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Recommended Reading

I want to share my collection of books with you. I have gathered these over the years in both my personal and professional life. I have included books that clients have recommended and shared with me over the years as well. I guess you could say this recommended reading section is a collective effort between myself and clients I have supported! I hope you find some of these readings useful in your own journey. Happy Reading!

Topics

Addiction
By Gabor Mate – In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close encounters with Addiction
The Wisdom to Know the Difference: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Workbook for Overcoming Substance Abuse
Anxiety and Depression
Loving Someone with Anxiety: Understanding and Helping Your Partner
The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
Eating
The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a healthy Relationship with Food
Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat for Binge Eating: A Mindful Eating Program for Healing Your Relationship with Food and Your Body
Family Dynamics
Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers Paperback – Sept. 8 2009
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents Lindsay C Gibson
“Don’t You Know Who I am?”: How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitelment, and Incivility Ramani Durvasula
Should I Stay or Should I Go: Surviving A Relationship with a Narcissist by Ramani Durvasula
Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship Christine Ann Lawson
Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder
Gaslighting & Narcissistic Abuse Recovery: Recover from Emotional Abuse, Recognize Narcissists & Manipulators and Break Free Once and for All
Grief and Loss
Love Your Life To Death – Jan 01/2015
Grief one Day at a Time: 365 meditations to Help You heal After Loss – April 18/2016
Infidelity
After the Affair, Third Edition: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful
I Love You But I Don’t Trust You: The Complete Guide to Restoring Trust in Your Relationship
NOT “Just Friends”: Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity
The 5 Love languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts Gary Chapman
LGBTQ+
Coming Out, Coming Home: Helping Families Adjust to a Gay or Lesbian Child Paperback
Families in Transition: Parenting Gender Diverse Children, Adolescents, and Young Adults
Heather Has Two Mommies
Unconditional: A Guide to Loving and Supporting Your LGBTQ Child: (Book for Parents of Gay Child, Transgender, Coming Out, and readers of Always My Child)
Transitions of the Heart: Stories of Love, Struggle and Acceptance by Mothers of Transgender and Gender Variant Children 2012
Masculinity
I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
To Be a Man: A Guide to True Masculine Power
Tough Guise II: Violence, Manhood & American Culture (film)
Film
Mindfulness
A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook: 2nd Edition
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
The Untethered Soul Guided Journal: Practices to Journey Beyond Yourself
Relationships
Attached: Are you Anxious, Avoidant or Secure How the Science of Adult Attachment can help you find – and keep – Love
Boundaries Updated and Expanded Edition: When to Say Yes, How to Say No, To Take Control of Your Life
Questions for Couples: 469 Thought-Provoking Conversation Starters for Connecting, Building Trust, and Rekindling Intimacy Marcus and Ashley Kusi
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert John M Gottman
Mating In Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence Esther Perel
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love Dr Sue Johnson
The State of Affairs: Rethinking infidelity Esther Perel
Trauma
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the healing of Trauma Bessel van der Kolk
The Journey from Abandonment to Healing: Revised and Updated: Surviving Through and Recovering from the Five Stages That Accompany the Loss of Love Susan Anderson
When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection Gabor Mate M.D.
Taming Your Outer Child: Overcoming Self-Sabotage and Healing from Abandonment By Susan Anderson
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle Paperback – Illustrated
Loving someone with PTSD: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Connecting with Your Partner after Trauma
Wellness and Resilience
Self-Esteem: A Proven Program of Cognitive Techniques for Assessing, Improving, and Maintaining Your Self-Esteem
Synergize Your Health: The 6 Elements for Greater Vitality and Joy
Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism
Workbooks
The CBT Toolbox, Second Edition: 185 Tools to Manage Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Behaviors and stress – May 20/2021
Mind Over Mood, Second Edition: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think – October 15/2015
The Self-Esteem Workbook: 2nd Edition – Nov 01/2016
The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Anxiety: A step-by-step Program – Nov 01/2014
The Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills Workbook for Anxiety: Breaking Free from Worry, Panic, PTSD, and Other Anxiety Symptoms – Nov 03/2011
The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole – Jan 10/2017
Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression: A step-by-step Program – May 01/2012
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook – May 01/2020
Transforming Grief and Loss Workbook: Activities, Exercises & Skills to Coach Your Client Through Life Transitions | Dec 15/2016