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

The Feeling Good Handbook

By:
David D. Burns, M.D.
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With his phenomenally successful Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, Dr. David Burns introduced a groundbreaking, drug-free treatment for depression. In this bestselling companion, The Feeling Good Handbook, he reveals powerful new techniques and provides step-by-step exercises that help you cope with the full range of everyday problems. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy

By:
David D. Burns, M.D.
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In Feeling Good, eminent psychiatrist, David D. Burns, M.D., outlines the remarkable, scientifically proven techniques that will immediately lift your spirits and help you develop a positive outlook on life. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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Surprised by the Healer: Embracing Hope for Your Broken Story

By:
Linda Dillow and Dr. Juli Slattery
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In the book, Surprised by the Healer: Embracing Hope for Your Broken Story, you will meet nine courageous women who have agreed to tell their stories, to share with you how they moved from hopelessness and brokenness to hope and healing. Whether from sexual abuse, betrayal in marriage, or other harrowing experiences, the Healer invited them on a unique journey of redemption in the midst of deep pain. He is inviting you, too. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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Invitation to a Journey: A Road Map for Spiritual Formation

By:
M. Robert Mulholland Jr.
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In Invitation to a Journey, Mulholland helps Christians new and old understand that we become like Christ gradually, not instantly. Not every personality is suited to an early morning quiet time, so Mulholland frees different personality types to express their piety differently. He reviews the classical spiritual disciplines and demonstrates the importance of undertaking our spiritual journey with (and for the sake of) others. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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Aging Faithfully: The Holy Invitation of Growing Older

By:
Alice Fryling and Leighton Ford
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In Aging Faithfully, spiritual director Alice Fryling offers comfort and encouragement about growing older as she explores how to navigate: The journey of retirement, lifestyle changes, new limitations, new opportunities that come with aging well. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

By:
Richard Rohr
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This new edition focuses on practical guidance that you can use to live a life of love and meaning in a world of suffering and challenge. Falling Upward is an invitation to living the gospel and a call to ongoing transformation. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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Practicing The Way: Be with Jesus. Become like him. Do as he did.

By:
John Mark Comer
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This introduction to spiritual formation, Practicing The Way, is full of John Mark Comer’s trademark mix of theological substance and cultural insight as well as practical wisdom on developing your own Rule of Life. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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How to Hear God: A Simple Guide for Normal People

By:
Pete Greig
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How to Hear God: A Simple Guide for Normal People, Explores the story of Christ's playful, poignant conversation on the road to Emmaus after his resurrection, Pete draws deeply from the insights of a wide range of Christian traditions; weaving together the evangelical emphasis on hearing God in the Bible, and the charismatic commitment to hearing God in the prophetic, with the contemplative understanding of God's "still, small voice" within. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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Enjoying God

By:
Tim Chester
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This seminal work by Tim Chester, Enjoying God, shows us how we can enjoy God in every moment of every day, whether we are experiencing good times or hard times; whether we are changing diapers, or stuck on a train. He explores how the Father, the Son and the Spirit relate to us in our day-to-day lives, and how to respond. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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With: Reimagining the Way You Relate to God

By:
Skye Jethani
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With explores the narrative of the Bible to show that we were created to be with God, and that restoring this connection is his mission. Instead of life over, under, from, or even for God, what leads us into freedom and restoration is life with God (Click here to view on Amazon).
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The Next Right Thing: A Simple, Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions

By:
Emily P. Freeman
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If you have trouble making decisions because of either chronic hesitation or decision fatigue, Emily P. Freeman offers a fresh way of practicing familiar but often forgotten advice: simply do the next right thing. The Next Right Thing, a simple, soulful practice will help you. Whether you're in the midst of a major life transition or are weary of the low-grade anxiety that daily life can bring, Emily helps create space for your soul to breathe so you can live life with God at a gentle pace and discern your next right thing in love. (Click here to view on
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The Practice of the Presence of God in Modern Day English

By:
Brother Lawrence
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The Practice of the Presence of God in Modern English is a modern translation of the timeless spiritual classic. Written over 300 years ago in French, The Practice of the Presence of God is here presented in language understandable to the twenty-first century English reader. Not a paraphrase or an abridgment, this version is a faithful rendering of the text in the spirit of the original work. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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