Book Recommendations
At The Rock, we desire ultimate life satisfaction and healing for you, and bibliotherapy can play an important role in this. Bibliotherapy refers to reading or engaging with specific books to help improve your life and help you heal. Bibliotherapy uses literature to provide you with information, guidance, and support to guide you along your healing and growth process.
Bibliotherapy is beneficial--especially when complemented with traditional counseling/therapy. Reading and interacting with books can inform, heal, entertain, and lead you on a path to self-discovery and transformation.
The listing of these books does not imply an endorsement of all of the authors' ideas. Parents should read and discuss books with their children. Some of the books deal with specific situations and may not apply to any child or adult. We are here for you and desire the best life for you. If you are interested in reading or additional resources about a topic not listed here, please contact us for recommendations. We would be honored to assist you in your journey.
Better Boundaries: Owning and Treasuring Your Life by Jan Black Where to Draw the Line by Anne Katherine The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis A Mother's Touch: Surviving Mother-Daughter Sexual Abuse by Julie Brand The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships by Harriet Lerner The Angry Book by Theodore I Rubin The Angry Teenager: Why Teens Get So Angry and How Parents Can Help Them Grow Through It by William Lee Carter Finding Serenity in the Age of Anxiety by Robert Gerzon My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind byScott Stossel The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living by Russ Harris The Cognitive Behavioral Workbook for Depression by William J Knaus and Albert Ellis Beyond the Blues: A Workbook to Help Teens Overcome Depression by Lisa M. Schab Uncoupling: Turning Points in Intimate Relationships byDiane Vaughan The Healing Journal through Divorce: Your Journal of Understanding and Renewal by Phil Rich and Lita Linzer Schwartz When Food is Love: Exploring the Relationship Between Eating and Intimacy by Geneen Roth The Overcoming Bulimia Workbook by Randi E. McCabe Brave Girl Eating: A Family's Struggle with Anorexia by Harriet Brown How to Find Fulfilling Work (The School of Life) by Roman Krznaric Your Creative Career by Anna Sabino Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live with Unresolved Grief by Pauline Boss Grieving: How to Go on Living When Someone You Love Dies by Therese Rando Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up in Order to Grow by Judith Viorst How to Survive the Loss of a Child: Filling the Emptiness and Rebuilding Your Life by Catherine Sanders When a Baby Dies: The Experience of Late Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death by Nancy Kohner and Alix Henly Companion Through the Darkness: Inner Dialogues on Grief by Stephanie Ericcson How to Survive the Loss of a Love (by Melba Colgrove, Harold Bloomfield, and Peter McWilliams The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman The Five Love Languages: Military Edition by Gary Chapman His Needs, Her Needs by Willard F Harley Bi Any Other Name: Bisexual People Speak Out by Loraine Hutchins and Lani Kaahumanu The Journey Out: A Guide for and About Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Teens by Rachel Pollack and Cheryl Schwartz The Lesbian and Gay Parenting Handbook: Creating and Raising Our Families by April Matin Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue byLeslie Feinberg Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Interex, and Queer Psychology: An Introduction by Sonja J. Ellis, Damien W. Riggs, and Elizabeth Peel The Happiest Baby on the Block by Dr. Harvey Karp Perfectionism: What's Bad About Being Too Good by Miriam Adderholdt Malignant Self Love by Sam Vaknin Rethinking Narcissism by Dr. Craig Malkin Narcissistic Abuse Recovery by Dr. Theresa Covert Toxic Parents: Recognizing, Understanding, and Recovering from Narcissistic Parents by Theresa Covert Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight by M. E. Thomas Red Flags of Love Fraud: 10 Signs You're Dating a Sociopath by Donna Anderson Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie Stopping the Pain: A Workbook for Teens Who Cut and Self-Injure by Lawrence E. Shapiro Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke HarrisAbusive
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