Suggested resources
Handling Emotions:
  • Permission to Feel - Marc Brackett, PhD
  • The Happiness Trap - Russ Harris
  • Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life - Steven C Hayes, PhD
  • Angry all the Time - Ronald Potter-Efron
  • Transcending Loss: Understanding the Lifelong Impact of Grief and How to Make It Meaningful- Ashley Davis Bush
  • Healing for Damaged Emotions - David A. Seamands
Family Dynamics and parenting:
  • Understanding the Borderline Mother - Christine Ann Lawson
  • Motherless Daughters - Hope Edelman
  • Will I ever be good enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers - Karyl McBride, PhD
  • Loving Someone with Borderline Personality Disorder - Shari Manning
  • Stop Walking on Eggshells - Paul T Mason and Randi Kreger
  • The Connected Child - Karen B. Purvis
  • Twenty Things Adopted Children wish their Adoptive Parents Knew - Sherrie Eldridge
  • Transforming the Difficult Child - Howard Glasser
  • Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood - Lisa Damour

Trauma and Body:
  • The Body Keeps the Score- Bessel Van der Kolk, M.D.
  • Body Kindness- Rebecca Scritchfield (body image, health, and intuitive eating)
Christian Perspective and spiritual growth:
  • Trust -  Henry Cloud
  • Found: God's Will - John MacArthur
  • How People Change - Tim Lane and Paul Tripp
  • Uncensored: Daring to Embrace the Entire Bible - Brian Crosby
  • Boundaries: When to Say Yes How to Say No - Cloud and Townsend
  • Safe People - Cloud and Townsend
  • Union with Christ  - Rankin Wilbourne
For kids:
  • Double-Dip Feelings - Barbara S. Cain
  • A Terrible Thing Happened - Margaret M. Holmes
  • The Memory Box: A Book about Grief - Joanna Rowland
  • When Mom and Dad Separate - Marge Heegaard
  • The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein
  • The Hurt - Teddi Doleski
  • Turtle - Nick Baker and Kathy Passage
  • The Berenstain Bears and Telling the Truth - Stan and Jan Berenstain
  • Jessica's Two Families - Lynne Hugo
For Men:
  • Seven Ways to be Her Hero - Doug Fields
  • Disciplines of a Godly Man - R. Kent Hughes
  • The Heart of Domestic Abuse - Chris Moles
  • Wired for Intimacy. How pornography Hijacks the Male Brain - William Struthers
  • The Porn Trap - Wendy and Larry Maltz
For Women:
  • The Emotionally Destructive Marriage - Leslie Vernick
  • Your Sexually Addicted Spouse - Barbara Steffens
  • The Porn Trap - Wendy and Larry Maltz
  • How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids - Jancee Dunn
  • The great sex rescue: the lies you've been taught and how to recover what God intended - Sheila Wray Gregoire
  • The good girl's guide to great sex - Sheila Wray Gregoire
Couples:
  • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work - John Gottman
  • Intimacy Anorexia - Douglass Weiss
  • Rekindling Desire - Barry W. McCarthy and Emily J. McCarthy
  • Getting Past the Affair - Douglas K Snyder and Donald H Baucom
  • The Verbally Abusive Relationship - Patricia Evans
  • The Sexual Healing Journey: A guide for survivors of sexual abuse - Wendy Maltz

    Online Resources
  • http://www.5lovelanguages.com
  • https://www.intimatemarriage.org
  • http://www.waterfrontchurchdc.com/strand/ -  Discipleship training