Resources

Neuroscience, Mindfulness, and Psychotherapy
  • Norman Doidge: The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (normandoidge.com)
  • Rick Hanson: Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love and Wisdom (rickhanson.net); (wisebrain.org)
  • Jon Kabat-Zinn: Mindfulness for Beginners: Reclaiming the Present Moment—And Your Life; Full Catastrophe Living; Wherever You Go, There You Are (jonkabat-zinn.com)
  • Francine Shapiro: Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy
  • Daniel Siegel: Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation (drdansiegel.com)
  • Ronald Siegel: The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems (mindfulness-solution.com)
  • Ann Arbor Center for Mindfulness: (aacfm.com)
  • Mark Nepo: The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
  • Tara Brach: (tarabrach.com)
  • Apps for learning mindfulness skills: Calm, Headspace

For Parents

  • Susan Kaiser Greenland: The Mindful Child
  • Thich Nhat Hanh and The Plum Village Community: Planting Seeds: Practicing Mindfulness with Children (with CD)
  • Myla and Jon Kabat-Zinn: Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting

For Kids

  • Kerry Lee McLean: Peaceful Piggy Meditation; Moody Cow Meditates
  • Tara Guber and Leah Kalish: Yoga Pretzels: 50 Fun Yoga Activities for Kids and Grown-Ups

For Therapists

  • Ron Kurtz: Body-Centered Psychotherapy: The Hakomi Method (hakomiinstitute.com)
  • Stephen Porges: The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotion, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation (stephenporges.com)
  • Allan Schore: The Science of the Art of Psychotherapy (allanschore.com)
  • Francine Shapiro: Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR): Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures; EMDR: The Break-Through Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma (emdr.com)
  • Psychotherapy Networker: (psychotherapynetworker.org)
  • Janina Fisher: (janinafisher.com)
  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute: (sensorimotor.org)
Anxiety and Depression
  • Edmund J. Bourne: The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
  • Susan M. Orsillo and Lizabeth Roemer: The Mindful Way Through Anxiety
  • Mark Williams, John Teasdale, Zindel Segal, and Jon Kabat-Zinn: The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (with Guided Mediation CD)
  • Carolyn Daitch’s hypnotherapy resources: (anxiety-treatment.com)
  • Belleruth Naperstak’s guided imagery CDs: (healthjourneys.com)
  • Recovery International: (lowselfhelpsystems.org)
  • Margaret Wehrenberg: The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques

For Parents

  • Tamar Chansky: Freeing Your Child from Anxiety
  • John S. March and Karen Mulle Friesen: OCD in Children and Adolescents: A Cognitive Behavioral Treatment Manual
  • John S. March: Talking Back to OCD: The Program That Helps Kids and Teens Say “No Way”–and Parents Say “Way to Go”
  • Elizabeth DuPont Spencer, Robert DuPont, and Caroline DuPont: The Anxiety Cure for Kids: A Guide for Parents

For Kids

  • Dawn Huebner: What to Do When Your Brain Gets Stuck (OCD); What to Do When You Worry Too Much
  • Aureen Pinto-Wagner: Up and Down the Worry Hill
  • Lynn Lyons (lynnlyonsnh.com)
  • Heather Forbes: Help for Billy: A Beyond Consequences Approach to Helping Challenging Children in the Classroom (beyondconsequences.com)
Trauma
  • “Understanding Trauma: Easing the Drama of Trauma Symptoms”: Dr. Sharon Gold-Steinberg has created a 7-episode video series to model the clear, compassionate, and affirming language she uses in teaching therapists, allied professionals, and trauma survivors how to understand and manage trauma symptoms.  To register to receive a link for the series, click here.  To register to view the first episode for free, click here.
  • Pat Ogden and Janina Fisher: Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment
  • Lisa Ferentz: Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviors: A Workbook of Hope and Healing; Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors: A Clinician’s Guide
  • Peter Levine: Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences
  • Babette Rothschild: Eight Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery: Take-Charge Strategies for Reclaiming Your Life
  • Belleruth Naparstek: Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How they Heal
  • Elaine Miller-Keras and Laurie Leitch: Trauma Resiliency Model Workbook
  • Deena Rosenbloom and Mary Beth Williams: Life After Trauma: A Workbook for Healing
  • Suzette Boon, Kathy Steele, and Onno van der Hart: Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists
  • Trauma Resource Institute (traumaresourceinstitute.com)
  • Trauma Center (traumacenter.org/about/about_landing.php)
  • Susan Kramer (susankramer.com/meditation.html)
  • Melissa Institute (melissainstitute.org/handouts.html)
  • National Child Traumatic Stress Network (nctsn.org)
  • Health Journeys (healthjourneys.com)
  • Janina Fisher (janinafisher.com)
  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (sensorimotor.org)
  • Carolyn Spring (carolynspring.co.uk)
  • An Infinite Mind (aninfinitemind.com)

For Therapists

  • Bonnie Badenoch: Being a Brain-Wise Therapist: A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology; Workbook for the Brain-Savvy Therapist: A Companion Guide to Being a Brain-Wise Therapist
  • Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton, and Claire Pain: Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy (sensorimotor.org)
  • Lisa Ferentz: Treating Self-Destructive Behaviors in Trauma Survivors (lisaferentz.com)
  • Babette Rothschild: The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment
Couples
  • John Gottman: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
  • Harville Hendrix: Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples (gettingtheloveyouwant.com)
  • Susan Johnson: Hold Me Tight (iceeft.com)
  • Barry McCarthy: Rekindling Desire: A Step by Step Program to Help No-Sex and Low-Sex Marriages
  • Janis Abrahms Spring: After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner has been Unfaithful
  • Joe Kort (joekort.com)
  • Marcia Ferstenfeld (marciaferstenfeld.com/)
Eating Issues
  • Evelyn Tribble and Elyse Resch: Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program that Works
  • Jeneen Roth: Women, Food, and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything
Addictions
ADHD, Executive Functioning, and Behavior Management
  • Daniel G. Amen: Healing ADD: The Breakthrough Program that Allows you to See and Heal the 6 Types of ADD
  • Edward M. Hallowell: Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder

For Parents

  • Ross Greene: The Explosive Child
  • Peg Dawson and Richard Guare: Smart but Scattered:The Revolutionary Executive Skills Approach to Helping Kids Reach their Potential
  • Howard Glasser and Jennifer Easley: Transforming the Difficult Child: The Nurtured Heart Approach
  • Alan E. Kazdin: The Kazdin Method for Parenting the Defiant Child

For Kids

  • Dawn Huebner: What To Do When Tempers Flare
Parenting
  • Daniel Siegel: Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
  • Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish: How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids will Talk; Siblings without Rivalry: How to help your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
  • Heather Forbes: Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control: A Love-Based Approach to Helping Children with Severe Behaviors; Help for Billy: A Beyond Consequences Approach to Helping Challenging Children in the Classroom (beyondconsequences.com)
  • Daniel Hughes: Attachment Focused Parenting
  • Mary Sheedy Kurcinka: Raising your Spirited Child
  • Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell: Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help Raise Children who Thrive
  • Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson: The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help your Family Thrive
  • Kim Jon Payne: Simplicity Parenting
Development

For Kids

  • American Girl: The Feelings Book: The Care and Keeping of your Emotions; The Care and Keeping of You; and The American Girls Guide to Friendships
Temperament
  • Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking

For Parents

  • Mary Sheedy Kurcinka: Raising Your Spirited Child
Divorce

For Parents

  • Judith Wallerstein: What About the Kids: Raising Your Children Before, During, and After Divorce
  • Neil Kalter: Growing Up with Divorce
  • Gary Neuman: Helping Your Kids to Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way

For Kids

  • Marc Brown: Dinosaurs Divorce
Grief
  • Sameet Kumar: Grieving Mindfully: A Compassionate and Spiritual Guide to Coping with Loss
  • Marilyn Sullivan: A Patch of Comfort: A Guide for Helping Someone in Grief
  • Arbor Hospice (arborhospice.org)
  • GriefNet (griefnet.org)

For Kids

  • Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown: When Dinosaurs Die: A Guide to Understanding Death
  • Bryan Mellonie and Robert Ingpen: Lifetimes: The Beautiful Way to Explain Death to Children
  • Adolph Moser and David Melton: Don’t Despair on Thursdays!: The Children’s Grief-Management Book
  • Pat Schwiebert, Chuck DeKlyen, and Taylor Bliss: Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss
  • Cornelia Spelman: After Charlotte’s Mom Died
  • Judith Viorst: The Tenth Good Thing about Barney
  • Ele’s Place (elesplace.org)
  • The Michigan Grieving Children’s Network (kidsgrief.org)
  • KidsAid (kidsaid.com)
Buddhism/Psychology
  • Joseph Goldstein: The Experience of Insight and Seeking the Heart of Wisdom (with Jack Kornfield)
  • Sharon Salzberg: Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness
  • Thich Nhat Hanh: The Miracle of Mindfulness
  • Suzuki Roshi: Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
  • Pema Chodron: Taking the Leap, The Wisdom of No Escape, and When Things Fall Apart
  • Tara Brach: (tarabrach.com)

For Kids

  • Thich Nhat Hanh: Each Breath a Smile
Local Bookstores and Online Resources for Products
  • Crazy Wisdom Bookstore and Tea Room: 114 S. Main St. Ann Arbor; (734) 665-2757; (crazywisdom.net)
  • Nicola’s Books: Westgate Shopping Center, 2513 Jackson Rd. Ann Arbor; (734) 662-0600; (nicolasbooks.com)
  • The Self Esteem Shop: 32839 Woodward Ave. Royal Oak, MI; (248) 549-9900; (selfesteemshop.com)
  • Weighted Blankets (contact Sally Westover at sally.westover51@yahoo.com or (603) 454-8147 for personal order from master quilter)
  • Magination Press (apa.org/pubs/magination/index.aspx)

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