Resource Library

Below are our staff’s recommended books, products, websites, & podcasts. The Interfaith Counseling Center, a non-profit 5013c ministry, earns income if you purchase something using our provided affiliate links. Thank you for supporting our ministry.

Mental Health Resources

When A Child You Love Is Grieving

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Harold Ivan Smith
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Acts of caring and compassion can make all the difference in a grieving child's life. Adults can often worry about saying and doing the right thing, too often giving children quick answers instead of the support they really need. Widely-recognized grief specialist Harold Ivan Smith explains that quick answers are not what children need when they are grieving. They need support, and most of all they need to be allowed to grieve-for as long as it takes.With an ABC-like approach, Smith offers insights and activities for the parent, teacher, or friend-anyone that loves a child and wants to offer his
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Try Softer: A Fresh Approach to Move Us out of Anxiety, Stress, and Survival Mode–and into a Life of Connection and Joy

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Aundi Kolber
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Aundi Kolber believes that we don't have to white-knuckle our way through life. In her debut book, Try Softer™️, she'll show us how God specifically designed our bodies and minds to work together to process our stories and work through obstacles. Through the latest psychology, practical clinical exercises, and her own personal story, Aundi equips and empowers us to connect us to our truest self and truly live. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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The Cost of Control: Why We Crave It, the Anxiety It Gives Us, and the Real Power God Promises

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Sharon Hodde Miller
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In this eye-opening book, The Cost of Control, Sharon Hodde Miller helps us discover the psychology and theology behind why we control, the primary tools of how we control, the fallout of control and what it costs us, the solution: the real power God promises us. The answer to our craving is not simply to "let go and let God." Instead, God has given us real power in Christ--to exercise influence over ourselves and our lives. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

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David Brooks
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How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate toward others, and to find the joy that comes from being seen. (Click here to view on Amazon). Along the way it offers a possible remedy for a society that is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception.
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24/6: A Prescription for a Healthier, Happier Life

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Matthew Sleeth, M.D.
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In 24/6, Dr. Matthew Sleeth describes our symptoms, clarifies the signs, diagnoses the illness, and lays out a simple plan for living a healthier, more God-centered life in a digitally-dazed, always-on world. Sleeth shares how his own family was dramatically transformed when it adopted Sabbath practices and helps readers better understand how their own lives can be transformed – physically, emotionally, relationally and spiritually – by adopting the 24/6 lifestyle. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear)

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Kate Bowler
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With dry wit and unflinching honesty, No Cure for Being Human author Kate Bowler grapples with her diagnosis, her ambition, and her faith as she tries to come to terms with her limitations in a culture that says anything is possible. She finds that we need one another if we’re going to tell the truth: Life is beautiful and terrible, full of hope and despair and everything in between—and there’s no cure for being human. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

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Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.
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Most of us feel overstimulated every once in a while, but for the highly sensitive person, it’s a way of life. In this groundbreaking book, Dr. Elaine Aron, a highly sensitive person herself, shows you how to identify this trait in yourself and make the most of it in everyday situations. (Click here to view on Amazon). Drawing on many years of research and hundreds on interviews, The Highly Sensitive Person will change the way you see yourself—and the world around you
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Running On Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships with Your Partner, Your Parents and Your Children

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Jonice Webb, Ph.D.
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Running on Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships will offer even more solutions for the effects of CEN on people’s lives: how to talk about CEN, and heal it, in relationships with partners, parents, and children. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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Running on Empty

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Jonice Webb, Ph.D. with Christine Musello, PsyD
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This informative guide helps you identify and heal from childhood emotional neglect so you can be more connected and emotionally present in your life. A practicing psychologist for more than twenty years, Jonice Webb has successfully treated numerous patients who come to her believing that something is missing inside them. While many self-help books deal with what happened to you as a child, in Running on Empty, Webb addresses the things that may not have happened for you. What goes unsaid―or what cannot be remembered―can have profound consequences that may be affecting you to this day. (Click here to view
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Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations for Codependents

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Melody Beattie
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In this daily inspirational book, Language of Letting Go, Melody provides us with a thought to guide us through the day, and she encourages us to remember that each day is an opportunity for growth and renewal. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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How We Love

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Milan and Kay Yerkovich
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Relationship experts Milan and Kay Yerkovich explain why the ways you and your spouse relate to each other go back to before you even met. Drawing on the powerful tool of attachment theory, Milan and Kay explore how your childhood created an “intimacy imprint” that affects your marriage today. Revised throughout with all-new material and additional visual diagrams, this expanded edition of How We Love will bring vibrant life to your marriage. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD: A Scientifically Proven Program for Parents

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Eli R. Lebowitz
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Breaking Free of Child Anxiety and OCD: A Scientifically Proven Program for Parents is the first and only book to provide a completely parent-based treatment program for child and adolescent anxiety. From understanding child anxiety and OCD, to learning how to talk with an anxious child, to avoiding common traps and pitfalls (such as being overly protective or demanding) to identifying the ways in which parents have been enabling a child's anxious behaviors, this book is full of detailed guidance and practical suggestions. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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