Book Resources

The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You

By:
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

By:
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

By:
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 on Amazon).
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Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations for Codependents

By:
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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Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing

By:
Jay Stringer
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A perfect resource for those seeking self-help or those working to minister to the sexually broken people around them, Unwanted offers life-changing, practical guidance rooted in clinical evidence and a Christian perspective to light the way on a path to wholeness. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

By:
Susan Cain
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In her book, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole, Cain shows how a bittersweet state of mind is the quiet force that helps us transcend our personal and collective pain, whether from a death or breakup, addiction or illness. If we don’t acknowledge our own heartache, she says, we can end up inflicting it on others via abuse, domination, or neglect. But if we realize that all humans know—or will know—loss and suffering, we can turn toward one another. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in The Healing of Trauma

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Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.
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In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

By:
Lindsey C. Gibson, PsyD
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In this breakthrough book, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood. (Click here to view on Amazon).
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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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