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This is a growing list. Please check back for updates! If you know of a resource that you think I’m really missing out on, please share it in the Facebook group and tag me. I only include books and resources I’ve read/used myself so it may take me time to share your favorite here. The lists are alphabetical.

6 Books that I wish everyone in the world would read:

• The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World (Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Carlton Abrams)
• Hardwiring Happiness: The New Brain Science of Contentment, Calm, and Confidence (Rick Hanson)
• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships (Marshall Rosenberg) [Similar title available as an audio book]
• The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business (Charles Duhigg)
• Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Brené Brown)
• The Way of Rest: Finding The Courage to Hold Everything in Love (Jeff Foster)

Also helpful:

• The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts (Gary Chapman)
• Ascending with Both Feet on the Ground: Words to Awaken your Heart (Jeff Brown)
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Bessel van der Kolk)
• Boundaries: Where You End and I Begin – How to Recognize and Set Healthy Boundaries (Anne Katherine)
• Buddha’s Brain: The Practical Neuroscience of Happiness, Love, and Wisdom (Rick Hanson)
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Brené Brown) [Only not on the must-read list because I already put one of hers there. I love all of her books and this is my second favorite.]
• The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning: How to Free Yourself and Your Family from a Lifetime of Clutter (Margareta Magnusson)
• The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are (Brené Brown)
• The Grief Recovery Handbook: The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, and Other Losses including Health, Career, and Faith (John James & Russell Friedman)
• I Can Do Hard Things – Mindful Affirmations (Kids book by Gabi Garcia and Ying Hui Tan)
• I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn’t): Making the Journey from “What Will People Think?” to “I Am Enough” (Brené Brown)
• Journey of Souls Case Studies of Life Between Lives (Michael Newton) [spirituality, I found it helpful for grief and a deeper sense of purpose, but note that it may conflict with your religion]
• Listening to My Body: A guide to helping kids understand the connection between their sensations and feelings so that they can get better at figuring out what they need. (Kids book by Gabi Garcia and Ying Hui Tan)
• Listening with My Heart: A story of kindness and self-compassion (Kids book by Gabi Garcia and Ying Hui Tan)
• Living with Voices: 50 Stories of Recovery (Romme, Escher, Dillon, Corstens, Morris) [Useful for voice hearers and those  who love them]
• Love It Forward (Jeff Brown)
• Meeting The Dragon: Ending Our Suffering By Entering Our Pain, (Robert Augustus Masters)
• The Orphaned Adult: Understanding And Coping With Grief And Change After The Death Of Our Parents (Alexander Levy)
• The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment (Eckhart Tolle) [be careful of spiritual bypassing, i.e., bliss tripping and not honoring/processing your past and your needs]
• Spiritual Bypassing: When Spirituality Disconnects Us from What Really Matters (Robert Augustus Masters)
• Transformation through Intimacy: The Journey toward Awakened Monogamy (Robert Augustus Masters)
• Where to Draw the Line: How to Set Healthy Boundaries Every Day (Anne Katherine)

Useful websites and digital products

• The Center for Nonviolent Communication (online lessons, in-person courses, coach certification)
• Cup of Empathy YouTube channel (NVC)
• Daily Om (newsletter, amazing online classes on all sorts of spiritual and practical topics, from how to parent your inner child or help someone else with an addiction to chakradancing)
• Headspace (App for gamified meditation – “Meditation and Sleep Made Simple)
• Hearing Voices Network (This is the USA link, but HVN is a worldwide mental health human rights movement. HVN groups offer peer support to anyone experiencing extreme states, from voice hearing to visions, or other experiences outside of consensus reality)
• National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (online school with AMAZING practical scientific information on trauma integration, neuroscience, etc. Bessel van der Kolk is one of the teachers)
• Prince Ea YouTube channel (Wholehearted living)
• Russell Brand (Wholehearted living)

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