7-day devotional on the YouVersion app.
4 habits blog series
An encouraging 12-post blog series, plus more, from our friends at www.thrivingmamas.org on the ABCDs of parenting as laid out in the 4 Habits of Raising Joy-Filled Kids book. The authors shared their insights into each ‘letter’ with a post for each stage of parenting: infant, elementary, and teens.
The 4 Habits of Raising Joy-Filled Kids
“I’ve got the joy, joy, joy, joy down in my heart.” You may know that children’s song. And you may wonder how to get that joy into your kids’ hearts. Guest host Collin Lambert talks with Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey about raising joyful kids. Learn the four habits to equip them to live with joy in a low-joy world when you join us for Chris Fabry Live.
The 4 Habits of Raising Joy-Filled Kids
Kids these days are dealing with stress and anxiety that comes at them daily. If you’ve ever wondered how you as a parent can restore their joy, don’t miss this edition of Building Relationships with Dr. Gary Chapman. Dr, Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey (CORE see) reveal research that will help your family. Learn the four habits of raising joy-filled kids today on Building Relationships with Dr. Gary Chapman.
Parenting: Passing On Healthy Habits For Kids
Joy-filled kids know how to work for and wait for what is truly satisfying in life. Authors Marcus Warner and Chris Coursey share life habits to instill in emotionally mature kids.
raising joy-filled children
We all want our homes to be filled with joy but do you know that joy-filled kids are not always happy kids? However, joy-filled children do know how to work and wait for what is best! Chris Coursey has been studying brain-based solutions that make relationships work and he will guide us in raising joyful children at every stage of development.
the 4 habits of raising joy-filled kids
Summer may be the perfect time to start working on some “joy” habits in your home. These habits do not preclude sadness, but they equip children with the skills needed to work for and wait for what truly satisfies. Pastoral Counselor Chris Coursey will talk us through some of the four habits that will help you not only provide but support and guide your children toward a more joy-filled life.