Community Resources
Anchored Counseling – Disordered Eating
Center for Connection and Wellness – Children/Adolescent Therapy
Doctor Christopher Motley – Alternative Medicine: Chiropractor/Kinesiology
Empowered Heart – Holistic Medication Management
Good Vibrations Holistic Healing – Holistic Sound Healing & Craniosacral Therapy
Integrative Life Center – Inpatient/Intensive Out Patient Recovery Treatment Programs (Not Typical 12 Step Program)
Katie Parker Massage – Integrative Massage & Source Point Therapy
Mindful Nashville – Integrative Practitioners
Mindstream Integrative Medicine – Functional Medicine Practitioners
Melanie Joye, LMT – Integrative Bodyworker/Massage Therapist
Murray Nutrition – Eating Disorder and Disordered Eating Patterns
Nashville Autoimmune Nutrition – Functional Nutrition for Autoimmune and Chronic Illness
Nashville Child & Family Center – Medication Management for Adolescents & Teens
Redefining Roots – Holistic Medication Management
The Wellness Studio – Acupuncture
Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous (SLAA) – Find a Meeting in Your Area
Literature:
Journal Articles:
International Journal of Yoga Therapy – Yoga Therapy in Practice – Trauma Sensitive Yoga: Principles, Practice and Research
When Your Child “Comes Out”
PDF – Love Addiction – 40 Question Self Diagnosis
PDF – Suicide & Crisis Resources – Worldwide Listings
The following is a list of books by subject.
Abuse
- “Why Does He Do That?” by Lundy Bancroft
- “Getting Free” by Ginny Nicarthy
- “The Gift of Fear” by Gavin de Becker
- “The Betrayal Bond.” By Patrick Carnes
- “The Trauma Spectrum” by Robert Scaer
- “I Never Called it Rape” by Robin Warshaw
- The Verbally Abusive Relationship
ADHD & Attention Concerns
- Organizing from the Right Side of the Brain: A Creative Approach to Getting Organized
- What Does Everybody Else Know That I Don’t?: Social Skills Help for Adults with Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
- Time Management for the Creative Person: Right-Brain Strategies for Stopping Procrastination, Getting Control of the Clock and Calendar, and Freeing Up Your Time and Your Life
- Learning Outside The Lines: Two Ivy League Students with Learning Disabilities and ADHD Give You the Tools for Academic Success and Educational Revolution
- Making the System Work for Your Child with ADHD
- Mastering Your Adult ADHD: A Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program Client Workbook (Treatments That Work)
- Taking Charge of ADHD, Third Edition: The Complete, Authoritative Guide for Parents
- Driven to Distraction (Revised): Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder
Anger
- Letting Go of Anger: The Eleven Most Common Anger Styles And What to Do About Them
- Beating Anger: The Eight-Point Plan for Coping with Rage
- How To Control Your Anger Before It Controls You
- Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
Assertiveness and Healthy Communication
- Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
- The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You’re Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate
- Your Perfect Right: Assertiveness and Equality in Your Life and Relationships (9th Edition)
- The Assertive Woman (Personal Growth)
Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents – Lindsay C Gibson
- “Will I Ever Be Good Enough” by Karyl McBride
- Understanding the Borderline Mother by Christine Ann Lawson
- “Stop Walking On Eggshells” by Paul Mason and Randi Kreger
- “I Hate You – Don’t Leave Me” by Jerold Kreisman
Childhood Sexual Abuse:
Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse:
- RAINN: Rape Abuse & Incest National Network
- Hush: Moving From Silence to Healing After Childhood Sexual Abuse
- The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, 20th Anniversary Edition
- The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
- Voices of Courage: Inspiration from Survivors of Sexual Assault
Ritual Abuse During Childhood:
- Not Without My Sister: The True Story of Three Girls Violated and Betrayed by Those They Trusted
Male Incest Survivors:
- A Beautiful World: One Son’s Escape from the Snares of Abuse and Devotion • Father’s Touch, Second Edition
Teen Survivors of Sexual Abuse:
- It Happened to Me: A Teen’s Guide to Overcoming Sexual Abuse (workbook)
- How Long Does It Hurt: A Guide to Recovering from Incest and Sexual Abuse for Teenagers, Their Friends, and Their Families
CHRONIC ILLNESS
- Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired: Living with Invisible Chronic Illness (New Edition)
- How to Be Sick by Toni Bernhard
- Everything Happens for a Reason: And other Lies I’ve Loved by Kate Bowler
- Whats Wrong with Me? by Meghan O’Rourke
- Befriending the Wolf by Milly Diericx
CHILDREN, TEENS AND PARENTING
- Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards and Punishments to Love and Reason
- How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
- Yes, Your Teen is Crazy!: Loving Your Kid Without Losing Your Mind
- Getting to Calm: Cool-Headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens + Teens
- Parenting Teens With Love And Logic: Preparing Adolescents for Responsible Adulthood, Updated and Expanded Edition
- Positive Discipline for Teenagers, Revised 3rd Edition: Empowering Your Teens and Yourself Through Kind and Firm Parenting
- Get Out of My Life, but First Could You Drive Me & Cheryl to the Mall: A Parent’s Guide to the New Teenager, Revised and Updated
- Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
- Parents, Teens and Boundaries: How to Draw the Line
- If Your Adolescent Has an Anxiety Disorder: An Essential Resource for Parents (Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands’ Adolescent Mental Health Initiative)
- All Grown Up And No Place To Go: Teenagers In Crisis, Revised Edition
- “1,2,3 Magic” by Thomas Phelan
- “Scream Free Parenting” by Hal Edward Runkel
- “The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog” by Bruce Perry
- “Emotional Intelligence” by Daniel P Goleman
- “Parenting from the Inside Out” by Daniel Siegel
- Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes” by Peter Levine and Maggie Kline
- How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
COUPLES
Marriage:
- The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert
- Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships
- Why Marriages Succeed or Fail: And How You Can Make Yours Last
All Romantic Relationships:
- What Makes Love Last?: How to Build Trust and Avoid Betrayal
- The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples
- Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind – and Keep – Love
- Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
- Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary Edition
- The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts
- “I love you. Talk to Me.” Don Harvey
- “The Anatomy of Peace”
- “Dealing with Difficult People” Alan Godwin
- After the Affair by Janis Abrahms Spring
Sex & Intimacy:
- Intimacy & Desire: Awaken the Passion in Your Relationship
- Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
- Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships • The Return of Desire: A Guide to Rediscovering Your Sexual Passion
Infidelity & Affairs:
- After the Affair, Updated Second Edition: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful
- Torn Asunder: Recovering From an Extramarital Affair
- Shattered Vows: Hope and Healing for Women Who Have Been Sexually Betrayed
- Breakups, Separation, and Divorce
- Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: A Step-by-Step Guide to Help You Decide Whether to Stay In or Get Out of Your Relationship
- Dinosaurs Divorce (A Guide for Changing Families)
- The Boys and Girls Book About Divorce
- Should I Try to Work It Out?: A Guidebook for Individuals and Couples at the Crossroads of Divorce
- The Divorce Remedy: The Proven 7-Step Program for Saving Your Marriage
DIFFICULT CHILDHOOD (ABUSIVE, NEGLECTFUL, OR UNHEALTHY PARENTS)
Resources for Adult Survivors of Child Abuse and Neglect Adult Children of Alcoholics
- Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
- The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
- Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up’s Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents
- If You Had Controlling Parents: How to Make Peace with Your Past and Take Your Place in the World
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
DIFFICULT EMOTIONS & PAINFUL TIMES
- The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation & … Tolerance (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
- Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow
- The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
- The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings Are Trying to Tell You
DEPRESSION & ANXIETY
Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255
National Mental Health Emergency Help Line: 811
- Overcoming Depression: A Cognitive Therapy Approach Workbook (Treatments That Work)
- Mastery of Your Anxiety and Worry: Workbook (Treatments That Work)
- The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
- I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression
- Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
CONFIDENCE & SELF-ESTEEM
- The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are
- The Self-Esteem Workbook
- Ten Days to Self-Esteem
- The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Building Social Confidence: Using Compassion-Focused Therapy to Overcome Shyness and Social Anxiety (The New Harbinger Compassion-Focused Therapy Series)
disordered eating & Body Image
- Health At Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
- Dying to Be Thin: Understanding and Defeating Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia–A Practical, Lifesaving Guide
- Beautiful You: A Daily Guide to Radical Self-Acceptance
- Intuitive Eating
- Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life
- Overcoming Your Eating Disorders: A Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Approach for Bulimia Nervosa and Binge-Eating Disorder Workbook (Treatments That Work)
- Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder
- Full and Fulfilled
GRIEF & LOSS
- On Death and Dying
- A Grief Observed
- On Children and Death: How Children and Their Parents Can and Do Cope With Death
- The Grief Recovery Handbook, 20th Anniversary Expanded Edition: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses including Health, Career, and Faith
- Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations For Working Through Grief
- When Bad Things Happen to Good People
- When Someone You Love Dies
- For Survivors of Suicide
- After Suicide Loss: Coping with Your Grief
- Dying to Be Free: A Healing Guide for Families After a Suicide
- Healing After the Suicide of a Loved One
- Unfinished Conversation: Healing from Suicide and Loss
- Black Suicide: The Tragic Reality of America’s Deadliest Secret
- “Grief, Dying and Death” by Therese Rando
- “Treating Complicated Mourning” by Therese Rando
- “The Mourning After’ by Catherine Sanders
- “Tear Soup” by Pat Schwiebert & Chuck DeKlyen (for children and families)
GLBTQQI: GAY, LESBIAN, BISEXUAL, TRANSGENDER, QUEER, QUESTIONING, AND INTERSEX
- Coming Out of Shame: Transforming Gay and Lesbian Lives
- Is It a Choice? Answers to the Most Frequently Asked Questions About Gay & Lesbian People, Third Edition
- The Full Spectrum: A New Generation of Writing About Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning, and Other Identities
- The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the Pain of Growing Up Gay in a Straight Man’s World, Second Edition
- Straight Parents, Gay Children: Keeping Families Together
MENTAL HEALTH & WELLNESS
- Happy
- Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain
- Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
- The ART OF LIVING CONSCIOUSLY: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life
- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
- Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
NARCISSISM
- Trapped in the Mirror: Adult Children of Narcissists in their Struggle for Self • Emotional Vampires: Dealing with People Who Drain You Dry
- Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed
- Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers
OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER
- Stop Obsessing!: How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions (Revised Edition)
- The Woman Who Thought too Much: A Memoir
RACE, CULTURE, ETHNICITY AND IDENTITY DEVELOPMENT
- Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race
- White Privilege: Essential Readings on the Other Side of Racism
- What Are You?: Voices of Mixed-Race Young People
- Dim Sum, Bagels, and Grits: A Sourcebook for Multicultural Families
- Adolescent Ethnic and Racial Identity Development (presentation)
RAPE & SEXUAL ASSAULT
National Sexual Assault Hotline | 1.800.656.HOPE(4673)
- The Rape Recovery Handbook: Step-by-Step Help for Survivors of Sexual Assault
- Recovering From Rape
- Journey to Wholeness: Healing from the Trauma of Rape
- If She is Raped
- The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse (Revised Edition)
- Recovery: How to survive sexual assault for women, men, teenagers, their friends and families
- I Can’t Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors
- Acquaintance Rape
- I Never Called It Rape: The Ms. Report on Recognizing, Fighting, and Surviving Date and Acquaintance Rape
SCHIZOPHRENIA
- Surviving Schizophrenia, 6th Edition: A Family Manual
- The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness
- How to Live with a Mentally Ill Person: A Handbook of Mentally Ill Strategies
- Coping with Schizophrenia: A Guide for Families
SOCIAL ANXIETY & SHYNESS
- Painfully Shy: How to Overcome Social Anxiety and Reclaim Your Life
- Overcoming Social Anxiety and Shyness: A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioral Techniques
- The Compassionate-Mind Guide to Building Social Confidence: Using Compassion- Focused Therapy to Overcome Shyness and Social Anxiety (The New Harbinger Compassion-Focused Therapy Series)
- Dying of Embarrassment: Help for Social Anxiety and Phobia
- Diagonally-Parked in a Parallel Universe: Working Through Social Anxiety
Sex & Love Addiction
- “Women, Sex, and Addiction” by Charlotte Kasl Ready to Heal by Kelly McDaniel
- Love warrior by Glennon Doyle Melton
- Facing Love Addiction – Pia Melody The Intimacy Factor – Pia Melody
SPIRITUALITY AND PURPOSE
- Man’s Search for Meaning
- A New Earth – Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose
- The Last Lecture
- The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning
- “Soul Repair” by Jeff Vonvanderen
- “Angry Conversations with God” by Susan Isaacs
- God and the Gay Christian – Matthew Vines
- The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living
- The ART OF LIVING CONSCIOUSLY: The Power of Awareness to Transform Everyday Life
- Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
- Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
STRESS REDUCTION AND MANAGEMENT
- The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
- Wherever You Go, There You Are
SUPPORTING LOVED ONES WITH MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTION CONCERNS
- “One Hour At A Time,” a free podcast by Mary Woods
- Al-Anon: Support and Resources for Family and Friends of People with Drug or Alcohol Problems
- NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness (Resources and Support for Family and Friends)
- Everything Changes: Help for Families of Newly Recovering Addicts
- Demystifying Psychiatry: A Resource for Patients and Families
- Talk Therapy TV – Videos about the warning signs, symptoms, and treatment options for mental illnesses and addictions.
SUPPORTING LOVED ONES WHO ARE SURVIVORS OF ASSAULT OR ABUSE
- When You’re the Partner of a Rape or Incest Survivor
SUBSTANCE ABUSE, ADDICTION, AND PROBLEM DRINKING
- Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (Prevention, Recovery, and Treatment)
- Online Recovery Resource Directory
- Tips for Reducing Alcohol Consumption
- The Big Book of Alcoholics Anonymous
- My Name Is Bill W
- Twenty Four Hours a Day
- A Gentle Path through the Twelve Steps: The Classic Guide for All People in the Process of Recovery
- 12 Smart Things to Do When the Booze and Drugs Are Gone: Choosing Emotional Sobriety through Self-Awareness and Right Action
- 12 Stupid Things That Mess Up Recovery: Avoiding Relapse through Self-Awareness and Right Action
- Trauma and Addiction: Ending the Cycle of Pain Through Emotional Literacy
- Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction
- “Addiction and Grace” by Gerald May
- “Into the Shadows” by Patrick Carnes
TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCES
- The Journey From Abandonment to Healing
- Recovery of Your Inner Child by Lucia Cappchione
- Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve by Stanley Rosenberg
- What Happened to You? by Oprah Winfrey and Dr Bruce Perry
- In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
- Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy
- Somatic Experiencing by Peter Levine
- The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment (Norton Professional Book)
- The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel Van der Kolk, MD Getting Past Your Past – Francine Shapiro
- It Didn’t Start With You – How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle – Mark Wolynn
- Waking The Tiger by Peter Levine
- Befriending Your Nervous System by Deb Dana
- Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection by Deb Dana
- The Deepest Well – Nadine Burke Harris
Relational/Intimacy/Co-Dependency/Boundaries/Attachment
- Becoming the One – Sheleana Aiyana
Attached - Co-Dependant No More – Melody Beattie
- Boundaries – Henry Cloud
- The Gifts of Imperfection – Brene Brown
- Daring Greatly – Brene Brown
- Braving the Wilderness – Brene Brown
- The Betrayal Bond – Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships by Patrick Carnes
- Love is a Choice by Dr. Robert Hemfelt (Author), Dr. Frank Minirth (Author), Paul Meier M.D. (Author)
- Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
- Safe People: How to Find Relationships That Are Good for You and Avoid Those That Aren’t
- Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
Other
- “Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change” by Miller and Rollnick • “Changing for Good” by DeClemente and Prochaska
- Reinventing Your Life by Jeffery Young