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What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsOur earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand.“Through this lens we can build a renewed sense of personal self-worth and ultimately recalibrate our responses to circumstances, situations, and relationships...Categorized as:
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![What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo]()
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsA searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life "Achingly exquisite . . . providing real hope for those who long to heal...Categorized as:
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![It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People by Ramani Durvasula]()
It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People by Ramani Durvasula
Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA transformative guide to protecting and healing yourself from the narcissism you can’t see, from psychologist and preeminent narcissism expert Dr. Ramani DurvasulaIt’s not always easy to tell when you’re dealing with a narcissist... -
![Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson]()
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIf you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent’s behavior...Categorized as:
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![Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia, Bill Gifford]()
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity by Peter Attia, Bill Gifford
Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars · 32 ratings#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking manifesto on living better and longer that challenges the conventional medical thinking on aging and reveals a new approach to preventing chronic disease and extending long-term health, from a visionary physician and leading longevity expert “One of the most important books you’ll ever read.”—Steven D... -
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DBT Skills Training Handouts and Worksheets by Marsha M. Linehan
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFeaturing more than 225 user-friendly handouts and worksheets, this is an essential resource for clients learning dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) skills, and those who treat them. All of the handouts and worksheets discussed in Marsha M. Linehan's DBT® Skills Training Manual, Second Edition , are provided, together with brief introductions to each module written expressly for clients... -
![The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain by Alan Gordon, Alon Ziv]()
The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain by Alan Gordon, Alon Ziv
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA groundbreaking mind-body protocol to heal chronic pain, backed by new research.Chronic pain is an epidemic. Fifty million Americans struggle with back pain, headaches, or some other pain that resists all treatment. Desperate pain sufferers are told again and again that there is no cure for chronic pain... -
![Becoming a Supple Leopard: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance by Kelly Starrett, Glen Cordoza]()
Becoming a Supple Leopard: The Ultimate Guide to Resolving Pain, Preventing Injury, and Optimizing Athletic Performance by Kelly Starrett, Glen Cordoza
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsLEARN HOW TO HACK HUMAN MOVEMENT Join the movement that has reached millions of athletes and coaches; learn how to perform basic maintenance on your body, unlock your human potential, live pain-free…and become a Supple Leopard... -
![Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries & Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy by Lindsay C. Gibson]()
Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries & Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy by Lindsay C. Gibson
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this important sequel to Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents , author Lindsay Gibson offers powerful tools to help you step back and protect yourself at the first sign of an emotional takeover, make sure your emotions and needs are respected, and break free from the coercive control of emotionally immature parents... -
![10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by Alanna Collen]()
10% Human: How Your Body's Microbes Hold the Key to Health and Happiness by Alanna Collen
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsYou are just 10% human. For every one of the cells that make up the vessel that you call your body, there are nine impostor cells hitching a ride. You are not just flesh and blood, muscle and bone, brain and skin, but also bacteria and fungi. Over your lifetime, you will carry the equivalent weight of five African elephants in microbes. You are not an individual but a colony... -
![Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People: Avoid Emotional Traps, Stand Up for Your Self, and Transform Your Relationships as an Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson]()
Disentangling from Emotionally Immature People: Avoid Emotional Traps, Stand Up for Your Self, and Transform Your Relationships as an Adult Child of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents , this handbook offers essential, practical solutions to help you “disentangle” from emotionally immature people, stand up for your self, and transform your relationships... -
![Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition by Steve Krug]()
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition by Steve Krug
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsSince Don’t Make Me Think was first published in 2000, over 400,000 Web designers and developers have relied on Steve Krug’s guide to help them understand the principles of intuitive navigation and information design. Witty, commonsensical, and eminently practical, it’s one of the best-loved and most recommended books on the subject... -
![Principles of Neural Science by Eric R. Kandel]()
Principles of Neural Science by Eric R. Kandel
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn introduction to the brain, its structure, function, development, and control of behavior, this text discusses neuroanatomy, cell and molecular mechanisms, mechanisms of signaling, and development in the context of the cognitive approaches to behavior... -
![Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain by Sue Gerhardt]()
Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain by Sue Gerhardt
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWhy Love Matters explains why love is essential to brain development in the early years of life, particularly to the development of our social and emotional brain systems, and presents the startling discoveries that provide the answers to how our emotional lives work...Categorized as:
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![Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist: How to End the Drama and Get on with Life by Margalis Fjelstad]()
Stop Caretaking the Borderline or Narcissist: How to End the Drama and Get on with Life by Margalis Fjelstad
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsPeople with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorders have a serious mental illness that primarily affects their intimate, personal, and family relationships. Often they appear to be normally functioning at work and in public interactions, and Narcissists may even be highly effective, in the short term, in some work or social situations...Categorized as:
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![When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress by Gabor Maté]()
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress by Gabor Maté
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn this accessible and groundbreaking book--filled with the moving stories of real people--medical doctor and bestselling author Gabor Maté shows that emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness, including breast cancer, prostate cancer, multiple sclerosis and many others, even Alzheimer's disease...Categorized as:
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![Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships by Nedra Glover Tawwab]()
Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships by Nedra Glover Tawwab
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsInstant New York Times BestsellerFrom the bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace , a road map for understanding and moving past family struggles—and living your life, your way.Every family has a story. For some of us, our family of origin is a solid foundation that feeds our confidence and helps us navigate life’s challenges... -
![Scientific Secrets for Raising Kids Who Thrive by Peter M. Vishton]()
Scientific Secrets for Raising Kids Who Thrive by Peter M. Vishton
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsParenting advice isn't hard to find. There are thousands of books on the subject, as well as a multitude of websites. Much has also been written on the science of child development. What's been lacking, however, are sources of reliable advice that bring together the scientific research and its real-world applications. This course bridges the divide... -
![Attachment in Psychotherapy by David J. Wallin, Bob Souer]()
Attachment in Psychotherapy by David J. Wallin, Bob Souer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis eloquent book translates attachment theory and research into an innovative framework that grounds adult psychotherapy in the facts of childhood development. Advancing a model of treatment as transformation through relationship, the author integrates attachment theory with neuroscience, trauma studies, relational psychotherapy, and the psychology of mindfulness... -
![Internal Family Systems Therapy by Richard C. Schwartz, Martha Sweezy]()
Internal Family Systems Therapy by Richard C. Schwartz, Martha Sweezy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMost theorists who have explored the human psyche have viewed it as inhabited by subpersonalities. Beginning with Freud's description of the id, ego, and superego, these inner entities have been given a variety of names, including internal objects, ego states, archetypes and complexes, subselves, inner voices, and parts...Categorized as:
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![This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained by Cara Natterson, Vanessa Kroll Bennett]()
This Is So Awkward: Modern Puberty Explained by Cara Natterson, Vanessa Kroll Bennett
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe ultimate roadmap for adults helping tweens and teens navigate the rollercoaster of puberty.Almost everything about puberty has changed since today's adults went through it. It starts, on average, two years earlier and stretches through high school… and for some, beyond...Categorized as:
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![The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein]()
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsNow a New York Times Bestseller! With a new chapter added to the paperback. In high school, I wondered whether the Jamaican Americans who made our track team so successful might carry some special speed gene from their tiny island. In college, I ran against Kenyans, and wondered whether endurance genes might have traveled with them from East Africa... -
![The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are by Daniel J. Siegel]()
The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are by Daniel J. Siegel
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis book goes beyond the nature and nurture divisions that traditionally have constrained much of our thinking about development, exploring the role of interpersonal relationships in forging key connections in the brain. Daniel J...Categorized as:
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![Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: A CBT-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, or Disturbing Thoughts by Sally M. Winston, Martin N. Seif]()
Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughts: A CBT-Based Guide to Getting Over Frightening, Obsessive, or Disturbing Thoughts by Sally M. Winston, Martin N. Seif
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsYou are not your thoughts! In this powerful book, two anxiety experts offer proven-effective cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) skills to help you get unstuck from disturbing thoughts, overcome the shame these thoughts can bring, and reduce your anxiety.If you suffer from unwanted, intrusive, frightening, or even disturbing thoughts, you might worry about what these thoughts mean about you...Categorized as:
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![Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change by William R. Miller, Stephen Rollnick]()
Motivational Interviewing: Helping People Change by William R. Miller, Stephen Rollnick
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThis bestselling work for professionals and students is the authoritative presentation of motivational interviewing (MI), the powerful approach to facilitating change. The book elucidates the four processes of MI--engaging, focusing, evoking, and planning--and vividly demonstrates what they look like in action...Categorized as:
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![Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal by Donna Jackson Nakazawa]()
Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsA groundbreaking book showing the link between Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and adult illnesses such as heart disease, autoimmune disease, and cancer. Childhood Interrupted also explains how to cope with these emotional traumas and even heal from them.Your biography becomes your biology...Categorized as:
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![The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity by Norman Doidge]()
The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity by Norman Doidge
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThis book is about the discovery that the human brain has its own unique way of healing. For centuries we believed that the price we paid for our brain’s complexity was that, compared to other organs, it was fixed and unregenerative — unable to recover from damage or illness. In his revolutionary new book, Norman Doidge turns this belief on its head...Categorized as:
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![Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers by Karyl McBride]()
Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers by Karyl McBride
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe first book for the millions of daughters suffering from the emotional abuse of selfish, self-involved mothers, Will I Ever Be Good Enough? provides the expert advice readers need to overcome debilitating histories and reclaim their lives... -
![The Origins of You: How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and Love by Vienna Pharaon]()
The Origins of You: How Breaking Family Patterns Can Liberate the Way We Live and Love by Vienna Pharaon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNATIONAL BESTSELLERFrom licensed therapist and popular Instagram relationship expert Vienna Pharaon (@mindfulmft, +683K followers) comes a profound guide to understanding and overcoming wounds from your Family of Origin—the foundation of how we relate to others, ourselves, and the world around us... -
![Relationship OCD: A CBT-Based Guide to Move Beyond Obsessive Doubt, Anxiety, and Fear of Commitment in Romantic Relationships by Sheva Rajaee MFT]()
Relationship OCD: A CBT-Based Guide to Move Beyond Obsessive Doubt, Anxiety, and Fear of Commitment in Romantic Relationships by Sheva Rajaee MFT
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA powerful CBT approach to help you find freedom from obsessive relationship anxiety, doubt, and fear of commitment Do you obsess over your partner’s flaws? Does thinking about the future of your relationship leave you imagining the worst-case scenario? When it comes to navigating the world of romantic relationships, some feelings of anxiety, doubt, and fear are to be expected...
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