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Jesus the Master Psychologist (Digital Download)

Pete Guarendi — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 21:04:00 +0000

Widely regarded as a powerful integration of faith and psychology, Jesus the Master Psychologist explores the timeless psychological wisdom found in the teachings of Jesus Christ. This digital download presents a clear and practical understanding of human behavior, emotional healing, and personal growth through the words and example of Christ.

Long before modern psychology emerged, Jesus addressed the deepest struggles of the human heart—fear, anger, guilt, pride, and broken relationships. In this resource, the teachings of Christ are examined alongside modern psychological concepts, revealing where contemporary psychology aligns with biblical truth and where it falls short.

Rather than relying on shifting theories, this download directs readers to enduring principles that promote emotional health, self-awareness, and spiritual maturity. It offers guidance rooted in faith while remaining deeply relevant to everyday challenges faced by individuals and families.

This download provides insight and guidance on topics including:

Understanding human emotions through the teachings of Christ
Healing from fear, guilt, and inner conflict
Developing self-awareness and emotional maturity
Overcoming unhealthy thought patterns and behaviors
Building healthier relationships through biblical wisdom
Integrating faith-based principles with psychological understanding

Digital Download – Must purchase first to access and download files.

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Raising Upright Kids in an Upside-down World – Audiobook Download

Pete Guarendi — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 19:16:09 +0000

Recognized as a trusted voice in Christian family guidance, Raising Upright Kids presents clear, compassionate, and practical principles for parents who desire to raise children with strong character, emotional stability, and moral clarity. This resource brings together faith-based wisdom and real-world parenting insight to help families navigate discipline and child development with confidence and purpose.

In a culture filled with conflicting advice on parenting, this download returns to the foundations of healthy family life—truth, responsibility, and love rooted in Christian values. It challenges popular but ineffective parenting trends while affirming approaches that foster growth, self-discipline, and respect. Throughout these pages, parents are guided toward methods that build character rather than control behavior, and connection rather than conflict.

Grounded in biblical wisdom and supported by sound psychological understanding, this resource helps parents see discipline not as punishment, but as formation. It equips families to raise children who are emotionally aware, spiritually grounded, and prepared to face life’s challenges with integrity.

This download provides guidance on key parenting challenges, including:

Developing discipline that builds responsibility and self-control
Raising children with strong moral and spiritual foundations
Understanding children’s emotional and behavioral development
Encouraging respect, obedience, and healthy boundaries
Strengthening parent-child relationships through connection
Applying faith-centered principles to everyday family life

Digital Download – Must purchase first to access and download files.

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Raising Upright Kids in an Upside-Down World – AUDIO DOWNLOAD

Webmaster — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:54:40 +0000

From raunchy television shows to immoral peers, the barriers to raising moral and mature children are higher and more treacherous than ever. In Raising Upright Kids in an Upside-Down World, acclaimed Catholic psychologist Dr. Ray Guarendi offers parents a roadmap through this difficult and sometimes frightening terrain.

Dr. Ray brings to bear his decades of clinical experience—and his experience as a father of ten—with some of the hardest questions of modern parenting:

How do you manage kids’ access to pop culture—and to the corporations who all want a piece of their allowance?
How do you respond to others, including your own family, who don’t approve of your countercultural parenting?
How do you handle the overabundance of stuff—toys, clothes, technology—that clogs up your family’s everyday life?
When do you give (or take away) a smartphone?
How much freedom do you give your kids to choose their own friends—and when do you step in when they make wrong choices?
What are the habits of mind you need to form in them so they can stand strong against a morally and spiritually corrosive culture?

Raising Upright Kids in an Upside-Down World is a clarion call for strong, confident parenting in confusing times. More importantly, Dr. Ray gives you the resources to grow in that confidence: the knowledge of an expert, the insight of an experienced clinician, and the wisdom of decades of fatherhood. This is a book for parents who aim to form children who value the things of God, no matter the work and the effort. Dr. Ray is here to tell you: it’s worth it.

Must purchase audio book for links to listen to the book.

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Jesus, The Master Psychologist: Listen to Him- AUDIO Download

Webmaster — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 03:07:21 +0000

Rightly regarded as America’s leading Catholic psychologist and family counselor, EWTN’s Dr. Ray Guarendi details the fundamentals of Christian psychology in his incomparable down-to-earth style, directing us first to the root of all healthy counseling: the words of the Redeemer.

In some teachings, Jesus Is two millennia ahead of what psychology is only now coming to understand. In other, He directly contradicts what today’s psychology preaches. In these pages, Dr. Ray explores the teachings of both modern psychology and Jesus Christ to identify the therapy tools worth employing – and those we should avoid. Most notable, he helps us understand that every tool and counseling guideline worth pursuing can find its roots directly in the words of Christ.

Jesus knows our minds far more intimately than we do, and He knows the rewards we receive for following the paths He advocates. Dr. Ray’s experience as a father of ten and his mastery of the New Testament enable him to provide recommendations for dealing with numerous daily issues, including:

Ways of transforming your natural qualities into supernatural qualities
Methods for overcoming jealousy and other passions
The rearing (and benefits!) of problem children
What it means – and doesn’t mean – to turn the other cheek
Developing habits that help improve your self-awareness
Means of truly understanding the old adage “know thyself”

Audio Download – Must purchase first to listen to complete audio files.

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How to Get Along with Almost Everybody

Webmaster — Sat, 08 Feb 2025 20:49:47 +0000

YOU’VE GOT TO KNOW WHEN TO HOLD ‘EM AND WHEN TO FOLD ‘EM

Strained or broken relationships are a given in most of our lives. Friends fall away, siblings drift apart, children sever ties with their parents, and despite our best efforts, these painful fissures are difficult to mend.

Best-selling author and clinical psychologist Dr. Ray Guarendi shares practical wisdom and strategies to help you navigate through friction-filled relationships. With heavy humor, Dr. Ray helps you form better ways to talk, think, act, and react to repair and strengthen relationships.

Through Dr. Ray’s down-to-earth style, professional experience, and personal stories, you will discover the key to neutralizing insults and offenses, and changing any relationship for the better. You will also learn:

To avoid three conversation killers
To more accurately read your own motives and those of others
To become a smart listener
To keep your expectations real
To offer (and to receive) criticism
When to speak up and when to shut up

Dr. Ray teaches you to avoid “psychological claptrap,” to respond more calmly to hurtful comments, and to communicate better with difficult people. You will become more easygoing, more forgiving, and less controlled by heated emotions.
Paperback. 149 pages.

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FAMILY FAITH UNDER FIRE – Practical Answers to Everyday Challenges

Webmaster — Sat, 28 Sep 2024 04:25:45 +0000

How to fortify your faith…
without losing your mind

In our toxic culture, it increasingly seems as if raising children in the Faith is a losing battle. Perhaps your spouse wishes you were more “fun” than religious, or your peers challenge you in your beliefs. Concerns related to faith can become touchy topics for today’s believers, especially when questions arise regarding your views on family life or your approach to raising children.

With his rare voice of reason and characteristic humor, popular television and radio host Dr. Ray Guarendi provides you with sound practical and spiritual wisdom and expertise as a clinical psychologist and father of ten. In these engaging pages, Dr. Ray addresses numerous issues, such as:

How can I live my faith better, especially with those closest to me?
What to do when children ask: Why do we have to go to church when Dad doesn’t?
Should adolescents be required to go to Mass if they don’t want to?
What should I do when my adult children aren’t living the Faith?

Dr. Ray lays out ways in which parents can witness to their beliefs, even in broken marriages. He explains how to respond when your children’s faith is threatened at school or by peers who don’t share your beliefs or mindset.

Let Dr. Ray show you how to effectively live your faith and share it convincingly and peacefully with those you love.
Paperback. 163 pages.

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STANDING STRONG – Good Discipline Makes Great Teens

Webmaster — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:18:11 +0000

With wit and wisdom, Dr. Ray Guarendi gives parents the tools they need not only to navigate the teen years but also to enjoy them. Teens are “full of life, enthusiasm, energy, and laughter,” Dr. Ray asserts, in defiance of a culture that conditions us to expect a far gloomier reality. Too often, the world tells parents to be content with mediocrity instead of the prospect of raising respectful and responsible children with strong character.

In a lively question-and-answer format, Dr. Ray unpacks issues ranging from sibling relationships and peer pressure to curfews and chores to overcoming backtalk and teaching your kids to avoid drugs. He equips parents to give their teens a safer, more stable adolescence and help them develop virtues for a lifetime with practical approaches such as:

Three techniques for becoming a calmer parent
Five ways to monitor your child’s use of technology
Four simple house rules that lead to success
A strategy to motivate underachievers

You will also learn key sayings for communicating more effectively with your teens. In addition, you will find out specific ways to cultivate an attitude of gratitude in your kids. Most significantly, you will learn how to help your children treat you with respect, a habit they will then develop in their relationships with others as well. As you grow in becoming a stronger parent with calm, loving resolve, you will learn how to foster quality time with your teens and have real fun together.

This book is wise, perceptive, and laugh-out-loud funny. Dr. Ray uses his trademark humor-with-a-dash-of-sarcasm to give those parents who are barely treading water some good, sound, logical advice to change the tone and tenor of their households for the better.
Paperback. 225 pages.

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Simple Steps to a Stronger Marriage

Webmaster — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 03:19:37 +0000

Marriage expert Dr. Ray Guarendi has learned, through counselling many couples, that the secrets to building a better relationship with your spouse don’t need to include learning exotic new communication techniques or rearranging your lifestyle. In fact, several are so simple that you likely learned them in grade school.

In his lighthearted style, Dr. Ray explains that the secret of a good marriage is applying a handful of commonsense, time-tested ideas practiced by others who have done it well. Each chapter in this book presents a baby step you can take, encouragement to overcome resistance to taking the step, and a fictional couple in dialogue with an anonymous therapist (guess who!)

Simple Steps reminds you that a happier, more rewarding marriage is achievable. You will learn how to make basic changes that will leave “daily discontent” behind and create a positive chain reaction in both your marriage and your family. Dr. Ray even shows how couples on the brink of separation can restore healing and intimacy to their marriage.

With the Doctor’s advice, you will learn:

The importance of developing the habit of saying “I’m sorry” (with apologies to Erich Segal!)

Why silence can truly be golden (and how to really listen!)

How to be polite when you don’t feel like it and how to ask constructive questions

Tips on how husbands can support their wives in parenting (it’s easier than you think!)

How living by the “Just don’t say it” philosophy is a game changer

How “touch says much,” and why affection sometimes chills in a marriage

Moreover, you will see how simple manners can transform your relationship, and you will gain pointers on how to give meaningful praise to your spouse.

Paperback. 145 pages.

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Taught by Ten

Webmaster — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 04:26:03 +0000

Raising ten kids revealed to Dr. Ray Guarendi and his wife, Randi, a lifetime of insightful lessons. Dr. Ray shares his wisdom with clarity and abundant humor, because as any mother or father knows, parenting is too important to be taken too seriously.

With his rich, tenfold experience as a father, Dr. Ray gives guidance that will help you gain confidence in molding and instructing your own children. Through his many absorbing anecdotes, you will learn how to act with calm authority whether with a disrespectful teen or a tantrum-throwing toddler.

Through parenting, Dr. Ray learned to avoid labels and to respect each child’s temperament. He reinforces how with each child you can become a better parent.

You will learn, as he did, to be better able to stand strong in God’s grace and trust in His plan if your children have special needs. You will be moved by stories of children who were affected by serious health issues, substance abuse, and unstable foster-care placement. You will also learn:

Why stronger parents, who act more and lecture less, have smoother family lives
How “the look” is a form of classical conditioning that helps convey authority
The power of affection to show your children your love
To present a united front as parents and not be manipulated by your children
How perseverance and consistency in setting and enforcing expectations pays off
To resolve (and avoid) conflicts, teach respect and manners, and much more

Most strikingly, you will see God’s providence at work in forming your family. You will grow in resolve and wisdom to guide your children when young and give them wings to fly when older.
Paperback. 144 pages.

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LIVING CALM MASTERING ANGER AND FRUSTRATION

Webmaster — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 06:11:53 +0000

(A Re-release of Fighting Mad)

This is the book you need to master your anger so your anger won’t master you. Popular TV host, clinical psychologist, and best-selling author Dr. Ray Guarendi incisively cuts to the heart of the matter to help you determine whether your anger response is justified — and what to do when it isn’t.

Dr. Ray unpacks for you the many types of anger and the types of people who suffer most from anger. For some, anger is a trait; for others, it is a state. Some are “wired fiery,” with an anger that is always simmering or on a low boil, while the anger of others often comes and goes quickly.

You’ll learn why feelings aren’t neutral, and whether anger is a product of your nature or nurture. You’ll also learn the difference between righteous and unrighteous anger — and why those closest to us can anger us the most

Paperback. 160 pages.

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