“The important thing is not to stop questioning.

Curiosity has its own reason for existence.”

-Albert Einstein

I appreciate the ability to use the writing of others, whether it be fiction or non-fiction, as a way of stepping into their viewpoint and seeing things through a new lens. I would like to use this space to share resources that I have found useful in my practice and in my personal life.

This includes not only a variety of published resources but websites and meditation sources as well.

I hope that you find something that resonates for you.

Self-Exploration and Emotional Intelligence:

  • The Courage to be Disliked and The Courage to be Happy— Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

  • The Four Agreements — Don Miguel Ruiz

  • The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace —Don Miguel Ruiz

  • Unlearning Silence — Elaine Lin Hering

  • Real Self-Care — Pooja Lakshmin, MD

  • What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing — Bruce Perry, MD, PhD and Oprah Winfrey

  • The Power of Habit: Why we do what we do in Life and Business — Charles Duhigg

  • Supercommunicators —Charles Duhigg

  • Boundaries = Freedom —Joseph Nguyen

  • Emotional Intelligence Habits — Travis Bradberry

  • Emotional Intelligence — Daniel Goleman

  • Atlas of the Heart — Brune Brown, PhD, MSW

  • Daring Greatly — Burne Brown, PhD, MSW

  • The Power of Vulnerability — Brune Brown, PhD, MSW

  • Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life — Katie Byron

  • Dimensions: 100 Questions to Help You Understand Your Perspective

    — Sadie Sanchez

Depression/Mood Disorder:

  • Don’t Believe Everything You Think — Joseph Nguyen

  • What to do When Someone You Love is Depressed — Mitch Golant, PhD and Susan Golant

  • How You Can Survive When They Are Depressed — Anne Sheffield

  • Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (workbook) — Steven C. Hayes, PhD

  • The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotional Regulation, and Distress Tolerance (workbook)— Matthew McKay, PhD, Jeffrey Wood, PhD, and Jeffrey Brantly, MD

 

People Pleasing:

  • Stop People Pleasing: How to Start Saying No, Set Healthy Boundaries, and Express Yourself — Chase Hill

  • The Gift of No — Diana Davin

  • ThThe e Courage to be Disliked — Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

  • Unlearning Silence — Elaine Lin Hering

  • Boundaries = Freedom —Joseph Nguyen

 

Anxiety:

  • Don’t Believe Everything you Think — Joseph Nguyen

  • Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (Workbook) — Steven C. Hayes, PhD

  • The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotional Regulation, and Distress Tolerance (workbook)— Matthew McKay, PhD, Jeffrey Wood, PhD, and Jeffrey Brantly, MD

 

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder:

  • Brain Lock: Free Yourself from Obsessive-Complulsive Behavior — Jeffrey M. Schwartz, MD with Beverly Beyette

  • Relationship OCD: A CBT-Based Guide to Move Beyond Obsessive Doubt, Anxiety, and Fear of Commitment in Romantic Relationships — Sheva Rajaee, MFT

Parenting:

  • The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents — Lisa Damour, PhD

  • Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood — Lisa Damour, PhD

  • The New Adolescence: Raising Happy and Successful Teens in the Age of

    Anxiety and Distraction — Christine Carter, PhD

  • The Self-Driven Child: The Science and Sense of Giving Your Kids More Control over Their Lives — William Stixrud, PhD and Ned Johnson

 

Eating Disorder references:

  • The Eating Instinct — Virginia Sole-Smith

  • Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture —Virginia Sole-Smith

  • How to Nourish your Child Through an Eating Disorder — Casey Crosby, RD, CSSD and Wendy Sterling, MS, RD, CSSD

  • Helping your Child with Extreme Picky Eating — Katja Rowell, MD and Jenny McGlothlin, MS, SLP 

 

Manipulation in relationships:

  • The Narcissist’s Playbook — Dana Morningstar

  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents — Lindsay Gibson

  • Gaslighting & Narcissistic Abuse Recovery — Don Barlow

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

Self-Exploration and Emotional Intelligence:

  • The Courage to be Disliked and The Courage to be Happy— Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga

  • The Four Agreements — Don Miguel Ruiz

  • The Voice of Knowledge: A Practical Guide to Inner Peace —Don Miguel Ruiz

  • Unlearning Silence — Elaine Lin Hering

  • Real Self-Care — Pooja Lakshmin, MD

  • What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing — Bruce Perry, MD, PhD and Oprah Winfrey

  • The Power of Habit: Why we do what we do in Life and Business — Charles Duhigg

  • Supercommunicators —Charles Duhigg

  • Boundaries = Freedom —Joseph Nguyen

  • Emotional Intelligence Habits — Travis Bradberry

  • Emotional Intelligence — Daniel Goleman

  • Atlas of the Heart — Brune Brown, PhD, MSW

  • Daring Greatly — Burne Brown, PhD, MSW

  • The Power of Vulnerability — Brune Brown, PhD, MSW

  • Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life — Katie Byron

  • Dimensions: 100 Questions to Help You Understand Your Perspective

    — Sadie Sanchez

Healing fromTrauma:

  • What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing — Bruce Perry, MD, PhD and Oprah Winfrey

  • The Body Keeps Score —Bessel van der Kolk, MD

  • Dear Sister: Letters From Survivors of Sexual Violence Edited — Lisa Factora-Borchers

Couples: 

  • Love Factually — Duana Welch PhD

  • The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts — Gary Chapman

  • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work —John Gottman, PhD

  • ADHD After Dark — Ari Tuckman

  • The Love Prescription — John Gottman, PhD and Julie Schwartz Gottman, PhD

 

Grief:

  • The Grief Recovery Handbook — John James and Russel Friedman

Recovery:

  • Recovery Dharma — Recvoerydharma.org

  • Forgiving What You Can’t Forget — Lysa Terkeurst

ADHD and Neurodiversity:

  • ADHD After Dark — Ari Tuckman

  • The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You— Elaine Aron, PhD

  • The Highly Sensitive Person’s Survival Guide — Ted Zeff, PhD

  • The Highly Sensitive Young Adult — Jordan Beckett

Here are some podcasts that you may wish to explore:

  • danharris.com (interviews and meditation practices to address a wide variety of issues related to mental health)

  • Where Should We Begin with Ester Perel (looking at relationships)

  • Unlocking Us with Brune Brown (looking at relationships)

  • Small Things Often by Gottman Institute (5 minute relationship changes you can make today)

Meditations that may be helpful to you:

  • Calm app

  • Happier app

  • Body Scan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H2Cgc60UlU

  • 45 min stress reduction/relaxation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4gZgnCy5ew

  • calming sounds played for self-guided meditation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9hMaqQFKXk