
Over the years, the following have stood out as particularly helpful to me. If you check them out, let me know how you find them!
Personal Growth
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead – Brené Brown
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones – James Clear
- The Highly Sensitive Person: How To Thrive When The World Overwhelms You – Elaine N. Aron, Ph.D.
- Common Shock: Witnessing Violence Every Day- How We Are Harmed, How We Can Heal – Kaethe Weingarten
Dating and Marriage
- Love, Care, Trust and Respect: Reclaim your relationships from the jaws of pain, fear and guilt – Natalie Lue
- Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find – and Keep – Love Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
- Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love – Sue Johnson
- The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts – Gary Chapman
- The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide – John Gottman & Nan Silver
- And Baby Makes Three: The Six-Step Plan for Preserving Marital Intimacy and Rekindling Romance After Baby Arrives – John Gottman & Julie Schwartz Gottman
Parenting
- The Baby Decision: How to Make the Most Important Choice of Your Life by Merle Bombardieri
- How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk – Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
- The Explosive Child, Ross Greene
For mental health professionals
- Therapy with a Coaching Edge: Partnership, Action, and Possibility in Every Session – Lynn Grodzki
- 1001 Solution-Focused Questions: Handbook for Solution-Focused Interviewing – Fredrike Bannink
- The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients – Irvin Yalom
- Leaving It at the Office: A Guide to Psychotherapist Self-Care Second Edition – John C. Norcross & Gary R. VandenBos
- Collaborative Therapy with Multi-Stressed Families – William C. Madsen
- Playful Approaches to Serious Problems: Narrative Therapy with Children and their Families – David Epston, Jennifer Freeman, et al.
- Play Therapy: the art of the relationship – Garry L. Landreth
