Book Resources

Books on common topics for personal discovery

For Anxiety + stress

• Rewire Your Anxious Brain: How to Use the Neuroscience of Fear to End Anxiety, Panic, and Worry by Catherine M. Pittman PhD, Elizabeth M. Karle MLIS

• Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (Revised and Expanded): The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Lack of Focus, Anger, and Memory Problems by Daniel G. Amen M.D.

• Dare: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks by  Barry McDonagh 

• Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle Paperback by  Emily Nagoski PhD, Amelia Nagoski DMA

• The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook by  Edmund J. Bourne PhD

For Depression

• Change Your Brain, Change Your Life (Revised and Expanded): The Breakthrough Program for Conquering Anxiety, Depression, Obsessiveness, Lack of Focus, Anger, and Memory Problems by Daniel G. Amen M.D.

• The ACT Workbook for Depression and Shame: Overcome Thoughts of Defectiveness and Increase Well-Being Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by  Matthew McKay PhD, Michael Jason Greenberg PsyD, Patrick Fanning

For Grief

• Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief by Martha Whitmore Hickman

• Michael Rosens Sad Book by Michael Rosen

• It's OK That You're Not OK Paperback by  Megan Devine

For Relationships

• The Ethical Slut, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love by Janet W. Hardy, Dossie Easton

• More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory (More Than Two Essentials) by  Franklin Veaux, Janet Hardy, Tatiana Gill

• Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage: America's Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship by  John M. Gottman, Julie Schwartz Gottman, Joan Declaire

• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert by John Gottman PhD and Nan Silver

For Sexual Wellness

• Ultimate Guide to Sex and Disability: For All of Us Who Live with Disabilities, Chronic Pain, and Illness by Miriam Kaufman, Cory Silverberg

• Better Sex Through Mindfulness: How Women Can Cultivate Desire by Lori A. Brotto, Emily Nagoski

• The Pleasure Gap: American Women and the Unfinished Sexual Revolution by Katherine Rowland

• The Come as You Are Workbook: A Practical Guide to the Science of Sex by Emily Nagoski Ph.D.

• Healing Sex: A Mind-Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma by Staci Haines

• Breaking the Hush Factor: Ten Rules for Talking with Teenagers about Sex by Dr. Karen Rayne

• Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy by Linda Weiner, Constance Avery-Clark

• Curvy Girl Sex: 101 Body-Positive Positions to Empower Your Sex Life by Elle Chase

• Naked at Our Age: Talking Out Loud About Senior Sex by Joan Price

• Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

• Queer Sex: A Trans and Non-Binary Guide to Intimacy, Pleasure and Relationships by Juno Roche

• Coping with Erectile Dysfunction: How to Regain Confidence and Enjoy Great Sex by Barry W. McCarthy PhD, Michael E. Metz PhD

• She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman  by  Ian Kerner

• The Penis Book: A Doctor's Complete Guide to the Penis--From Size to Function and Everything in Between by  Aaron Spitz M.D. 

For General Wellness

• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (A Toltec Wisdom Book) by  Don Miguel Ruiz 

• Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by  Dr. Anna Lembke

• Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives by  Pia Mellody, Andrea Wells Miller, J. Keith Miller

• Healing the Shame that Binds You (Recovery Classics) by  John Bradshaw

• The Gaslighting Recovery Workbook: Healing From Emotional Abuse by  Amy Marlow-MaCoy LPC

• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by  Lindsay C. Gibson 

• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) by  Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

• Visioneering: Your Guide for Discovering and Maintaining Personal Vision by  Andy Stanley

• Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life by  Bill Burnett, Dave Evans

• Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by  Dr. Kristin Neff 

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by  Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

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

For Physical Wellness

Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too by  Jenni Schaefer, Thom Rutledge

for sex addiction + Betrayal Trauma