Relationship Essentials: Skills to Feel Heard, Fight Fair, and Set Boundaries in All Areas of Life

Build life-enhancing relationships, restore damaged ones, and prevent communication breakdowns before they happen

Using real-world examples, illustrations from their own lives, and a research-based approach, dynamic daughter-mother duo Lauren Reitsema and Joneen Mackenzie guide you through familiar relationship situations. Their suggestions can be used with your partner, coworkers, children, extended family members, and friends. Drawing from their experience teaching thousands through The Center for Relationship Education, they introduce practical, easy-to-use strategies that will help you communicate more effectively and work through relationship challenges with confidence. When applied in any area of your life, these tools can have seemingly miraculous love- and life-enhancing results.


About the Author
Lauren Reitsema serves on the executive leadership team at CRE (Center for Relationship Education). The author of In Their Shoes, she regularly speaks to youths, adults, and corporate teams. Joneen Mackenzie, an RN and former 1st Lt. in the USAF Nurse Corps, founded CRE, which has certified more than 15,000 educators in its REAL Essentials relationship skills curricula. She participates in national public health standards policy through numerous board memberships. The authors live in Colorado.