Heidi's Haven

  This book is geared toward women, in any stages of life, to take control of their finances. A mother-daughter team, the authors share two generations of knowledge and covers all of the life stages, from single life, to married life, to widowed life. This is stewardship-focused: everything is God's and we must be responsible stewards of what he's given us. Each chapter features resources for planning and budgeting, as well as tips and journaling questions.  I personally did not feel like this book was very helpful. I wouldn't consider myself super knowledgable about finances, but just about everything in this book is stuff I've heard many times before. I was expecting more, especially as one of the authors is a certified financial planner. The writing felt disorganized and rushed, and very redundant. I did like their tips on how to choose a financial planner, and their information about wills and trusts, but for the most part I don't think I learned anything new fr...

Just like the 5 love languages, we apologize and accept apologies in different ways. I am sure we've all heard an apology we didn't feel was sincere, while the person who apologized feels like they did everything they could. This book explores the different ways we apologize and helps the reader find their own apology language. The goal is to help us strengthen relationships in our lives and opens the door to forgiveness and reconciliation.  These 5 languages are: Expressing Regret, Accepting Responsibility, Making Restitution, Planned Change, and Requesting Forgiveness. In some situations, more than one language must be used, and it's different for each person. This book helps the reader understand their own apology language and the apology languages of others. The authors describe in detail how you can apologize in each language. You will learn how to apologize, how to forgive, and how to ask for forgiveness. They also reassure us that to cause offense is human, it is not...