"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending." -C.S. Lewis

Recommended Books

Happiness:

  • Happier by Tal Ben-Shahar

  • Happiness (A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill: Happiness) by Matthieu Ricard

  • Igniting Faith In 40 Days: The Power of Hope, Declarations, and Negativity Fasts by Steve and Wendy Backlund *

Codepency and Shame:

  • Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself By Melody Beattie

  • Beyond Codependency: And Getting Better All the Time by Melody Beattie

  • Codependent No More series by Andrei Nedelcu

  • Facing Love Addiction: Giving Yourself the Power to Change the Way You Love by Pia Mellody

  • Conquering Shame and Codependcy: 8 Steps to Freeing the True You by Darlene Lancer

  • I Thought It was Just Me: Women Reclaiming Power and Courage in a Culture of Shame by Brene Brown, PhD

Relationships:

  • Boundaries in Marriage by Cloud and Townsend *

  • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert by John Gottman, PhD

  • The Marriage You’ve Always Dreamed Of by Dr. Gary Smalley *

  • The DNA of Relationships by Dr. Gary Smalley *

  • The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman*

  • Fortified Marriages, Marriage Manual & Workbook by Chris Garner *

  • Love Must Be Tough by Dr. James Dobson *

  • Men are from Mars Women are from Venus by John Gray, PhD

  • How to Get Your Husband to Listen to You by Nancy Cobb and Connie Grigsby

  • Motivating Your Man God’s Way by Dr. Emerson & Sarah Eggerichs *

  • Rescue Your Love Life by Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend *

  • Sex Begins in the Kitchen by Dr. Kevin Leman *

  • Women Who Love Too Much: When You Keep Wishing and Hoping He’ll Change by Robin Norwood

  • Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood

  • The Love Dare by Alex Kenrick *

  • How to Be An Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving by David Richo

Anger:

  • The Dance of Anger- by Harriet Lerner, PhD

Abuse:

  • When Good Men Behave Badly: Change Your Behavior, Change Your Relationship by David Wexler, PhD (for men)

  • You Don’t Have to Take It Anymore: Turn Your Resentful, Angry, or Emotionally Abusive Relationship into a Compassionate, Loving One by Steven Stosny, PhD (book for both the abuser and the victim)

  • Love Without Hurt: Turn Your Resentful, Angry, or Emotionally Abusive Relationship into a Compassionate, Loving One by Steven Stosny, PhD (book for both the abuser and the victim)

  • The Verbally Abusive Man: Can He Change? A Woman’s Guide to Deciding Whether to Stay or Go by Patricia Evans

  • Mending the Soul by Steven R. Tracy *

  • The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to recognize it and how to respond by Patricia Evans

  • Why Does He Do That? Inside The Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft

  • Dangerous Marriage: Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Violence by S.R. McDill & Linda McDill

  • Stop Hurting the Woman You Love: Breaking the Cycle of Abusive Behavior by Charlie Donaldson, Randy Flood, with Elaine Eldridge

  • Angry Men and the Women Who Love Them: Breaking the Cycle of Physical and Emotional Abuse by Paul Hegstrom *

  • How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing: The Emotionally Abusive Relationship by Beverly Engel

Parenting:

  • Bringing up Boys by James Dobson *

  • Parents’ Answer Book by Dr. James Dobson *

  • Parenting Isn’t for Cowards by Dr. James Dobson *

  • The Five Love Languages of Children by Chapman & Campbell *

  • The Unmotivated Child by Natalie Rathvon

  • What to Expect the Toddler Years by Eisenberg, Murkoff, and Hathaway

  • 10 Days to a Less Defiant Child by Jeffrey Bernstein, PhD

  • The Explosive Child by Ross Greene, PhD

Grief:

  • A Grace Disguised by Sittser *

  • Where is God When it Hurts? By Philip Yancey *

Other:

  • When the Body Says No by Gabor Mate

  • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo

  • The Paradox of Choice: Why More is Less by Barry Schwartz

*books recommended for faith-based clients