BOOKS—PARENTING
Haidt examines the growing anxiety epidemic among today’s youth, exploring the social, political, and technological factors contributing to this phenomenon and how parents can help their children navigate these challenges.
Dr. Becky Kennedy’s book is a guide to parenting that focuses on understanding your child’s emotional needs and creating an environment that fosters self-confidence, empathy, and a healthy parent-child relationship.
Lahey blends research with practical advice for parents in a comprehensive approach to preventing addiction by fostering healthy, open relationships with kids around the topic of substances.
Lahey argues that failure is essential for children’s development. In this book, she explores how allowing children to experience setbacks helps them build resilience, emotional intelligence, and independence.
This book presents a neuroscientific approach to parenting, explaining how understanding brain development can help parents guide their children through difficult emotions and behaviors.
Willard provides actionable steps to foster resilience in children by integrating mindfulness practices into their lives. This book is a valuable resource for parents looking to help their children develop the emotional strength to face life’s challenges.
This parenting book by Katie Hurley offers parents advice on helping their daughters specifically manage peer pressure, anxiety, and the toxic behaviors that can arise in social settings.
Kappadakunnel emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and emotional regulation to model healthy behaviors for kids, teaching parents to care for their needs while raising children.
A humorous and heartbreaking deep dive into the complexities of raising boys in our fraught political moment.
By James McKenna: Offers research-based advice on co-sleeping and practices for safe infant sleep.
Ruth Whippman explores the dark side of the happiness industry in America, revealing how the relentless pursuit of happiness is making us more anxious.
Eli Harwood delves into attachment theory, focusing on building a strong parent-child bond and offering parents strategies on how to "show up" in a way that strengthens their child’s emotional security.
Provides an urgently needed guide to help parents understand and support their teenagers' intense and often fraught emotional lives.
Cara Natterson, MD, and Vanessa Kroll Bennett offer the ultimate guide for adults helping tweens and teens navigate the rollercoaster of puberty with confidence and compassion.
By Devorah Heitner: Offers guidance for parents on helping kids navigate the digital world wisely.
Guiding advice from public speaker and parent Stephanie Pinto on raising kind, confident and resilient children accompanies grief and offers ways to navigate it.
Under Pressure by Lisa Damour provides insights into managing stress and anxiety in adolescent girls.
Hope Edelman explores the profound impact of losing a mother and the journey of healing and growing up to become a parent.
Practical communication tools to foster cooperation and connection with kids.
Explores how passion and perseverance outweigh talent in achieving long-term success.
A science-backed guide to calmly connecting with kids while correcting their behavior.
A parenting classic blending Jewish wisdom and modern psychology to raise grounded, resilient children.
Offers five essential, research-based strategies to raise emotionally healthy and capable kids.
A straightforward approach to dealing with moody or difficult tweens and teens.
BOOKS—RELATIONSHIPS
Esther Perel explores the tension between love and desire in long-term relationships.
Based on Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), this book teaches couples how to create secure emotional bonds.
Pia Mellody's discusses the root causes of codependency and offers practical exercises for healing.
Peggy Orenstein reveals the complexities of modern sexual expectations for teenage girls.
By Charlotte Davis Kasl: Discusses the intersection of addiction and women’s experiences with intimacy and love.
Geneen Roth examines the connection between emotional hunger and compulsive eating.
Claire Bidwell Smith examines how anxiety often interacts with experiencing loss
John Gottman’s research-based principles offer couples the tools to build a healthier, more fulfilling marriage.
Kelly McDaniel Guides readers on how to reclaim their lives by establishing healthy boundaries.
This classic self-help book explores codependency in relationships, offering strategies to break free from unhealthy patterns and find independence and self-worth.
This book focuses on the science behind romantic relationships, and strategies for couples to strengthen their bond through attachment theory and neuroscience.
Nancy Levin guides readers on how to reclaim their lives by establishing healthy boundaries.
BOOKS— MEMOIRS
A therapist's own journey through therapy, this memoir offers a profound look at the process of self-discovery and healing. It blends humor, heart, and insight into the power of human connection and the healing process.
A gripping memoir about navigating the trauma of living with a parent who suffers from addiction, Griffin’s story is about the power of revealing secrets, confronting past trauma, and finding healing through vulnerability.
Foo’s memoir explores the impact of childhood trauma, particularly from childhood abuse, and the long-term effects it has on mental health. It’s a raw and honest exploration of healing and reclaiming one's life.
Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me is a memoir by American writer Adrienne Brodeur about living in the thrall of her magnetic, complicated mother.
The semi-biographical story of a 23-year-old alcoholic and abuser of other drugs and how he copes with rehabilitation in a twelve steps-oriented treatment center.
Westover recounts overcoming her survivalist Mormon family in order to go to college and emphasizes the importance of education in enlarging her world.
BOOKS—FICTION
This novel by Dorthy Allison is a brave and heartbreaking book about the impacts of child abuse and navigating family trauma.
The Lovely Bones is a 2002 novel by American writer Alice Sebold. It is the story of a teenage girl who watches from heaven as her loved ones struggle to move on with their lives after her violent murder.
In this extraordinary coming-of-age odyssey, Wally Lamb invites us to hitch a wild ride on a journey of love, pain, and renewal with the most heartbreakingly comical heroine to come along in years.
A riotously funny, emotionally raw New York Times bestselling novel about love, marriage, divorce, family, and the ties that bind.
Big Little Lies is a take on ex-husbands and second wives, mothers and daughters, schoolyard scandal, and the little lies that can turn lethal.
Little Children is a 2004 novel by American author Tom Perrotta that interweaves the dark stories of seven main characters, all of whom live in the same Boston suburb during the middle of a hot summer.
