Book Recommendations

Caring for Your Body

Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom

Christaine Northrup, M.D.

 
 

Children’s Books

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The Color Monster

Anna Llenas

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The Worrysaurus

Rachel Bright

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The Invisible String

Patrice Karst

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A Terrible Thing Happened

Margaret M. Holmes

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Brave As A Mouse

Nicolo Carozzi

 
 

Creativity

Beautiful Oops!

Barney Saltzberg

Bird By Bird

Anne Lamott

Creativity, Inc.

Ed Catmull

The Element

Ken Robinson with Lou Aronica

 
 

Emotional/Spiritual Health

The Mindful Way through Depression

The Mindful Way through Depression

Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and John Kabat-Zinn

The Gifts of Imperfection

Brené Brown, Ph.D., L.M.S.W.

 
 

Enneagram

The Wisdom of the Enneagram

The Wisdom of the Enneagram

John Richard Riso with Russ Hudson

 
 

Food + Mood/Plant based Eating

The Emotional Eater’s Repair Manual

Julie M. Simon

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Your Body in Balance

Neal D. Barnard, MD, FACC

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Whole

T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. with Howard Jacobson, Ph.D.

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Healing Spices

Bharat B. Aggarwai, Ph.D. with Debora Yost

 
 

Grief and Loss

Motherless Daughters

Hope Edelman

Grief Recovery Handbook

John W. James and Russell Friedman

The Loss That Is Forever

Maxine Harris, Ph.D.

 

Highly Sensitive Person

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The Highly Sensitive Person

Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.

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The Highly Sensitive Child

Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.

 
 

Life Coaching/Productivity/Habit Changes

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Atomic Habits

James Clear

 
 

Mindfulness/Meditation/Emotional Regulation

A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook

Bob Stahl, Ph.D., Elisha Goldstein, Ph.D.

The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion

Christopher K. Germer, Ph.D.

Mindfulness for Beginners

Jon Kabat-Zinn

 

Parenting

How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

1-2-3 Magic

Thomas W. Phelan, Ph.D.

The Whole-Brain Child

Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. and Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.

Playful Learning

Mariah Bruehl

The Explosive Child

Ross W. Greene, Ph.D.

Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child

John Gottman, Ph.D.

How Children Succeed

Paul Tough

 
 
 

Recovery/Addiction

The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction

Rebecca E. Williams, Ph.D., Julie S. Craft, MA

The Dual Diagnosis Recovery Sourcebook

Dennis Ortman, Ph.D.

 
 

Relationships/Boundaries

Boundaries

Boundaries

Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend

How to argue so your spouse will listen

How to Argue So Your Spouse Will Listen

Sharon Morris May, Ph.D.

Codependent No More

Codependent No More

Melody Beattie

Love Is A Choice

Dr. Robert Hemfelt, Dr. Frank Minirth, Dr. Paul Meier

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HOld Me Tight

Dr. Sue Johnson

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Created for Connection

Dr. Sue Johnson with Kenneth Sanderfer

 

Spirituality and Neuroscience

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Anatomy of the Soul

Curt Thompson, M.D.

 
 

Trauma Recovery

Trauma and Recovery

Judith Herman, M.D.

The Body Remembers

Babette Rothschild

Waking the Tiger

Peter A. Levine and Ann Frederick

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The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

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What Happened to You?

Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D, Oprah Winfrey

 

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