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Book Recommendations

Abuse:

Domestic Violence and Abuse

Family and Friends Guide to Domestic Violence by Elaine Weiss, Ed.D, 2003

The Emotionally Abusive Relationship by Beverly Engel, 2002

When Love Goes Wrong: What To Do When You Can't Do Anything Right by Ann Jones and Susan Schecter, 1992

Emotional and Verbal

Healing The Scars of Emotional Abuse by Gregory L. Jantz

The Verbally Abusive Relationship, How to Recognize It and How to Respond by Patricia Evans

Anxiety

Overcoming Anxiety, Panic, and Depression, New Ways to Regain Your Confidence by James Gardner,M.D. and Arthur H. Bell, Ph.D.

Worry, Hope and Help for a Common Condition by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D.

Codependency

Codependent No More by by Melody Beattie

Facing Codependency by by Pia Mellody

Codependence: Misunderstood-Mistreated by Anne Wilson Shaef

Grief and Loss:

General

Healing into Life and Death by Stephen Levine

The Courage to Grieve by Judy Tatelbaum

Living Through Personal Crisis by Ann Kaiser Stearns

On Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The Grief Recovery Handbook by John W. James and Frank Cherry

Grief's Courageous Journey: A Workbook by Sandi Caplan and Gordon Lang

Parents

Losing A Parent by Alexandra Kennedy

How to Survive the Loss of a Parent by Lois Akner

Children

How to Survive the Loss of a Child by Katherine Sanders

Recovering from the Loss of a Child by Katherine Fair Donnelly

The Bereaved Parent by Harriet Sarnoff Schiff

Suicide

After Suicide: A Unique Grief Process by E. Betsy Ross

Healthy Relationships

From Love That Hurts to Love that is Real by Sylvia Ogden Peterson

Escape from Intimacy by Anne Wilson Shaef

How to Break Your Addiction to a Person by Howard Halpern

Facing Love Addiction by Pia Mellody

Parenting and Adolescent Issues

Get Out Of My Life, But First Could You Take Me and Cheryl To The Mall? A parent's guide to the new teenager by Anthony E. Wolf, Ph.D.

For Parents And Teenagers, Dissolving The Barrier Between You And Your Teen by William Glasser, M.D.

Self-Injury & Self-Harm

When the Body Is the Target: Self-Harm, Pain, and Traumatic Attachments by Sharon Klayman Farber, 2002

Women and Self-Harm: Understanding, Coping, and Healing from Self-Mutilation by Dee Cox, Gerrilyn Smith, Jacqui Saradjian, 2000

Bodies Under Siege: Self-mutilation and Bodiy Modification in Culture and Psychiatry by A.R. Favazza, 1996 (2nd ed.)

Lost in the Mirror by R. A. Moskovitz, 1996

On the Edge of Darkness: Conversations about conquering depression by K. Cronkite, 1995

Beyond the Darkness by C. Kubetin & J. D. Mallory, 1992

Man Against Himself by Steven Levenkron, 1938

Spirituality

You Can Heal Your Life by Louis L. Hay, Hay House, Inc., 1999
Living In The Light, A Guide to Personal and Planetary Transformation by Shakti Gawain and Laurel King, New World Library, 1986

Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda, Self-Realization Fellowship, 1998, Reprinted 2001

The God Code, The Secret of Our Past, the Promise of Our Future by Gregg Braden, Hay House, Inc., 2004

The Healing Secrets of the Ages by Catherine Ponder, DeVorss and Company, 1967, Updated 1985

Scientific Christian Mental Practice by Emma Curtis Hopkins, DeVorss and Company

Hidden Message in Water by Masaru Emoto, Beyond Words Publishing, 2004

Stress Management

Ancient Secret Of The Fountain Of Youth by Peter Kelder, Doubleday, 1998

Don't Just Do Something, Sit There, A Mindfulness Retreat by Sylvia Boorstein, HarperCollins Publishers, 1996

Metaphysical Meditations by Paramahansa Yogananda, Self-Realization Fellowship, 1964

365 TAO Daily Meditations by Deng Ming-Dao, Harper & Row, 1992

Believing In Myself, Daily Meditations for Healing and Building Self-Esteem by Earnie Larsen & Carol Hegarty, Prentice Hall Press, 1991

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