Recommended Books/Resources

Healers on Healing
Carlson, PhD and Shield, editors

Authors are various renowned experts writing on the basis of healing "...a grand synthesis of heartfelt thinking that offers a treasury of profound insights for people in the healing profession..." (book cover)

 

Wounded Healers: Mental Health Workers' Experiences of Depression, Rippere and Williams, editors

 Personal experiences of depression written by mental health workers. "A travel guide" written by several who have been there. "...this book aims to stimulate wider discussion of this overlooked topic, which has implications for mental health in the professions generally." (book cover)

 

Three book set by Oriah Mountain Dreamer:

The Invitation

...a declaration of intent, a map into the longing of the soul, the desire to live passionately, face-to-face with ourselves and skin-to-skin with the world around us...fresh and spirited call to live life more passionately and honestly. (book cover)


The Dance; How to Live Soulfully Every Day

Picks up where The Invitation left off, taking the ideas deeper...explores our ability to open up to the adventure of living, facing love, sorrow and anger, and learning all they have to teach us. (book cover)

 

The Call; Discovering Why You are Here

Completes the trilogy, showing us why we are here and why we must each undertake that journey, from longing to living fully and deeply in the world. (book cover)

 

Daily Affirmations for Compulsive Eaters; Beyond Feast or Famine

by Susan Ward, LCSW

Daily messages of courage and hope to help you establish a positive relationship with food -- and with yourself...for those of us who have problems with food -- either because we eat too much or because we eat too little. (book cover & Intro)

 

Eating in the Light of the Moon; how women can transform their relationships with food through myths, metaphors, and storytelling

by Anita Johnston, PhD

Inspires women to free themselves from disordered eating by discovering the metaphors that are hidden in their own life stories...sheds new light on women's struggles with eating and offers hope for all who want to be free. (book cover)

 

Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart; a Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness, Lessons from Meditation and Psychotherapy

by Mark Epstein, M.D. (psychiatrist)

Weaving together the accumulated wisdom of his two worlds--Buddhism and Western psychotherapy, Epstein shows how "the happiness we seek depends on our ability to balance the ego's need to do with our inherent capacity to be"  ...can help us manage our most powerful emotions--and make us feel more alive and whole in the process. (book cover)



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