Meet Our Family
We believe in being honest about where we’ve been in communication with our parents, children, friends, or other relationships. Encouraging life, love, and laughter in your family is our goal! We help moms and dads feel like they can have a good relationship with their sons and daughters and to give and receive appreciation and affirmation. We help families start conversations when they don’t know what to say. We want kids to feel valued for who they are and learn how to talk with their friends and even tell a few jokes to bring joy and smiles in their connections with others.
How do you open up your heart for conversations with friends and family, especially when you’ve been hurt or ignored?
We provide resources for all aspects of conversations and relationships. Whether you’re just trying to make a new friend, bring some humor to your life (or others), or deal with some weighty issues, we want you to feel empowered and encouraged from a family who has initiated hard conversations, repaired our family line, and learned to talk with friends even when our hearts hurt. With God’s help, we can bring life, love, and laughter to ourselves and our friendships and relationships!
BLYTHE DANIEL has co-authored Mended: Restoring the Hearts of Mothers and Daughters with her mother, Dr. Helen McIntosh, to give moms and daughters ways to restore or nurture their relationship. They have also written on the topic of affirming the roles of moms and dads in I Love You, Mom! and I Love You, Dad! (also co-authored by William Daniel) to make sure family members know just how important they are!
Blythe loves words, loves to invest in relationships with people she meets for the first time and people close to her. She likes to write about ways to bring help and hope to individuals! She is wife to Art and mom to three teens.
HELEN MCINTOSH, EdD, has a doctorate in Counseling Psychology and enjoys volunteer counseling with families in her community. She holds several degrees in School Counseling (Masters and Specialist) and was an elementary school counselor for twelve years. Helen has authored Messages to Myself and developed The Peace Rug™ to help kids deal with bullying. Her work has appeared in Guideposts, Focus on the Family, and HomeLife magazines. She loves sharing God’s word whether she’s counseling or teaching. She resides in Georgia with her husband Jim. They have two children and five grandchildren.
Helen loves problems (she really does!), helping people restore and repair with their family and friends, and she loves her family fiercely!
CALYN DANIEL, along with her mother Blythe, wants to help teen and tween girls in conversations with friends and developing the right friendships. They have co-authored Let’s Be Friends: A Tween Devotional on Finding and Keeping Strong Friendships.
Calyn enjoys spending time with her friends and family, including older sister, Maris, and her twin brother, William. She is a competitive gymnast, an oboist, and likes to cook. She has included some of her favorite recipes and activities to do with friends in her book. Calyn believes teen girls need to know who they are in Christ, how to navigate friend groups and how to focus on who God has made them to be.
WILLIAM DANIEL enjoys making people laugh. He has come up with over 500 puns, riddles, and knock knock jokes that have brought smiles and high fives from friends and families who have read his books. He believes if kids can share a few jokes, it can help them make friends and ease conversations. He wrote some devotions and all of the jokes in I Love You, Dad!. He is a competitive gymnast and plays three different saxophones and entertains his family with his humor and music.
William loves to bring laughter and levity to situations. He’s also a deep soul who brings wisdom and maturity that God has given him to share in conversations.
Maris Daniel, older sis, and Art Daniel, dad/husband, along with Grandad/Jim complete the family. They read our books, but at this point don’t have a desire to write.
