Recommended Reading

Mindfulness and Awareness

• Full Catastrophe Living – by Jon Kabat Zinn
• Where Ever You Go, There You are – by Jon Kabat Zinn
• Everyday Zen – Charlotte Joko Beck
• Nothing Special – Charlotte Joko Beck
• The Art of Happiness – Dalai Lama
• A Path With Heart – Jack Kornfield

Beauty and Poetry

• Selected Poems of May Sarton; Hilsinger and Brynes, editors
• The Gift – Poems by Hafiz, the Great Sufi Master; Daniel Ladinsky, translator
• Cries of the Spirit: A Celebration of Women’s Spirituality, Edited by Marilyn Sewell
• The Illuminated Rumi, Coleman Barks and Michael Green
• Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making, by John Fox
• Finding What You Didn’t Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making, by John Fox

Feeding Your Soul (for Women)

• The Comfort Queen’s Guide to Life, The Woman’s Retreat Book, The Woman’s Comfort Book, all by Jennifer Louden
• Imagine a Woman in Love With Herself, Patricia Lynn Reilly
• A Woman’s Worth (Essays), by Maryanne Williamson
• Illuminata (Essays and Prayers), by Maryanne Williamson
• A Woman’s Journey to God, by Joan Borysenko
• Apprentice to Power: A Woman’s Awakening, by Jennifer Morse
• An Unknown Woman, by Alice Koller
• Drinking the Rain, by Alix Kates Shulman
• Gift From the Sea, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
• The Woman Who Gave Birth to Her Mother, by Kim Chernin

Personal Growth

• When I Say No I Feel Guilty, by Manual Smith
• The Road Less Traveled, by M. Scott Peck
• Life Makeovers, by Cheryl Richardson
• Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantages of a Painful Childhood, by W. Muller
• Codependent No More, by Melody Beattie
• Beyond Codependency, by Melody Beattie
• The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, by Julia Cameron
• The Essential Enneagram, by D. Daniels and V. Price
• The Wisdom of the Enneagram, by Riso and Hudson
• Spiritual Dimension of the Enneagram, by Sandra Maitri
• Dream Work: Techniques for Discovering the Creative Power in Dreams, by Jeremy Taylor

Relationships

• Conscious Loving, by Hendricks
• Passionate Marriage, by David Schnarch
• Why Marriages Succeed or Fail, by John Gottman
• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work, by John Gottman
• After the Fight, by Dan Wile
• The Relationship Cure, by John Gottman
• The Dance of Anger, by Harriet Goldhor Lerner
• The Dance of Intimacy, by Harriet Goldhor Lerner
• Intimate Partners, by Maggie Scarf
• Extraordinary Relationships:  A New Way of Thinking About Human Interaction, by Roberta Gilbert

Divorce and the Children

• Mom’s House, Dad’s House, by Isolina Ricci
• The Good Divorce, by Constance Ahrons

Parenting

• Growing Up Again: Parenting Ourselves, Parenting Our Children, by Jean Illsley Clark and Connie Dawson
• How to Deal With Your Acting-Up Teenager, Robert and Jean Bayard
• Parents and Adolescents Living Together: Parts 1 and 2, by Marion Forgatch and Gerald Patterson

When it’s over I want to say:  All my life I was a bride married to amazement…
I was the bridegroom taking the world into my arms.
Mary Oliver