Recommended Readings

Addiction and Recovery:

• Patrick Carnes -  A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps

• Anne M. Fletchm - Sober for Good

Anger:

• Thomas J. Harbin -  Beyond Anger: A Guide for Men

• Harriet Lerner - The Dance of Anger: A Women’s Guide

Anxiety:

• Edmund J. Bourne -  The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook

Bipolar Disorder:

• Kay Redfield Jamison -  An Unquiet Mind

The Brain:

• Daniel G. Amen -  Change your Brain, Change your Life

• Daniel J. Siegel -  The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

Communication:

• Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends & Influence People

• Marshall B. Rosenberg -  Non-violent communication: A Language of Life

Couples, Relationships, Intimacy Issues:

• Harville Hendrix -  Getting the Love you Want: A Guide for Couples

• Harriet G. Lerner - The Dance of Intimacy

• Stephen A. Mitchell -  Can Love Last?:  The Fate of Romance Over Time

• Daphne Rose Kingma - Coming Apart: Why Relationships End & How to Live Through

• David M. Schnarch -  Passionate Marriage:  Love, Sex & Intimacy in Emotionally Committed Relationships

Death and Dying:

• Elizabeth Kubler-Ross -  On Death and Dying

• Irvin D. Yalom -  Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death

Depression:

• Wayne Katon, E. Ludman, G. Simon -  The Depression Helpbook

• Thomas Marra -  Depressed and Anxious

• Andrew Solomon -  The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression

Eating Disorder:

• Lindsey Hall & Leigh Cohn -   Bulimia: A Guide to Recovery

• Sylvia Haskvitz -  Eat by Choice Not by Habit: Practical Skills for Creating a Healthy Relationship with your Body And Food

• Geneen Roth -  When Food is Love

• Green Roth -  Feeding the Hungry Heart

Parenting:

• Claudia Black – Straight Talk

• Jean I. Clarke -  How Much is Enough?

• Adele Faber - How to Talk so Kids will Listen & Listen so Kids will Talk

• Mary Pipher – Reviving Ophelia:  Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls

• Daniel J. Siegel -  Parenting from the Inside Out

• Ron Taffel – Parenting by Heart:  How to Stay Connected to Your Child in a Disconnected World

Personal Growth:

• Viktor E. Frankl -  A Man’s Search for Meaning

• Alice Miller – The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

• Nancy J. Napier – Recreating Your Self:  Building Self Esteem

Sexual Abuse:

• Ellen Bass & Laura Davis - The courage to Heal

• Laura Davis - The Courage to Heal Workbook

Somatic Abolitionism 

• Resmaa Menakem- My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

• Resmaa Menakem- The Quaking of America

Trauma & Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD):

• Judith L. Herman - Trauma and Recovery

• Peter A. Levine -  Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

• Peter Levine & Maggie Kline – Trauma-Proofing your Child

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