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books to read in conjunction to therapy
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items therapy is incredible, but you have to put in the WORK to see change. if you're a reader, here are some books that might help you on whatever journey you're on. you got this. <3
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trauma
relationships
childhood
vulnerability
growth
mental disorders
trauma
books related to trauma
Revolutionary book that will help you understand how intergenerational trauma manifests physically
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of ...
Powerful, enlightening, and hopeful, What My Bones Know is a brave narrative that reckons with the hold of the past over the present, the mind over the body—and examines one woman's ability to reclaim agency from her trauma.
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at...
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts that make you who you are.
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the ...
When Jonathan Foiles was a graduate student in social work, he had to choose between a mental health or policy focus. But once he began working, he found it impossible to tell the two apart. While working with poor patients from the South and West si...
This City Is Killing Me: Community Trauma
Embrace your innate power and find growth from trauma with this essential guide filled with groundbreaking solutions and strategies for your healing journey. Amid collective trauma, it helps to know that our bodies are built to respond to stress and ...
The Modern Trauma Toolkit: Nurture Your Post-Traumatic Growth with ...
relationships
books related to relationships
Melody Beattie’s compassionate and insightful look into codependency—the concept of losing oneself in the name of helping another—has guided millions of readers toward the understanding that they are powerless to change anyone but themselves and that...
Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring ...
In this groundbreaking bestseller, Lundy Bancroft—a counselor who specializes in working with abusive men—uses his knowledge about how abusers think to help women recognize when they are being controlled or devalued, and to find ways to get free of a...
Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
A lively, data-driven guide to finding your people from psychologist Dr. Marisa G. Franco about the (sometimes surprising) science behind making friends, maintaining them, and building connections of ALL sorts in an era of social fragmentation and ra...
Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make ...
childhood
books related to childhood and parenting styles
Discover the four types of difficult parents: The emotional parent instills feelings of instability and anxiety The driven parent stays busy trying to perfect everything and everyone The passive parent avoids dealing with anything upsetting The rejec...
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents - Barnes & Noble
A heartbreaking and hilarious memoir by iCarly and Sam & Cat star Jennette McCurdy about her struggles as a former child actor—including eating disorders, addiction, and a complicated relationship with her overbearing mother—and how she retook co...
I'm Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy, Hardcover
Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains—but in the lives of our parents, grand...
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes ...
This powerful self-help book will change the way you see your past and transform the way you live now. Do you struggle to find happiness in yourself or in your relationships? Do you have issues with your physical or mental health such as fatigue, anx...
Its Not Your Fault: Why Childhood Trauma Shapes You and How to ...
In this Sunday Times bestseller, leading psychotherapist Philippa Perry reveals the vital do's and don'ts of relationships. This is a book for us all. Whether you are interested in understanding how your upbringing has shaped you, looking to handle y...
The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read: (And Your Children Will Be ...
vulnerability
books related to vulnerability
In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the la...
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the ...
"True belonging doesn't require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are." Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives--experiences of courage, vulne...
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to ...
Mindfulness, kindness, and positivity can take us far. But they cannot take us all the way. Sometimes, they can even hold us back. Emotions like anger, anxiety, or doubt might be uncomfortable, but it turns out that they are also incredibly useful. K...
The Power of Negative Emotion: Anger, Guilt...
growth
books related to growth
By melding love, science, and religion into a primer on personal growth, M. Scott Peck launched his highly successful writing and lecturing career with this book. Even to this day, Peck remains at the forefront of spiritual psychology as a result of ...
The Road Less Traveled, Timeless Edition: A New Psychology of Love ...
The groundbreaking book that redefines what it means to be smart, with a new introduction by the author. Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel G...
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ - Barnes & Noble
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Based on his own experience and the stories of his patients, Frankl argues that we cannot...
Man's Search for Meaning
End the struggle, speak up for what you need, and experience the freedom of being truly yourself. Healthy boundaries. We all know we should have them–in order to achieve work/life balance, cope with toxic people, and enjoy rewarding relationships wit...
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself|Hardcover
mental disorders
books related to general mental disorders
Fractured Minds introduces the reader to clinical neuropsychology through vivid case descriptions of adults who have suffered brain damage. At one level, this is a book about the courage, humor, and determination to triumph over illness and disabilit...
Fractured Minds: A Case-Study Approach to Clinical ...
Is madness purely a medical condition that can be treated with drugs? Is there really a clear dividing line between mental health and mental illness - or is it not so easy to classify who is sane and who is insane? In Madness Explained leading clinic...
Madness Explained: Psychosis and Human Nature - Barnes & Noble
The good news is that anxiety, guilt, pessimism, procrastination, low self-esteem, and other "black holes" of depression can be cured without drugs. In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D., outlines the remarkable, scientifically ...
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy|Paperback - Barnes & Noble
Stop Walking on Eggshells: Coping When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder is a self-help guide that helps the family members and friends of individuals with borderline personality disorder (BPD) understand this self-destructiv...
Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You ...
He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treating the drug addicts of Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside with sympathy in his heart and legislative reform in mind can't be easy. But Maté never...
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
It is now one hundred years since drugs were first banned in the United States. On the eve of this centenary, journalist Johann Hari set off on an epic three-year, thirty-thousand-mile journey into the war on drugs. What he found is that more and mor...
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
Psychopathology is a complicated subject, and Symptoms in the Mind has become one of the standard texts in the field both in Europe and Worldwide The new edition continues to provide a concise and comprehensive introduction to descriptive psychopatho...
Sims' Symptoms in the Mind: Textbook of Descriptive Psychopathology
grief/loss
books related to grief/loss
The beautiful practicality of her teaching has made Pema Chödrön one of the most beloved of contemporary American spiritual authors among Buddhists and non-Buddhists alike. A collection of talks she gave between 1987 and 1994, the book is a treasury ...
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Written with love, humility, and faith, this brief but poignant volume was first published in 1961 and concerns the death of C. S. Lewis's wife, the American-born poet Joy Davidman. In her introduction to this new edition, Madeleine L'Engle writes: "...
A Grief Observed by C. S. Lewis, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
A grief book that tells you it's ok to not be ok and will never say "it all happens for a reason" When you lose a loved one, you're going to feel that loss, hard. And healing through your grief can be the start of a long journey, especially when ever...
Hardcore Grief Recovery: Honest Guide
'An act of consummate literary bravery, a writer known for her clarity allowing us to watch her mind as it becomes clouded with grief.' From one of America's iconic writers, a stunning book of electric honesty and passion. Joan Didion explores an int...
The Year of Magical Thinking (National Book Award Winner)
In November 2014, thirteen members of the Biden family gathered on Nantucket for Thanksgiving, a tradition they had been celebrating for the past forty years; it was the one constant in what had become a hectic, scrutinized, and overscheduled life. T...
Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose
Amy Bloom began to notice changes in her husband, Brian: He retired early from a new job he loved; he withdrew from close friendships; he talked mostly about the past. Suddenly, it seemed there was a glass wall between them, and their long walks and ...
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss by Amy Bloom, Paperback
Life and death are a package deal. They cannot be pulled apart and we cannot truly live unless we are aware of death. The Five Invitations is an exhilarating meditation on the meaning of life and how maintaining and ever-present consciousness of deat...
The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living ...
In his counseling work, Harold Ivan Smith has heard all the questions ― even the most obscure, personal, and difficult ones ― that occur to grievers as they process their loss. Here he compiles more than 150 common questions, explores the emotions be...
Grievers Ask: Answers to Questions about Death and Loss
Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of sorrow and loss in this lyrical yet practical handbook for mastering the art of grieving. Describing how Western patterns of amnesia and anesthesia aff...
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of ...
chronic pain
books related to chronic pain
A groundbreaking mind-body protocol to heal chronic pain, backed by new research.Chronic pain is an epidemic. Fifty million Americans struggle with back pain, headaches, or some other pain that resists all treatment. Desperate pain sufferers are told...
The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to ...
Comfort, understanding, and advice for those who are suffering--and those who care for them. Chronic illness creates many challenges, from career crises and relationship issues to struggles with self-blame, personal identity, and isolation. Beloved a...
How to Live Well with Chronic Pain and Illness: A Mindful Guide
Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost—but not quite—dying, she’s come up with six directives to help her “Get a Life”, and she’s already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamourous ...
Get a Life, Chloe Brown (Brown Sisters Series #1)
This life-affirming, instructive, and thoroughly inspiring book is a must-read for anyone who is--or who might one day be--sick. And it can also be the perfect gift of guidance, encouragement, and uplifting inspiration to family, friends, and loved o...
How to Be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill and Their Caregivers
Rate your pain on a scale of one to ten. What about on a scale of spicy to citrus? Is it more like a lava lamp or a mosaic? Pain, though a universal element of human experience, is dimly understood and sometimes barely managed. Pain Woman Takes Your ...
Pain Woman Takes Your Keys, and Other Essays from a ...
parenting
This parenting classic is as relevant today as it was when it was first published, shining a light on one of the most misunderstood trends of our how the influence of peers, magnified by social media and video game culture, is replacing parents in th...
Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
In Raising Human Beings , the internationally renowned child psychologist and New York Times bestselling author of Lost at School and The Explosive Child explains how to cultivate a better parent-child relationship while also nurturing empathy, hones...
Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your ...
human nature
books about human nature
In this absorbing and equally inspiring companion volume to his classic trilogy – The Road Less Traveled, Further Along the Road Less Traveled, and The Road Less Traveled and Beyond – Dr. M. Scott Peck brilliantly probes into the essence of human evi...
People of the Lie Vol. 2: The Hope for Healing Human Evil (Abridged)
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker...
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker, Paperback - Barnes & Noble
sexual abuse
An essential exploration of why and how women’s sexuality works—based on groundbreaking research and brain science—that will radically transform your sex life into one filled with confidence and joy. Researchers have spent the last decade trying to d...
Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New ...
She was known to the world as Emily Doe when she stunned millions with a letter. Brock Turner had been sentenced to just six months in county jail after he was found sexually assaulting her on Stanford’s campus. Her victim impact statement was posted...
Know My Name by Chanel Miller, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
The first ten lies they tell you in high school. "Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. ...
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Paperback | Barnes & Noble®
At once a beautifully poetic memoir and an exploration of the various ways we live in the world, A Language Older Than Words explains violence as a pathology that touches every aspect of our lives and indeed affects all aspects of life on Earth. This...
A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen | eBook