Couple and Individual Therapist
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Recommended Reading
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Relationships
(*especially helpful for couples
and user friendly)
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*Reconcilable Differences, by Andrew Christensen and Neil Jacobson
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*How to Improve Your Marriage Without Talking About it: Finding Love
Beyond Words, by Patricia Love and Steven Stosny
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*The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, by John Gottman
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*Why Marriages Succeed or Fail, by John Gottman
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16 Ways to Love Your Lover, by Otto Kroeger and Janet M. Theusan
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The Five Love Languages: How
to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate, by Gary Chapman
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Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Commitment, by Gay Hendricks and
Kathlyn Hendricks
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Passionate Marriage, by David Schnarch
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After the Fight, by Dan Wile
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The Relationship Cure, by John Gottman
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The Dance of Anger, by Harriet Goldhor Lerner
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The Dance of Intimacy, by Harriet Goldhor Lerner
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Personal Growth and Healing
(*especially helpful)
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*Instinct to Heal: Curing Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Without Drugs
and Without Talk Therapy, by David Servan-Schreiber
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*The Power of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing, By
Ann Weiser Cornell
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*The Power of Flow:
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*When I Say No I Feel Guilty, by Manual Smith
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The Road Less Traveled, by M. Scott Peck
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Life Makeovers, by Cheryl Richardson
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Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantages of a Painful Childhood, by
W. Muller
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*Codependent No More, by Melody Beattie
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The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, by Julia
Cameron
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The Essential Enneagram, by D. Daniels and V. Price
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*The Wisdom of the Enneagram, by Riso and Hudson
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Dream Work: Techniques for Discovering the Creative Power in Dreams, by
Jeremy Taylor
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Mindfulness and Awareness
(*especially helpful)
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Parenting
(*especially helpful)
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*Parenting From the Inside Out, by Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell
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*Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child, by John Gottman, Joan
Declaire, and Daniel Goleman
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*Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children, by Jean
Illsley Clark and Connie Dawson
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How to Deal Wit Your Acting-Up Teenager, Robert and Jean Bayard
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Parents and Adolescents Living Together: Parts 1 and 2, by Marion
Forgatch and Gerald Patterson
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Feeding Your Soul (for Women)
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The Comfort Queen’s Guide to Life, The Woman’s
Retreat Book, The Woman’s Comfort Book, all by Jennifer Louden
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Imagine a Woman in Love With Herself, by Patricia
Lynn Reilly
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A Woman’s Journey to God, by Joan Borysenko
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Apprentice to Power: A Woman’s Awakening, by
Jennifer Morse
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An Unknown Woman, by Alice Koller
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Drinking the Rain, by Alix Kates Shulman
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Gift From the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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The Woman Who Gave Birth to Her Mother, by Kim
Chernin
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Divorce and the Children
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Mom’s House, Dad’s House, by Isolina Ricci
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The Good Divorce, by Constance Ahrons
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Beauty and Poetry
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Ten Poems to Change Your Life, by Roger Housden
(any of his “Ten Poems” collections are wonderful).
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Selected Poems of May Sarton; Hilsinger and Brynes,
editors
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The Gift – Poems by Hafiz, the Great Sufi Master;
Daniel Ladinsky, translator
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Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women’s
Spirituality, Edited by Marilyn Sewell
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The Illuminated Rumi, Coleman Barks and Michael
Green v Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making, by John Fox v Finding What You Didn’t Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making, by John Fox
When it’s over I
want to say: All my life I was a bride married to amazement… |