BOOKS

 

Personal Growth

• Tiny Beautiful Things - Cheryl Strayed

• Wild - Cheryl Strayed

• Love Warrior - Glennon Doyle

• Untamed - Glennon Doyle 

• Big Magic - Elizabeth Gilbert

• Eat, Pray, Love - Elizabeth Gilbert

• The Gifts of Imperfection - Brene Brown

• Daring Greatly - Brene Brown

• Rising Strong - Brene Brown

• Braving the Wilderness - Brene Brown

• The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

• 13 Things Mentally Strong People Don't Do - Amy Morin

• The Way of Zen - Alan Watts

• Stop Self Sabotage - Judy Ho

• Living Like You Mean It: Using the Wisdom and Power of Your Emotions to Get the Life You Really Want - Ronald J. Frederick

• Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself - Kristen Neff

• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone - Lori Gottlieb

• Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha - Tara Brach

• Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN - Tara Brach

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Relationships 

• The Five Love Languages - Gary Chapman

• Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love - John & Julie Gottman

• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work - John Gottman

• The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples - John Gottman

• The State of Affairs - Esther Perel

• Mating in Captivity - Esther Perel

• Getting the Love You Want - Harville Hendrix

• Keeping the Love You Find - Harville Hendrix 

• The ZimZum of Love: A New Way of Understanding Marriage - Rob & Kristen Bell

• After the Affair - Janis Spring, Ph.D with Michael Spring

• Not "Just Friends": Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity - Shirley P. Glass, Ph.D with Jean Coppock Staeheli

• Insecure in Love - Leslie Becker-Phelps

• The High Conflict Couple: A Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy, & Validation - Alan E. Fruzzetti

• Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy - Jessica Fern

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Mental Health

• Codependent No More - Melody Beattie

• The Language of Letting Go - Melody Beattie

• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits - James Clear

• Real Boys - William Pollack & Mary Pipher

• Quarter Life Crisis - Alexandra Robbins and Abby Wilner

• Permission to Feel - Marc Brackett

• Burnout: The Secret to Solving the Stress Cycle - Amelia Nagoski & Emily Nagoski

• Manic: A Memoir - Terri Cheney

• The Mindfulness Workbook for OCD: A Guide to Overcoming Obsessions and Compulsions Using Mindfulness and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy - Jon Hershfield & Tom Corboy

• Man Who Couldn't Stop: OCD and the True Story of a Life Lost in Thought - David Adam

• Needing to Know for Sure: A CBT-Based Guide to Overcoming Compulsive Checking and Reassurance Seeking - Martin N. Seif PhD & Sally M. Winston PsyD

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Anxiety

• Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It - Ethan Kross

• Nervous Energy: Harness the Power of Your Anxiety - Chloe Carmichael

• Untangle Your Anxiety: A Guide To Overcoming An Anxiety Disorder By Two People Who Have Been Through It - Joshua Fletcher and Dean Stott

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ADHD

• Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention-Deficit Disorder - Gabor Mate

• Little-Known Secrets of ADHD: The Surprising Upside You Haven’t Been Told - Rachel Knight

• ADHD 2.0: New Science and Essential Strategies for Thriving with Distraction - from Childhood through Adulthood - Edward M. Hallowell & John J. Ratey

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Borderline Personality Disorder

• I Hate You, Don't Leave Me - Jerold Kreisman and Hal Strauss

• Sometimes I Act Crazy: Living With Borderline Personality Disorder - Jerold Kreisman

• The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating - Keira Van Gelder

• The Borderline Personality Disorder Survival Guide - Alex L. Chapman

• The Way She Feels: My Life on the Borderline in Pictures and Pieces - Courtney Cook

• This is Not the End: Conversations on Borderline Personality Disorder - Tabitha Martin

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PTSD/Trauma

• The Body Keeps Score - Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model - Richard Schwartz

• What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing - Bruce D. Perry

• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents - Lindsay C. Gibson

• My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - Resmaa Menakem

• Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-Based Stress and Trauma - Gail Parker Ph.D.

• The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture - Gabor Maté MD with Daniel Maté

• Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance - Kelly McDaniel

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Chronic Illness/Pain

• How to Live Well with Chronic Pain & Illness: A Mindful Guide - Tonie Bernhard

• Do One Thing Every Day That Centers You: A Mindfulness Journal - Robie Rogge & Dian Smith

• Start Where You Are: A Journal for Self-exploration - Meera Lee Patel

• The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook - Kristen Neff & Christopher Germer

• When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection - Gabor Mate

 

Grief

• Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Albon

• It’s OK That You’re Not OK - Megan Devine

• You Can Heal Your Life - Louse Hay 

• Finding Meaning: The Sixth Stage of Grief - David Kessler

• When Breath Becomes Air - Paul Kalanithi

• The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise - Martin Prechtel

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Spirituality

• You Can Heal Your Life - Louise Hay

• Heal Your Body: The Mental Causes for Physical Illness and the Metaphysical Way to Overcome Them - Louise Hay

• Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe - Laura Lynne Jackson

• The Light Between Us: Stories From Heaven. Lessons for the Living - Laura Lynne Jackson

• Talking to Heaven: A Medium's Message of Life After Death - James Van Praagh

• So You Want to be a Medium: A Down to Earth Guide - Rose Vanden Eynden

• Astrology for the 21st Century - David Cochrane

• Messages From Spirit: The Extraordinary Power of Oracles, Omens, and Signs - Colette Baron-Reid

• Essential Oils for Beginners: A Guide to What They Are & How to Use Them - Kac Young PhD

• The Book of Chakra Healing - Liz Simpson

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Pet Grief Support

• The Rainbow Bridge - Support group in honor of our kitties and pups that have gone before us

 

Child Loss

• The Compassionate Friends - Support following the loss of a child

• MISSFoundation - Loss of any age child

• Silent Grief - Loss through miscarriage or later loss

 

Retirement Age Loss

• AARP - Grief, Loss and End of Life

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Anticipatory Grief or Death and Dying

• BeRemembered

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Substance

• Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget - Sarah Hepola 

• The Sober Diaries - Clare Pooley

• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction - Gabor Mate

• Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol - Holly Whitaker

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Body Image/Disordered Eating

• Life Without Ed - Jenni Schaefer

• Biting Anorexia: A Firsthand Account of an Internal War - Lucy Howard Tayler

• The Good Eater: The True Story of One Man's Struggle with Binge Eating Disorder - Ron Saxon

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Postpartum

• Postpartum Planning, Doula, & Mentor
  Elissa Gibbs email - hello@elissagibbs.com
  www.elissagibbs.com

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Parenting

• Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Matter More Than Peers - Gordan Neufield and Gabor Mate

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Coping Skills for Kids

• Tai Chi for Kids: Move with the Animals - Stuart Alve Olson

• B is for Breathe: The ABCs of Coping with Fussy and Frustrating Feelings - Dr. Melissa Munro Boyd

• Coping Skills for Kids Workbook: Over 75 Coping Strategies to Help Kids Deal with Stress, Anxiety and Anger - Janine Halloran

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LGBTQIA+

• LGBTQ+ Substance Use and Mental Health Resources

• Tristan Martin - PhD, LMFT in Manlius

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Sexual Health

• Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life - Emily Nagoski 

 

Divorce/Separation

• Divorce Poison: How to protect your family from Bad-mouthing and Brainwashing  - Dr Richard A. Warshak

• Joint Custody with a Jerk - Julie A. Ross & Judy Corcoran

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Military

• TAPS - Serving friends and family of those who die in Military service

• Society of Military Widows - Military widows support and education

 

Suicide Survivors

• American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

• Suicide Loss Toolkit​

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Psychiatry Resources

• Upstate Medical University - Outpatient Psychiatric Care

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YouTube Links:

• Lessons from the Mental Hospital with Glennon Doyle

• Glennon Doyle Melton: First the Pain, Then the Rising

• Where Should We Begin - Esther Perel

• IFS Meditation Playlist

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Podcasts:

• Brene Brown - Untamed with Glennon Doyle

• Dear Sugars - Radically Empathic Advice

• Brene Brown - Burnout

• We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle

• When East Meets West with Dr. Nikki Rubin & Dr. Peter Economou

• Where Should We Begin with Esther Perel

• Back from the Borderline