Resources
Below is a list of some interesting books, which you may find helpful:
Personal Healing and Transformation:
- Tal Ben-Shahar – Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment
- Nathaniel Branden – A Woman’s Self Esteem; The Six Pillars of Self Esteem; The Art of Living Consciously
- Tara Brach – Radical Acceptance
- Richard Schwartz – No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
- David Burns – Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
- Katie Byron – Loving What Is
- Ken Dychtwald — Bodymind
- Victor Frankl — Man’s Search for Meaning
- Gay Hendricks – At the Speed of Life: A New Approach To Personal Change Through Body-Centered Therapy
- Sam Keen – Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man
- Peter Levine – Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
- Fred Luskin – Forgive for Good
- Rollo May — Love and Will
- Abraham Maslow — Toward a Psychology of Being
- Robert Moore – King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine
- Jacob Needleman – Money and the Meaning of Life
- Carl Rogers — On Becoming a Person
- Marshall Rosenberg – Nonviolent Communications
- John Rowan – Discover Your Subpersonalities
- Miguel Ruiz – The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
- Jeremy Taylor – Where People Fly and Water Runs Uphill: Using Dreams to Tap the Wisdom of the Unconscious; and The Wisdom of Your Dreams
- Irvin Yalom – The Gift of Therapy
Relationships / Intimacy / Sexuality:
- Margot Anand – The Art of Sexual Ecstasy
- John Gottman — The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work
- Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks — The Conscious Heart
- Harville Hendrix — Getting the Love You Want
- Sue Johnson — Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
- Stephen and Ondrea Levine – Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening
- Fred Luskin – Forgive for Love
- Jett Psaris and Marlena Lyons — Undefended Love
- David Schnarch — Passionate Marriage
- Stan Tatkin — Wired for Love
- Richard Schwartz – You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For: Applying Internal Family Systems to Intimate Relationships
- John Welwood — Challenge of the Heart: Love, Sex, and Intimacy in Changing Times; Love and Awakening; and Perfect Love Imperfect Relationships
- Dan Wile – After the Honeymoon: How Conflict Can Improve Your Relationship
Separation / Divorce:
- Ahrons Constance – The Good Divorce
- Debbie Ford – Spiritual Divorce
- Mira Kirshenbaum – Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay
- Diane Vaughan – Uncoupling: Turning Points in Intimate Relationships
Mindfulness and Transpersonal Studies:
- Adyashanti — The Way of Liberation; and Falling Into Grace
- A.H. Almaas – Diamond Hearth Book 1-5; and The Power of Divine Eros
- Angeles Arrien — The Four-Fold Way: Walking the Paths of the Warrior, Teacher, Healer, and Visionary
- Cynthia Bourgeault — The Wisdom Jesus; and The Meaning of Mary Magdalene
- Gabriel Cousens — Torah as a Guide to Enlightenment; and Creating Peace by Being Peace
- Robert Frager — The Wisdom of Islam; and Heart Self and Soul: The Sufi Psychology of Growth Balance and Harmony
- Stanislav Grof – Spiritual Emegency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis (with Christina Grof)
- Thich Nhat Hanh — The Miracle of Mindfulness
- John Kabat-Zinn- Wherever You Go, There You Are
- Jack Kornfield — A Path With a Heart; and After the Ecstasy the Laundry
- Dalai Lama— The Art of Happiness
- Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now
Aging/Death/Grief:
- Angeles Arrien — The Second Half of Life: Opening the Eight Gates of Wisdom
- Ernest Becker — The Denial of Death
- Ken Dychtwald and Daniel Kalec – The Power Years: A User’s Guide to the Rest of Your Life
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross – On Death and Dying
- Zalman Schachter-Shalomi — From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Profound New Vision for Growing Older
- Irvin Yalom – Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death