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Expand Your Mind with These Recommended Books

Resources for a calmer mind

Parenting

  • Good Inside – Becky Kennedy
  • How To Talk So Kids Will Listen, and Listen So Kids Will Talk – Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish (any age)
  • The Think Space – Calvin and Carolyn Richert (early childhood)
  • Try and Make Me! – Ray Levy, Bill O’Hanlon, & Tyler Norris Goode (2-12)
  • Parenting Teens With Love and Logic – Foster Cline and Jim Fay
  • Parenting from the Inside Out – Daniel J Siegel, MD, &  Mary Hartzell, MEd
  • 1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12 – Thomas W Phelan PhD
  • Take Back Your Kids- Confident Parenting in Turbulent Times – William J Doherty
  • The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind – Daniel J Siegel, MD
  • The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children -Ross W. Greene, Ph.D.

Marriage/Relationships

  • Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love – Dr Sue Johnson
  • Love Sense- Dr Sue Johnson
  • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work – John Gottman
  • Anything else by John Gottman
  • Love Busters – Willard Harley
  • Fighting for Your Marriage – Howard Markman, Scott Stanley, and Susan Blumberg
  • Take Back Your Marriage: Sticking Together in a World That Pulls Us Apart – Dr William Doherty
  • The Great Marriage Tune-Up Book: A Proven Program for Evaluating and Renewing Your Relationship – Jeffrey H. Larson
  • The 5 Love Languages – Gary Chapman
  • The New Rules of Marriage: What you Need to Know to Make Love Work – Terrence Real

Mental Health

  • The Power of Focusing: A practical guide to emotional self healting– Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD
  • The Last Self Help Book You’ll Ever Need – Paul Pearsal
  • The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom: Why the Meaningful Life is Closer Than You Think – Jonathan Haidt
  • Spontaneous Happiness – Andrew Weil, MD
  • The NOW effect: How this moment can change the rest of your life -Elisha Goldstein, PhD
  • Radical Acceptance: Embracing your life with the heart of a Buddha– Tara Brach, PhD

  • Sacred Stress: A Radically Different Approach to Using Life’s Challenges for Positive Change- George Faller and Heather Wright

  • You Can Heal Your Life – Louise Hay

Trauma

  • The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel Van Der Kolk

  • 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery: Take-Charge Strategies to Empower Your Healing (8 Keys to Mental Health)- Babette Rothschild MSW LCSW

  • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma – Peter Levine with Ann Frederick

  • In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness- Peter Levine

  • Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parent’s Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy, and Resilience – Peter Levine and Maggie Kline
  • Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary miracle of Healing – Peter Levine and Maggie Kline

  • Scared Sick: The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Disease- Robin Karr-Morse and Meredith Wiley

  • Freedom from Pain: Guided Practices to Overcome Pain -Peter Levine and Maggie Phillips 

  • Crash Course: A Self-Healing Guide to Auto Accident Trauma and Recovery – Diane Poole Heller and Laurence Heller

  • Building Resilience to Trauma – Elaine Miller-Karas

Anger

  • Beyond Anger: A guide for Men – Thomas Harbin
  • The Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships – Orbach and Lerner
  • Anger: How to Live With it and Without it – Albert Ellis
  • Love Without Hurt: Turn Your Resentful, Angry, or Emotionally Abusive Relationship Into a Compassionate, Loving Relationship – Steven Stosny

Inspiring Quotes for Your Journey

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

Socrates

"When you grow up, you’re told the world is the way it is and your existence is just to live in this world without bashing into the walls too much…to have a nice family life…and to gather up a little money. But life is much broader. And it changes when you realize that everything in life you interact with is created by people that are no smarter than you. The most important moment in a person’s life is when you shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you’re just going to live it. You can change it and make your mark on it. And once you learn that, you’ll never be the same again."

Steve Jobs

"Wellbeing can be learned, but it requires practice. There is no substitute for practice."

Richard Davidson (neuroscience)