The Five Love Languages: Gary Chapman
 | Chapman provides a simple but effective approach for
understanding how to communicate your love. Too often we do not
express our love in ways that are meaningful to the other people in
our lives. For example, we may think we can best show our love by
doing things for them, but what they really want is something else.
This book helps us figure out what that something else is. (Reviewed
9/06) |
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The Seven Principals for Making Marriage Work: John Gottman.
http://www.gottman.com/
| A client told me "The best book on relationships I have ever read".
This book although based on years of research is a very readable guide
to improving your marriage. (Reviewed 8/06) |
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The Gift of Fear; and Other Survival Signals that Protect Us from
Violence: Gavin De Becker.
| De Becker warns the reader not to ignore our feelings and intuition.
He tells the reader theses feelings often warn us of danger and can
protect us from harm ranging from being raped to getting in bad
relationships. (Reviewed 4/06) |
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Blink; The Power of Thinking Without Thinking:
Malcolm
Gladwell.
| Gladwell explains how we often see things without being fully aware
of it and then make judgments about what we have experienced. (reviewed
8/06) |
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Transforming Anger: The HeartMath
Solution for Letting Go of Rage, Frustration, and Irritation: By
Doc Childre, Deborah Rozman and Matthew McKay
| Transforming Anger brings together a number of concepts such as
questioning your beliefs about events (Rational Emotive Behavior
Therapy), guided imagery, relaxation techniques, etc. to help you
get your anger under control. (Reviewed August 2008) |
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Lies at the Alter: Robin Smith
| Smith examines the attitudes, expectations, misconceptions and
beliefs we bring to marriage which can lead to unhappiness and divorce.
(Reviewed 10/06) |
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Rebuilding: When Your Relationship
Ends: Bruce Fisher
| I found this book when I went through my own divorce. Over the
years I have used it with many clients to help them rebuild their
lives after a divorce. |
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| Shadow Syndromes; Recognizing and Coping with the Hidden
Psychological Disorders That Can Influence Your Behavior and Silently
Determine the Course of Your Life: John J. Ratey, MD and Catherine
Johnson, PhD.
| Ratey and Johnson discus the latest
research on the brain and how some psychological problems originate
from how our brains function. They explain how many people
have some, but not all of the symptoms of various emotional
disorders. They also provide information about the use of medications
to help people cope with their psychological problems. (Reviewed 7/06) |
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