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Good Books To Read...

 

General Topics:

• Boundaries: When to Say YES, When to Say NO, to Take Control of Your Life. Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend
• Forgiving the Unforgivable. David Stoop, Ph.D.
• Changes that Heal: How to Understand Your Past to Ensure a Healthier Future. Dr. Henry Cloud
• Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. Mary Pipher, Ph.D.
• Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood. William Pollack, Ph.D.
• How People Grow: What the Bible Reveals about Personal Growth. Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
• Hiding From Love: How to Change the Withdrawal Patterns that Isolate and Imprison You. Dr. John Townsend
• Positive Discipline. Jane Nelsen, Ed.D.
• The New Birth Order Book: Why You Are the Way You Are. Dr. Kevin Leman
• Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes. William Bridges
• 10 Lies the Church Tells Women. J. Lee Grady
• What You Can Change & What You Can’t. Martin E. P. Seligman, Ph.D.
  

Trauma & Abuse:

• Trauma and Recovery. Dr. Judith Herman
• Transforming Trauma: A Guide to Understanding and Treating Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse. Anne Salter, Ph.D.
• The Rape Recovery Handbook: Step by Step Help for Survivors of Sexual Assault. Aphrodite Matsakis, Ph.D.
• The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse. David Johnson & Jeff VanVonderen
• Church Abuse. Dr. Enroth
• The Heresy of Mind Control: Recognizing Con Artists, Tyrants, and Spiritual Abusers in Leadership. Stephen Martin
• Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable and Volatile Relationship. Christine Ann Lawson
 

Relationships:

• Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love. Dr. Sue Johnson
• Not “Just Friends”: Rebuilding Trust and Recovering Your Sanity After Infidelity. Shirley P. Glass, Ph.D.
• Private Lies: Infidelity and the Betrayal of Intimacy. Frank Pitman
• Attachments: Why You Love, Feel and Act the Way You Do. Dr. Tim Clinton & Dr. Gary Sibcy
• Fathered by God: Learning What Your Dad Could Never Teach You. John Eldredge
• The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships. P.J. Carnes
• The verbally abusive relationship. Patricia Evans
• Safe People: How to Find Relationships that are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren’t. Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend
• The Relationship Cure: A Five Step Guide for Building Better Connections with Family, Friends, and Lovers. John M. Gottman, Ph.D.
• In Sheep’s Clothing: Understanding and Dealing with Manipulative People. G.K. Simon

Grief & Loss:

• How to Survive the Loss of a Love. Colgrove, Ph.D., Bloomfield, M.D., & McWilliams
• On Death and Dying. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
• Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow. Judith Viorst

Addictions:

• Addictions and Grace. Gerald May
• Codependent No More. Melody Beattie
• When Food is Love. Geneen Roth
• Addicted to Love: Recovering from Unhealthy Dependencies in Romance, Relationships & Sex. Stephen Arterburn

Spirituality:

• How People Grow. Dr. Henry Cloud
  
• The Journey of Desire: Searching for the Life We've Only Dreamed of. John Eldredge
• Waking the Dead: The Glory of a Heart Fully Alive. John Eldredge
• The Grace and Truth Paradox: Responding With Christlike Balance. Randy Alcorn
• The Chronicles of Narnia. C.S. Lewis
  
• Heaven. Randy Alcorn
  

Personality Types:

• Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type. Tieger & Tieger
• Please Understand Me II: Temperament Character Intelligence. David Keirsey
• The Introvert Advantage: How to Thrive in an Extrovert World. Marti Olsen Laney, Psy.D.