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Book Store

Here is a small selection of helpful books on topics that are common in our practice.


Books


Abuse

The Emotionally Abusive Relationship
A book which can help both victims and abusers to identify the patterns of this painful and traumatic type of abuse.

Scarred Soul
The term self-inflicted violence is best defined as the intentional harm of one's own body without conscious suicidal intent.

Healing Your Emotional Self
Aimed at helping adult survivors to overcome their shame and self-criticism, become more compassionate and accepting of themselves, and create a more positive self-image.

   

 

Anxiety, Stress and Depression

The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
An excellent resource that explains the nature of anxiety disorders and phobias, as well as suggesting ideas for treatment.

Self Coaching
This book is based on the idea that our thoughts and our interpretations of life events greatly influences our moods. Learn to use less depressive "self-talk" while becoming an ally to yourself.

Coping with Anxiety
10 Simple Ways to Relieve Anxiety, Fear and Worry.
Dancing with Fear
Dr. Foxman offers a wide range of self-help strategies — from drugs and diet to herbs and yoga

The Healing Through the Dark Emotions
This book challenges the reader to trust the wisdom and redemptive power of grief, fear and despair, learning to listen to these "dark emotions" as a way to guide, heal and transform one's life. This is a very hopeful and inspiring book.

Don't Panic
Suffering from panic attacks? This book offers concrete advice for overcoming these often frightening experiences.

Bereavement

The Grief Recovery Handbook
Based on a proven program, this valuable book offers grievers a path to recovery.

Surviving the Death of a Sibling
Based on the author's own experiences, as well as those of many others, this work helps adults who have lost a brother or sister to realize that they are not alone in their struggle.

When Children Grieve
This book offers guidlines for helping children mover through the experience of loss in a healthy way.
Transcending Loss
The author asserts that death doesn't end the relationship, it simply forges a new type of relationship -- one based not on physical presence but on memory, spirit, and love.

After Suicide
Beginning with her own story of coping with her husband's suicide, Eleanora Betsy Ross takes the reader beyond the silence and shame often associated with suicide and shatters some of the most pervasive myths surrounding this common tragedy.


Individuals

The Courage to be Yourself
An excellent book for women who too often find themselves meeting the wants of others at the expense of their own needs.

The Power of Focusing
This book will help the reader to learn to identify and listen to their feelings and innermost wisdom.

Out of the Shadows An informative read based on the latest research for anyone who needs to address and explore the phenomenon of cybersex addiction.

Mind over Mood
An excellent workbook geared to help the reader gain practice in learning to make sense of their moods and to identify their irrational thinking.

Ten Days to Self-Esteem
Dr. David Burns presents innovative, clear, and compassionate methods that will help you identify the causes of your mood slumps and develop a more positive outlook on life.

Reinventing Your Life ...identify 11 common "lifetraps" based on repetitive, destructive behavior patterns associated with a negative self-image..

Forgiving the Unforgivable
In this remarkable and readable book, Dr. David Stoop clears up common misconceptions about forgiveness...

How to Forgive
The author takes the reader through his twelve-step healing process, providing practical exercises, case histories, anecdotes and even poetry along the way.

Women Who Love Too Much
Many women have found themselves in this book which challenges women to change from loving someone so much it hurts, to loving themselves enough to stop the pain.


Marriage

Getting the Love you Want gives detailed exercises for you and your partner to follow in order to learn how to "replace confrontation and criticism ... with a healing process of mutual growth and support". The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work is the definitive guide for anyone who wants their relationship to attain its highest potential.
The Relationship Cure This book shows how the simplest, nearly invisible gestures of care and attention hold the key to successful relationships. Healing the Wounds When love is wounded, how does love gets healed? Dr. Rovers presents a series of individual-focused and couple-focused therapeutic strategies.

The Five Love Languages Unhappiness in marriage often has a simple root cause: we speak different love languages...

Learn to identify the language your partner speaks and the language that speaks to your heart.

Hold Me Tight
Dr. Sue Johnson, developer of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and “the best couple therapist in the world,” according to bestselling relationship expert Dr. John Gottman. In Hold Me Tight, Dr. Johnson shares her groundbreaking and remarkably successful program for creating stronger, more secure relationships.


Parenting

How to Talk so Kids will Listen provides a step-by-step approach to improving relationships in your house.

Reviving Ophelia, Savings the Selves of Adolescent Girls

Pipher offers concrete suggestions for ways in which girls can build and maintain a strong sense of self.

Get out of My Life, but first could you drive me and Cheryl to the Mall
This is a survival guide for parents who find themselves marooned among volatile and incomprehensible aliens on Planet Teen

The Worried Child: Recognizing Anxiety in Children and Helping Them Heal by Dr. Paul Foxman
Helps parents to both recognize anxiety in their children and guides them in showing children how to handle their worries and fears.There is also a chapter for children on how to help themselves.

Hold on to Your Kids
This is a book about the importance of parent-child attachment in parenting. This book offers intuitive strategies to parents for preserving and restoring the relationship with their children of any age.

Parenting from the Inside Outds
Daniel Siegal and Mary Hartzell have quite deftly managed to translate highly complex neuroscientific and psychological matters into lay strategies for effective parenting.

 


Spiritual Growth

The Power of Now Ekhart Tolle's message is simple: living in the now is the truest path to happiness and enlightenment.

The Road Less Travelled
Harmonizing psychoanalysis and spirituality, Christ and Buddha, Calvinist work ethic ...

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek The Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a series of interconnected essays which challenge the listener to contemplate the natural world..
To Bless the Space Between Us
This collection of O'Donohue's poetic prayers focuses on bringing God's blessings into our lives during: times of transition, grieving, change or preparation for the unknown.


Youth

Analyse Yourself, by Dr. Karyn Gordon. A great book for teenage girls. This book is only available directly from Dr. Karyn's website, click here for a link.