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Karen Ehman is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and Proverbs 31 Ministries writer known for her work on relationships, faith, and personal growth. She has written several books on living intentionally and authentically, and her teachings often focus on balancing compassion with self-respect.
Known for: Keep Showing Up: How to Stay Crazy in Love When Your Love Drives You Crazy, When Making Others Happy Is Making You Miserable: How to Break the Pattern of People Pleasing and Confidently Live Your Life
Books by Karen Ehman
Keep Showing Up: How to Stay Crazy in Love When Your Love Drives You Crazy
In this book, Karen Ehman offers practical and faith-based guidance for maintaining commitment and compassion in marriage, even through difficult seasons. Drawing from personal experience and biblical...
When Making Others Happy Is Making You Miserable: How to Break the Pattern of People Pleasing and Confidently Live Your Life
In this empowering guide, Karen Ehman explores the emotional and spiritual toll of people-pleasing and offers practical strategies to set healthy boundaries, say no without guilt, and live authentical...
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Understanding Expectations
One of the greatest challenges in marriage is what we carry into it—expectations formed from movies, friends, family, or even our own dreams. We imagine that our spouse will complete us, intuitively understand us, and agree with us on everything from how to fold towels to how to raise children. But ...
From Keep Showing Up: How to Stay Crazy in Love When Your Love Drives You Crazy
Communication with Grace
Words can restore or ruin, lift up or tear down. I’ve learned that how we speak to each other in marriage often determines the tone of the entire relationship. Grace-filled communication means listening before responding, choosing kindness over correction, and speaking truth with humility. There wa...
From Keep Showing Up: How to Stay Crazy in Love When Your Love Drives You Crazy
Recognizing the Roots of People-Pleasing
For so many of us, people-pleasing starts as something that seems noble. We want harmony, we crave acceptance, and we fear the sting of rejection. I know this well—I grew up believing that being ‘nice’ was nearly the same as being good, that saying yes was evidence of love, and that denying my own n...
From When Making Others Happy Is Making You Miserable: How to Break the Pattern of People Pleasing and Confidently Live Your Life
When Helping Becomes Hurting
There’s a difference between loving others and losing yourself to their demands. Often, people-pleasers like us find it hard to identify where that line sits. We confuse enabling with serving. We overcommit, not because we’re capable of doing everything, but because we’re terrified of disappointing ...
From When Making Others Happy Is Making You Miserable: How to Break the Pattern of People Pleasing and Confidently Live Your Life
About Karen Ehman
Karen Ehman is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and Proverbs 31 Ministries writer known for her work on relationships, faith, and personal growth. She has written several books on living intentionally and authentically, and her teachings often focus on balancing compassion with self-res...
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Karen Ehman is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and Proverbs 31 Ministries writer known for her work on relationships, faith, and personal growth. She has written several books on living intentionally and authentically, and her teachings often focus on balancing compassion with self-res...
Karen Ehman is a New York Times bestselling author, speaker, and Proverbs 31 Ministries writer known for her work on relationships, faith, and personal growth. She has written several books on living intentionally and authentically, and her teachings often focus on balancing compassion with self-respect.
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