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Subtitle: The Missing Ingredient for a Healthy and Lasting Relationship Recommended by: my sister There are some good ideas in this book, delivered in a patronizing, lecturing tone with a lot of repetition. Yes, people choose each other for a reason, and it’s useful to remember that when times get hard. No, staying with someone when [...] Transition and Beyond Subtitle: Observations on Gender Identity Recommended by: Reid Vanderburgh, MA, LMFT Speaking as both a trans man and a psychotherapist, Vanderburgh provides a compassionate, detailed tour through all the aspects of gender transition, from contemplation to completion. Client vignettes provide real-world examples. The book candidly addresses every question I had about gender transition as well as [...] Subtitle: Strengthening Intimacy in Families I read this by coincidence, and it fits perfectly with themes I’ve been thinking about lately. Kathy Weingarten, a family therapist, addresses double binds that society creates for women around acceptable roles and definitions of success. She talks about dominating behaviors in men and how to address them. She [...] Subtitle: The Road from Estrangement to Reconciliation Recommended by: Laura Davis’s website Laura Davis is co-author of the classic book about healing from incest, “The Courage to Heal.” This book is written with compassionate awareness that not all stories have happy endings and not all estrangements can be reconciled. Nevertheless, I cried while reading it, for all the [...] Subtitle: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness This book is billed as a “culmination of his life’s work” on the back cover. It recapitulates material from Peter Levine’s earlier book “Waking the Tiger” about trauma and the nervous system, and uses many of the same case studies covered in the Somatic Experiencing curriculum. Somatic Experiencing [...] Subtitle: Telling the Trust About Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power Recommended by: Pam Lyons Brene Brown researches shame by listening to people’s stories. This book focuses on women for the most part, although she mentions how men’s experience of shame differs at the end of the book. The content overlaps with The Gifts of Imperfection quite a bit. She [...] Subtitle: Making Room For What Really Matters Sarah Susanka is a renowned architect, author of the “Not So Big House” series. This book is beautifully architected with parallels between life remodeling and house remodeling. For the target audience of people with plenty of money and a shortage of time, the book offers substantial, detailed advice [...] Subtitle: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are Addtional subtitle: Your guide to a wholehearted life Recommended by: Brene Brown’s Ted talk on vulnerability Brene Brown studies shame resilience and wholehearted living by collecting people’s stories and searching for patterns of what works and what doesn’t. It turns out [...] A thought-provoking book, more profound than I expected. Refreshingly, both same-gender and opposite-gender couples are used for the examples. The authors warn several times to be sure a relationship is not abusive before using it as a crucible for personal work. This is a warning that’s missing from most relationship books I’ve read, which instead [...] Subtitle: How to stop being hurt by them without becoming one of them Re-read while writing my double bind article. The first half of this book talks about invalidators and how subtle and awful they can be. The tone is affirming and validating for those who have been invalidated in the past. The second half abruptly changes tone [...] |
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