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Recommended by: a client. Geneen Roth has written several books about overcoming compulsive eating by removing external rules around food and listening to one’s own body instead. She also talks about the source of compulsive eating – not an internal lack of control, but a survival strategy to overcome the lack of external control in childhood. In [...] Recommended by: Tess Alfonsin A hard-edged book for teens that takes on multiple tough issues: Children’s cruelty to each other for being fat or disfigured While I applaud the author’s courage in addressing all these important issues, I think the book would have [...] A mix of personal memoir, client stories, and self-help advice, this book compassionately details the effects of having a narcissistic mother and shows a pathway for healing. Narcissism – extreme self-absorbtion and inability to empathize with others – occurs on a spectrum from a few narcissistic traits to full-blown Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Women with these traits [...] Recommended by: Emma McCreary With warmth and care, Muller describes some of the outcomes of an abusive childhood, or “family of sorrow,” and some spiritual tools that can bring healing. Near the beginning of the book, he proposes an exercise that resonated deeply with me. (Emphasis added.) [F]or a single day: Resolve to go [...] 22 year old Ashley Rhodes-Courter’s articulate, harrowing memoir of her childhood in the Florida foster care system. I read it in one sitting, pausing to cry in a few places. The three little words aren’t what you think. She has a journalist’s eye for detail and a poet’s eye for intensity, conveying a child’s [...] |
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