Book Recommendations
Caring for Your Body
Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom
Christaine Northrup, M.D.
Children’s Books
The Color Monster
Anna Llenas
The Worrysaurus
Rachel Bright
The Invisible String
Patrice Karst
A Terrible Thing Happened
Margaret M. Holmes
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
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
John Richard Riso with Russ Hudson
Food + Mood/Plant based Eating
The Emotional Eater’s Repair Manual
Julie M. Simon
Your Body in Balance
Neal D. Barnard, MD, FACC
Whole
T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. with Howard Jacobson, Ph.D.
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
The Highly Sensitive Person
Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.
The Highly Sensitive Child
Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.
Life Coaching/Productivity/Habit Changes
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
Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend
How to Argue So Your Spouse Will Listen
Sharon Morris May, Ph.D.
Codependent No More
Melody Beattie
Love Is A Choice
Dr. Robert Hemfelt, Dr. Frank Minirth, Dr. Paul Meier
HOld Me Tight
Dr. Sue Johnson
Created for Connection
Dr. Sue Johnson with Kenneth Sanderfer
Spirituality and Neuroscience
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
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
What Happened to You?
Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D, Oprah Winfrey
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