Books / Cards

The Marriage Whisperer

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The multi-award winning book, The Marriage Whisperer: Tips to Improve Your Relationship Overnight. is an easy-to-read, no jargon resource loaded with practical self-help tips and humor. Written in conversational style by Dr. Patt Pickett, this book is based on her professional academic training and 30 + years of experience as a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. However, Dr. Patt found her inspiration to write from over 10, 000 conversations with couples determined to create happiness and their best relationships.

The Marriage Whisperer includes focus on emotional intelligence. Dr. Patt explains how to use emotional awareness and expressiveness in relationships to keep your intimate connection going strong. This dynamite information is delivered in 70 compositely true stories about cleverly named couples including, “Cleo & Patrick”, “Bertrand & Ernestine”, “Bo & Derrick”, and “Sandy & Quentin”. This book is designed for reluctant readers and those with limited time. A detailed Table of Contents and index assists readers in choosing stories from five topics: Talking and Hearing, Habits and Chores, Arguments, Disagreements, & Differences, Analytical Versus Emotional Functioning, and Sex and Intimacy. Start anywhere. Find stories of interest. Choose one, many or read cover-to-cover. All get right to the point.

Story samples include:

#19 Dirty Drawers in the John: Elmer and Sue struggle with chores

#29 An Apology is Not Just an Apology: Jewell and Price argue about apologies

#38 Having the Last word: Nancy and Drew haggle over having the last word

#68 Preventing Emotional Cheating: Dolly and Harden disagree on emotional cheating

Dr. Patt offers an efficient approach to learning relationship tips with information-at-a-glance contained in numerous lists, charts, tables, and sidebar quotes throughout the book.

The Marriage Whisperer Challenge BUY LINK is a separate resource. Designed to get your relationship conversation started, this playful card collection is a standard deck of playing cards with a relationship tip from the book on each card face. Instructions for use and encouragement for how-to create your own game are included. Useful for couples, groups, or individuals.

MSI Press

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Alibris

The Marriage Whisperer Challenge Cards

As Dr. Patt was writing The Marriage Whisperer®, she thought about all reluctant readers out there who might be disinterested in reading a marriage self-help book AND how many of them were married to spouses who were reading The Marriage Whisperer and working to get their partners engaged in marital improvement. She came up with The Marriage Whisperer Challenge as a tool to help couples start the relationship conversation in a non-challenging and playful way.

Dr. Patt designed and adapted a standard deck of playing cards into a valuable resource based on the book. Called The Marriage Whisperer Challenge, each card face has a unique relationship excerpted from the book.

Instructions are included for how to start the relationship conversation through playing a simple “game” with the cards.

Great for couples, groups. Individuals, and as a gift, the cards are professionally produced and are sturdy, bright ,and attractive The Marriage Whisperer Challenge is a customized deck of standard playing cards with one of 52 unique relationship tips adapted from the book on each card face. When couples use these resource cards to strengthen their relationships, they are literally “playing with a full deck in their marriage.” (Insert the emoticon of your choice here, please.)

Learn how Dr. Patt and her husband did their “marriage check-up” using the cards.

Awesome Couple Communication

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Awesome Couple Communication is an easy-read, no jargon book which , provides a practical "tool bucket" for couples. The tools include couples’ stories, a simple picture communication graph, specific tips, and an inspirational list and teaches how-to practice Emotional Intelligence (EQ) skills to strengthen your relationship or marriage communication. The book was written with humor by “The Marriage Whisperer®”, Dr. Patt Pickett, a licensed marriage therapist in professional practice for decades.

Awesome Couple Communication: Expressing What You Mean and Understanding What the Other Meant was written by Dr. Patt Hollinger Pickett and traditionally published by MSI Press in California. Written as a spin-off of her book, The Marriage Whisperer, the author Dr. Patt has added new resources, information and a descriptive pyramid-shaped tool, Pickett's Pyramid of Possibilities® (PPoP) that uses Social and Emotional Intelligence (SEQ) as a guide to managing differences and conflicts in relationships.

Although this book focuses on married couples, the SEQ principles are universal and can be readily applied to family and business relationships. Readers have frequently made comments like: I know you wrote that story about a couple, but it sounds like my boss and me; OR your story about always being right describes the tug of war my 38 yr.-old son and I have.

The US Review considers Awesome Couple Communication: Expressing What You Mean and Understanding What the Other Meant to be "valuable for couples" as well as therapists. www.theusreview.com/reviews/Awesome-Couple-Communication-by-Patt-Hollinger-Pickett.html#.WfocmVRSy00

Get Along With Others Cards

Get Along With Others! is a deck of 54 cards designed as an easy Self-Help Tool.
Developed by Dr. by Patt H. Pickett, an experienced licensed therapist and educator.
The cards offer a simple way to get along with important others by managing conflict and differences.

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