Resources
Here are my go to recommendations for books, programs and all things relationship related.Books I Love:
After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful, 2nd edition.
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this newly revised and updated edition of After the Affair is essential reading.
Children Learn What They Live
by Dorothy Law Nolte Ph.D., Rachel Harris L.C.S.W. Ph.D.
An excellent book when looking for a parenting philosophy.
Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives
by Pia Mellody, Andrea Wells Miller, J. Keith Miller
A forceful description of how people who are raised in a dysfunctional or abusive environment often sabotage and cripple their lives.
Facing Love Addiction: Giving Yourself the Power to Change the Way You Love
by Pia Mellody, Andrea Wells Miller, J. Keith Miller
This is a brilliant and raw book on real problems that face both men and women in relationships.
Fierce Intimacy: Standing Up to One Another with Love
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HIGHLIGHTS
• The adaptive child―how to recognize and defuse self-sabotaging habits
• Unhealthy self-esteem traps for men and women
• Identifying your CNI (Core Negative Image)―a key to making arguments constructive instead of destructive
• The Feedback Wheel―a four-step approach to revolutionize your communication
• The Five Losing Strategies: our impulses to control, retaliate, and be right all the time
• The Five Winning Strategies for shared happiness, connection, and success
Gifts From A Challenging Childhood: Creating A Practice for Becoming Your Healthiest Self
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“Whether you experienced traumatic neglect or excessive control and enmeshment at the hands of your parents, this book will not only help you identify what went wrong for you, it will also provide you with validating, supportive and compassionate ways to reparent yourself.”
How To Raise An Adult
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In How to Raise an Adult, Julie Lythcott-Haims draws on research, on conversations with admissions officers, educators, and employers, and on her own insights as a mother and as a student dean to highlight the ways in which overparenting harms children, their stressed-out parents, and society at large. While empathizing with the parental hopes and, especially, fears that lead to overhelping, Lythcott-Haims offers practical alternative strategies that underline the importance of allowing children to make their own mistakes and develop the resilience, resourcefulness, and inner determination necessary for success.
I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
by Terrence Real
A well written book about male depression, filled with case studies that Terry has overseen throughout his years as a psychotherapist.
If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path
by Charlotte Kasl
This is for the single person who is interested in a self study about the type of person they want to be with.
If the Buddha Married: Creating Enduring Relationships on a Spiritual Path (Compass)
by Charlotte Kasl
LOVED IT!
It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex, and Sexual Health (The Family Library 10-13 yr old)
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When young people have questions about sex, real answers can be hard to find. Providing accurate, unbiased answers to nearly every imaginable question, from conception and puberty to birth control and AIDS, It’s Perfectly Normal offers young people the information they need — now more than ever — to make responsible decisions and to stay healthy
Parenting With Love And Logic (Updated and Expanded Edition)
by Foster Cline, Jim Fay
Everyone should have a copy! Take a read, have a laugh…Little did I know I parenting did not have to be as hard as I was making it. Boy did I have a lot to learn.
Stop Struggling With Your Child: Quick-Tip Parenting Solutions That Will Work For You and Your Kids Ages 4 – 12
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A reassuring parenting guide provides a four-step program that emphasizes routines, responsibility, cooperation, and self-esteem
The Intimacy Factor: The Ground Rules for Overcoming the Obstacles to Truth, Respect, and Lasting Love
by Pia Mellody, Lawrence S. Freundlich
A must READ!
The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love Work
by Terrence Real
Get your marriage back on track! Terry does a great job!
The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to recognize it and how to respond
by Patricia Evans
If you are questioning whether or not your are verbally abused this is a must read!
You Can Thrive After Narcissistic Abuse: The #1 System for Recovery from Toxic Relationships
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Heal your pain and break free from your abusive relationship with this unique recovery program designed by one of the world’s leading authorities on narcissistic abuse
1-2-3 Magic: Effective Discipline for Children 2-12
by Thomas W. Phelan PhD
So when you what to kill your kid-take some advice from 123. Trust me, it helps!
Industry Leaders:
Learn about some of the people who have helped and inspired me!
Dave Kreuger
CEO of MentorPath®, a coaching, publishing, and wellness firm. His ROADMAP® system guides a seven step process of change to actively incorporate new dimensions of personal, career, relationship, and financial growth.
Jan Bergstrom
What is the practice of being relational? It starts with the Five Core principles for healthy living: loving the self, protecting the self (through use of internal boundaries), creating and knowing the self, taking care of the self by asking for what you need and want interdependently, and containing and moderating the self (Pia Mellody). My treatment with clients incorporates the foundational underpinnings that create healing, growth and renewal.
Terry Real
Terry Real is an internationally recognized Family Therapist and Author and is under contract as the Relationship Expert for Good Morning America and ABC News. Terry founded the Relational Life Institute (RLI), offering workshops for couples/individuals.
Lisa Merlo Booth
Lisa is an experienced relationship coach who has worked with hundreds of women who have become more effective communicators at work, at home and in their relationships.
Health and Wellness
Looking for support? Here are some health and wellness groups that I recommend.
Pathways Institute
Pathways Institute: A place to find your true heart center offering, workshops and retreats.
Austin Chiropractic
Works with each person on an individual level to educate and adjust them toward optimal health using natural chiropractic care.
Aan Dora Salon
Have a ME Day! Hair cutting & coloring, styling, bridal & special occasion styles, skincare, makeup, and more!