Books We Recommend
Overcoming Anger: How to Identify It, Stop It, and Live a Healthier Life
by Carol D. Jones, PhD.
Overcoming Anger leads readers through a simple, step-by-step process, using quizzes, checklists, and assessment strategies to help them eliminate anger from their lives for good.
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Facing the Fire
by John Lee
In the most important book on anger since The Dance of Anger, the author of The Flying Boy demonstrates how to transform this unpredictable emotion into a source of positive, productive energy and offers ways to vent anger that are safe and healthy.
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Animal Speak
by Ted Andrews
Now, for perhaps the first time ever, myth and fact are combined in a manner that will teach you how to speak and understand the language of the animals in your life. Work with animals as totems and spirits. Learn techniques for reading signs and omens in nature so you can open to higher perceptions and even prophecy. Includes a dictionary of animal, bird, insect, and reptile symbolism.
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Medicine Cards
by Jamie Sams and David Carson
Discover the tool that millions of people worldwide are using for guidance, inspiration, and help in finding answers to life's questions. now, revised and expanded to include eight additional cards, this unique and powerful divination system draws upon ancient wisdom and tradition to teach the healing medicine of animals. Medicine Cards and found its way into the hearts and hands of many, guiding the way to healing the body, emotions, mind, and spirit, and providing insight into and understand of one's unique purpose in life.
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Rent Two Films and Let's Talk in the Morning
by Jan and John Hesley
Unlock the emotional roadblocks that can inhibit or interfere with the success of therapy.
Videowork is the therapeutic process in which therapists assign popular films that relate to core issues of ongoing therapy. Clients are instructed to do their "homework" between sessions and prepare for discussion in future sessions. Rent Two Films and Let's Talk in the Morning explores how therapeutic work interwoven with popular films enhances traditional therapy. This much-anticipated revision provides an introduction to using movie rentals in therapy and serves as a ready reference for therapists who want to assign videos as homework.
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Sacred Contracts
by Caroline Myss
As a medical intuitive, Myss has found that people often don't understand their purpose in life. The resulting spiritual malaise leads in turn to depression, anxiety, fatigue, and physical illness. To help people find this purpose our individual Sacred Contract -- Myss has developed a process for deciphering your own Contract using a theory of archetypes that builds on the work of Jung, Plato, and contemporary thinkers.
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Writing Down the Bones
by Natalie Goldberg
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with her books and workshops. In her groundbreaking first book, she brings together Zen meditation and writing in a new way. Writing practice, as she calls it, is no different from other forms of Zen practice --"it is backed by two thousand years of studying the mind."
This new edition, which marks almost twenty years since the original book's publication, includes a new preface in which Goldberg expresses her trademark enthusiasm for writing practice, as well as a depth of appreciation for the process that has come with time and experience. Also included is an interview with the author in which she reflects on the relationship between Zen sitting practice and writing, the importance of place, and the power of memory.
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The Essential Writer's Notebook
by Natalie Goldberg
This beautiful notebook, illustrated by the author's own paintings, provides the perfect opportunity for would-be writers, as well as those seeking a fresh approach to their work, to learn simple techniques that will help them master the basics of the craft. Inspired by the philosophy of Zen Buddhism, the book provides a complete step-by-step mini-course on how to write clearly and powerfully. Abundant lined pages can be used for writing practice.
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Getting in Touch With Your Inner Bitch:
Now Bitchier Than Ever
by Elizabeth Hilts
For those women suffering from "toxic niceness" comes a book to help reach the Bette Davis within--the one with a cigarette in one hand, a martini in the other, calling everything the way she sees it. .
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The Gift of Our Compulsions: A Revolutionary Approach to
Self-Acceptance and Healing
by Mary O'Malley
Everyone is compulsive to some degree. People may worry too much, work too hard, or overindulge in food or alcohol or drug use. Once a compulsion is admitted, the usual option is to try to control the behavior. But this effort typically ends with the problem returning, or a new one taking its place. In this book based on three decades of research and teaching, Mary O'Malley has crafted a new approach, with simple exercises and techniques and an inspiring tone. People are compulsive for a reason, she says, and by observing the things they are compulsive about and engaging those compulsions, readers can begin to understand them and change their actions around them. The book's exercises help readers in the engagement process by teaching them to ask the right questions and shows why lasting healing comes from being curious rather than controlling, and self-acceptance comes through forgiveness, not shame.
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The Psychology of Romantic Love
by Nathaniel Branden
What love is, why love is born, why it sometimes grows, and why it sometimes dies. Have you ever wondered how romantic love evolves? What the difference is between mature and immature love? What role sex plays in romantic love, and whether love necessarily implies sexual exclusivity? And, most important, how can we make love last? Originally published in 1980, this updated edition of "The Psychology of Romantic Love" explores the nature of romantic love on many levels-the philosophical, the historical, the sociological, and the physiological. Nathaniel Branden explains why so many people say that romantic love is just not possible in today's world and-drawing on his experience with thousands of couples-finds that such love is still a possibility for anyone who understands its essence and is willing to accept its challenges. Branden sees it as a pathway not only to extraordinary joy but also to profound self-discovery. His vision of love is thoroughly appropriate to our time and grounded in our humanness.
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Conscious Loving
by Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks
Here is a powerful new program that can clear away the unconscious agreements patterns that undermine even your best intentions. Through their own marriage and through twenty years' experience counseling more than one thousand couples, therapists Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks have developed precise strategies to help you create a vital partnership and enhance the energy, creativity, and happiness of each individual. You will learn how to: Let go of power struggles and need for control; Balance needs for closeness and separateness; Increase intimacy by telling the " microscopic truth"; Communicate in a positive way that stops arguments; Make agreements you can keep; Allow more pleasure into your life. Addressed to individuals as well as to couples, "Conscious Loving" will heal old hurts and deepen your capacity for enjoyment, security, and enduing love.
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Getting the Love You Want
by Harville Hendrix
Originally published in 1988, "Getting the Love You Want" has helped millions of couples attain more loving, supportive, and deeply satisfying relationships. The 20th anniversary edition contains extensive revisions to this groundbreaking book, with a new chapter, new exercises, and a foreword detailing Dr. Hendrix's updated philosophy for eliminating all" "negativity from couples' daily interactions, allowing readers of the 2008 edition to benefit from his ongoing discoveries during his last two decades of work.
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Are You the One for Me?
by Barbara DeAngelis
Finally--the book you've been waiting for to help you find and keep the right partner and make love last. Best-selling author and renowned relationship expert Barbara De Angelis reveals everything you need to know about compatibility and shows you how to create the fulfilling relationship you deserve.
With powerful advice and groundbreaking techniques that have helped thousands of people transform their lives, Dr. De Angelis will show you the formula for creating love that lasts, and help you to understand yourself and the one you love as you never have before.
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Romancing The Shadow
by Connie Zweig and Steve Wolf
Explains how to identify and accept the shadow and use its powerful energies in positive ways in all areas of life: love, sex, marriage, friendship, money, work, spirituality, and aging.
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Jung To Live By
by Eugene Pascal
Far from mystical, Jung's theories can be easily applied to everyday life, and this book shows readers how. It includes important issues such as how to determine personality style, what inner forces influence likes and dislikes, spotting different complexes, how to transform one's world, and more.
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Inner Work
by Robert Johnson
A noted author and Jungian analyst teaches how to use dreams and inner exercises to achieve personal wholeness and a more satisfying life.
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The Dark Side of the Light Chasers
by Debbie Ford
Why do we find ourselves disproportionately angry with the selfishness of a friend, the laziness of a co-worker, the arrogance of a family member -- or even the rudeness of a stranger? Why do the same old things get to us so easily, and so intensely? Our "same old things", Debbie Ford explains, are clues to our dark sides -- and to the emotions and trails that we fear most in ourselves.
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Choose To Be Happy
by Swami Chetananada
An accessible practice and methodology to transform your life into a continuously deepening experience of happiness.
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Yoga and the Quest for the True Self
by Stephen Cope
Millions of Americans know yoga as a superb form of exercise and as a potent source of calm in our stress-filled lives. Far fewer are aware of the full promise of yoga as a 4,000-year-old practical path of liberation—a path that fits the needs of modern Western seekers with startling precision. Now Stephen Cope, a Western-trained psychotherapist who has lived and taught for more than ten years at the largest yoga center in America, offers this marvelously lively and irreverent "pilgrim's progress" for today's world. He demystifies the philosophy, psychology, and practice of yoga, and shows how it applies to our most human dilemmas: from loss, disappointment, and addiction, to the eternal conflicts around sex and relationship. And he shows us that in yoga, "liberation" does not require us to leave our everyday lives for some transcendent spiritual plane—life itself is the path. Above all, Cope shows how yoga can heal the suffering of self-estrangement that pervades our society, leading us to a new sense of purpose and to a deeper, more satisfying life in the world.
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