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Resources & Tools

A curated collection of books, articles, and handouts designed to inform, inspire, and empower you on your journey of personal growth and well-being.

Trauma

The Body Keeps the Score -Bessel van der Kolk, MD

The groundbreaking book offers hope and healing by exploring how trauma affects the whole person and providing innovative, research-backed therapies to reclaim your life from past traumatic experiences.

The Complex PTSD Workbook

This workbook offers a supportive, step-by-step guide to help you heal from complex trauma and reclaim safety and empowerment in your life.

Therapy

The Gift of Therapy -Irvin D. Yalom, MD

A warm, compassionate, and deeply personal look into the therapeutic process, delivering comfort, wisdom, and guidance to anyone seeking a more meaningful and fulfilling life through the power of therapy.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone -Lori Gottlieb

This memoir invites readers into the therapist's world, weaving together powerful stories of human struggle and growth to demystify therapy and illuminate the transformative power of self-discovery and connection.

Depression

Feeling Good -David Burns, MD

This book walks you through practical, evidence-based techniques to identify and shift the negative thinking patterns that keep depression going, so you can start feeling more like yourself again.

The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness 2nd Ed. -Mark WilliamsJohn TeasdaleZindel Segal, Jon Kabat-Zinn

This book explains why our usual attempts to think our way out of sadness often make things worse, and offers a clinically proven mindfulness-based approach to help you break free from the cycle of depression.

Sleep

The Women's Guide to Overcoming Insomnia: Get a Good Night's Sleep Without Relying on Medication -Shelby Harris, PsyD

This book empowers women to take control of their sleep using practical, medication-free tools tailored to female physiology and life stages.

Quiet Your Mind and Get to Sleep: Solutions to Insomnia for Those with Depression, Anxiety, or Chronic Pain -Colleen Carney, PhD

Quiet your busy mind and rediscover restful sleep with this practical guide full of effective strategies drawn from science and wisdom traditions.

Anxiety

Panic Attacks Workbook, 2nd Ed. -David Carbonell

A practical guide offering evidence-based strategies to help expecting and new mothers manage anxiety, worry, panic, obsessions and compulsions during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

The Anxiety and Worry Workbook by David Clark and Aaron Beck

This book gives you practical, step-by-step CBT tools to identify your anxiety triggers, challenge the thoughts that fuel your worry, and gradually face feared situations so anxiety loses its grip on your life.

Pregnancy & Postpartum

The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook -Kevin Gyoerkoe and Pamela Wiegartz

A practical guide offering evidence-based strategies to help expecting and new mothers manage anxiety, worry, panic, obsessions and compulsions during pregnancy and the postpartum period.

Expecting Mindfully: Nourish Your Emotional Well-Being and Prevent Depression during Pregnancy and Postpartum

A guide integrating mindfulness, CBT, and pregnancy health information to help mothers manage stress and build coping skills during the transition to parenthood.

Parenting

The Whole-Brain Child  -Daniel J. Siegel, MD and Tina Payne Bryson, PhD

This book empowers parents with practical strategies grounded in neuroscience to nurture their children's emotional well-being, resilience, and brain development.

Parenting From the Inside Out -Daniel J. Siegel, MD and Mary Hartzell, MEd

This book invites parents on a journey of self-discovery, offering insights and tools to cultivate deeper self-understanding and strengthen the parent-child relationship by breaking free from inherited patterns.

Relationships

Attached - by Amir Levine and Rachel SF Heller

This book reveals why you're drawn to the partners you choose and how the science of attachment styles can finally explain the push-and-pull dynamics that keep showing up in your love life.

Hold Me Tight -Sue Johnson, EdD

This book shows couples how to recognize the hidden emotional cycles driving their conflicts and offers a path to rebuilding a deeper, more secure bond with each other.


Pain travels through families until someone is willing to feel it. -Stephie Wagner

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