These are books that I have found illuminating and that I recommend highly to readers of Trans4mind. Most of the following printed books are supplied by Amazon.com, the premier online bookshop. Just click on a book title to order and for more details, reviews and in many cases, sample chapters. The books are divided into the following categories...

In addition, we have selected the following books to support your work in overcoming a wide range of life challenges...

Healing Yourself:

• Heal and help yourself
  • Daring to be Yourself by Peter Shepherd - like a "best of" Trans4mind - that you can read away from the computer! But much more than that, it's also an incredibly powerful program for personal growth. Remove the barriers to self-knowledge and reveal your full potential with this step-by-step approach.
  • Unfold Your Wings by Wallace Huey - this beautiful and profound book empowers you to learn from setbacks and move forward, increase creativity, understand relationships, heal emotional pain and find your life's purpose.
  • The Undefended Self by Susan Thesenga and Eva Pierrakos - an insightful guide to the psychological and spiritual search into the fundamental questions of life, read at schools of healing and transformation and in study groups around the world.
  • The Essence of Self-Healing by Petrene Soames - it's about our emotional state of being, how we deal with stress, how fast we process and clear life experiences. Petrene gives many excellent tips for achieving this.
  • The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by Dalai Lama - talks about how to defeat depression, anxiety, anger and jealousy through meditation and how to find inner peace while facing these struggles.

• Find your healing path
  • The Sedona Method by Hale Dworskin - discover this incredibly effective way to release the underlying emotions that rob you of abundance, success, and joy.
  • Living Your Best Life by Laura Berman Fortgang - describes how we can attain our "best life" at home and at work - one in which we are more flexible, feel more in control, communicate more effectively, and work less hard but more productively.
  • An Open Heart: Practicing Compassion in Everyday Life by Dalai Lama - shows how we can cultivate helpful states of mind and eliminate harmful states, leading us to develop compassion for others and happiness for ourselves.
  • A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life by Jack Kornfield - insightful book about spiritual practice, the difficulties inherent in the path and methods of coping with them.

• Overcoming anger and frustration
  • Unfold Your Wings by Wallace Huey - this beautiful and profound book empowers you to learn from setbacks and move forward, increase creativity, understand relationships, heal emotional pain and find your life's purpose.
  • Healing Anger: The Power of Patience from a Buddhist Perspective by Dalai Lama - through active self-discipline, rather than meekness, we can transform anger through compassion and to be reconciled with ourselves and others.
  • The Anger Trap: Free Yourself from the Frustrations that Sabotage Your Life by Les Carter - puts together years of experience and wisdom to provide us with a way out of this insidious trap called anger.
  • Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames by Thich Nhat Hanh - teaches it is our responsibility to alleviate our own suffering; the way to do this is not to fight our emotions or to "let it all out" but to transform ourselves through mindfulness.

• >Boost your self-esteem
  • The Psychology of Self-Esteem by Nathaniel Branden - the book offers an in-depth exploration of the need for self-esteem, the nature of that need, the conditions of fulfillment, and how self-esteem (or lack of it) affects our values, responses, and goals.
  • The Self-Esteem Workbook by Glenn R. Schiraldi - a course in self-esteem based on new research and sound principles.
  • Self-Esteem by Matthew McKay - the first choice of therapists and savvy readers looking for a comprehensive, self-care approach to improving self-image, increasing personal power, and defining core values.

• Beyond fear and anxiety
  • The Essential Laws of Fearless Living by Guy Finley - an immensely powerful book. The secret to being fearless and free is to use your attention to connect yourself to the living ground of the present moment. Finley tells you exactly how to do this!
  • From Fear to Love: A Spiritual Journey by Dr. Tim Ong - a wonderful guide, both to understanding our situation and to transcending it, so that we can truly live our lives in the light of Love.
  • Your Emotional Power by Steve Mensing - simple and powerful processes for clearing unwanted emotions are based on mindfulness and ageless integration techniques.
  • Beyond Anxiety and Phobia: A Step-by-Step Guide to Lifetime Recovery by Edmund J. Bourne - true recovery requires understanding the meaning of anxiety symptoms and going deeper to face their underlying sources in a holistic and life-changing way.
  • Healing Anxiety and Depression by Daniel G. Amen - reveals the major anxiety and depression centers of the brain, offers guidelines and diagnostic tools to determine the specific type of anxiety and depression, and provides a comprehensive program for treating each type.
  • Diagonally-Parked in a Parallel Universe: Working Through Social Anxiety by Signe A. Dayhoff - offers you one useful tip after another to enable you to emerge again, to be the person you want to be.

• Beyond addictions
  • The Addiction Workbook by Patrick Fanning - a step-by-step guide to quitting alcohol and drugs.
  • Loved Back to Life is a book about the journey of an alcoholic and drug addict woman whose battle with the disease turns from hopeless to inspiring and amazing.
  • Recover All: A Guide for Families in Understanding Addiction by Robert G. Reid - the book equips loved ones of a chemically dependent person with practical tools to find help for the one close to them.
  • Addict In The Family: Stories of Loss, Hope, and Recovery by Beverly Conyers - the gripping stories of fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters of addicts offer important lessons on loving, detachment, intervention, and self care.

• Sexual inclinations
  • The Sexual Spectrum: Why We're All Different by Olive Skene Johnson - examines the myriad influences that shape our understanding of human gender and sexuality.
  • Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse Workbook by Carolyn Ainscough - practical exercises for working on problems resulting from childhood abuse.
  • The Sexual Male: Problems and Solutions by Richard Milsten - offers a comprehensive look at male impotence - its causes, effects and treatments.

• A major loss in your life
  • Conquering the Mysteries and Lies of Grief by Sherry Russell - clarifies how and why grief catapults us into a crisis, threatening our mental, physical and spiritual health. Though by understanding the domino effect of loss you can go on to live a life of graciousness and radiance.
  • The Love Trauma Syndrome by Richard B. Rosse - free yourself from the pain of a broken heart.

• Overcoming loneliness
  • The Naked Soul by Tim Alan Gardner - shows you how to know and accept others, and how to be known and accepted by others.
  • Healing Your Aloneness by Margaret Paul - finding love and wholeness through your inner child.
  • The Art of Friendship: 70 Simple Rules for Making Meaningful Connections by Roger Horchow - not only reminds us of the importance of friendship but also offers guidelines on how to nurture relationships of long standing and how to make new friends in today's hectic world.
  • Treasured Friends: Finding and Keeping True Friendships by Ann Hibbard - shares great ideas for forming lasting friendships and enriching current friendships.

• Psychic experiences
  • Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality by Dean Radin - many people believe that "psychic phenomena" are rare talents or divine gifts. Others don't believe they exist at all. But the latest scientific research shows that these phenomena are both real and widespread, and are an unavoidable consequence of the interconnected, entangled physical reality we live in.
  • Out of Body Experiences: How to Have Them and What to Expect by Robert Peterson - could be summed up in Robert Peterson's own words: it's "what the books didn't tell me." Peterson assures readers that anyone can have an OBE, and relates the difficulties and discoveries in his personal quest for them.
  • Intuition Magic: Redefining the Psychic Experience by Linda Keen - here you can learn the power and magic of your own intuition, discover how to read and adjust auras, protect yourself from "psychic noise," get grounded, maintain healthy chakras, and apply your new intuitive skills to everyday life.
  

Being Successful:

• Be a person of integrity
  • Daring to be Yourself by Peter Shepherd - like a "best of" Trans4mind - that you can read away from the computer! But much more than that, it's also an incredibly powerful program for personal growth. Remove the barriers to self-knowledge and reveal your full potential with this step-by-step approach.
  • Unfold Your Wings by Wallace Huey - this beautiful and profound book empowers you to learn from setbacks and move forward, increase creativity, understand relationships, heal emotional pain and find your life's purpose.
  • The Simple Feeling of Being: Embracing Your True Nature by Ken Wilber - philosopher-psychologist-spiritual practitioner Wilber is made accessible in this single-volume anthology drawn from his 19 works.
  • The Choice by Og Mandino - the book's lessons will stay with you for a lifetime. You do indeed have the power of choice!

• Achieve success
  • Shortcuts to Success by John Crnokrak - designed to help any reader revitalize relationships, enhance health, and achieve a peak-performance life.
  • How To Be First, Daring & Different: 33 Ways To Achieve Personal and Professional Success by John Crnokrak - how to set yourself apart from the crowd, to excel and achieve anything you set your mind to doing, having or being. These are life-long strategies that need to be revisited regularly.
  • Success Intelligence: Essential Lessons and Practices from the World's Leading Coaching Program on Authentic Success by Robert Holden - xamines how to enjoy real, soulful success while living in a manic, busy, and hyped-up world. This landmark book is an invaluable guide to genuine success and happiness
  • The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living by Dalai Lama - discusses relationships, health, family, work and spirituality and how to find inner peace while facing these struggles.

• Reach your goals
  • Daring to be Yourself by Peter Shepherd - like a "best of" Trans4mind - that you can read away from the computer! But much more than that, it's also an incredibly powerful program for personal growth. Remove the barriers to self-knowledge and reveal your full potential with this step-by-step approach.
  • What Are Your Goals: Powerful Questions to Discover What You Want Out of Life by Gary Ryan Blair - pointed and direct questions to help uncover pathways in life which will lead to fulfilment and achievement.
  • The Ten Commandments of Goal Setting by Gary Ryan Blair - provides a great blueprint for understanding what it takes to set and achieve any goal you desire!

• Creative expression
  • Think Like A Genius by Todd Siler - the process of Connection, Discovery, Invention and Application is at the core of genius thinking - and anyone is capable of it.
  • The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz - analyzes the process of creating and the mental barriers that frequently obstruct this, and describes how best to go about achieving new objectives.
  • Inner Knowing: Consciousness, Creativity, Insight, and Intuition by Helen Palmer - a classic resource for anyone who wants to commit to developing his or her mental and spiritual powers.

• Find your life's purpose
  • Daring to be Yourself by Peter Shepherd - includes important information about finding your life's purpose.
  • Unfold Your Wings by Wallace Huey - particularly strong at pointing out ways you can become more aware of your inner voice, that speaks for your true self and its inherent wisdom.
  • Discover Your Purpose in Life by Owen Waters - this great book will not only show you how to discover the purpose of your inner being and your own destiny, it will take you on a voyage of inner discovery.
  • Find Your Purpose, Change Your Life by Carol Adrienne - a practical workbook that reveals how you can use synchronicity to find your purpose in life.
  • A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle - awakening to your life's purpose.
  • Zen and the Art of Making a Living by Laurence G. Boldt - how to identify what your strengths are, how to visualize your ideal job and how to go about bringing it into existence.
  • The Power of Intention by Dr. Wayne Dyer - an inspiring book designed to awaken your ability to co-create your world your way.

• Learning to study
  • What Smart Students Know: Maximum Grades. Optimum Learning. Minimum Time by Adam Robinson - successful students are not necessarily any more brilliant than their less successful peers, but have simply mastered the art of efficient learning.
  • Study Is Hard Work by William H. Armstrong - the most accessible and lucid text available on acquiring and keeping study skills through a lifetime.

• Presenting yourself well
  • Romancing the Room by James M. Wagstaffe - how to engage your audience, court your crowd, and speak successfully in public.
  • Sizzle & Substance: Presenting with the Brain in Mind by Eric P. Jensen - links brain research to adult learning and training. You'll walk into your next training or presentation full of confidence and walk out full of praise.
  • Communicating at Work by Tony Alessandra - can help you be more effective, get more of what you want out of work, and improve your chances for success.
  • Get Hired Fast! Tap the Hidden Job Market in 15 Days by Brian Graham - shows you how to use a direct calling strategy that will generate at least three interviews in three weeks - and how to ace the interview once your calling strategy pays off.
  • 101 Smart Questions to Ask On Your Interview by Ron Fry - this book is for every job candidate who thinks "Do you have any questions for me?" marks the end of an interview.

• Fulfillment at work
  • No More Blue Mondays: Four Keys to Finding Fulfillment at Work by Robin A. Sheerer - full of real-life examples; the "four keys" are practical, applicable, powerful, field-tested tools to accomplish a successful career transition.
  • Awakening the Workplace: Achieving Connection, Fulfillment and Success at Work by Kathy Glover Scott - a gold mine of essential information, strategies and expertise directed to awaken your limitless potential and enable a progressive, thriving workplace.

• Working well in a team
  • Making Teams Work : 24 Lessons for Working Together Successfully by Michael Maginn - proven rules for encouraging teamwork, from forging a common goal and clarifying individual responsibilities to inviting positive conflict.
  • Instant Team Building by Brad Sugars - walks you through the process of finding and assembling a team of motivated, compatible employees who will help you take your business to new heights of productivity, profitability, and fun.

• Master your finances
  • Personal Finance For Dummies by Eric Tyson - points out the most common mistakes that we all make in our approach to money and prescribes ways to save and invest for a secure future.
  • The Seven Laws of Money by Michael Phillips - people work hard to provide for their families, yet the process of working for more money so consumes our time and is considered so valid by our peers that we never stop to consider our values, our priorities.
  • Money and the Meaning of Life by Jacob Needleman - this book will help you accept and come to terms with money in your own life.

• Becoming a life coach
  • Becoming a Professional Life Coach: Lessons from the Institute for Life Coach Training by Patrick Williams and Diane S. Menendez - patterned on the syllabi of courses at the prestigious Institute of Life Coaching, this book helps readers become excellent life coaches.
  • Daring to be Yourself by Peter Shepherd - good foundation materials for a life coach.
  • Unfold Your Wings by Wallace Huey - become clear on how vital access to inner guidance is for your clients.
  • On Becoming A Counselor: A Basic Guide for Nonprofessional Counselors and Other Helpers offers very helpful guidance.
  

Loving Relationships:

• Family relationships
  • The World's Easiest Guide to Family Relationships by Gary Chapman - comprehensive and insightful guide to creating and maintaining healthy relationships with your spouse and children.
  • The Relationship Cure by John Gottman - a five step guide to strengthening your marriage, family, and friendships.

• Friendly relationships
  • The Art of Mingling: Proven Techniques for Mastering Any Room by Jeanne Martinet - does the idea of going to a large party make your palms sweat and your mouth go dry? Now you can relax and thrive at any business or social event!
  • How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships by Leil Lowndes. What is the "Midas touch?" What it boils down to is a more skillful way of dealing with people.
  • When Friendship Hurts: How to Deal With Friends Who Betray, Abandon, or Wound You by Jan Yager. This book will help you learn how to deal with destructive friendships--when and how to save them, when and how to end them, and how to cope when a business friendship goes wrong.

• Successful dating
  • The Right Relationship Can Happen by Nancy Pina - offers a step-by-step guide that prepares you to attract the right partner into your life.
  • The Mastery of Love by Miguel Ruiz - these simple truths have the potential to alter profoundly how you view loving relationships as well as your relationship with yourself.
  • How to Give Her Absolute Pleasure by Lou Paget - totally explicit techniques every woman wants her man to know.
  • How to Be a Great Lover by Lou Paget - girlfriend-to-girlfriend totally explicit techniques that will blow his mind.

• Romantic relationships
  • Fit for Love – find your self and your perfect mate by Olga Sheean - a practical, metaphysical guide to discovering, healing and empowering yourself - while enhancing an existing relationship.
  • The Book of Love: Awaken Your Passion To Be Your Higher Self by Karen Bentley - teaches a spiritual perspective of love. It's not possible to read The Book of Love and be untouched by it.
  • Perfect Love by Brad and Jan Lundy - a landmark book filled with brilliant insights which show you how to bring the joy of deep romance into your life.
  • How to Break Your Addiction to a Person by Howard Halpern - how to know when to call it quits...and how to find the courage to call it quits.
  • And see our full Sexuality & Relationships selection.

• Breaking up a relationship
  • Unfold Your Wings by Wallace Huey - this beautiful and profound book empowers you to learn from setbacks and move forward, increase creativity, understand relationships, heal emotional pain and find your life's purpose.
  • Breaking Up Blues: A Guide to Survival and Growth by Deni Cullington - a practical self-help book for those going through break-up or divorce.
  • Breaking Up Without Breaking Down by Kristina de la Cal - offers valuable insight and provides readers with common sense as well as innovative ideas to facilitate healing.
  • How to Heal a Broken Heart in 30 Days: A Day-by-Day Guide to Saying Good-bye and Getting On With Your Life by Howard Bronson - afraid you'll never get over this feeling of emptiness and loss? You can, and with the help of this easy-to-follow program of action, you will.

• Partner with different values
  • If We're So in Love, Why Aren't We Happy? by Susan Page - teaches 'spiritual partnership,' allowing you to outgrow problems in your relationship.
  • What He Can't Tell You...and Needs to Say by Brenda Shoshanna - you will learn techniques for opening up the lines of communication so you won't have to wonder any more.
  • How to Break Your Addiction to a Person by Howard Halpern - how to know when to call it quits...and how to find the courage to call it quits.

• A loving marriage
  • Why Marriages Succeed or Fail by John Gottman - how you can make yours last!
  • 52 weeks of Passionate Sex by Melanie Votaw - most couples complain that the passion burns out and sex becomes boring over time. Well, it need not be!

• Sex and infidelity
  • The Love Trauma Syndrome by Richard B. Rosse - free yourself from the pain of a broken heart.
  • Not "Just Friends" by Shirley P. Glass - rebuilding trust and recovering your sanity after infidelity.
  • How to Give Her Absolute Pleasure by Lou Paget - totally explicit techniques every woman wants her man to know.
  • How to Be a Great Lover by Lou Paget - girlfriend-to-girlfriend totally explicit techniques that will blow his mind.

• Relationship with ex-spouse
  • The Ex Factor: Relationship Baggage and How to Deal With It by Emily Dubberley - from jealousy and insecurity to competition and one-upmanship, this insightful guidebook identifies all the major issues that can crop up with exes.
  • Exorcising Your Ex: How to Get Rid of the Demons of Relationships Past by Elizabeth Kuster - presents tried-and-true solutions from dozens of women who have survived the trauma of breaking up.
  • Rebuilding: When Your Relationship Ends by Bruce Fisher - an excellent self-help manual for those trying to recover from a divorce, or going through the process of divorce.

• Nurturing your children
  • The Baby Book by Martha Sears - everything you need to know about your baby from birth to age two.
  • Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman & Joan Declaire - how different parenting styles impact your child's perceptions, behaviors and self esteem from an early age.
  • Children Believe Everything You Say by Jennifer Day - engaging and fun exercises to create self-esteem in children.
  • Building Moral Intelligence: The 7 Essential Virtues that Teach Kids to Do the Right Thing by Dr Michele Borba - while our kids are born with the potential for empathy and generosity, those traits aren't guaranteed.
  • Life Strategies for Teens by Jay McGraw - helps teens steer rather than drift in life, dealing honestly with topics from peer pressure to TV addiction.
  • Freeing Your Child from Anxiety by Tamar E. Chansky - powerful, practical solutions to overcome your child's fears, worries, and phobias.
  • Everything You Never Wanted Your Kids to Know About Sex, but Were Afraid They'd Ask by Justin Richardson - the secrets to surviving your child's sexual development from birth to the teens. The best sex education book.
  • The Soul of Education by Rachael Kessler - helping students find connection, compassion, and character at school.
  

The Big Questions:

• The purpose of life?
  • The Integral Vision by Ken Wilber - introduction to the revolutionary integral approach to life, God, the universe, and everything.
  • Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution by Ken Wilber - outlines several contemporary systematic theories concerned with the biological, psychological, spiritual and metaphysical aspects of life and the various evolutionary stages of each. And then an overview of spiritual practices that can lead to an evolved "omega point" of consciousness.
  • Money and the Meaning of Life by Jacob Needleman - this book will help you accept and come to terms with money in your own life.
  • Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of Our Social Potential by Barabara Marx Hubbard - The time is ripe to bring to this world a blueprint for positive change available to the many.

• Know one's core values
  • Science and Human Values by Jacob Bronowski - seeks to reduce the dualistic view that somehow science and technology are antithetical to the human spirit.
  • A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life by Parker J. Palmer - an examination of maintaining integrity, a life based on inner truth, in the face of a world of fragmentation. Palmer provides vivid portraits of integrity, describes the consequences of sublimating our true self, offers a map for creating "circles of trust" which would support our soul self, and explores how the principles and practices of the book can help the reader walk the path of nonviolence every day. This book is a lovely, spiritually nourishing and ultimately hopeful exploration.
  • Letters to My Son by Kent Nerburn - a father's wisdom on manhood, life, and love.
  • Walking Between the Worlds: The Science of Compassion by Gregg Braden - offers the opportunity to redefine hate, fear, separation and the role that they play in your life!
  • The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Waking Up to Personal & Global Transformation by Thom Hartmann - guidelines to a new way of life with respect for this world we live in.

• What is love?
  • Real Love by Greg Baer - this book is worth its price in gold because it is a gold mine for love and understanding.
  • From Fear to Love - A Spiritual Journey by Tim Ong - a wonderful guide, both to understanding our situation and to transcending it, so that we can truly live our lives in the light of Love.
  • Waking the Global Heart by Anodea Judith - humanity's rite of passage from the Love of Power to the Power of Love.
  • The Heartbeat of Intelligence by Elaine Matthews - shows that passion and joy, goodness and beauty, love and compassion, are the birthright of every human being.

• Understanding death
  • The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Waking Up to Personal & Global Transformation by Thom Hartmann - proposes the greatest question of all: When we die what do we leave behind besides what we've flushed down a toilet?
  • Death: The Final Stage of Growth by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross - an extremely helpful resource to those who are bereaved or are on the cusp of being so.
  • Questions and Answers on Death and Dying by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross - an extremely helpful resource to those who are bereaved or are on the cusp of being so.
  • Death without Fear by Tony Stubbs - comfort for those facing death or bereavement.
  • Making Friends with Death: A Buddhist Guide to Encountering Mortality by Judith L. Lief - provides us with the essential guideposts for embarking on the journey of life and the journey beyond.
  • No Death, No Fear by Thich Nhat Hanh - gradually drains the force out of grief and fear, transforming them into happiness and insightful living.
  • Lessons from the Light by Kenneth Ring - what we can learn from the near-death experience.
  • One Soul, Many Lives by Roy Stemman - first hand stories of reincarnation and the striking evidence of past lives.

• Living consciously together on Earth
  • The Shift: The Revolution in Human Consciousness by Owen Waters - about the spiritual and creative awakening of humanity.
  • Waking Up in Time by Peter Russell - about finding inner peace in times of accelerating change.
  • Prometheus Rising by Robert Anton Wilson - prescription for breaking free of our "reality tunnels."
  

Special Solutions:

• Anxiety & Panic Attacks
  • Beyond Anxiety and Phobia: A Step-by-Step Guide to Lifetime Recovery by Edmund J. Bourne - true recovery requires understanding the meaning of anxiety symptoms and going deeper to face their underlying sources in a holistic and life-changing way.
  • Diagonally-Parked in a Parallel Universe: Working Through Social Anxiety by Signe A. Dayhoff - offers you one useful tip after another to enable you to emerge again, to be the person you want to be.

• Stress & Overwhelm
  • Stress Management for Dummies by Allen Elkin - whether it's love, work, family, or something else that's got your anxiety in the red zone, this book will help you identify the stress triggers in your life and cut them down to size quickly.
  • The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook by Martha Davis - the many self-assessment tools and calming techniques presented in this fifth edition can help overcome anxiety and promote physical and emotional well-being.

• Sexual Problems
  • Sexual Healing: The Complete Guide to Overcoming Common Sexual Problems by Barbara Keesling - examines every known sexual problem and all possible treatments, including advanced sexual healing for physical, emotional and spiritual problems.
  • Resurrecting Sex: Solving Sexual Problems and Revolutionizing Your Relationship by David Schnarch and James Maddock - offers a groundbreaking approach to resolving sexual difficulties and the relationship problems they cause. Shows couples how they can turn their worst sex and relationship disasters into personal growth and spiritual connection.

• Poor Concentration
  • ConZentrate: Get Focused and Pay Attention--When Life Is Filled with Pressures, Distractions, and Multiple Priorities by Sam Horn - shows how to become more effective through a sharper focus and clearer concentration using the techniques of replacing, removing, and reframing thoughts. Twelve blocks to increased attention and awareness are presented and effectively addressed.

• Obsessive-Compulsive Problems
  • Stop Obsessing! How to Overcome Your Obsessions and Compulsions by Edna B. Foa and Reid Wilson - describes a host of obsessive/compulsive behaviors together with effective strategies to overcome them.
  • Freedom from Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder by Dr. Jonathan Grayson - a revolutionary program to help sufferers make sense of their own compulsions through frank, unflinching self-evaluation, providing the tools, instructions, and knowledge for changing their cycles of overwhelming fear and endless rituals, as well as the courage to do it.

• Chronic Fatigue
  • Hope and Help for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia by Russell Howe - designed to educate patients suffering from CFS/FM about their illnesses and to teach them coping skills that will improve their quality of life.
  • From Fatigued to Fantastic by Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum - incorporates the latest advances in science and technology to help alleviate the baffling, often dismissed symptoms associated with severe, almost unrelenting fatigue.

• Depression
  • Unfold Your Wings by Wallace Huey - contains many moving passages about moving one's life up from the depths.
  • The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness by J. Mark G. Williams - an invaluable resource not only for those who suffer from depression, but for anyone familiar with the downward spiral of negative thinking and self-doubt. The book explores the reasons for depression and gives guidance and support, along with useful tools to find a way through it.
  • Overcoming Depression One Step at a Time: The New Behavioral Activation Approach to Getting Your Life Back by Michael E. Addis - powerful and progressive therapy that steers away from the idea that depression symptoms represent an illness or weakness. Instead, depression is merely a signpost pointing directly at the things that need to change in one's life. Its engaging exercises make it easy for you to focus on activities that will inspire you with feelings of pleasure, mastery, and engagement.

• Over Eating
  • The Emotional Eater's Book of Inspiration: 90 Truths You Need to Know to Overcome Your Food Addiction by Debbie Danowski - touching on common challenges faced by everyone who's wrestled with emotional eating and food addiction, Debbie Danowski empowers you to manage your emotional connections to food, giving you the tools to achieve long-term success.
  • Overcoming Overeating: How to Break the Diet/Binge Cycle and Live a Healthier, More Satisfying Life by Jane R. Hirschmann and Carol H. Munter - offers you one useful tip after another to enable you to emerge again, to be the person you want to be.

• Under-Eating
  • It's Not About the Weight: Attacking Eating Disorders from the Inside Out by Susan J Mendelsohn - addresses the common themes of weight and body image preoccupations, the psychological place in which you may find yourself and, most importantly, how you can manage these obsessions through practical steps of self-healing—from the inside out.
  • The Eating Disorders Sourcebook by Carolyn Costin - brings three decades of experience and the newest research in the field together, providing readers with the latest treatments, from medication and behavioral therapy to alternative remedies.
  • Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder by James Lock - helps parents understand eating disorders by delving into the complexity of these disorders, the distorted thinking behind a teenager's behavior and what the research says about the best ways to treat anorexia and bulimia.

• Insomnia
  • The Insomnia Solution: The Natural, Drug-Free Way to a Good Night's Sleep by Michael Krugman - shows readers that insomnia is not just a nighttime affliction, but a 24-hour-a-day condition resulting from daytime stress that persists into the night, delaying the onset of sleep and making it shallower and less restful.
  • The Insomnia Answer: A Personalized Program for Identifying and Overcoming the Three Types of Insomnia by Paul Glovinsky - a program designed to tackle the three most persistent sleep problems - getting to sleep, staying asleep, and broken sleep - drug-free and clinically proven.

• Alcohol Problems
  • THE ALCOHOLISM AND ADDICTION CURE: A Holistic Approach to Total Recovery by Chris Prentiss - a novel outlook on the cure for addictions: look to the root cause of the problem, which is often multi-faceted, and address each one of the possible treatment aspects in a holistic way.

• Smoking Addiction
  • The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Non-Smokers Using Allen Carr's Easyway Method by Allen Carr - has helped millions kick smoking without feeling anxious and deprived. That’s because he helps smokers discover the psychological reasons behind their dependency, explains in detail how to handle the withdrawal symptoms, shows them how to avoid situations when temptation might become too strong, and enables them to stay smoke-free.

• Drug & other Addictions
  • The Addiction Workbook by Patrick Fanning - a step-by-step guide to quitting alcohol and drugs.
  • Loved Back to Life is a book about the journey of an alcoholic and drug addict woman whose battle with the disease turns from hopeless to inspiring and amazing.
  • Recover All: A Guide for Families in Understanding Addiction by Robert G. Reid - the book equips loved ones of a chemically dependent person with practical tools to find help for the one close to them.
  • Addict In The Family: Stories of Loss, Hope, and Recovery by Beverly Conyers - the gripping stories of fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters of addicts offer important lessons on loving, detachment, intervention, and self care.

• Hair Pulling
  • What's Wrong With Pulling Out My Hair? by Abby Leora Rohrer - offers a new healing model that will change how you see compulsive hair pulling. The author offers the hope and tools to relieve your problem for good.
  • Why Won't My Child Stop Hair Pulling? by Abby Leora Rohrer - explains how children become stuck to hair pulling as a way of life, and provides practical tools to show any parent how to become a healing facilitator for their child.

• Nail Biting
  • Stop Your Nailbiting! Permanently by Gilbreth Brown - provides the definitive cure for adult problem nail biting. The information and the technique supplied in this book offer effective, well-documented, and permanent relief from this frustrating habit.
  • The Girl Who Bites Her Nails and the Man Who Is Always Late: What Our Habits Reveal About Us by Ann Gadd - a catalog of 70 common habits includes relevant case studies and concrete ways that have worked to overcome each specific negative behavior pattern.

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