What to do between Sessions?
It is important to us to help contribute to the growth of the clients we serve between sessions. This allows you to:
Continue to process what came up in session
Reinforce a concept introduced to you in session
Heal at a more rapid pace if you choose
If you select a book off this list, or a book of your own, we invite you to share any insights that may come up with your therapist. Reading, podcasts, and other things you are exposed to are great for helping connect the dots that lead to a resolution of what bought you to therapy.
Anxiety
The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion is helpful for the person who wants to incorporate mindfulness as a daily practice of managing anxious thoughts and feelings. Germer walks you through the process of becoming more aware of your experience of anxiety and effectively changing that experience with acceptance and a “non-judgemental awareness”.
There’s also a workbook if that’s more your thing.
Hey Sis, is an anxiety journal for women on how to release the stress of being all the things for everyone else and not prioritizing yourself. If you are someone who knows you need to shift unhelpful thinking patterns and habits that keep you from caring for yourself as you need, this 40 day journal may be just the thing to get you out of your own way.
Body Image & Eating Disorders
Jenni Schaefer books offer helpful insight in how literally break up with your eating disorder. Life Without Ed & Goodbye Ed, Hello Me are easy to read and often leave’s it’s readers feeling less alone and understood in their own journey.
The Anti-Diet is a MUST read if you struggle with diet culture and need to challenge falsehoods about what makes one healthy. Author, Christy Harrison, is also a good account to follow follow on social media for continued education.
Boundaries
Other Books
Family Relationships
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD
Drama Free by Nedra Glover Tawwab
Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD
Why Won’t You Apologize by Harriet Lerner
Grief
Healing Through the Dark Emotions by Miriam Greenspan
The Gift of Grief by Ajita M. Robinson
Parenting & Postpartum
Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman, PhD
Raising Good Humans by Hunger Clarke-Fields MSAE & Carla Naumburg PhD
This Wasn’t What I Expected by Karen R. Kleiman, MSW, LCSW & Valerie Davis Raskin, MD
Relationships
Attached by Amir Lavine
Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson
Love & Respect by Emerson Eggerichs
Love Dare by Stephen Kendrick
Love Sense by Sue Johnson
Marriage Ain’t for Punks by Calvin Roberson
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John M. Gottman
Trauma
Brainspotting by David Grand, PhD
It Didn’t Start With You by Mark Wolynn
What Happened to You by Oprah Winfrey & Bruce D. Perry
The Body Keeps Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Note: All book links are part of Amazon’s affiliate program
Podcasts
Boundaries
Boundaries & Grace w/Taylor Chandler
It Didn’t Break Me w/Bianca Hughes
You Need to Hear This w/Nedra Glover Tawwab
Parenting & Postpartum
Good Inside w/Dr. Becky Kennedy
Push Thru Podcast w/Keisha Reaves
Relationships
Let’s Talk Attachments w/Jessica Da Silva LMFT
Marriage Be Hard w/KevOnStage & MrsKevOnStage
Small Things Often w/The Gottman Institute
Self Esteem
Unf*ck Your Brain w/Kara Loewentheil
Trauma
Beyond Trauma w/Jen Savage, Melissa Sundwall & Bridger Falkstien