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David Hawkins

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bio-hawkins Dr. David Hawkins, MBA, MSW, MA, PhD, is a Christian Clinical Psychologist who has helped bring healing to thousands of marriages and individuals since he began his work in 1976.   Dr. Hawkins is passionate about working with couples in crisis and offering them ways of healing their wounds and finding their way back to being passionately in love with each other. For the past ten years, Dr. Hawkins has become a leader in the field of treatment for narcissism and emotional abuse within relationships.  He has developed several programs for treatment of men dealing with these issues and the women who love them. Dr. Hawkins is also a speaker & trainer for the American Association of Christian Counselors and writes for Crosswalk.com, CBN.org and Believe.com. He is a weekly guest on Moody Radio and Faith Radio and is a best-selling author of over thirty books. He has two grown sons, is happily married to Christie Hawkins, and lives on Bainbridge Island, outside Seattle, WA. ▸  See David's books ▸  See David's Marriage Medic
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Surviving Divorce by Learning to Grieve

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At the top of Mount Bachelor the gnarled trees huddled together against the bitter cold. I had ridden this particular chairlift on many ski trips, but on this day I…
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The Problem Is Not Really the Problem

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Tammy walked into my office defeated. The way she walked, slowly, deliberately, and practically dragging her purse, suggested a weariness I’d seen in her before. “Another fight?” I asked as…
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Safety Before Intimacy

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 The gentleman sitting before me was utterly demoralized, his face ashen with his long, graying hair falling into his face. Don looked down before he spoke. “I came here as…
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Narcissistic Men and The Women Who Love Them

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By the time you read this article you may already be in deep. You may have already committed or perhaps been married to a narcissistic man. It happens to a…
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Death by a Thousand Cuts in Marriage

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 There are many times when it is not the major traumas in life that kill a marriage, but rather what has been labeled as “creeping normalcy”—a way of interacting that…
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Living With a Passive-Aggressive Man

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Staying Clear, Calm and Connected   “He really makes me angry,” Kate said to me during a recent counseling session. She had been preparing to ask her husband to join…
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Breaking the Complaining Trap

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I argued with a client today at The Marriage Recovery Center. Betsy, a forty-two year old mother of three, had come for a two day Personal Intensive, hoping she could…
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7 Ways to Save Your Marriage

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Your mate tells you they don’t love you anymore, asking for time to “find” themselves. Maybe you’ve just traced the clues to the tragedy that your mate has been having…
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Fuzzy Lens Relationships

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Looking at your attitude…
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Recognizing a State of Emergency

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Most people know when their marriage is in trouble..
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