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Categories
Blended / Nontraditional Families
Choices, Changes and Transitions
Journaling for Personal Growth
Authentic Living
Callings: Finding and Following an Authentic Life
Gregg Levoy
Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
Martha Beck
First Things First: To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy
Stephen R. Covey
Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens
Marianne Williamson
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
Byron Katie
The Right Questions: Ten Essential Questions to Guide You to an Extraordinary Life
Debbie Ford
Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy
Sarah Ban Breathnach
Steering by Starlight: Finding Your Right Life, No Matter What!
Martha Beck
Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
Dan Millman
Wisdom of the Peaceful Warrior: A Companion to the Book That Changes Lives
Dan Millman
Blended / Nontraditional Families
Strengthening Your Stepfamily
Elizabeth Einstein & Linda Albert
Caring for Your Body
Injury: Learning to Live Again
Dorothy L. Mercer, Ph.D.
Living with Chronic Fatigue: New Strategies for Coping with and Conquering CFS
Susan Conant, Ed.D.
Mainstay: For the Well Spouse of the Chronically Ill
Maggie Strong
Prayer and Our Bodies
Flora Slosson Wuellner
The Wisdom of Menopause
Christiane Northrup, M.D.
Women’s Body’s, Women’s Wisdom
Christiane Northrup, M.D.
Choices, Changes and Transitions
The Age of Miracles: Embracing the New Midlife
Marianne Williamson
Rebuilding: When Your Relationship Ends
Bruce Fisher
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Stephen Covey
Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes
William Bridges
The Way of Transition: Embracing Life’s Most Difficult Moments
William Bridges
Things Fall Apart: Heartfelt Advice for Difficult Times
Pema Chodron
Grief and Loss
Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
Elizabeth Lesser
Gentle Closings: How to Say Goodbye to Someone You Love
Ted Menten
The Grieving Tree: A Year’s Account of Recovery from Loss
Anne M. Brooks
The Second Half of Marriage: Facing the Eight Challenges of the Empty Nest Years
David and Claudia Arp
Spiritual Divorce: Divorce as a Catalyst for an Extraordinary Life
Debbie Ford
When Someone You Love is Dying
Norma Supson
Working It Through: An Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Workshop on Life, Death and Transition
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, M.D.
Grief: Coping with Reminders After a Loss
Improving Your Communication
BrainStyles: Change Your Life Without Changing Who You Are
Marlane Miller
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D
When Anger Hurts: Quieting the Storm Within
Matthew McKay, Ph.D., Peter D. Rogers, Ph.D., & Judith McKay, R.N.
The Center for Nonviolent Communication
Intimacy
Enchanted Love: The Mystical Power of Intimate Relationships
Marianne Williamson
Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples
Harville Hendrix, Ph.D.
A Home for the Heart: A Personal Guide to Intimate and Social Relationships
Charlotte Kasl, Ph.D.
If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path
Charlotte Kasl, Ph.D.
If the Buddha Married: Creating Enduring Relationships on a Spiritual Path
Charlotte Kasl, Ph.D.
Is It Love or Is It Addiction?
Brenda Schaeffer, Ph.D.
Lies at the Alter: The Truth about Great Marriages
Robin Smith, Ph.D.
Ordinary Women, Extraordinary Sex: Releasing the Passion Within
Dr. Sandra Scantling & Sue Browder
Tell Me No Lies: How to Stop Lying to Your Partner – and Yourself – In the 4 Stages of Marriage
Ellyn Bader, Ph.D. & Peter T. Pearson, Ph.D.
Why Marriages Succeed or Fail and How You Can Make Yours Last
John Gottman, Ph.D.
Journaling for Personal Growth
Families Writing
Peter R. Stillman
Harvesting Your Journals: Writing Tools to Enhance Your Growth & Creativity
Rosalie Deer Heart & Alison Strickland
Journey Notes: Writing for Recovery and Growth
Richard Solly and Roseann Lloyd
Keeping Your Personal Journal
George F. Simons
Life’s Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Quest
Christina Baldwin
Writing the Natural Way: Using Right-Brain Techniques to Release Your Expressive Powers
Gabriele Lusser Rico
LifeJournal for Writers: Writers’ Journal Software
Money Matters
The Energy of Money: A Spiritual Guide to Financial and Personal Fulfillment
Maria Nemeth, Ph.D.
Make Money, Not Excuses: Wake Up, Take Charge and Overcome Your Financial Fears Forever
Jean Chatzky
Money Drunk, Money Sober: Ninety Days to Financial Freedom
Mark Bryan & Julia Cameron
The Nine Steps to Financial Freedom
Suze Orman
Nurturing Your Spirituality
Conversations with God
Neale Donald Walsch
Dance of the Spirit: The Seven Steps of Women’s Spirituality
Maria Harris
The Faith Club: A Muslim, A Christian, A Jew – Three Women Search for Understanding
Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, & Priscilla Warner
Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine
Larry Dossey, M.D.
Spirituality Practice: Resources for Spiritual Journeys
Recovery from Sexual Assualt
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Ellen Bass & Laura Davis
The Rape Recovery Handbook: Step-by-Step Help for Survivors of Sexual Assault
Aphrodite Matsakis, Ph.D.
The National Center for Victims of Crime
Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network (RAINN)
Strengthening Your Boundaries
Broken Toys Broken Dreams: Understanding & Healing Boundaries, Codependence, Compulsion & Relationships
Terry Kellogg
Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
Melody Beattie
The Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
Harriet Goldhor Lerner, Ph.D.
The Emotional Incest Syndrome: What to Do When a Parent’s Love Rules Your Life
Patricia Love
Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives
Pia Mellody
Healing the Shame that Binds You
John Bradshaw
Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners – Understanding Covert Incest
Ken Adams, Ph.
The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to Recognize It and How to Respond
Patricia Evans