Resources

Recommended Book List

    • Parenting From the Inside Out: How a deeper self-understanding can help you raise children who thrive by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. & Mary Hartzel, M. Ed.

    • The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are by Daniel Siegel, M.D.

    • The Neuroscience of Psychotherapy: Building and Rebuilding the Human Brain by Louis Cozolino

    • The Baby Book, Dr. William Sears

    • The Attachment Parenting Book: A Common Sense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby, by Dr. William Sears and Martha Sears

    • Parenting the Teenage Brain by Sheryl Feinstein

    • Learning and the Brain: A Comprehensive Guide for Educators, Parents and Teachers, by Sheryl Feinstein

    • Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love-Based Approach to Helping Attachment-Challenged Children With Severe Behaviors, by Forbes & Post

    • Primal Teen by B. Strauch

    • Hold On To Your Kids (2006), Neufeld & Mate

    • Reviving Ophelia, by Mary Pipher

    • Real Boys, by William Pollack, Ph.D

    • Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys, by Dan Kindlon and Michael Thompson

    • Iron John, by Robert Bly

    • The Boy’s Body Guide: A Health and Hygiene Book, by Hawkins and Laube

    • What’s Going on Down There?: Answers to questions boys find hard to ask, by Gravelle, K.

    • Primal Wound, by Nancy Verrier

    • Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self, by David Brodzinsky

    • Healing Parents, byTerry Levy

    • Trauma and Recovery, by Judith Herman, M.D.

    • Helping Traumatized Children Learn

    • Healing Trauma, by Peter Levine, PH.D.

    • Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes, by Peter Levine, PH.D.

    • Birth trauma, by Stan Grof

    • Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body, and Brain, by Marion F. Solomon, Daniel J. (Eds.) Siegel

    • The Body Keeps the Score, by van der Kolk

    • Getting Back Our Bodies, by Christine Caldwell

    • Addiction as an Attachment Disorder, by Philip Flores, PH.D.

    • The Thirst For Wholeness, Christina Grof

    • How to Get Off Drugs, by Rolling Stone

    • Driven to Distraction, by Edward Hallowell, M.D.

    • Taking Charge of ADHD, Barkley

    • The Gift of Dyslexia, by Davis, R. (1994).

    • The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook, 4th Edition, by Edmund J. Bourne, Ph.D.

    • The Gestalt Therapy Book, by Joel Latner, Ph.D.

    • Gestalt Therapy Integrated, by Polster & Polster

    • Here & Now, by Fritz Perls

    • Gestalt Therapy Verbatim, by Fritz Perls

    • Creative Process in Gestalt Therapy, by Joseph Zinker

    • The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief, by Francis Weller

    • One Year to Live, by Peter Levine

    • On Death and Dying, by Elizabeth Kubler-Ross 

    • No Death, No Fear, by Tich Nhat Hanh

    • The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, by Sokayel Rinpoche

    • Lifetimes, by Bryan Mellonie

    • The Tenth Good Thing About Barney, by Judith Viorst

    • When A Pet Dies, by Fred Rogers

    • Be Here Now, by Ram Daas

    • When Things Fall Apart, by Pema Chodron

    • Wherever You Go There You Are, by Jon Kabat-Zinn

    • Full Catastrophe Living, by Jon Kabat-Zinn

    • Don’t Push the River, by Barry Stevens

    • The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle

    • Mindfulness Treatment Approaches: A Clinical Guide to Evidence Approaches, by Ruth Baer

    • A Path With Heart, by Jack Kornfield

    • Eastern Body/Western Mind, by Anodea Judith

    • Breathe Away Your Tension 

    • Getting Back Our Bodies, by Christine Caldwell

    • Self harm: Women Who Hurt Themselves, by Dusty Miller

    • The Eating Disorder Sourcebook: a comprehensive guide to the cause, treatment and prevention of eating disorders, by Caroline Costin

    • The Body Image Workbook, by Thomas Cash, Ph.D.

    • The Anorexia Workbook, by Michelle Hefner & George Iefer

    • Overcoming Bulimia Workbook, by Randy McCabe & Cindy McFarline

    • The Mood Cure, by Julia Ross

    • The Diet Cure, by Julia Ross

    • The Tracker, by Tom Brown Jr.

    • Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From Nature-Deficit Disorder, by Richard Louv

    • The Healing Earth, by Philip Sutton Chard

    • Soul Craft, by Bill Plotkin

    • Ecopsychology, by Roszak, Gomes and Kanner

    • Be the Pack Leader, by Cesar Millan

    • 7 Habits for Highly Effective Families, by Covey

    • The New Peoplemaking, by Virginia Satir

    • Making Contact, by Virginia Satir

    • The Values of Connection, by Robert Lee

    • All About IEP’s, by Peter Wright

    • Helping Traumatized Children Learn, by Mass Advocates For Children, The Hale and Dorr Legal Services Cnt of Harvard Law School and The Task Force on Children Affected by Domestic Violence.

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