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Your Pull-Out Toolkit

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Your pull-out toolkit

These are the tools you’ll return to long after the last session. Here’s what each one is for and where to find it — so you can pull any of them out on their own, anytime.

  • GRACE - understand communication gifts, stress responses, blind spots, and what helps each person hear.
  • Mission Portrait - a one-page picture of your core values, vision, and mission.
  • Proper Portions - see what’s really on your plate, and choose your “best yes.”
  • Fillers & Drainers - name what gives each person energy and what depletes it.
  • DREAM Map - dream and plan your shared future together.
  • Grace Place - a simple, grace-filled rhythm for honest conversation; printable front and back.
  • Stretch Team - the trusted people who help protect and encourage your marriage.
  • 1-1-1 Rhythm - 1 Daily Deposit, 1 Weekly Pivot (Grace Place), and 1 Monthly Check-In (Proper Portions); how the study becomes a way of life.