Recommended Reading

Over the years, I’ve benefited from numerous books and products. Those listed below are ones that I recommend as I’ve used them myself and/or recommended them to clients with excellent results.

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Codependency and Boundaries

• Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
• Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
• Where to Draw the Line by Anne Katherine
• The Disease to Please by Harriet Braiker
• Adult Children of Alcoholics by Janet Woititz
• Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics by Herbert Gravitz and Julie Bowden

Dysfunctional Families

• Toxic Parents by Susan Forward
• If You Had Controlling Parents by Dan Neurharth
• Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect by Jonice Webb
• The Emotionally Absent Mother by Jasmin Lee Cori

Relationships

• Who’s Pulling Your Strings by Harriet Braiker
• The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How it Can Help You Find and Keep Love by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
• After the Affair by Janis Abrahms Spring

Parenting

• The Whole Brain Child by Daniel Siegel
• Get Out of My Life, But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? by Anthony Wolf
• Yes, Your Teen is Crazy! by Michael Bradley

Depression/Anxiety/Mental Health

• Feeling Good by David Burns
• Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman
• 8 Keys to Mental Health through Exercise by Christina Hibbert
• DARE: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks by Barry McDonagh

For Women

• Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood
• Why Does He Do That? By Lundy Bancroft
• The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
• The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner
• Perfect Daughters by Robert Ackerman

For Men

• I Don’t Want to Talk about It by Terrence Real
• Silent Sons by Robert Ackerman

Trauma and Healing

• Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
• The Body Keeps Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
• You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay
• Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine

Self-worth/Happiness/Other

• The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
• Daring Greatly  by Brene Brown
• Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff
• Forgive for Good by Fred Luskin
• The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
• Emotional Freedom by Judith Orloff
• The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron
• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Grief/Perinatal Loss

• Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby by Deborah Davis
• Bearing the Unbearable by Joanne Cacciatore