Favorite Books

How To Fall In Love With Anyone

Mandy Len Catron

Len Catron writes from a personal perspective on love, loss, relationships, and family. We see more than a glimpse of her pain, as her first connection to another unravels until it finally ends. She then moves on, sharing with every detour and bump on the road, the unconventional manner in which she finds the man she shares her life with today. Could just 36 increasingly personal questions be the key to finding meaningful love? Read her book and explore for yourself.

The ADHD Effect on Marriage

Melissa Orlov

ADHD is difficult enough for the individual. However, when a partner is added, both can be equally affected. Orlov addresses ADHD and marriage after personally seeing how it can negatively impact the individual as well as the couple. She offers validation and answers in a situation that can be frustrating at best, and hopeless at its worst. Reading this book is only the beginning in finding solutions. The rest is determined by the amount of work both decide to put in.

The Happiness Trap

Russ Harris

This book is about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and dealing with depression, anxiety, and pain. It presents a mindfulness approach that can help with one’s negative thoughts and feelings. This is not about “fighting” the thoughts, but finding a way to accept and diffuse them. Harris offers simple exercises along with education on the theory for guiding through this process.

Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

Karyl McBride Ph.D.

Having a mother that often criticizes you, doesn’t support you, or behaves as if her problems are the only topic of conversation, is frustrating to say the least. It may not be because you are doing something wrong. Could it be that your mother is a Narcissist? Find out and understand more by reading Dr. McBride’s book.

Women with Attention Deficit Disorder

Sari Solden

Being a wife, mother, and daughter; and having a career, can all be difficult enough without the challenge of an attention deficit. Maybe you have, or think you have, the symptoms that are consistent with this diagnosis. If so, reading this book can help you consider new ways to validate and understand yourself.

After the Affair

Janis Abrahms Spring

When the crisis of infidelity strikes you there may be a way to not only survive and maintain your relationship, but you may also find a way to strengthen it.

Why Him? Why Her?: How to Find and Keep Lasting Love

Helen Fisher

Dr. Fisher was asked by the people of Match.com to come up with a questionnaire to guide singles into understanding who they fit with. So began her research and the culmination of Chemistry.com and her book. Do the questionnaire, find out your primary and secondary relationship personality type and read the book. You may never look at yourself, and a potential partner, the same way again!

If Love is a Game, These are the Rules

Cherie Carter-Scott

A relationship primer in ten easy (ok…almost easy) rules.

He’s Just Not That Into You

Greg Behrendt and Liz Tucillo

This is not the movie! A funny and relevant book to offer you support and insight in not fooling yourself that he’s something that he’s not.

Daring Greatly

Brene Brown

Being vulnerable does not show that you are weak.  On the contrary, vulnerability shows the courage to take risks.  If you haven’t seen this video it’s a must!  After watching this video you will surely want to read more in this amazing book.

The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer Happier and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness

Kelli Harding, MD

There are invisible factors behind our health. In a straightforward experiment designed to establish the relationship between high blood pressure, cholesterol and heart health in rabbits, a nurturing post-doc inadvertently made all the difference with kindness. Find out about this and other environmental factors that can impact our physical and mental well-being.

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How it Can Help You Find -- and Keep – Love

Amir Levine, MD and Rachel S.F. Heller, MA

Understanding your attachment style, one of the most advanced relationship science in existence today, can aid you in your choice of a partner. John Bowlby, a psychologist in the 1950’s, suggests that we tend to behave in one of three ways in a relationship, anxious, avoidant or secure. In this book you can determine your attachment style, your partner’s, or potential partner, which can help in building stronger and more fulfilling connections with the one you love.

Maybe You Should Talk To Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist and Our Lives Revealed

Lori Gottlieb

Therapy from a therapist’s point of view. Lori Gottlieb, a psychotherapist, has her own challenges and shares them along with her experience as she views it from the other side of the therapist’s chair. See inside the window of what it is like to be a psychotherapist as she also shares these experiences. This is a book that will, at the very least, offer validity to the human experience, as well as, being an enjoyable, humorous read.

More to explore

Adult ADHD

ADHD is not always diagnosed in young children. If there are academic or behavioural issues they will quickly be noticed, but what

Relationships

In human behaviour we strive towards feeling connected to others. Unfortunately, many of us lack the skills in knowing the various paths

Clinical Depression

There are many that seek support that do not recognize they are experiencing a clinical depression. This is an illness, not a

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