Resources You Can Use

 Recommended Reading

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Adult Children of Substance Abusers

• Adult Children of Alcoholics by Janet Woititz 

• Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics by Herbert Gravitz and Julie Bowden

• Codependency, People Pleasing and Boundaries 

• Codependent No More by Melody Beattie 

• Boundaries by Henry Cloud and John Townsend 

• Where to Draw the Line by Anne Katherine 

• The Disease to Please by Harriet Braiker 

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Dysfunctional Families 

• Toxic Parents by Susan Forward

• If You Had Controlling Parents by Dan Neurharth 

• Running on Empty by Jonice Webb

• The Emotionally Absent Mother by Jasmin Lee Cori

Relationships 

• Who’s Pulling Your Strings by Harriet Braiker 

• The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman

• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How it Can Help You Find and Keep Love by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

•  After the Affair by Janis Abrahms Spring

• Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love Hardcover – April 8, 2008 by Dr. Sue Johnson EdD

Parenting 

• Get Out of my Life, But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? by Anthony Wolf 

• Yes, Your Teen is Crazy! by Michael Bradley 

• The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children by Dr. Shefali Tsabary

• The Whole Brain Child by Daniel Siegel

Depression/Mental Health

• Feeling Good by David Burns 

• Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman 

• 8 Keys to Mental Health through Exercise by Christina Hibbert 

• DARE: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks by Barry McDonagh

For Women 

• Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood 

• Why Does He Do That? By Lundy Bancroft 

• The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass and 

Laura Davis 

• The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner 

• Perfect Daughters by Robert Ackerman For Men 

• I Don’t Want to Talk about It by Terrence Real 

• Silent Sons by Robert Ackerman 

Trauma and Healing

• Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman

• The Body Keeps Score by Bessel Van der Kolk LiveWellwithSharonMartin.com 

• You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay 

• Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine 

Self-worth/Happiness/Other

• The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown

• Daring Greatly by Brene Brown 

• Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff 

• Forgive for Good by Fred Luskin 

• The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin

• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck 

• Emotional Freedom by Judith Orloff 

• The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron 

• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg 

Grief/Perinatal Loss

• Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby by Deborah Davis

• Bearing the Unbearable by Joanne Cacciatore

I was Not Ready to Say Goodbye

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