Book recommendations

Buddhist teachings/ Western psychology

Tara Brach

Radical acceptance

Radical compassion

Trusting the gold

Kristin Neff

Self-Compassion

Rick Hanson

Resilient

Joan Halifax

Standing at the edge

Sharon Salzberg

Real life

Real change

Real love

Real happiness (my favourite for learning how to meditate)

Richard Schwartz

No bad parts

You are the one you've been waiting for (a must read)

Daniel Siegel

Brainstorm (an insightful resource on adolescence)

The whole-brain child

Kimberley Quinlan

The self-compassion workbook for OCD

Jon Hershfield & Tom Corboy

The mindfulness workbook for OCD

David Richo

When the past is present

How to be an adult in relationships

Triggers

Pema Chodron

Welcoming the unwelcome

Living beautifully

How we live is how we die

Charlotte Joko Beck

Everyday zen

Nothing special

Ordinary wonder

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Full catastrophe living

Alice Miller

The drama of the gifted child

Bruce Perry & Maia Szalavitz

Born for love

Kenneth Adams

Silently seduced (a book about emotional incest)

Patricia Love

The emotional incest syndrome

Kelly McDaniel

Mother hunger

Terry Real

Trauma/stress/addiction/abuse/childhood development

Gabor Mate

When the body says no

In the realm of hungry ghosts

The myth of normal

Bessel van der Kolk

The body keeps the score

Peter Levine

An autobiography of trauma

Jane Middelton-Moz & Lorie Dwinell

After the tears (for adult children of alcoholics)

Bruce Perry with Oprah Winfrey

What happened to you?

Lindsay Gibson

Adult children of emotionally immature parents

Self-care for adult children of emotionally immature parents

Jess Hill

See what you made me do (a critical investigation of domestic violence)

Understanding your nervous system

Deb Dana

Anchored

Glimmers journal (a beautiful way to self-reflect)

Stephen & Seth Porges

Our polyvagal world

Inner child work

John Bradshaw

Homecoming

Healing the shame that binds you

Spirituality/ self-development/ somatic awareness

Eckhart Tolle

The power of now

A new earth

Stillness speaks

Betsy Polatin

Humanual

A. H. Almaas

The unfolding now

Scott Kaufman

Transcend

The School of Life (Alain de Botton)

An emotional education

Viktor Frankl

Man's search for meaning

Edith Eger

The Choice

The Gift

Thomas Gordon

Parent Effectiveness Training (relationship focused parenting)

Becky Kennedy