BOOKS
Looking for some great reads? We’ve compiled a list of our favorite books offering valuable insights and practical tools. Whether you're a counselor, coach, practitioner, or looking for additional insights on your journey, these books are all chosen to help you on your path to wellness. Dive in and discover new perspectives that can make a real difference! Enjoy.
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The New Menopause - Mary Claire Haver
A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD - Sari Solden, Michelle Frank
Outlive - Peter Attia, Bill Gifford
Forever Strong - Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
Why We Can't Sleep - Ada Calhoun
Hagitude - Sharon Blackie
Women Who Run With the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes -
A River in Darkness: One Man's Escape from North Korea - Masaji Ishikawa
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature - Linda Lear, James Rebanks
Brave: A Personal Story of Healing Childhood Trauma - Janyne McConnaughey PhD
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir - Michelle Zauner
Finding Me: A Memoir - Viola Davis
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood - Gregg Olsen
I'm Glad My Mom Died - Jennette McCurdy, Panayotis Soldatos
Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town - Jon Krakauer
The Stranger on the Bridge: My Journey from Suicidal Despair to Hope - Jonny Benjamin, Britt Pflüger, H.R.H. Duke of Cambridge
Uncultured - Daniella Mestyanek Young
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots - Deborah Feldman
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma - Stephanie Foo -
A Grief Observed - C.S. Lewis
A Just Forgiveness - Everett Worthington
Always Daddy's Girl- H. Norman Wright
Beautiful Outlaw: Experiencing the Playful, Disruptive, Extravagant Personality of Jesus - John Eldredge
Bold Love - Dan B Allender
Boundaries Updated and Expanded Edition: When to Say Yes, How to Say No To Take Control of Your Life - Henry Cloud, John Townsend
Captivating Expanded Edition: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul - John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge
Christian Meditation: Experiencing the Presence of God - James Finley
Christian Mystics - Matthew Fox
Dark Night of the Soul: A Modern Translation (The Modern Saints Series — Fresh and Faithful Christian Classics)- St. John of the Cross, Peter Northcutt
Families Where Grace Is in Place: Building a Home Free of Manipulation, Legalism, and Shame - Jeff VanVonderen
Forgiving What You Can't Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life That’s Beautiful Again - Lysa TerKeurst
How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News- Peter Enns
LION AND LAMB: The Relentless Tenderness of Jesus - Brennan Manning
No Stones: Women Redeemed from Sexual Addiction - Marnie C. Ferree, Mark Laaser
People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil - M. Scott Peck
Permission Granted--Take the Bible into Your Own Hands - Jennifer Bird
Released from Shame: Moving Beyond the Pain of the Past - Sandra Wilson
The Return of the Prodigal Son: A Story of Homecoming - Henri J. M. Nouwen
Sacred Rhythms: Arranging Our Lives for Spiritual Transformation (Transforming Resources) - Ruth Haley Barton
Shame and Grace: Healing the Shame We Don't Deserve- Lewis Smedes
Shattered Dreams: God's Unexpected Path to Joy - Larry Crabb
The Gift of Being Yourself: The Sacred Call to Self-Discovery- David G. Benner, M. Basil Pennington
The Healing Path: How the Hurts in Your Past Can Lead You to a More Abundant Life- Dan Allender
The Importance of Being Foolish: How to Think Like Jesus - Brennan Manning
The Pressure's Off: There's a New Way to Live - Larry Crabb
The Problem of Pain - C.S. Lewis
The Road Less Traveled - M. Scott Peck
The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God - Brent Curtis and John Eldrege
The Search for Significance - Robert McGee
The Soul of Shame: Retelling the Stories We Believe About Ourselves - Curt Thompson
The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse - David Johnson, Jeff VanVonderen
The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe - Richard Rohr, Brian D. Mclaren
The Way of the Heart - Henry Nouwen
To Be Told - Dan Allender
Torn: Trusting God When Life Leaves You in Pieces - Jud Wilhite
Totally Forgiving God - R.T. Kendall
Toxic Churches: Restoration from Spiritual Abuse - Marc Dupont
When Godly People Do Ungodly Things - Bible Study Book: Arming Yourself in the Age of Seduction - Beth Moore
Wild at Heart Expanded Edition: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul - John Eldredge
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Altogether You: Experiencing personal and spiritual transformation with Internal Family Systems therapy - Jenna Riemersma, Dr. Richard Schwartz
Anxiously Attached: Becoming More Secure in Life and Love - Jessica Baum LMHC, Penguin Audio
Boundaries: When to Say YES, When to Say NO, To Take Control of Your Life - Henry Cloud, John Townsend
Breaking Free: A Recovery Workbook for Facing Codependence - Pia Mellody
Changing Course: Healing from Loss, Abandonment and Fear - Claudia Black
Codependent No More - Melody Beattie
Codependent's Guide to the Twelve Steps - Melody Beattie
Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives - Pia Mellody, Andrea Wells Miller, J. Keith Miller
Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren't - Henry Cloud, John Townsend
You're Not Crazy - You're Codependent. - Jeanette Elisabeth Menter -
A Course in Weight Loss - Marianne Williamson
Am I Hungry? - Michelle May
Anti Diet - Christy Harrison
Conquering Eating Disorders: How Family Communication Heals - Sue Cooper and Peggy Norton
Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat - Michelle May
Eating in the Light of the Moon - Anita Johnston
Eating with Fierce Kindness - Sasha T. Loring
Fierce Medicine: Breakthrough Practices to Heal the Body and Ignite the Spirit - Ana T. Forrest
Gentle Nutrition - Rachael Hartley
Health at Every Size - Linda Bacon
Intuitive Eating - Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
It's Not About Food: End Your Obsession with Food and Weight - Carol Emery Normandi and Lauralee Roark
Nourishing Wisdom: A Mind-Body Approach to Nutrition and Well-Being - Marc David
One Bowl: A Guide to Eating for Body and Spirit - Don Gerrard
Self-Love Diet - Michelle Minero
The Body Is Not an Apology - Sonya Renee Taylor
The Diet Myth - Paul Campos
The Mindful Appetite- Susan Albers
Women Food and God - Geneen Roth -
Children of the Self Absorbed - Nina Brown
Family Secrets - The Path from Shame to Healing - John Bradshaw
Pain and Pretending - Rich Buhler
People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil - M. Scott Peck
Stop Taking Care of the Boarderline or Narcissist - Margalis Fjelstad
Stop Walking on Eggshells - Paul T. T. Mason, Randi Kreger
The Choice: Embrace the Possible - Dr. Edith Eva Egar
The Covert Passive-Aggressive Narcissist - Debbie Mirza
The Emotional Incest Syndrome - Patricia Love
The Emotionally Abused Woman - Beverly Engel
The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists: - Eleanor Payson
When He's Married to Mom - Kenneth M. Adams
Why Does He Do That? - Lundy Bancroft -
50 Ways to Sooth Yourself Without Food- Susan Albers
Constructive Wallowing - Tina Gilbertson
Dare to Lead - Brene Brown
Don't Bite the Hook - Pema Chodron
Finding Inner Courage - Mark Nepo
Hope and Help for Your Nerves - Claire Weekes
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
Inner Bonding: Becoming a Loving Adult to your Inner Child - Margaret Paul
Nonviolent Communication - Marshall B. Rosenberg
Permission to Feel - Marc Brackett
The Deepest Well - Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Anxiety - Alexander L. Chapman, Kim L. Gratz, Matthew T. Tull
The Gifts of Imperfection - Brené Brown
The Presence Process: A Journey Into Present Moment Awareness - Michael Brown
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson
What Happened To You? - Bruce D. Perry -
Beyond Boundaries- John Townsend
Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close - Aminatou Sow, Ann Friedman
Contrary to Love - Patrick Carnes
Facing Love Addiction: Giving Yourself the Power to Change the Way You Love - Pia Mellody, Andrea Wells Miller
Facing the Shadows - Patrick Carnes
Flight from Intimacy - Janae B. Weinhold, Barry K. Weinhold
How to Know a Person - David Brooks
Lust, Anger, Love: Understanding Sexual Addiction and the Road to Healthy Intimacy - Maureen Canning
More Together Than Alone - Mark Nepo
Platonic - Marisa G. Franco
Ready to Heal - Kelly McDaniel
Rules of Estrangement - Joshua Coleman
Sex Addicts Anonymous - Sex Addicts Anonymous
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous - The Augustine Fellowship
Sexual Anorexia: Overcoming Sexual Self-Hatred - Patrick J Carnes, Joseph M. Moriarity
Someone Other Than a Mother - Erin S. Lane
The Intimacy Factor - Pia Mellody, Lawrence S. Freundlich
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work - John Gottman, Nan Silver
Women, Sex, and Addiction - Charlotte Davis Kasl
Women Who Love Too Much - Robin Norwood -
A Gentle Path Through the Twelve Steps - Patrick Carnes
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear - Elizabeth Gilbert
Dance of Anger - Harriet Lerner
Dance of Connection - Harriet Lerner
Growing Yourself Back Up - John Lee
Healing the Shame that Binds You - John Bradshaw
Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child - John Bradshaw
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts - Gabor Maté
Many Roads One Journey - Charlotte Davis Kasl
Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions - Russell Brand
Stop Walking on Eggshells - Paul Mason, Randi Kreger
Tell Me More: Stories about the 12 Hardest Things I’m Learning to Say - Kelly Corrigan
The Gifts of Imperfection - Brené Brown -
A Monster Calls - Patrick Ness
Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief - Pauline Boss
Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying - Maggie Callanan, Patricia Kelley
Grief Recovery Handbook- John James, Russell Freeman
It's OK That You're Not OK - Megan Devine
Living with Death and Dying - Elizabeth Kubler Ross
The Grief Club: The Secret to Getting Through All Kinds of Change - Melody Beattie
The Knitting Circle - Ann Hood
The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss - Mary-Frances O'Connor
The Museum of Ordinary People - Mike Gayle
The Year of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion -
Altogether Us - Jenna Riemersma, Dr. Richard Schwartz
Altogether You - Jenna Riemersma, Dr. Richard Schwartz
Journal Back To Self - Tara Hedman
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model - Richard Schwartz PhD
Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy - Susan McConnell
Transcending Trauma - Frank G. Anderson
We All Have Parts - Colleen West
Why Did I Do That? - Dorie Cameron
You Are the One You've Been Waiting For: Applying Internal Family Systems to Intimate Relationships - Richard Schwartz PhD -
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A Mother’s Reckoning - Sue Klebold
At Home in the World- Joyce Maynard
Boy Erased- Gerrard Conley
Broken- Shy Keenan
Coming Clean, A Memoir - Kimberly Rae Miller
Dance of the Dissident Daughter - Sue Monk Kidd
Dear Leader: My Escape from North Korea - Jang Jin-sung
Educated - Tara Westover
In Pieces - Sally Field
Irena’s Children - Tilar Mazzea
Leaving the Witness - Amber Scorah
Left to Tell - Immaculee Ilibagiza, Steve Erwin
Lost Boy - Brent Jeffs, Maia Szalavitz
Love Warrior - Glennon Doyle
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
Mennonite in a Little Black Dress - Rhoda Janzen
Never Broken - Jewel
No Future Without Forgiveness - Desmond Tutu
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy - Sheryl Sandberg, Adam Grant
Parched - Heather King
Pastrix: The Cranky, Beautiful Faith of a Sinner & Saint - Nadia Bolz-Weber
Same Kind of Different as Me - Ron Hall, Denver Moore
The Bassoon King - Rainn Wilson
The Chained Lion: A True Story by "Laura" - Laura
The Craggy Hole in My Heart and the Cat Who Fixed It - Geneen Roth
The Girl with Seven Names - Hyeonsea Lee
The River of Forgetting - Jane Rowan
The Sum of My Parts - Olga Trujillo
The Tricky Part - Martin Moran
The Witness Wore Red - Rebecca Musser
The Woman Who Smashed Codes - Cassandra Campbell
Troublemaker - Leah Remini, Rebecca Paley
Tweak - Nic Sheff
Unchained Memories - Lenore Terr
When the Piano Stops - Catherine McCall -
Abused Boys: The Neglected Victims of Sexual Abuse - Mic Hunter
Beginning to Heal - Ellen Bass, Laura Davis
Daybreak - Maureen Brady
Father-Daughter Incest - Judith Lewis Herman
Healing the Incest Wound - Christine Courtois
How Long Does It Hurt?: A Guide to Recovering from Incest and Sexual Abuse for Teenagers, Their Friends, and Their Families - Cynthia L. Mather, Kristina E. Debye Judy Wood
Invisible Girls: Speaking the Truth about Sexual Abuse - Patti Feuereisen
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free - Linda Kay Klein
Safe Passage to Healing - Chrystine Oksana
Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex) - Nadia Bolz-Weber
Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners - Kenneth Adams
Surviving With Serenity: Daily Meditations for Incest Survivors - T. Thomas
The Color Purple - Alice Walker
The Courage to Heal - Ellen Bass, Laura Davis
The Right to Innocence - Beverly Engel
The Sexual Healing Journey - Wendy Maltz
The Tricky Part: A Boy's Story of Sexual Trespass, a Man's Journey to Forgiveness - Martin Moran
The Wounded Heart - Dan Allender
Trauma and Recovery - Judith L. Herman
When He's Married to Mom - Kenneth Adams -
Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander
Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
A People's History of the United States - Howard Zinn
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption - Bryan Stevenson
How to Be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? - Beverly Daniel Tatum
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story - Nikole Hannah-Jones
Letter from the Birmingham Jail - Jr. Martin Luther King
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Dr. Robin DiAngelo, Michael Eric Dyson
The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas, Amandla Stenberg
12 Years A Slave - Solomon Northrup
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking - Susan Cain
Decolonizing Therapy - Jennifer Mullan
Night - Elie Wiesel
My Grandmother's Hands - Resmaa Menakem -
12 "Christian" Beliefs That Can Drive You Crazy - John Townsend, Henry Cloud
Betrayal: The Crisis In the Catholic Church - Investigative Staff of the Boston Globe
Biblical Womanhood
Broken Trust - F. Remy Diederich
Healing Spiritual Abuse - Ken Blue
How People Grow - Henry Cloud, John Townsend
Jesus and John Wayne - Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Post Traumatic Church Syndrome - Reba Riley
Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free - Linda Kay Klein
Recovery from Cults - Michael Langone
Sinners in the Hands of a Loving God - Brian Zahnd
Soul Repair - Jeff VanVonderen, Dale Ryan, Juanita Ryan
The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse - David Johnson, Jeff VanVonderen
Traumatized by Religious Abuse - Connie Baker
You Are Your Own - Jamie Lee Finch -
Childhood Disrupted - Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation - Suzette Boon, Kathy Steele, Onno van der Hart
Fierce Medicine - Ana Forrest
Healing Your Aloneness: Finding Love and Wholeness Through Your Inner Child - Margaret Paul, Erika J. Chopich
In an Unspoken Voice - Peter Levine
It Didn’t Start with You - Mark Wolynn
The Angel and the Assassin - Donna Jackson Nakazawa
The Betrayal Bond - Patrick Carnes
The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk
The Body Remembers - Babette Rothschild
The Complex PTSD Workbook - Arielle Schwartz
The Divided Mind - John Sarno
Trauma and Addiction - Tian Dayton
Trauma and Memory - Peter Levine
Trauma and Recovery - Judith Herman
Trauma-Proofing Your Kids - Peter A. Levine, Maggie Kline
Traumatic Stress - Bessel Van der Kolk
Waking the Tiger - Peter Levine
What My Bones Know - Stephanie Foo
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