Book and Other Resources

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Click on the links below and you will be forwarded to review book and/or CD

Anxiety/Trauma

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk MD

Waking the Tiger by Peter A. Levine   

Childhood Disrupted: How Our Biography Becomes Our Biology, and How You Can Heal by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Living Like You Mean It: Use the Power and Wisdom of Your Emotions to Get the Life You Want ~ Ronald Fredrick PhD
            
Living Beautifully: With Uncertainty and Change by Pema Chodron

The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Good for You and How to Get Good at It by Kelly McGonigal PhD

Freeing Yourself from Anxiety by Tamar E. Chansky

The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook by Edmund J. Bourne

Mind Over Mood, Second Edition: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think by Dennis Greenberger PhD and Christine A. Padesky PhD

Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears by Pema Chodron

The Dark Side of the Light Chasers by Deborah Ford

Facing the Fear and Do it Anyway by Susan Jeffers

Getting Past Your Past: Taking Control of Your Life by Self-Help Techniques with EMDR Techniques by Francine Shapiro 

Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) by Suzette Boon, Kathy Steele and Onno van der Hart Ph.D

Your Life After Trauma by Michele Rosenthal 




                                    "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change".
                                    ~ Wayne Dyer

Cancer Support

Cancer Support Community-Free Support Groups

Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon's Experience with Exceptional Patients by Bernie Siegal

How to Help Children Through a Parent's Serious Illness by Kathleen McCue

Meditation to Help You Fight Cancer (Audio CD- guided imagery) by Belleruth Naparstek

Meditation to Prepare for Surgery (Audio CD-guided imagery) Bellerruth Naparstek

Managing the Distress of Cancer and Its Treatments by Carolyn Daitch

Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal by Rachel Naomi Remen 

American Cancer Society

                                    "Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot
                               touch my heart and it cannot touch my soul" ~ Jim Valvano

Chronic  and Long term Illness

Yoga for Emotional Trauma: Meditations and Practices for Healing Pain and Suffering by Marie Nurrie Stearns LCSW RYT

Mindfulness Meditation for Pain Relief: Guided Practices for Reclaiming Your Body and Your Life 

Freedom from Pain: Discover Your Body's Power to Overcome Pain by Peter Levine PhD and Maggie Phillips PhD

Pain Free: A Revolutionary Method for Stopping Chronic Pain by Pete Egoscue

Healing Back Pain: The Mind-Body Connection by John Sarno

The Last Best Cure: My Quest to Awaken the Healing Parts of My Brain and Get Back My Body, My Joy, and My Life by Donna Jackson Nakazawa

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey by Jill Bolte Taylor PhD.

A Meditation to Promote Successful Surgery (Audio CD) by Belleruth Naparstek
You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay

Inflammation Nation: The First Clinically Proven Eating Plan to End Our Nation's Secret Epidemic by Ph.D. Floyd H. Chilton Ph.D. and Laura Tucker

Turning Straw Into Gold ~Toni Bernhard J.D. (blog written to support people, dealing with long-term and chronic illness)


                                        "Imagine when you look in the mirror that the face looking back at you is
                                          someone you truly love. Just imagine...." Isha Judd

                                        
                                          "When hard times come, the greatest danger does not necessarily lie in the
                                           circumstances we face, but rather in the way we treat ourselves at the time.
                                          Nothing is more dangerous than self-hate. Nothing makes it more difficult to                                                       heal or to find the grace of peace than self-attack and the agony of self-doubt."                                                ~ Stephen Schwartz

LGBTQ Community Resources

One Voice Community Center - Community support program for LGBTQ community

GLSEN - School support programs for Lesbians and Gays

PFLAG - Support for parents, family, friends of Lesbians and Gays
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Hospice of the Valley - Support groups for bereaved LGBTQ community

OneNTen - Support for LGBTQ youth.

Trans Spectrum of Arizona -Resources for transgender community 

Find LGBTQ+ and QTBIPOC affirming therapists and other health professionals ~ www.weglimmer.com

                           Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends ~Aberjhani

Racial Justice-Generational Trauma

My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem

How To Be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

It Didn't Start With You by Mark Wolynn

Between The World and Me by Ta-Nehesi Coates

                                  No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been                            and exactly how he has arrived at this present place ~ Maya Angelou

                          If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the
                         oppressor ~Desmond Tutu

Grief

Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief by Martha Whitmore Hickman
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Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, Second Edition by Hope Edelman

Remembering Mother, Finding Myself: A Journey of Love and Self-Acceptance by Patricia Cummins

Bearing The Unbearable by Joanne Caciattorie

Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart by Alan Wolfelt

Understanding Your Suicide Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart (Understanding Your Grief) by Alan Wolfelt

It's Okay That You Are Not Okay: Meeting Grief and Loss In A Culture That Doesn't Understand by Megan Devine

Grief in Wilderness- Washington State- Peer support with healing power of nature

Refuge in Grief -online grief support for the bereaved and the people who support them.

The Dinner Party ~ Grief support for Millennials 

After A Life ~ A website to provide death-related information and resources

How To Go on Living When Someone You Love Dies by Therese A. Rando

MISS Foundation - Resource for Parents, who have experienced the death of a child.

Compassionate Friends - Resource for Parents, who have experienced the death of a child. 

www.griefhealing.com - online bereavement support and resources (Marty's blog has a surplus of grief/loss journals, discussion boards, articles and resources) 

Living With Grief When Illness Is Prolonged by Kenneth J. Doka and Joyce Davidson

Bereavement Support Groups (free)

What to Say to Someone Who is Dying (Article)

Companioning the Bereaved: A Soulful Guide for Counselors & Caregivers by Alan D. Wolfelt PhD CT

Article on Going Back to Work After A Death by www.whatsyourgrief.com

Article on Pet Loss by www.grishastewart.com

                              "Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted
                               parts of ourselves. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to
                               happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy"  Pema Chodron
  
                            "Mostly, it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things" Arthur Schopenhauer

Grief books for Children
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Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss by Pat Schwiebert

The Invisible String by Patrice Karst

When Someone Very Special Dies: Children Can Learn to Cope with Grief by Marge Heegaard

Help Me Say Goodbye: Activities for Helping Kids Cope When a Special Person Dies by Janis Silverman

A Child's View of Grief: A Guide for Parents, Teachers, and Counselors by Alan D. Wolfelt PhD CT

Healing The Bereaved Child (Healing Your Grieving Heart series)  by Alan D. Wolfelt PhD CT  
    
                                    “People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but
                              when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from
                              within.” Elisabeth Kubler-Ross


Infertility

Labor of Love by Crystal Sirignano and Maureen Kobie

IVF and IUI Mind and Body Program by Circle and Bloom

Infertility Group Facilitated by Shannon Schiefer MA, LPC

Resolve Support Group

Infertility Survival Handbook by Elizabeth Swire-Falker

Health Journeys Guided Meditations Help with Fertility by Belleruth Naparstek

Health Journeys Help for Infertility by Belleruth Naparstek

Managing the Stress of Infertility: How to Balance Your Emotions, Get the Support You Need, and Deal with Painful Social Situations When You Are Trying to Get Pregnant by Carol Fulwiler Jones MA 
Yoga for Fertility 
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Restoring Fertility by Drs. Brandon Horn, PhD, LAc (FABORM) and Wendy Yu PhD(c), LAc (FABORM)

Grieving The Child I Never Knew: A Devotional for Comfort in the Loss of Your Unborn Child or Newly Born Child by Kathe Wunnenburg (religious based)
  
                                    "A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love".   ~Stendhal

Mindfulness and Stress Management

Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook: A Proven Way to Accept Yourself, Build Inner Strength and Thrive by Kristen Neff and Christipher Germer

Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness by Jon Kabat- Zinn and Tich Nhat Hahn

Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life by Tich Nhat Hahn

Headspace Meditations -app on smart phone

Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation by Daniel J. Siegal

A Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Workbook by Bob Stahl, Elisha Goldstein, Saki Santorelli, and Jon Kabat-Zinn

Ask and It Is Given: Learning to Manifest Your Desires by Esther and Jerry Hicks

Meditations to Relieve Stress by Belleruth Naparstek (She has several meditation CDs for relaxtion)
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Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Emily Moody article - several Mindfulness resources listed, specifically for anxiety, depression and self-compassion
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Mystical Mandala Coloring Book (Dover Design Coloring Books) by Alberta Hutchinson

Little Flower Yoga for Kids: A Yoga and Mindfulness Program to Help Your Child Improve Attention and Emotional Balance by Jennifer Cohen Harper MA E-RCYT and Daniel J Siegal MD (forward)

Yoga as Medicine: The Yogic Prescription for Health and Healing by Yoga Journal and Timothy McCall Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Kristen Neff

Finding True Refuge: Meditations for Difficult Times by Tara Brach

Free Mindfulness website: Creating a Mindful Society

Audio/Video Resources for Mindfulness, Depression, and Anxiety:  www.soundstrue.com

Yoga for Depression by Amy Weintraub

A Mind of Your Own: The Truth About Depression and How Women Can Heal Their Bodies to Reclaim Their Lives by Kelly Brogan M.D.​






                                    "Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” 
                              Tich Nhat Hahn

                            "I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
                               A.A. Milne~Winnie the Pooh

Parenting Books 

The Whole-Brained Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and Tina Payne Bryson, PhD. ​

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children by Dr. Shefali Tsbary

The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When the World Overwhelms Them by Elaine Arnon

​The Emotional Life of the Toddler by Alisha Lieberman

How to Raise An Adult by Julie Lythcott-Haims

​Listening with my Heart: A Story of Kindness and Self Compassion by Gabi Garcia (A children's book)

Ahn's Anger by Gail Silver (A children's book)

What Would Danny Do? The Power To Choose Series by Adir Levy

Relationship, Communication and Self-reflection

Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Dr. Sue Johnson

Non Violent Communication: A Language of Life, Life Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall B. Rosenburg PhD, Deepak Chopra 

Recovering from Emotional Immature Parenting: Practical Tool to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy by Lindsay C. Gibson

Living Like you Mean It: Use the Wisdom and Power of Your Emotions To Get The Life You Want by Ronald Frederick PhD

I Need Your Love - Is That True?: How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead by Byron Katie

Loving What Is: Four Questions that Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie

Resources and Exercises on Self Compassion by Kristen Neff

Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie
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The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations for Codependents by Melody Beattie

Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud and John Townsend

I Am Not Sick I Don't Need Help: How to Help Someone with Mental Illness Accept Treatment by Xavier Amador

Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser

Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone by Brene Brown

The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown

Daring Greatly: How the courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead

Everything Connects: How to Transform and Lead in the Age of Creativity, Innovation, and Sustainability by Faisal Hoque

True Refuge by Tara Brach

                                           "I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self indulgent. Caring for myself is
                                  an act of survival ~ Audre Lorde

                                       
                                  "Change is possible, but it must start with self-acceptance" Alexander Lowen   













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