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Marc Jarchow – Author

Marc Jarchow


MommmI’mBored (MiB) | Preteen Bible Lessons
Relational Roots (RR) | Stronger Relationships

Relational Roots
Growing Me, Growing Us

Growing Ourselves. Strengthening Our Relationships.

Healthy relationships begin with understanding ourselves. Our thoughts, feelings, assumptions, and habitual responses influence how we relate to the people around us.

Growing Me, Growing Us is a Christian personal growth journey built around ten themes and seventy guided lessons. Each theme explores an important part of developing self-awareness, emotional maturity, and healthier relationships.

✓ 10 connected themes for personal growth
✓ 70 guided lessons for reflection and practical application
✓ Explore the patterns that shape your relationships
✓ Learn to recognize and understand your responses
✓ Discover how Christian faith can guide personal growth
✓ Reflect honestly on your choices and relationships
✓ Put what you learn into practice
✓ Encouragement from Scripture, reflection, and prayer
✓ Practical steps towards greater maturity and understanding
✓ Designed for a personal journey of ongoing growth

10 themes. 70 lessons. One journey towards stronger relationships.

Begin with Awareness and discover how understanding yourself can help you grow in the way you relate to others.

Explore the Growing Me, Growing Us series.

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Explore the RelationalRoots journey: ten themes and seventy lessons designed to build self-awareness, emotional maturity, and stronger, healthier relationships. Alt Text Watercolor illustration for the RelationalRoots Growing Me, Growing Us series, showing two mature trees with intertwining roots labeled with ten relationship growth themes, including awareness, recognition, understanding, communication, boundaries, forgiveness, trust, connection, resilience, and growth. The image represents a Christian journey toward emotional maturity and stronger relationships.

Here are some sample pages from the resource

Theme 2 - Recognition

Your journey towards stronger relationships begins with understanding yourself.

Inside This Theme

🌱 TRIGGERS — Recognise what triggers you.

👥 IMPACT — Understand how you affect others.

🔄 PATTERNS — Notice repeated reactions.

👁️ PERSPECTIVE — Recognise how experiences shape what you see.

⚖️ RESPONSE — Notice how you react under pressure.

💚 ACCEPTANCE — Face what you discover.

🌱 ACTION — Choose what to do differently.

7 lessons. One step towards healthier relationships.

RelationalRoots Theme 2: Recognition Christian relationship workbook cover featuring two growing plants, intertwined roots, and seven lessons on triggers, impact, patterns, perspective, response, acceptance, and action.
RelationalRoots Theme 2 Recognition table of contents showing seven Christian relationship workbook lessons on triggers, impact, patterns, perspective, response, acceptance, and action.

Lesson 2.1
Notice Your Triggers

Inside every Lesson

  • 📖 Biblical Teaching — Learn from Scripture.

  • 💭 Personal Reflection — Explore your thoughts, feelings, and responses.

  • 🔍 Guided Reflection — Examine your own experiences and patterns.

  • 🌱 Practical Application — Choose a step towards personal growth.

  • 🙏 Prayer and Notes — Reflect, pray, and record your insights.

Two pages. One lesson. An opportunity to grow.

Seven lessons help you develop self-awareness and take practical steps towards healthier relationships.

RelationalRoots Theme 2 Lesson 2.1, Notice Your Triggers, a Christian relationship workbook lesson about recognising emotional triggers and understanding reactions in relationships.
RelationalRoots Theme 2 Lesson 2.1 practical reflection worksheet, helping adults recognise emotional triggers through reflection questions, a trigger-check activity, personal action steps, and prayer.

Theme 2 - Recognition
Completion and Next Steps

Celebrate Your Progress

Completion and Next Steps

🌱 RECOGNISE YOUR GROWTH — Reflect on what you have discovered about yourself and your relationships.

💭 REVISIT YOUR INSIGHTS — Consider how your triggers, patterns, and responses influence your relationships.

🎯 PUT LEARNING INTO PRACTICE — Choose one change you want to make.

❤️ KEEP GROWING — Continue learning to respond with greater understanding, patience, and love.

Seven lessons completed. Your journey continues.

Thank you for taking the time to recognise what you bring into your relationships. Keep reflecting, keep growing, and keep choosing to love others well.

NEXT: THEME 3 — UNDERSTANDING

RelationalRoots Growing Me, Growing Us back cover featuring the complete 10-theme Christian relationship growth series, from Awareness and Recognition to Connection, Resilience, and Growth.