Resources

GRIEF

• Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Love and Dying by Ram Dass and Mirabai Bush

• It's Okay That You're Not Okay:  Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand by Megan Devine

• How to Survive the Loss of a Love by Peter McWilliams, Harold H. Bloomfield, Melba Colgrove

• Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser​

• F*** Death: An Honest Guide to Getting through Grief without the Condolences, Sympathy, and Other BS by Steve Case

• I wasn't Ready To Say Goodbye: Surviving, Coping and Healing After the Sudden Death of a Loved One by  Brook Noel and Pamela D Blair

• The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller

RELATIONSHIPS

• Why Won't You Apologize?: Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts by Harriet Lerner

• The Let Them Theory by Mel Robbins

• Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) by Eve Rodsky

• Radical Forgiveness: A Revolutionary Five-Stage Process to: Heal Relationships, Let Go of Anger and Blame, and Find Peace in Any Situation by Colin Tipping

• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

• "Don't You Know Who I Am?": How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility by Ramani S. Durvasula Ph.D 

• Boundaries Updated and Expanded Edition: When to Say Yes, How to Say No To Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud and John Townsend

• Lost Connections by Johann Hari

• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert by John Gottman PhD and Nan Silver

• The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts by Gary Chapman

• All About Love by Bell Hooks

• Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder by Paul T. T. Mason MS and Randi Kreger

• Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brene Brown

• The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown

• ​The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships by Patrick Carnes

• Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie

• Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections by Emily Nagoski PhD

• Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them by Karl Pillemer Ph.D.

TRAUMA

• Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

• The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Mate

• I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

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

• What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry

• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard Schwartz

• Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child by John Bradshaw

• Healing the Shame That Binds You by John Bradshaw

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

• ​What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

• It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn

PARENTING

• The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read: (And Your Children Will Be Glad That You Did) by Phillipa Perry

• No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel Siegel

• Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential--and Endangered by Bruce D Perry and Maia Szalavitz

• Self-Parenting: The Complete Guide to Your Inner Conversations by John K Pollard

• The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness by Jonathan Haidt

• The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel M.D. and Tina Payne Bryson

• The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children by Dr. Shefali Tsabary

• Easy to Love, Difficult to Discipline: The 7 Basic Skills for Turning Conflict into Cooperation by Becky A Bailey

• Managing Emotional Mayhem: The Five Steps for Self-Regulation by Becky A Bailey

• Good Inside: A Practical Guide to Resilient Parenting Prioritizing Connection Over Correction by Becky Kennedy

• How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 by Joanna Faber

• The Battle: A mother's guide to conquer anxiety, depression and self doubt by Laura Mausolf

PERSONALITY

• Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche by Robert A Johnson

• It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People by Ramani Durvasula PhD

• I Hate You--Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality by Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus

• Why Is It Always About You? : The Seven Deadly Sins of Narcissism by Sandy Hotchkiss

• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C Gibson

• The Enneagram Made Easy: Discover the 9 Types of People by Elizabeth Wagele and Renee Baron

PSYCHIATRY

• Brain Energy: A Revolutionary Breakthrough in Understanding Mental Health--and Improving Treatment for Anxiety, Depression, OCD, PTSD, and More by Christopher M Palmer

• Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to A Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success: A Longevity Book by Shawn Stevenson

• The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions by Jonathan Rosen

• The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind by Barbara Lipska

• I Am Not Sick, I Don't Need Help! How to Help Someone Accept Treatment by Xavier Amador

• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing by Bruce D Perry and Maia Szalavitz

• Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

• Determined: A Science of Life without Free Will by Robert M Sapolsky

• The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality by Amanda Montell

• Mount Misery by Samuel Shem

• Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir by Ellen Forney

• The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness by Elyn R. Saks

• Disconnected Kids: The Groundbreaking Brain Balance Program for Children with Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Neurological Disorders by Robert Melillo

• Sometimes Amazing Things Happen:  Heartbreak and Hope on the Bellevue Hospital Psychiatric Prison Ward by Elizabeth Ford

• Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Gabor Mate

• An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield Jamison 

• Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters by Charan Ranganath

SUBSTANCE USE

• The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency by Melody Beattie

• The Weight of Air: A Story of the Lies about Addiction and the Truth about Recovery by David Poses

• Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari

• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Mate

• Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One by Joe Dispenza

• Beautiful Boy: A Heartbreaking Memoir of a Father's Struggle with His Son's Addiction and the Journey to Recovery by David Sheff

• Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke

EATING DISORDERS

• Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling by Anita Johnston

• Bones: Anorexia, OCD, and Me by Jen Dixon

• Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Kristin Neff

• Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders by Jennifer L. Gaudiani

• Slip: Life in the Middle of Eating Disorder Recovery by Mallory Tenore Tarpley

• Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch

• I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki: Conversations with My Psychiatrist by Baek Sehee

• The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor 

• 8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder: Effective Strategies from Therapeutic Practice and Personal Experience by Carolyn Costin and Gwen Schubert Grabb

ANXIETY

• Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach

• Stop Letting Everything Affect You: How to break free from overthinking, emotional chaos, and self-sabotage by Daniel Chidiac

• Affect Regulation Toolbox: Practical and Effective Hypnotic Interventions for the Over-Reactive Client by Carolyn Daitch

• The Imp of the Mind: Exploring the Silent Epidemic of Obsessive Bad Thoughts by Lee Baer

• Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering by Joseph Nguyen

• Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks by Reid Wilson

• Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig

• Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques to Relieve Stress, Stop Negative Spirals, Declutter Your Mind, and Focus on the Present by Nick Trenton

• We Were Made for These Times: Ten Lessons for Moving Through Change, Loss, and Disruption by Kara Jewel Lingo

• I Didn't Do the Thing Today: Letting Go of Productivity Guilt by Madeleine Dore 

PSYCHOTHERAPY

• On Becoming A Person: A Therapist's View on Psychotherapy, Humanistic Psychology, and the Path to Personal Growth by Carl R Rogers

• The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self by Martha Beck

• Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig

• ​Learned Hopefulness: The Power of Positivity to Overcome Depression by Dan Tomasulo

• Good Morning, Monster by Catherine Gildiner

• Healing Your Emotional Self: A Powerful Program to Help You Raise Your Self-Esteem, Quiet Your Inner Critic, and Overcome Your Shame by Beverly Engel

• Freud and Beyond by Steven A Mitchell

• Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb

• The Modern Trophy Wife: How To Achieve Your Life Goals While Thriving at Home by Dion Metzger and Ayo Gathing

• Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance by Rosie Molinary

• The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients by Irvin Yalom

• Schopenhauer's Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas by Deborah Luepnitz 

• End of the Hour: A Therapist's Memoir by Meghan Riordan Jarvis

SPIRITUALITY

• Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

• The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

• Metahuman: Unleashing Your Infinite Potential by Deepak Chopra

• Synchrodestiny: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence to Create Miracles by Deepak Chopra

• Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday by Thich Nhat Hanh 

• The Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie

• Many Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives by Brian L Weiss

• Human Design: Discover the Person You Were Born to Be by Chetan Parkyn 

• The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A Singer

• Ho'oponopono: The Hawaiian Ritual of Forgiveness by Ulrich E. Duprée 

• The Wild Why: Stories and Teachings to Uncover Your Wonder by Laura Munson 

• Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estés 

CHILDREN'S BOOKS

• The Invisible String by Patrice Karst

• The Way I Feel by Janan Cain

• My Magical Feelings –Teach Kids to Name and Tame Big Feelings and Emotions by Becky Cummings

• Mop Rides the Waves of Life: A Story of Mindfulness and Surfing by Jaimal Yogis 

• Stand Tall, Molly Lou Melon by Patty Lovell

• Ninja Life Hacks Emotions and Feelings 8 Book Box Set (Books 1-8: Angry, Inventor, Positive, Lazy, Helpful, Earth, Grumpy, Kind) by Mary Nhin

• What Do You Do With an Idea? by Kobi Yamada 

• What Should Danny Do? by Adir and Ganit Levy 

• A Little SPOT of Emotion 8 Book Box Set (Books 1-8: Anger, Anxiety, Peaceful, Happiness, Sadness, Confidence, Love, & Scribble Emotion) by Diane Alber

• It's Okay To Be Different by Todd Parr

• Grumpy Monkey by Suzanne Lang

WORKBOOKS

• How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery by Nicole LePera

• The Set Boundaries Workbook: Practical Exercises for Understanding Your Needs and Setting Healthy Limits by Nedra Glover Tawwab 

• Growth Mindset Workbook for Kids: 55 Fun Activities to Think Creatively, Solve Problems, and Love Learning for Ages 8-12 by Peyton Curley 

• The Whole-Brain Child Workbook: Practical Exercises, Worksheets and Activities to Nurture Developing Minds by Daniel J Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson 

• Self-Love Workbook for Women: Release Self-Doubt, Build Self-Compassion, and Embrace Who You Are by Megan Logan

• The Radical Acceptance Workbook: Transform Your Life & Free Your Mind with the Healing Power of Self-Love & Compassion by Ava Walters

• The Self-Esteem Workbook by Glenn R. Schiraldi

• The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook: A Proven Way to Accept Yourself, Build Inner Strength, and Thrive by Kristin Neff and Christopher Germer

• The Teens' Workbook to Self Regulate: Empowering Teenagers to Handle Emotions with Success through Coping Strategies and CBT Exercises by Richard Bass

• What to Do When You Worry Too Much: A Kid's Guide to Overcoming Anxiety by Dawn Heubner

• The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress Tolerance by Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood and Jeffrey Brantley 

• The Internal Family Systems Workbook: A Guide to Discover Your Self and Heal Your Parts by Richard Schwartz

• All Parts Are Welcome: A Dissociative Living Journal by Nicole Black

• The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

• Retrain Your Brain: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in 7 Weeks: A Workbook for Managing Depression and Anxiety by Seth J. Gillihan