WORLD BOOK DAY 2018 – Helping You to Help Yourself Recommendations

I believe that Counselling is about empowering people and as it’s World Book Day I would like to help that process by make the following reading recommendations.  This isn’t an exhaustive list as I am continually learning and updating from such wonderful authors as these.  These book recommendations are light, often funny reads which are also most definitely life changing with many a precious “nugget” contained within them – Enjoy!

Why Good People Do Bad Things – How to Stop Being Your Own Worst Enemy – Debbie Ford

Resilience – Facing Down Rejection and Criticism on the Road to Success – Mark Mcguinness

Depression – The Way Out of Your Prison – Dorothy Rowe

Third Culture Kids – Growing Up Among Worlds – David Pollock and Ruth Van Reken

Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps – Allan & Barbara Pease

When You and Your Mother Can’t Be Friends – Resolving the most complicated relationship of your life – Victoria Secunda

The Emotional Abusive Relationship – How to Stop being abused and how to stop abusing – Beverley Engel

The Unavailable Father – Seven Ways Women Can understand, heal and cope with a broken father-daughter relationship – Sarah Simms Rosenthal

Self Help – Find Your Self to Help Yourself – Max Kirsten

The New Codependency – Help and Guidance for Today’s Generation – Melody Beattie

Emotional Unavailability – Recognising It, Understanding It and Avoiding Its trap – Bryn C. Collins

Will I Ever be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers– Karyl McBride

Get Out of Your Own Way – Overcoming Self-Defeating Behaviour – Mark Goulston and Philip Goldberg

Women Who Love Too Much – When you keep wishing and hoping he’ll change – Erica Jong

Why Does He Do That ? – Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men – Lundy Bancroft

My Voice Will Go With You – The teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson – Sidney Rosen

Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl

Self Harm – The Path to Recovery – Dr Kate Middleton and Sara Garvie

The Successful Self – Dorothy Rowe

Resilience – How to Cope When Everything Around You Keeps Changing– Liggy Webb

Why It Can’t Work – Detaching From Dysfunctional Relationships to Make Room for True Love – Thomas Fiffer

His Needs, Her Needs – Building an Affair Proof Marriage – Williard Harley

Coping with BDP – DBT & CBT Skills to Soothe the Symptoms of Borderline Personality Disorder – Blaise Aguirre & Gillian Galen