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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 [...] I liked How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk so much that I read the authors’ prior book. “Liberated Parents, Liberated Children” was published first, by many years. It tells the story of how the authors and a group of other parents (fictionalized to protect privacy) learned respectful, compassionate communication [...] I read the occasional parenting book to find out how I should have been treated as a child, and to learn how to treat myself and others better now. This book advocates treating children as lovable, capable beings deserving of respect. This shouldn’t sound radical, right? The examples and exercises teach many concrete, immediately applicable skills, including Respect [...] Recommended by: Emma McCreary, and Jeannette Maw This is the original source for the term “Law of Attraction”, as described by “Abraham” (a collective of Non-Physical Beings) and conveyed through Esther Hicks. The Law of Attraction is defined as: Ask (we are doing this all the time with our desires) 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 When I saw its pink cover and tie-in title with Jennifer Louden’s earlier book “The Women’s Comfort Book”, I expected to be bored by shallow platitudes. Instead, I engaged deeply with Louden’s ongoing process, vignettes from other women’s stories, gentle questions rather than strident answers, and a focus on creating an authentic life with [...] Jack Kornfield, an experienced American meditation teacher, combines Buddhist philosophy, meditation exercises, and stories about his students and himself into a thorough introduction to Buddhist psychology. The Buddhist therapeutic techniques for resolving trauma are strikingly similar to Somatic Experiencing techniques. One comes from self-observation, and one comes from observation of other animals. Perhaps it’s unsurprising [...] Po Bronson sought out hundreds of people’s true stories about answering the question, “What should I do with my life?” He tells 55 of these stories in detail, loosely organized by the issues they were confronting. I was drawn in by each person’s richly described story, as well as by the underlying story of Po [...] 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 [...] Recommended by: Molly Gordon’s Biznik article When the Going Gets Tough, Think Smarter In a book that combines psychological research and self-help suggestions, Seligman correlates optimism with health and happiness, and pessimism with learned helplessness and depression. Explanatory styles for positive and negative events are analyzed for being permanent, pervasive, and personal. Optimists tend to think negative events are [...] |
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