Resources

When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron

After the Ecstasy, the Laundry by Jack Kornfield

Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

Dharma Punx by Noah Levine

• Against the Stream: A buddhist Manual for Spiritual Revolutionaries by Noah Levine
• Toward a Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation by John Welwood
• Be Here Now by Ram Dass
• Women Who Run With The Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
• The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge and Journey to Ixtlan by Carlos Castaneda
• Soul craft and Wild Mind by Bill Plotkin
• Jack Kornfield: The Wise Heart and A Path with Heart
• Jon-Kabat Zinn: Wherever you go, there you are and Full Catastrophe Living

COUPLES:

• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work and The Relationship Cure by John Gottman
• For Women Only and For Men Only by Shaunti Feldhan
• How to Be an Adult in Relationships by David Richo
• The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
• The New Rules of Marriage by Terry Real

TRAUMA:

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
• In an Unspoken Voice by Peter Levine
• Crash Course: A Self-Healing Guide to Auto-Accident Trauma by Diane Poole Heller
• Waking Up From War: A Better Way Home For Veterans and Nations by Joseph Bobrow

NATURE-RELATED:

• Nature Fix: Why Nature Makes Us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative by Florence Williams
• Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver
• The Snow Leopard by Peter Mathiessen
• Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
• A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman
• Wild comfort by Kathleen Dean Moore
• Moving through Grief, Reconnecting with Nature by Jay Dufrechou

PARENTING:

• Time-out for Parents: A Guide to Compassionate Parenting by Cheri Huber
• The Conscious Parent: Transforming Ourselves, Empowering Our Children by Shefali Tsabary
• Parenting from the Inside out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive, Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain, The Whole Brain Child and No Drama Discipline by Daniel Siegel
• The Family Crucible by Augustus Napier

GRIEF AND LOSS:

• Who Dies and Meetings at the Edge by Steven Levine
• Being with dying by Joan Halifax
• The Five Invitations by Frank Ostaseski
• Final Gifts by Maggie Callanan
• It’s OK that You’re Not OK by Megan Devine
• The Unspeakable Loss: How Do You Live After A Child Dies? by Nisha Zenoff, Ph.D
• Healing a Spouse’s Grieving Heart by Alan Wolfelt
• Healing after Loss: Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief by Martha Whitmore
• Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief by Joanne Cacciatore
• Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss by Hope Edelman
• Teen Grief: Caring for the Grieving Teenage Heart by Gary Roe

CHILDREN’S GRIEF BOOKS:

• The Invisible String by Patrice Karst
• Nana Upstairs, Nana Downstairs by Tomie dePaola
• Gentle willow: A Story for Children About Dying by Joyce Mills
• Sad Isn’t Bad: A Good-Grief Guidebook for Kids Dealing With Loss by Michaelene Mundy
• I Miss You: A First Look at Death by Pat Thomas
• Help Me Say Goodbye: Activities for Helping Kids Cope When a Special Person Dies by Janis Silverman
• The Goodbye Book by Todd Parr
• Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children by Brian Mellonie