Resources
Resources
Adoption
The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to your Adoptive Family
The Connected Child is a great resource for adoptive parents (or any parent!) to help connect emotionally with children, especially children who have experienced trauma or have emotional or behavioral difficulties.
Three Little Words: A Memoir
If you’re considering adoption or fostering of children in the DCF system, this is a wonderful book that shares one young woman’s story about abuse, foster care and adoption.
Parenting
Try and Make Me
Try and Make Me is one of my all time favorite parenting books. It gives parents tools they can use right now to help manage difficult behavior.
Parenting with Love and Logic
What I enjoy about the Parenting with Love and Logic series is that the parenting model they promote is based in reality. I encourage parents to use parenting that reflects how the world works; i.e. – if you don’t show up to work, you get fired. Or, if you come home after curfew, you lose the car. It uses simple concepts that help kids and teens to take responsibility for their own behaviors.
Parenting Teens with Love and Logic
As stated above with this book focusing on Teens and equipping them to make responsible decisions.
The Connected Child
The Connected Child is a great resource for parents to help connect emotionally with children, especially children who have experienced trauma or have emotional or behavioral difficulties.
The Explosive Child
This book is about a new approach to parenting explosive children, based on research in the neurosciences.
The Well-Behaved Child
In The Well-Behaved Child, beloved psychologist John Rosemond shares his seven essential tools for raising a child who pays attention and obeys.
Dad, Here's What I Really Need from You
Dr. Michelle Watson, founder of The Abba Project, packs your parenting tool box with ideas, encouragements, timely information, dialogue helps, and biblical wisdom to show you how to be a good dad.
EMDR and Trauma
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook
If you’d like to better understand how trauma affects children, this engaging book is a great read. The doctor who wrote this has amazing experience and knowledge and the book is written in a way that is easy to relate to. Check it out.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
This is a great book to help you learn about how trauma works in the brain, how it can hinder functioning and connection to others and how to heal from it.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures
The authoritative presentation of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy
The Hero's Journey: Integrating Jungian Psychology and EMDR Therapy
Dr. Dobo’s book shows how the stages of the hero’s journey offer a powerful parallel to the stages of healing in EMDR.
Transformational EMDR: The Manual: Shapiro’s Aspiration for EMDR Beyond the Disease Model
Transformational EMDR: The Manual offers an illuminating journey through the phases of EMDR treatment, revealing thoughtful, inspiring and practical ways to accomplish this in-depth work by doing less, not more.
Unburdening Souls at the Speed of Thought: Psychology, Christianity, and the Transforming Power of EMDR
The book will give hope to those suffering mental anguish as they are exposed to a new map of the soul modeled by Christ’s passion and shared by psychology.
Men's Issues
Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man’s Soul
Do you ever wonder why you feel angry all the time? Well, part of it is because God made men to be warriors, not namby pamby girly men. Our society would like you to think you should be a sweater wearing soft-talking Mr. Rogers pushover. Say NO! If you’d like to learn more about your true nature and how to be a strong Godly man, this is a great book for you.
Mansfield’s Book of Manly Men
Man up! This is a great book that will challenge you to be the man you were meant to be.
How God Makes Men: Ten Epic Stories. Ten Proven Principles. One Huge Promise for Your Life
Yup, another Christ-centered book about being a man. Are you getting the theme yet? How to be a man has a lot to do with how to follow Christ. Are you up for the challenge?
Spiritual Leadership: Principles of Excellence For Every Believer (Commitment To Spiritual Growth)
God calls all men to be the spiritual leaders of their home. To learn more and be positive challenged, check this out.
The Resolution for Men
If you’re ready for an inspired challenge to become the true God loving leader of your family, this book provides you with the roadmap.
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win
Two U.S. Navy SEAL officers who led the most highly decorated special operations unit of the Iraq War demonstrate how to apply powerful leadership principles from the battlefield to business and life.
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
Through extreme self-discipline and mental toughness, David Goggins overcame childhood trauma to become an elite military serviceman and endurance athlete, revealing how to unlock human potential beyond 40%.
Living Fearless: Exchanging the Lies of the World for the Liberating Truth of God
Jamie Winship explores how fear stems from false views of God and identity, offering practical steps to hear from God, embrace truth, and experience radical courage through Christ.
Getting Rid of the Gorilla: Confessions on the Struggle to Forgive
Brian Jones combines his storytelling gift with bold and compassionate honesty and an ever-present awareness of the love of God and the value of the struggle to forgive.
The Man in the Mirror: Solving the 24 Problems Men Face
Bestselling author Patrick Morley helps you overcome common roadblocks in the road to spiritual growth and chart a path toward becoming a better leader wherever you are--at home, in your workplace, and in your community.
The DNA of a Man: How Your God-Given Masculinity Rebuilds Your Mind, Your Marriage, and Your Mission
In The DNA of a Man you will learn the foundational 3-part framework for being a Kingdom Man
Women
No More Faking Fine: Ending the Pretending
No More Faking Fine has brought hope and healing to my female clients who have struggled for many years to let go of their past and allow themselves to be imperfect.
Psychopath Free: Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships With Narcissists, Sociopaths, and Other Toxic People
A recovery guide helping survivors navigate and heal from psychopathic relationships, offering tools to regain self-respect and break free from emotional manipulation and abuse.
How To Kill A Narcissist: Debunking The Myth Of Narcissism And Recovering From Narcissistic Abuse
A guide to healing from narcissistic abuse by understanding the narcissist's tactics and implementing strategies to reclaim your self-worth.
Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
A guide to breaking free from codependency by learning to set boundaries and focus on self-care, helping readers understand they can only change themselves.
Good Boundaries and Goodbyes: Loving Others Without Losing the Best of Who You Are
A comprehensive Bible study exploring biblical principles for setting healthy boundaries in relationships, combining theological wisdom and practical strategies for maintaining sustainable connections.
Marriage
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
This book is from the Gottman Institute, which is recognized as the best in the business in regards to marriage counseling. Their book offers the key ingredients from improving your marriage to helping heal a damaged marriage on the brink of divorce. It’s got great tools that you can start using right away.
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
Do you ever wonder why you don’t feel that close to your spouse anymore? Do you wonder why every effort you’ve made to show your love seems to fall flat? It may be that you’re just not speaking the same love language! This is a great book that really helps husbands and wives to better understand each other.
Boundaries in Marriage
This book teaches couples how to set healthy boundaries in their marriage to strengthen their relationship and protect their individual freedoms.
Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts: Seven Questions to Ask Before -- and After -- You Marry
A comprehensive marriage program designed specifically for today's couples by a couple.
Anxiety / Depression
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
Feeling Good is one of the benchmark books that has helped many people to learn how to manage their negative emotions. It echoes many of the techniques I use in my sessions.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0
If you’d like to learn about how “EQ” or emotional intelligence impacts your success in this world (much more than your IQ!), please check out this easy and informative read.
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