Interested in just ONE of Karla’s great audios? Then browse the list below until you find the one just right for you.Each audio file is a downloadable product in mp3 file format.Within a few minutes after payment, you can start listening and learning how to take biblical and practical steps toward healing in your life and relationships.

1. Understand Difficult Marriages This audio provides an overview on the types and dynamics of difficult marriages, as well as an introduction to the study.

2. Change Yourself, Not Him This audio gives ideas on how to take the focus off changing your husband and put it onto changing yourself. It also includes a testimonial on this Principle.

3. Understand Scriptural Truths This audio examines common misconceptions about biblical love, submission, rights, respect, gentleness, perseverance, forgiveness, keeping the peace, suffering, and turning the other cheek.

4. Detach with Love This audio explains detachment in detail scripturally and relationally from the perspective of living your life and letting your husband live his life. It also includes a testimonial on this Principle.

5. Nurture Yourself This audio includes a teaching on how to balance your needs with the needs of others. It suggests ideas on how you can take care of your emotional, physical, spiritual, and mental needs. It also includes a testimonial on this Principle.

6. Face Your Fears This audio describes specific fears women in difficult marriages deal with and how to face those fears so you can move forward. It also includes a testimonial on this Principle.

7. Speak the Truth in Love This audio includes a teaching on 22 hindrances to speaking the truth in love which will help you overcome common obstacles and misconceptions that prevent you from communicating your truth effectively to your husband. It also includes Karla’s testimonial on this Principle.

8. Set Boundaries This audio examines common Christian misconceptions about boundaries and presents a step-by-step process for setting boundaries in a difficult marriage. It also includes a testimonial on this Principle.

9. Prioritize Your Children This audio offers 44 practical ideas on prioritizing your children in a difficult marriage as well as ideas to deal with the dysfunctional dynamics between your husband and yourself that affect childrearing. It also includes a testimonial on this Principle.

10. Enter God’s Rest This audio offers practical ideas for how to enter God’s rest that include ways to let go and surrender what cannot be changed.

1. Understand Difficult Relationships This audio examines the types and characteristics of difficult relationships and gives examples of dysfunctional relationships in the Bible.

2. Understand Scriptural Truths This audio examines what the Bible says about difficult relationships and corrects common misconceptions about biblical love, submission, a gentle and quiet spirit, suffering for good, rights, respect, and confrontation.

3. Change Yourself, Not Them This audio provides ideas for taking the focus off changing your difficult person and putting it onto changing yourself. It also includes a testimonial on this Principle.

4. Detach with Love This audio explains how to live your life while allowing difficult people the dignity to live their lives. It allows you to treat them with kindness and compassion while detaching from anger, moods, threats, arguments, blame, and crises. It also includes a testimonial on this Principle.

5. Nurture Yourself This audio offers suggestions on how to take care of yourself emotionally, physically, mentally, and spiritually along with guidelines for how to determine whether to put your own or someone else’s needs first. It also includes a testimonial on this Principle.

6. Face Your Fears This audio explores how interpersonal and intrapersonal anxiety results in reactivity in dysfunctional relationships and how to recognize patterns of underreacting and overreacting. It also includes a testimonial on this Principle.

7. Speak the Truth in Love This audio includes a teaching on 22 hindrances to speaking the truth in love which will help you overcome common obstacles and misconceptions that prevent you from communicating your truth effectively. It also includes a testimonial on this Principle.

8. Offer Forgiveness This audio explains what forgiveness is and is not. It will help you apply forgiveness in your difficult relationships resulting in healing and freedom. It also includes a testimonial on this Principle.

9. Set Boundaries This audio explains common Christian misconceptions about boundaries, people’s varying responses to boundaries, and how to set boundaries in a difficult relationship. It also includes a testimonial on this Principle.

10. Enter God’s Rest This audio teaches you how to enter God’s rest in practical ways and to let go, accept what can’t be changed, and surrender your difficult relationship to God. It includes a testimonial on this Principle.

Audio 1 – What is Your Self-Image?: This audio includes a teaching on the different aspects of self-image including self-worth, self-esteem, and self-confidence. It also looks at how your thoughts directly affect your self-image with suggestions on how to change your thoughts.

Audio 2 – Restoring Damaged Images: This audio looks at the damaged images we carry from childhood and adult relationship wounds and how to let go of them and replace them with the truth about who we are and were. It includes a teaching on the influence of fathers on their daughter’s self-images and toxic church and societal beliefs about women.

Audio 3 – Resisting Projected Images: This audio looks at the projected images we carry from the projections other people put onto us that originate within themselves including their feelings, thoughts, conflicts, perceptions, impulses, judgments, insecurities and weaknesses. It provides suggestions with how to protect your self-image from these lies and distortions.

Audio 4 – Rejecting Reflected Images: This audio looks at the reflected images that originate from societal standards, church stereotypes, and perfectionist personal standards. It gives suggestions on how to change your body image and self-image through a nine-step process.

Audio 5 – Erasing Stained Images: This audio looks at the stained images we carry that consist of past failures related to things we did or didn’t do. It helps you to gain a better perspective and let go of the weight of the past. It includes a teaching on perfectionism including how perfectionism manifests in your life and relationships and how to let it go.

Audio 6 – Unmasking False Images: This audio looks at the false images we portray that prevent us from being vulnerable and honest with each other. It includes a teaching on the defense mechanisms people use to cover up their shame with suggestions on how to take off the masks.

Audio 7 – Finding Your Real Image: This audio gives teaching on personality types, discovering your gifts and talents, and embracing your strengths and weaknesses. It helps you to know who God created you to be so you can accept yourself as perfectly and wonderfully made.

Audio 8 – Maintaining Your Real Image: This audio looks at how you can maintain your real image in the midst of the inaccurate images and ideals you will continue to encounter in relationships, church, society, and the media.

Audio 9 – Protecting the Self-Images of Others: This audio teaches you how to interact with children and adults in a way that encourages, accepts, and values them to protect their self-images. It also provides suggestions on how to discipline children in a way that builds their self-esteem.

Audio 1: Step One is about admitting powerlessness over your own life and the lives of others and recognizing how unmanageable your life is. This audio will help you understand how admitting powerlessness is absolutely necessary for any change to take place.

Audio 2: Step Two takes you from hopelessness to hopefulness by trusting God to restore you to a sane way of living. This audio will help you focus on your faith in God as the reason for your hopefulness and to identify what “sanity” will look like in your life.

Audio 3: Step Three involves turning your self-will and life over to God’s care. This audio explores what “surrender” is and how you can do it.

Audio 4: Steps Four and Five involve taking a moral inventory of your life and then sharing it with God and another person. This audio provides specific instructions on how to take a self-inventory the way the original founders of Alcoholics Anonymous suggested, in addition to other ways.

Audio 5: Steps Six and Seven focus on letting go of your character defects with the help of God. This audio provides a teaching on how you can change habits and behaviors through a detailed step-by-step process.

Audio 6: Steps Eight and Nine focus on healing through making amends. This audio explains how to make indirect, direct, and living amends to the people in your life you have harmed.

Audio 7: Step Ten involves making a commitment to examine yourself on a daily basis and admit your wrongs promptly. This audio identifies the things that keep you from looking honestly at yourself and offers suggestions to help you continue to see yourself truthfully.

Audio 8: Step Eleven involves making a commitment to continually work on improving your relationship with God. This audio explores how to find God’s will for your life.

Audio 9: Step Twelve involves recognizing the healing that has taken place in your life as a result of the Twelve Steps and becoming willing to share your experience, strength and hope with others. This audio reviews the principles in the Twelve Steps that you can share with others and continue to practice in your life and relationships.

Audio 1: 12 Characteristics of Healthy Relationships Relationships are complicated and all have their difficulties. It is important to understand the components of healthy relationships because it helps you assess how you are doing in yours and also to get additional insight into difficulties you may be having. It also allows you to set goals for improving areas that are weak. This audio provides Scriptures for each characteristic and practical ideas for how each is applied in a healthy relationship.

Audio 2: Turning Disappointment into God’s Appointment We expect many things from God: health, healing, physical provision, happiness, absence of struggles, and God’s specific direction in our decisions. When we don’t get these things, we become disappointed with God. This audio engages in a candid discussion of what the Bible says about each of these areas. It includes an analysis of what God’s will is for us and the misconceptions we have with hearing God’s voice that can cause us to misunderstand his direction and become discouraged. Find out how you can turn your disappointment into his appointment.

Audio 3: Nine Keys to Successful Marital Conflict Resolution Conflict in a marriage is inevitable, but in order for it not to be harmful, we need to deal with it in a way that makes it a force for good instead of a force for bad. The audio, “Nine Keys to Successful Marital Conflict Resolution,” will enable you to do exactly that. Here are the keys: Keep your eyes on the goal, Overlook the little things, Confront the big things, Look inward first and outward second, It’s not right vs. wrong—it’s getting mutual understanding, Have a game plan, Give it a light touch, Agree to disagree, and Keep short accounts. Find out how you can apply these nine keys to make your marital conflict resolution successful.

Audio 4: Loving Yourself Well Most of us don’t do well with loving ourselves. We are experts at taking care of others’ needs and ignoring our own needs. We are also experts at berating ourselves, comparing ourselves, judging ourselves, and condemning ourselves. We offer grace to others but not to ourselves. We push ourselves hard and don’t give ourselves permission to rest and renew. We never feel we have done enough and we never feel that we are enough. This audio will give you scriptural permission to take good care of yourself by analyzing the misconceptions that prevent you from doing it and showing you how to value, accept, nurture and forgive yourself so you can love yourself well.

Audio 5: It’s Time for a Changed Relationship and Let it Begin with Me We want a lot of things from our relationships and when we don’t get them, we try to change the other person. If you want a changed relationship, you need to focus on yourself. This audio gives you 15 things you can do to bring radical transformation to your relationships—even though the other people don’t change themselves at all. This audio corresponds with the 15-Day Relationship Challenge offered free for subscribers to the e-devotionals.

Audio 6: Reconciliation: Doing Your Part to Be at Peace with Others God desires that each of us do our part to be at peace in our relationships. Reconciliation involves us going to other people when we have harmed them and when they have harmed us. It requires us to speak our truth which isn’t easy, especially if our relationships are difficult. Speaking the truth requires you to first know your truth and then speak your truth. This audio gives you biblical and practical ideas on how to know and speak your truth. It also includes ideas for speaking truth to difficult people in challenging relationships.

Audio 1: 10 Principles to Transform Difficult Relationships This 110-minute audio offers insight into the types of difficult relationships people deal with and the various dynamics. It gives an overview of the 10 Relationship-Changing Principles that offer people biblical and practical ways of responding to the problems. It also corrects common scriptural misunderstandings that cause people to respond in ways that keep them stuck and make the situation worse.

Audio 2: Ministering to Women in Difficult Marriages This 50-minute audio gives an overview of the types of difficult marriages, the dynamics of difficult marriages, and scriptural misunderstandings from the standpoint of a Christian woman in a difficult marriage. It also gives specific examples from women in difficult marriages of things that are commonly said by those that minister to them that cause greater misunderstanding and pain.

How Affairs Affect Children Affairs are between a husband and wife but the children are also affected. In this one-hour interview, Karla Downing talks about how children are affected at different ages and how the parents can deal with the affair in a way that minimizes its impact on the children including whether or not children need to be told about the affair.

Understanding Emotional Affairs Emotional affairs are all too common. In this one-hour interview, Karla Downing explains how to recognize an emotional affair, how to prevent an emotional affair, and how to deal with an emotional affair. You can use this information to affair-proof your marriage, deal with your spouse’s affair, or to heal your heart after an affair.

Healing from Affairs Is it really possible to heal from an affair? Yes it is, but there are some obstacles that have to be overcome first. Learn how to deal with these dilemmas: What do you do with the memories? How many details about the affair do you really need to know? How do you rebuild trust? How do you move on from the affair to tackle the relationship problems that need to be addressed? What do you do when your spouse is stuck and unable to move past the pain? This audio will address these issues along with others that will enable you to heal from the affair and move beyond the pain and brokenness.

Understanding and Dealing with Pornography and Sexual Addictions This one-hour interview of Karla Downing focuses on understanding and dealing with sex and pornography addictions. You will learn what determines whether someone is addicted to pornography and sex, how it affects a marriage, whether women can also be addicted to pornography and sex, and how the addiction needs to be confronted and dealt with.

Acceptance: The Key to Contentment Energy spent trying to change the things we cannot change is wasted. Acceptance of people, the past, and the circumstances beyond our control frees us to change the things we can, move deeper in our walk with God and others, maximize our potential, and enter God’s rest where we find the ultimate contentment.

From Ruins to Restoration: A Personal Journey Through Difficult Relationships This audio explains how Karla’s journey from childhood to marriage to parenthood has been one of disappointment and pain in difficult relationships. Yet, God in his faithful fulfilling of his purpose for her has restored the ruins to bring glory to his name and hope and healing to others.

Heart to Heart with God This audio explains how our relationship with God is affected by our relationship with our earthly fathers, our personalities, our expectations, and our experiences with the Church. Participants will understand how each of these factors affect their knowledge and experience of God.

Heart to Heart with Each Other Colossians 3:12-14 tells us to clothe ourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, patience, tolerance, forgiveness, and love. This audio examines what each of these mean and how to put them into practice in our relationships.

Raising Competent and Confident Kids This audio offers parents fourteen scripturally-based principles that will enable parents to accomplish the ultimate goal of parenting which is to raise competent and confident children who become competent and confident adults who love God.

All You Want to Know about Men and Commitment This audio explores the subject of men and commitment by answering the following questions: Why do men find it difficult to commit? What makes a man more likely and less likely to commit to you? How long should you invest in a relationship without getting a commitment? How can you recognize men who are commitment-phobic? Do men and women get different things from love? How can you change your pattern of attracting men who aren’t looking for a serious relationship?

What the Bible Says About Divorce: It’s Not What You Think Kim Johnson was a pastor’s wife for 21 years when her husband left her for their church secretary. Divorced with two teenage daughters, she worked to heal the wounds in herself and her children. Kim leads the divorce recovery ministry at Friends Church Yorba Linda. Kim has searched the Scriptures over her years of working with hurting divorced Christians and has a perspective that you will find answers many of the questions you have had about divorce.