Where there are people, there are disagreements and misunderstandings. The author of Taming Your Tongue (more than 350,000 copies sold), a popular speaker, and a behavior expert, Deborah Smith Pegues draws on God’s Word, personal experience, and research to show how to approach difficult situations so relationships are strengthened not broken.

Meeting face–to–face to resolve an issue is difficult, but Pegues makes it easier by revealing how to avoid complications, sharing examples of good communication, and offering specific steps for dealing with conflicts. Readers will discover:

• effective and compassionate techniques for handling conflict
• practical strategies for resolving conflict
• how personality types influence discussions
• suggestions for minimizing defensiveness
• ideas for developing and promoting cooperation

Confronting Without Offending gives readers the tools to successfully talk over and resolve issues and misunderstandings at home, at work, and in social situations.

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Deborah Smith Pegues, author of the popular 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue (over 220,000 copies sold), now offers friendly, doable money management strategies in 30 Days to Taming Your Finances.

Giving readers the benefit of her many years’ experience as a public accountant and certified behavioral consultant, Deborah sheds light on the emotional and practical side of putting finances in order. The wealth of information readers will gather includes how to

• forget past financial mistakes and start fresh
• stop emotional spending and still be content
• fund future objectives with confidence

Each day’s offering will inspire and motivate readers to savor the freedom that comes with organizing, valuing, and sharing their resources wisely.

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Certified behavioral consultant Deborah Pegues knows how easily a slip of the tongue can cause problems in personal and business relationships. This is why she wrote the popular 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue (280,000 copies sold). Now in trade size, Pegues’s 30–day devotional will help each reader not only tame their tongue but make it productive rather than destructive.

With humor and a bit of refreshing sass, Deborah devotes chapters to learning how to overcome the

• Retaliating Tongue
• Know–It–All Tongue
• Belittling Tongue
• Hasty Tongue
• Gossiping Tongue
• 25 More!

Short stories, anecdotes, soul–searching questions, and scripturally based personal affirmations combine to make each applicable and life changing.

Rerelease in trade edition

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We need God’s help...and fast! Deborah Smith Pegues, a behavioral consultant and the author of 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue (more than 280,000 copies sold), offers readers a 9–1–1 prayerbook for life’s many circumstances and needs. Brief, immediate, and heartfelt, these prayers bring God’s Word to the forefront of a reader’s mind as they lift up cries for:

• help on the homefront
• financial discipline and direction
• resistance of temptations
• guidance in important decisions
• comfort in the midst of pain

This conveniently sized emergency guide can remain close at hand and heart as it leads readers to God’s presence for every need.

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With insight gleaned from her experience as a behavioral consultant, best-selling author Deborah Smith Pegues devotes stress-free chapters to helping you learn how to: Change Self-Sabotaging Behaviors Evaluate Your Expectations Solidify Your Support System and 25 more This book is full of inspiring advice and biblical principles that will help you learn in only thirty days how to maintain your peace amid life's pressures.]...

Who hasn’t struggled at times with foot–in–mouth disease? Certified behavioral consultant Deborah Pegues knows how easily a slip of the tongue can cause problems in personal and in business relationships. That is why she has put together a 30–day devotional to help readers tame that unruly member and turn it into an asset.

Readers will learn to

• stop saying the wrong thing at the wrong time in the wrong way
• learn to use words that build others up
• avoid the pitfalls and consequences of lies, flattery, and exaggerations

Short stories, anecdotes, soul–searching questions, and scripturally based personal affirmations combine to make each chapter tongue–and–life–changing.

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Amid the confusion, anger, and anxiety surrounding the U.S. economic crisis, bestselling author and behavioral consultant Deborah Pegues offers proven strategies and wise counsel for financial survival. Drawing on more than three decades of professional experience as a certified public accountant, she answers the most frequently asked questions and addresses common financial dilemmas. This book also offers practical advice on how to cope emotionally, physically, and relationally during times of uncertainty.

In this easy–to–read book, Pegues will show readers how to

• arm themselves with the information they need to make wise decisions
• prioritize and control spending and get out of debt
• find low–cost alternatives and cultivate contentment
• maintain quality of life amidst the economic turmoil
• and much more

Soul–searching questions and biblical principles combine to fill each chapter with hope for financial health in the midst of uncertain times.

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De la pluma de Deborah Pegues, autora del exito de ventas Controla tu lengua en 30 dias, surge una poderosa guia para superar los miedos profundos que privan a hombres y a mujeres de la plenitud de la vida. Utiliza ejemplos biblicos y modernos para ayudarte a reconocer y a superar las multiples caras de la inseguridad. From Deborah Pegues, popular author of 30 Days to Taming Your Tongue, comes a powerful guide to overcoming the core fears that rob both men and women of life's fullness. With biblical and modern-day examples, this book will help people recognize and overcome insecurities in many guises....