Beyond the Session
Thriving takes more than one hour a week. These are some resources I recommend to help you keep growing beyond our sessions.
These recommendations are meant to complement therapy, not replace it. If something resonates, bring it to our next session — I'd love to explore it with you.
Trauma & Healing
The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk
No Bad Parts — Richard Schwartz
The Living Legacy of Trauma — Janina Fisher
Emotional Resilience — David Viscott
Tapping In — Laurel Parnell (bilateral stimulation for healing)
Adult Children of Emotionally
Immature Parents — Lindsay Gibson
The Resilient Self — Steven & Sybil Wolin
Waking the Tiger — Peter Levine
Anxiety, CBT & Workbooks
The Anxiety and Worry Workbook — Clark & Beck
Retrain Your Brain — Seth Gillihan
Rewire Your Anxious Brain — Catherine Pittman
Overcoming Intrusive Thoughts — Sally Winston & Martin Self
The Anti-Anxiety Notebook — Therapy Notebooks
Dare — Barry McDonagh
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook — Edmund Bourne
When Panic Attacks — David D. Burns
Relationships, Boundaries & Self-Worth
Where to Draw the Line — Anne Katherine (how to set healthy boundaries)
The Body Is Not an Apology — Sonya Renee Taylor
Attached — Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
Set Boundaries Find Peace — Nedra Tawwab
Radical Acceptance — Tara Brach (self-compassion and worthiness)
The Mastery of Love — Don Miguel Ruiz
The Four Agreements — Don Miguel Ruiz
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work — John Gottman
Breaking Patterns
Codependent No More — Melody Beattie
How to Break Your Addiction to a Person — Howard Halpern
Why Does He Do That? Inside the minds of angry and controlling men— Lundy Bancroft
Women Who Love Too Much — Robin Norwood
The Verbally Abusive Relationship — Patricia Evans
Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist — Margalis Fjelstad
But He'll Change: end the thinking that keeps you in an abusive relationship — Joanna Hunter
Will I Ever Be Good Enough? — Karyl McBride (healing daughters of narcissistic mothers)
ADHD — Books,
Workbooks & Tools
Taking Charge of Adult ADHD — Russell Barkley PhD
The Queen of Distraction — Terry Matlen MSW
Managing ADHD Workbook for Women — Duan, Tripp & Lewis
The Mindfulness Prescription for Adult ADHD — Lidia Zylowska MD
ADD and Your Money — Stephanie Sarkis PhD & Karl Klein JD
Driven to Distraction — Edward Hallowell & John Ratey
Goblin Tools — free ADHD time estimator and task organizer (goblin.tools)
Smart but Scattered — free executive functioning resources (smartbutscatteredkids.com)
Personal Growth, Life Skills & Philosophy
Crucial Conversations — Patterson, Grenny et al.
How to Win Friends and Influence People — Dale Carnegie
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People — Stephen Covey
The Stoicism Collection — Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus & Seneca
The Daily Stoic — Ryan Holiday
Ho'oponopono: The Hawaiian Forgiveness Ritual — Ulrich Emil Duprée
Why Stoicism Matters — The School of Life (YouTube)
When Life Hurts — Einzelgänger (YouTube)
Meditations & Audio
on Youtube
528Hz Release Inner Conflict & Struggle — Anti Anxiety Cleanse, Stop Overthinking & Worry
Self-Esteem Meditation — Louise Hay
Four Hours of Chopin for Relaxation
101 Power Thoughts — Louise Hay
Ocean Music for Relaxation
Self-Healing Meditation — Louise Hay
Guided Meditation — The Honest Guys
Flying: Relaxing Sleep Music for Meditation, Stress Relief & Relaxation by Peder B. Helland
ACA — Adult Children of Alcoholics
The Loving Parent Guidebook — ACA World Service Organization
ACA Fellowship Text (Big Red Book) — ACA World Service Organization
Adult Children of Alcoholics — Janet Woititz
Homecoming — John Bradshaw
Healing the Shame That Binds You — John Bradshaw
The Drama of the Gifted Child — Alice Miller
Toxic Parents — Susan Forward
Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics — Gravitz & Bowden
Divorce & Life Transitions
Rebuilding When Your Relationship Ends — Bruce Fisher
Divorce Think Financially Not Emotionally — Jeffrey Landers
If Divorce is a Game These are the Rules — Wendy Lauber
Your Divorce Advisor — Diana Mercer & Marsha Kline Pruett
101 Things NOT to Do During a Divorce — Victoria Pynchon & Joe Doherty
Conscious Uncoupling — Katherine Woodward Thomas
Mejor Sola que Mal Acompañada / For the Latina in an Abusive Relationship — Myrna M. Zambrano (bilingual English/Spanish)
Violencia Doméstica: Detección, Prevención y Ayuda — Celso William Chignoli (Spanish only — DV awareness in Hispanic culture)
Financial Wellness &
Money Mindset
The Financial Diet — Chelsea Fagan & Lauren Ver Hage
I Will Teach You to Be Rich — Ramit Sethi
The Financial Feminist — Tori Dunlap
The Simple Path to Wealth — JL Collins
Your Money or Your Life — Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez
The Psychology of Money — Morgan Housel
Get Good with Money — Tiffany Aliche The Budgetnista
We Should All Be Millionaires — Rachel Rodgers