by Arlene | Apr 7, 2025 | Blog, Podcast, The Latest ...
Listen to the Happy Home Podcast on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Get Arlene’s book, Making Marriage Easier: How to love (and like) your spouse for life Did you grow up listening to Adventures in Odyssey? Focus on the Family’s long...
by Arlene | Feb 24, 2025 | Blog, Podcast, The Latest ...
Listen to the Happy Home Podcast on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Arlene’s book, Making Marriage Easier: How to love (and like) your spouse for life is now available It’s easy to play the blame game in marriage. If only my spouse...
by Arlene | Jul 9, 2024 | Blog, Parenting, The Latest ...
Hi friends!!! What a joy to be back on Focus on the Family today! Tune in to listen to Focus on the Family on the radio or on the podcast today and tomorrow. It’s my joy to be in studio with Focus president Jim Daly and John Fuller. It’s always a blast to...
by Arlene | May 27, 2024 | Podcast, The Latest ...
Listen to the Happy Home Podcast on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. The summer months are moments away – are you excited? Panicked? A combination of both? We’re talking to licensed family therapist Dr. Joannie DeBrito. In this go-to summer...
by Arlene | Oct 30, 2023 | Blog, Podcast, The Latest ...
Listen to the Happy Home Podcast on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Your home may not feel very happy now. Maybe your child or teen is wrestling with anxiety and depression. How do you know if your child is clinically depressed or just having a...
by Arlene | Apr 20, 2021 | Parenting, Podcast, The Latest ...
It’s always a highlight to record with my friends at Focus on the Family! Today and yesterday on the broadcast, Dr. Gary Chapman and I talk about how we can help our kids (and ourselves) manage technology well from our latest book, Screen Kids. You will learn...
by Arlene | Aug 10, 2020 | Marriage, Podcast, The Latest ...
Listen to the Happy Home Podcast on Access More or here: This is one couple’s story. But it probably sounds a lot like yours. Joshua Rogers is here to share his honest account of the first ten years of marriage. It gives us the perspective of a man who went from...
by Arlene | Apr 27, 2020 | Parenting, The Latest ...
Hi friends! Need some help getting just a wee bit of work done while your kids are at home??? I’m talking with my friends Jim Daly and John Fuller at Focus on the Family about how you can balance work + family life especially during this time of lockdown because...
by Arlene | Nov 5, 2019 | Marriage, The Latest ..., Videos
Even during the parenting years, you can build a DREAM marriage! What would a dream marriage look like for your husband? I chat very honestly about my own marriage – and I think it will make you laugh…...
by Arlene | Oct 7, 2019 | Blog, Marriage, The Latest ...
How would you like to be happier as a wife? Let’s begin by going down memory lane. Do you remember how happy you were when your husband proposed? Here’s a photo of James and me the morning he proposed. The year was 1998…and I was the happiest girl...
by Arlene | Jan 7, 2019 | Blog, Parenting, The Latest ...
What a joy today to be featured on one of my favorite radio programs Focus on the Family! Hosts Jim Daly and John Fuller do a stellar job making guests feel at home and bringing helpful information to families every day. We are talking about the ideas in my book...
by Arlene | Aug 13, 2018 | Blog, Parenting, The Latest ...
Could you use some practical parenting advice? Whether your child is currently thriving or struggling, you will find encouragement in today’s episode of Focus on the Family. I am beyond honored to be a broadcast guest today. Talking with Jim Daly and John...
by Arlene | Aug 7, 2018 | Blog, Parenting, The Latest ..., Videos
Years ago, before my first book was every published, I told a dear friend my dream: Someday, I would like to be on Focus on the Family. It seemed like a very far fetched, crazy, pie-in-the-sky dream for sure. How amazing that God has brought this dream to pass and...
by Arlene | May 6, 2016 | Parenting, The Latest ...
What an honor to be a guest on Focus on the Family radio today. If you missed it during your drive time, you can listen here online. Focus president Jim Daly and co-host John Fuller and I always have a good time in studio. They are both hilarious, kind, radio hosts...
by Arlene | Oct 21, 2015 | Parenting, The Latest ...
Inspired by Jim Daly (Focus on the Family) who asked my kids, “Is your mom really a happy mom?” I decided to turn the camera on them to find out. As I write about in Day 22 of 31 Days to Becoming a Happy Mom, “thick skin required” when it comes...
by Arlene | Jul 31, 2015 | Parenting, The Latest ...
This is a special Friday for many reasons. It’s my honor to be a guest on Focus on the Family radio today, talking about finding contentment and happiness as a wife. You can listen here and pump up the joy factor in your marriage today. Last weekend, at the She...
by Arlene | Jun 1, 2015 | Marriage, The Latest ...
What an honor to be a guest on Focus on the Family radio today! I have listened to Focus for years – long before I had any children. I think even before I met Mr. Wonderful himself. Before you have children, building a happy marriage is a lot simpler. After...
by Arlene | Oct 16, 2014 | Parenting, The Latest ...
Today and tomorrow, I am on Focus on the Family with my co-author Dr. Gary Chapman talking about our book, Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World. I hope you will enjoy listening on your car ride or maybe at home. We recorded the...
by Arlene | Aug 21, 2014 | Arlene's Adventures, The Latest ...
For years, I have listened to Focus on the Family. Jim Daly and John Fuller have been trusted voices in my car, headphones, and home. This week, I got to meet them face to face! Who knew that Jim Daly had a giant gumball machine in his office? (I told him, “I...
by Arlene | Jul 24, 2012 | Podcast, The Latest ...
Download the podcast, or listen to it now: http://traffic.libsyn.com/pellicane/John_Fuller_and_a_Focus_on_His_Family.mp3 In San Diego where I live, FamilyLife Today and Focus on the Family air back to back on the radio between noon and 1 pm each weekday. On the last...
by Arlene | Jun 15, 2012 | Podcast
Download the podcast or listen to it now: http://traffic.libsyn.com/pellicane/Dr_David_Clarke_on_Kissing_Magic_Words_and_More.mp3 If there’s one tiny thing you could start doing right now to turn around your marriage, it would be this: kissing. Author of Kiss...
