Seven Desires: Looking Past What Separates Us to Learn What Connects Us

No one had a perfect childhood. This is an excellent book for examining how you were wounded in childhood and how those wounds still impact you today. I would recommend this book to anyone working with people in ministry. It's very helpful in understanding why people react the way they do and how to pursue healing emotional wounds. This will be a book that I reread and give to others. A lot of the examples in the book involve married couples. I'm not married and absolutely love this book. It is a very helpful resource for ministering to people. Emotional and relational difficulties are not exclusive to marriage. This book is an excellent read no matter your stage of life.

Like many marriage books, this one helps you change the only person you have control of... yourself. Does a great job of connecting what our "heart desires" with our motivation and behavior. The premises is laid out in the first chapter on the seven desires proper, then the rest of the book helps you see how these drive behavior in various (mostly unhealthy) ways, then finally some help in re-directing these in healthy ways. The first chapter alone is worth the price, but really pays off if you can track and implement this idea. Thanks Mark and Debbie for a great book.

This book is the foundation to everything you will build your life on. To not read this would be trying to "fix yourself" with out the first step.It has helped me in it only my marriage, with my kids and step daughters, but it has also helped me understand why I do what I do, and I why I need what I need. But most importantly it has helped me to ask for what I REALLY need from others. Before I thought I was expressing myself correctly, but I was only breaking f the surface.I have purchased over 7 copies for other people to read.

There is more impacting, life changing information in the first 42 pages of this book, than in ANY other helpful book I have ever read, other than the Holy Bible. I wish everyone could read this; we'd be a Nation in healing.

Great book, easy read, everybody needs to read this book. Wish I was told about this book to help my marriage years ago.

I have seen, first hand, with my own eyes the result of the work the Laaser's do in the lives of people who's marriages are beyond hope. Their work did not "fix" the couple; it "changed" them.If you are not dealing with marital issues but you still live on planet earth and have to deal with other people this is also a must read. CAUTION: Read this book slowly. Read it when you are fully awake; no TV on to distract you. Read it with a pen and paper at hand to take notes. You will get out of it what you put in.

The Seven Desires of Every Heart is one of the best books I have ever read for puttingwords to the desires of my heart. It not only helped me understand my own desires andwants but it has helped me understand others more. I found a lot of freedom in lookingat the 7 desires and how some of these basic needs were not met for me as a child.I was able to begin to grieve the loss of them in my life and heal. I highly recommendthis book to others. I think it would be best read with at least one other person.

Did not realize it was religious based