Resources

Addiction:   

• Dopamine Nation: Anna Lembke, M.D.
• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, by Gabor Mate, MD
• Recovery from Trauma, Addiction, or Both: Strategies for Finding Your Best Self, by Lisa M. Najavits

Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD):

• Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder, by Gabor Mate, MD

Borderline Personality Disorder:

• I Hate You! Don’t Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality, by Jerold J. Kreisman, MD, and Hal Straus
• Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder, by Rachel Reiland
• Sometimes I Act Crazy: Living with Borderline Personality Disorder, by Jerold J. Kreisman, MD, and Hal Straus
• The Buddha and the Borderline: My Recovery from Borderline Personality Disorder through Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Buddhism, and Online Dating, by Kiera Van Gelder

Boundaries:

• Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No, to Take Control of Your Life, by Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend
• Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself, by Nedra Glover Tawwab

Emotions:

• A Walk in the Wood: Meditations on Mindfulness with a Bear Named Pooh
• Calming the Emotional Storm, by Sheri Van Dijk, MSW
• Permission to Feel: The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success, by Marc Bracket
• How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal From Your Past, and Create Your Self, by Dr. Nicole LePera
• Master Your Emotions: A Practical Guide to Overcome Negativity and Better Manage Your Feelings, by Thibaut Meurisse

Mindfulness:

• How to Walk, by Thich Nhat Hanh
• Mindfulness in Plain English, by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana
• The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment, by Eckhart Tolle
• Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Relationships:

• The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts, by Gary Chapman
• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love, by Amir Levine

Trauma: 

• It Didn’t Start with You, How Inherited Family Trama Shapes Who we Are and How to End the Cycle, by Mark Wolynn
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel Van Der Kolk
• The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and healing in a Toxic Culture, by Gabor Mate, MD and Daniel Mate
• When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress, by Gabor Mate, MD