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Book Recommendations:

Some books that may support our work together

Where Ever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn:
A book that clearly explores mindfulness and why it can be so important for healing and peace of mind.

The Passionate Marriage by David Schnarch:
One of the best books I have read about couples and how they might grow closer and more intimate.

Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg:
A wonderful and powerful method of communicating with ourselves and others that makes it more likely we will have the quality of connection that we really all long for.

Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
An important book which suggests that this culture fosters a trance of unworthiness in us which puts us at war with ourselves and the unfolding moment. The book addresses ways we might break this trance and live a life of more acceptance and self-compassion.

The Mindful Way through Depression, Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness, by Mark Wiliams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal and Jon Kabat-Zinn
This book describes in beautiful and clear detail how the mind creates suffering by its reaction to difficult emotions and how a person might use the mind and the practices of mindfulness to free themselves from such suffering.  Although the book is focused on healing depression, I see the ideas in the book being helpful to anyone who is confronting any kind of difficult experience and emotions.  One particular potent idea in the book is that often the very things we do in our minds to try and figure out and fix an emotion contribute to continued suffering.   The book suggests ways of moving out of the doing, fix-it modes of mind into a being, accepting mode of mind, a place where peace and joy are possible. 

Hold Me Tight, by Sue Johnson
This book explores Sue Johnson's powerful ideas about how destructive relationship dances can be transformed into healthy and loving relationship dances.  Her ideas are based on the latest research in neurobiology and attachment theory.  The book really helps couples get to the root of the problem and not get distracted by the surface content of their arguments.  We really want to know we are loved and that our partners will be there for us and almost every conversation that we think is about something else is really about these fears and concerns.   

Mindsight, by Dan Siegel
This book explores the neurobiology of mental health.  Siegel really goes to great length to define what a healthy brain and mind is and then describes ways of creating greater mind and brain health.  Much of the work celebrates the power of human relationships and mindfulness to tap into the brain's ability to change and become more whole and integrated.   It is a powerful and hopeful and practical book.