Relationships

 

• Tell Me No Lies: How to Face the Truth and Build a Loving Marriage, by Ellyn Bader and Peter T. Pearson

• The High-Conflict Couple: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy & Validation, by Alan E. Fruzzetti

• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert, by John Gottman and Nan Silver

• Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, by Sue Johnson

• The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Know to Make Love Work, by Terrence Real

• The Four Tendencies: The Indispensable Personality Profiles That Reveal How to Make Your Life Better (and Other People's Lives Better, Too), by Gretchen Rubin

 

Family

 

• The Explosive Child: A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children, by Ross W. Greene (excellent advice even with kids who aren't behaviorally challenged!)

• How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen so Kids Will Talk, by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

• The Shelter of Each Other: Rebuilding Our Families, by Mary Pipher

• Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive, by Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell, see especially Chapter 8, How We Disconnect and Reconnect: Rupture and Repair

 

Happiness

 

• The Feeling Good Handbook, by David Burns

• Positive Affect Treatment for Depression and Anxiety: Workbook, by Michelle Craske, Halina J. Dour, Michael Treanor and Alicia E. Meuret. (An unexciting title but a workbook that really helps when you struggle to feel joy and pleasure.)

• Better than Before: What I Learned about Making and Breaking Habits, by Gretchen Rubin

• Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment, by Martin E. P. Seligman

 

Creativity

 

• The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, by Julia Cameron

• The Right to Write, by Julia Cameron

• Big Magic, by Elizabeth Gilbert

• Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life, by Natalie Goldberg

 

Other

 

• Goddesses in Everywoman, by Jean Bolen, and Gods in Everyman, by Jean Bolen

• The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals the Protect Us from Violence, by Gavin de Becker

• The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By, by Carol Pearson

• 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery: Take-Charge Strategies to Empower Your Healing, by Babette Rothchild

• Don't Panic: Taking Control of Anxiety Attacks, by Reid Wilson