Resources and Exercises

My Therapy Workbook

A Guide Back to You: A workbook for exploring who you are and staying true to yourself

Podcasts I have done that may support you

Creativity, Stress and the Body

Beyond Talk Therapy, Bringing Purpose and Meaning into Every Session

A Guide Back to You

Finding and Re-finding Yourself 

The Following Books and Apps Have Been Helpful to My Clients.  

Aging

On the Brink of Everything; Grace, Gravity & Getting Old
by Parker Palmer
 
 

The Alcoholic Family

Another Chance: Hope and Health for the Alcoholic Family
by Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse

Anxiety Workbooks

For kids:

I Bet I Won't Fret: A Workbook to Help Children with Generalized Anxiety Disorder
by Timothy A. Sisemore PhD

The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids: Help for Children to Cope with Stress, Anxiety, and Transitions 
by Matthew McKay PhD and Robin K. Sprague
 

The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
by Edmund Bourne PhD

For adults:

The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
by Matthew McKay and Martha Davis
 
 

Anger Workbooks for Children

I'm Not Bad, I'm Just Mad: A Workbook to Help Kids Control Their Anger
by Lawrence E. Shapiro PhD and Zack Pelta-Heller
 

How to Take the Grrrr Out of Anger (Laugh & Learn)
by Elizabeth Verdick and Marjorie Lisovskis
 
 

Attachment and Dating

Attached Are you Anxious, Avoidant or Secure? How the science of adult attachment can help you find – and keep – love
by Dr. Amir Levine and Rachel Heller, MA
 

Deeper Dating - How to Drop the Games of Seduction and Discover the Power of Intimacy
by Ken Page
 

Borderline Personality Disorder

Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile Relationship
2004
by Christine Ann Lawson
 

Bullying

Stand Up for Yourself & Your Friends: Dealing with Bullies & Bossiness and Finding a Better Way
by Patti Kelley Criswell and Angela Martini
 

Queen Bees and Wannabees
by Rosalind Wiseman
 
 

Children’s sexual behaviors; what should I be concerned about and how do I respond?

Understanding Children's Sexual Behavior - What's Natural and Healthy - Updated and Expanded 2015
by Allison Joe and Toni Cavanagh Johnson Ph.D.
 
 

Coping with Chronic Illness, Cancer, TBI, Body issues

Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories That Heal

by Rachel Naomi Remen
 

My Grandfather's Blessings: Stories of Strength, Refuge, and Belonging
by Rachel Naomi Remen
 

A Quest for Tears:  Surviving Traumatic Brain Injury
by Sean Dwyer
 

The Opposite of Certainty
by Janine Urbaniak Reid
 

The Body is Not an Apology
by Sonya Renee Taylor
 
 

Epigenetics
 

It Didn’t Start with You.  How inherited family trauma shapes who we are and how to end the cycle
by Mark Wolynn

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
 
 

Grief 

The Grief Recovery Handbook, 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses including Health, Career, and Faith 
by John James and Russel Friedman
 

How to Survive the Loss of a Love
by Melba Colgrove PHD, Harold Bloomfirld, MD, Peter McWilliams
 

Always Too Soon, Voices of Support for Those Who Have Lost Both Parents
by Allison Gilbert with Christina Baker Kline
 

Passed and Present, Keeping Memories of Loved Ones Alive
by Allison Gilbert
 

The Threshold Between Loss and Revelation
by Rashani Rea
 

Introverts

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
by Susan Cain
 

Quiet Power: The Secret Strengths of Introverted Kids
by Susan Cain and Gregory Mone

Journals

Teen:

Chill & Spill: A Place to Put it Down & Work it Out
by Steffanie Lorig and Jeanean Jacobs

Adult:
Cheaper than Therapy: A Guided Journal Paperback 
 
 

Mindfulness/Pain Management

The Mindful Way Workbook: An 8-Week Program to Free Yourself from Depression and Emotional Distress
by John D. Teasdale PhD and J. Mark G. Williams DPhil
 

Freedom From Pain

by Peter Levine and Maggie Phillips
 

There’s Nothing Wrong With You, Going Beyond Self-Hate
by Cheri Huber

The Places that Scare You; A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
by Pema Chodron
 

Meditations on Everything Under the Sun; The Dance of Imagination, Intuition, and Mindfulness
by Margo Adair

The Deepest Acceptance
by Jeff Foster

Phone App:  Headspace  https://www.headspace.com/
 
 

Couples:

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
by John Gottman PhD and Nan Silver

Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships
by Sue Johnson
 

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love
by Amir Levine MD and Rachel Heller MA
 

The Couples Comfort Book
by Jennifer Louden
 
 

Parenting

Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers
by Gordon Neufeld, Ph.D & Gabor Maté, M.D
 

Parenting from the Inside Out
by Daniel Siegel, MD, Mary Hartzell, MEd
 

The Explosive Child
by Ross Green
 

Sensory Overload

Too Loud, Too Bright, Too Fast, Too Tight
by Sharon Heller, PhD



Spirituality and Creativity as a Healing Aid (drawn from various traditions)
 

When Bad Things Happen to Good People
by Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
 

Radical Acceptance, Embracing Your Life with the Heart of the Buddah
by Tara Brach, Phd
 

Addiction and Grace
by Gerald G May, MD
 

Praying in Color
by Sybil MacBeth
 

The Woman’s Comfort Book
by Jennifer Louden
 

After the Ecstacy, the Laundry
by Jack Kornfield
 

Working with the Dream Body
by Anrnie Mindell, Phd
 

The Heartmath Solution
by Coc Childre and Howard Martin
 

Helaling Myths, Healing Magic
by Donald Eptein

A Woman's Journey to God; Finding the Feminine Path
by Joan Borysenko
 
 

Secondary Trauma
 

Trauma Stewardship. An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
by Laura VanDenoot Lipsky 
 

Trauma

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
by Peter A. Levine and Ann Frederick
 

Vulnerability

Daring Greatly
by Brene Brown, Phd