BOOKS WE LOVE

The causes of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder range from severe neglect to monstrous abuse. This book is a practical guide to recovering from lingering childhood trauma. It is a comprehensive self-help guide for working through the toxic legacy of the past and for achieving a rich and fulfilling life.

Trauma is a fact of life. Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, uses scientific advances to show how trauma reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity.

Diagnostic self-inventories provide a way to uncover the fears and anxieties conveyed through everyday words, behaviors, and physical symptoms. Techniques for developing a genogram or extended family tree create a map of experiences going back through the generations. Visualization, active imagination, and direct dialogue create pathways to reconnection, integration, and reclaiming life and health.

Psychologist Dr. Seth Gillihan developed a 7-week plan that teaches you practical CBT techniques to help you feel better. Each activity described builds on the previous week’s lesson. Great for chronic or sporadic anxiety.

This book features 40 practical CBT techniques that focus on understanding and overcoming negative thoughts and emotions to defeat various forms of anxiety (i.e., chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety, and phobias).

Depression can feel like a downward spiral, pulling you into a vortex of sadness, fatigue, and apathy. Neuroscientist Alex Korb demystifies the intricate brain processes that cause depression and offers a practical and effective approach to getting better. This book provides dozens of straightforward tips you can do every day to rewire your brain and create an upward spiral towards a happier, healthier life.

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross first identified the stages of dying. Decades later, she and David Kessler introduced the stages of grief. Now, based on personal experiences, as well as knowledge gained through decades of work with the grieving, Kessler introduces a critical sixth stage: meaning.

Many who have suffered loss feel judged, dismissed, and misunderstood by a culture that wants to “solve” grief. Through stories, research, life tips, and creative and mindfulness-based practices, Megan offers a unique guide through an experience we all must face―in our personal lives, in the lives of those we love, and in the wider world.

Discover the transformative power of healing and hope with this compassionate guide for those navigating the challenging journey of grief and loss. Whether you've experienced the recent passing of a family member, friend, or even a pet, this book offers solace and guidance to help you navigate your unique grieving process.

A bestselling classic on communication between parents and children includes fresh insights and suggestions, as well as the author’s time-tested methods to solve common problems and build foundations for lasting relationships.

Highlighting the fascinating link between a child’s neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior, No-Drama Discipline provides an effective, compassionate road map for dealing with tantrums, tensions, and tears—without causing a scene.

Offering perspective-shifting parenting principles and troubleshooting for specific scenarios—including sibling rivalry, separation anxiety, tantrums, and more—Good Inside is a comprehensive resource for a generation of parents looking for a new way to raise their kids while still setting them up for a lifetime of self-regulation, confidence, and resilience.

Falling in love is easy. Staying in love—that’s the challenge. How can you keep your relationship fresh and growing amid the demands, conflicts, and just plain boredom of everyday life? This book is as practical as it is insightful. Updated to reflect the complexities of relationships today, this new edition reveals intrinsic truths and applies relevant, actionable wisdom in ways that work. Includes the Love Language assessment so you can discover your love language and that of your loved one.

Straightforward yet profound, these principles teach partners new approaches for resolving conflicts, creating new common ground, and achieving greater levels of intimacy. Gottman offers strategies and resources to help couples collaborate more effectively to resolve any problem, whether dealing with issues related to sex, money, religion, work, family, or anything else.

Infidelity is the ultimate betrayal. But does it have to be? Relationship therapist Esther Perel examines why people cheat, and unpacks why affairs are so traumatic; because they threaten our emotional security. In infidelity, she sees something unexpected - an expression of longing and loss. A must-read for anyone who has ever cheated or been cheated on, or who simply wants a new framework for understanding relationships.

Is someone else’s problem your problem? If, like so many others, you’ve lost sight of your own life in the drama of tending to a loved one’s self-destructive behavior, you may be codependent—and you may find yourself in this book. Includes personal reflections, exercises, and instructive stories drawn from Beattie’s own life and the lives of those she’s counseled. This book helps you break old patterns to maintain healthy boundaries and offers a clear and achievable path to healing, hope, freedom, and happiness.

Does your life feel like it's out of control? Perhaps you feel like you have to say yes to everyone's requests. Maybe you find yourself readily taking responsibility for others' feelings and problems. Or perhaps you focus so much on being loving and unselfish that you've forgotten your own limits and limitations. Or maybe it's all of the above. Learn when to say yes and know how to say no in order to take control of your life and set healthy boundaries with your spouse, children, friends, parents, co-workers, and even yourself.

Have you ever felt stuck in a cycle of unresolved pain, playing offenses over and over in your mind? You know you can't go on like this, but you don't know what to do next. Discover how to let go of bound-up resentment and overcome the resistance to forgiving people who aren’t willing to make things right.

The leading parent resource about ADHD and its treatment has been updated with the latest information, including health risks; causes of the disorder; current facts on medications; sibling issues; advice for parents who might have ADHD themselves; practical tools, and more.

There is a great deal of literature about children with ADHD, but what do you do if you’re an adult with ADHD? This indispensable reference focuses on the experiences of adults, offering updated information, practical how-tos, and moral support to help readers deal with ADHD.

If you’re struggling to stay on top of your to-do list, you probably have a good reason: anxiety, fatigue, depression, ADHD, or lack of support. Therapist KC Davis had a life-changing realization that restored her sanity—and the functionality of her home: You don’t work for your home; your home works for you.

Fat isn't the problem. Dieting is the problem. A society that rejects anyone whose body shape or size doesn't match an impossible ideal is the problem. A medical establishment that equates "thin" with "healthy" is the problem.

The solution? Tune in to your body's expert guidance. Find joy in movement. Eat what you want, when you want, choosing pleasurable foods that help you to feel good. You too can feel great in your body.

Sleep is vital to your child’s health, growth, and development. The fifth edition of this book gives parents a step-by-step regimen for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child’s natural sleep cycles—proven strategies to ensure healthy, high-quality sleep for children at every age.

We have all experienced the connection between our mind and our gut—the decision we made because it “felt right”; the butterflies in our stomach before a big meeting; the anxious stomach rumbling when we’re stressed out. While the dialogue between the gut and the brain has been recognized by ancient healing traditions, including Ayurvedic and Chinese medicine, Western medicine has failed to appreciate the complexity of how the brain, gut, and more recently, the microbiome—the microorganisms that live inside us—communicate with one another. This book offers a revolutionary look at this developing science, teaching us how to harness the power of the mind-gut connection to take charge of our health.

This beloved classic presents a principle-centered approach for solving both personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and practical anecdotes, Stephen R. Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity—principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.

If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.

Dale Carnegie’s rock-solid, time-tested advice has carried countless people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives. One of the most groundbreaking and timeless bestsellers of all time, How to Win Friends & Influence People will teach you:

-Six ways to make people like you
-Twelve ways to win people to your way of thinking
-Nine ways to change people without arousing resentment

And much more! Achieve your maximum potential—a must-read.