Recommended Books

Marla’s Suggested Reading

ADDICTION & RECOVERY 

Days of Healing, Days of Joy – Ernie Larson

Facing Codependency – Pia Mellody

Facing Love Addiction – Pia Mellody

I Hate You, Don’t Leave Me – Kreisman and Straus

No More Letting Go, The Spirituality of Taking Action Against Alcoholism and Drug Addiction – Debra Jay

Language of Letting Go – Melodie Beattie

The New Codependency – Melody Beattie

Structured Family Recovery – Debra Jay

Love First – Jeff & Debra Jay

CHILDREN, TEENS & PARENTING

And Baby Makes Three – John Gottman

Prodigal Sons and Material Girls: How Not to Be Your Child's ATM – Nathan Dungan

Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child – John Gottman

The Overscheduled Child – Rosenfeld, Wise, and Coles

Mother-Daughter Wisdom – Christiane Northrup, MD

The Courage to Raise a Good Man – Silverstein and Rashbaum

You’re Wearing THAT? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation-Deborah Tannen

When Our Grown Kids Disappoint Us – Jane Adams, PhD

Why Do They Act That Way?: A Survival Guide to the Adolescent Brain for You and Your Teen – Dr. David Walsh Ph.D.

Why Do They Act That Way? Survival Guide For You and Your Adolescent – David Walsh

You Just Don’t Understand – Deborah Tannen

DEPRESSION & ANXIETY

Beyond The Blues – Indeman and Bennett

I Don’t Want to Talk About it: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression – Terrence Real

Conquering Postpartum Depression – Deborah Greening and Ronald Rosenberg

Postpartum Mood Disorders – Kimberly Zittell

Down Came the Rain – Brooke Shields

Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy – David Burns

GRATITUDE

Gratitude – Melody Beattie

GRIEF & LOSS

Healing After Loss – Martha Whitmore Hickman

Hello from Heaven – Bill Guggenheim

How to Survive the Loss of a Love – Bloomfield, Colgrove, McWilliams

I’m Grieving as Fast as I Can – Author Unknown

It’s Ok NOT to be Ok - Megan Devine

The Grief Club - Melody Beattie

Grief Day by Day - Jan Warner

HOME & HEALTHY LIVING

Home Rules – Nate Berkus

Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding – Fugen Neziroglu

The Healthy Home – Wentz

Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder – Paul Mason MS & Randi Kreger

The Space that Keeps You - Jeremiah Brent

LGBTQ

10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do to Improve Their Lives-Joe Kort

10 Smart Things Gay Men Can Do to Find Real Love-Joe Kort

MOVEMENT & NUTRITION

Eating Well for Optimum Health – Andrew Weil, MD

Flat Belly Diet – Liz Vaccariello

Love, Medicine and Miracles – Bernie Seagal

Superfoods – Pratt and Matthews

The Skinny Bitch – Barnouin & Freedman

Making the Cut – Jillian Michaels

Tracy Anderson Method

The Prime: Prepare and Repair Your Body for Spontaneous Weight Loss – Kulreet Chaudhary

The Microbiome Diet: The Scientifically Proven Way to Restore Your Gut Health and Achieve Permanent Weight Loss – Raphael Kellman MD

Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain

The Cancer Fighting Diet: Diet and Nutrition Strategies to Help Weaken Cancer Cells and Improve Treatment Results – Coy & Franz

Andrew Weil Books

The UltraMind Solution-Dr. Mark Hyman Movement

CONTEMPLATING DIVORCE

After the Affair – Janis Abrahms Spring

Surviving an Affair – Harley and Chalmers

Why Marriages Succeed or Fail – Gottman

Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work – John Gottman

The New Rules of Marriage – Terry Real

When He Leaves – Cari, West, Noelle, and Quinn

The Verbally Abusive Relationship – Patricia Evans

Rebuilding Trust – Jennifer Schneider

NARCISSISSM

The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists – Eleanor Payson

Trapped in the Mirror – Elan Golomb, PhD

PRODUCTIVITY, SUCCESS & INNER PEACE

10 Secrets for Success and Inner Peace – Wayne Dyer

Becoming Real – Gail Saltz, MD

Beyond Half Time by Bob Buford

Building Your Field of Dreams – Morrissey

Disclosing Secrets – Jennifer Schneider

Getting Things Done – David Allen

Who Moved My Cheese – Johnson and Blanchard

Live What You Love – The Blanchard’s

Option B – Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant

People Problems – Alan Godwin


RELATIONSHIPS & COUPLES

Boundaries – Cloud/Townsend

Controlling People – Patricia Evans

Getting the Love You Want – Harville Hendrix

His Needs Her Needs – Willard F. Harley, Jr

How Can I Get Through to You? Reconnecting Men and Women – Terrence Real

How to Heal a Painful Relationship (or part as friends) – Bill Ferguson

Iron John a Book About Men – Robert Bly

Love – Leo Buscaglia, Ph.D.

Love & Respect – Dr. Emerson Eggerichs

Mastery of Love – Don Miguel Ruiz

The Way of the Superior Man – David Deida

The Art of Loving – Erich Fromm

The 5 Love languages – Gary Chapman

The Relationship Cure – John Gottman

Your Man Is Wonderful – Noelle C. Nelson, PhD

Safe People – Cloud and Townsend

When Your Relationship Ends – Rebuilding – Fisher & Alberti

Getting Past the Affair - Douglas K. Snyder, Kristina Coop Gordon, Donald H. Baucom



RETIREMENT

Too Young to Retire – Marika & Howard Stone

SEX

CyberSex Exposed – Jennifer Schneider


SPIRITUALITY

Igniting Intuition – Christiane Northrup, MD

The Power of Now – Eckhart Tolle

The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz

There’s a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem – Wayne Dyer

Your Best Life Now – Joel Osteen

When God Winks – Squire Rushnell

Forgiving What You Can’t Forget- Lysa TerKeurst


WOMEN

The Wisdom of Menopause – Christiane Northrup, MD

Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom – Christiane Northrup, MD

Gift from the Sea – Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Igniting Intuition – Northrup & Schulz

Your Sixth Sense – Bellaruth Naparstek

Seeking Soulmate -Chamin Ajjan, MS, LCSW, ACT 

The Menopause Reset - Dr Mindy Pelz

The New Menopause - Dr Mary Claire Haver

You’re Wearing THAT? Understanding Mothers and Daughters in Conversation - Deborah Tannen