A Place to Start
"We are not victims of our past, we are creators of our future through the countless choices we make every day". Dr. Nicole LePera
Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown
A unique insight into understanding our many emotions and the complexities of our emotions. Understanding and developing language to communicate our emotions while understanding others as well.
Reparenting the Inner Child by Dr. Nicole LePera
Insightful reading into patterns built over time from an attachment perspective. While taking on a self-help approach, it offers the ability to engage readers through activities including mindfulness to integrate self-compassion, boundaries, emotional intelligence/maturity, self-regulation, and empowerment.
How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self by Dr. Nicole LePera
Dr. Nicole LePera offers insight on the unhelpful behaviors which keep us stuck in harmful patterns including self-sabotage, emotional immaturity, codependency, and whole body dysfunction. Dr. Lepera continues to discuss tools, coping strategies, incorporates mindfulness, and integrates awareness on these established behaviors to create a shift and empowerment of choice.
Attached by Amir Levine
Offers an insight into the different types of attachment styles and answering the question of “why?” when viewing how some navigate their relationships effortlessly while others struggle. Dr. Amir Levine creates a roadmap for connecting with romantic partners for stronger and fulfilling relationships based on the attachment styles.
It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn
An approach to understanding longstanding symptoms including anxiety, fear, physical symptoms through the perspective of generational trauma from previous generations including parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents.
This Is Body Grief: Making Peace with the Loss That Comes with Living in a Body by Jayne Mattingly
Jayne Mattingly explores the experiences of body grief, the complexities of both mourning and accepting the changes of one’s body. Jayne offers new and refreshing abilities to cope with the changes our bodies experience with more compassion, kindness, patience, and grace while creating room for the challenging feelings.
The Body Keeps the Score by Dr. Bessel van der Kolk
Dr. Bessel van der Kolk discusses traumatic experiences physically altering the brain and nervous system and calling for holistic and full mind-body healing.
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz PhD
Creates a compassionate approach towards working with the various parts of oneself that we struggle with including our inner critic. Richard Schwartz walks you through practical exercises in navigating frustrating moments we all experience with ourselves and creating peace as opposed to “fighting” with ourselves.
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Julia creates a guide encouraging, empowering, and supporting her audience to connect with passion and purpose.
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
A reflection of “what makes life worth living” in the perspective of a physician turned into a patient facing his own mortality.
The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel M.D. and Tina Payne Bryson
Practical strategies for navigating day-to-day challenges with children to promote emotional and intellectual growth.
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Communication tools and strategies for parents to utilize with their children navigating big emotions, processing emotions, working through family conflict, promoting autonomy while maintaining limits/boundaries. Faber and Mazlish provide step-by-step tools to support parents in communicating their feelings without expressing critical, hurtful, and demeaning language.
Talking to Children about Divorce by Jean McBride
Jean McBride provides tools and encouragement to effectively communicate with children about divorce. Tools include support for navigating with big emotions from children along with tools for navigating co-parenting for increased adjustment for children.