Friday Book Club

Will  you engage this moment with kindness or with cruelty, with love or with  fear, with generosity or scarcity, with a joyous heart or an embittered  one? 

Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet, is one of the most beloved classics of our time. Give yourself this special gift. 

Give yourself the gift of a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love. This book can help! 

In  the age of the Internet, speed dating, and frantic text messaging, we  may have forgotten how to connect with others in a meaningful way. This  book of 4,000 provocative questions will help you get to know anyone and  everyone in every social situation. 

This interactive planner guide, by James Harris, LMHC, helps boys and MEN learn definitions, how to write or draw, plan for the  future, and keep notes among other things. 

Self-esteem  is an important part of leading a happy, fulfilling life. How we feel  about ourselves affects every aspect of our lives, from the way we  function at work, in love, and in sex, to the way we parent, to what we  strive to achieve. This is a step-by-step guide for you! 

"Relax gradually and wholeheartedly into the ordinary and obvious truth  of change."  This book by Pema Chodron offers short, stand-alone  readings designed to help us cultivate compassion and awareness amid the  challenges of daily living. 

Her website: https://pemachodronfoundation.org/

These two books by Dr. Lynda Madison and  published by American Girl help understand emotions and learn how to  deal with them. Find the books here: https://www.americangirl.com/…/the-feelings-book-journal-f4… 

Having  a baby is a joyous experience, but even the best relationships are  strained during the transition from two to three. And Baby Makes Three  by experts John Gottman and Julie Schwartz Gottman shows couples how to  avoid the pitfalls of parenthood. 

https://www.gottman.com/product/and-baby-makes-three/

This book, by Dr. Sue Johnson, shows us a better way to see and shape  love relationships. The stories, ideas and exercises in the book are  based on Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFT), an effective model  developed by Dr. Johnson. 

https://drsuejohnson.com/books/

 This book, by David Brooks, blends psychology, politics, spirituality,  and confessional, to provide an opportunity for us to rethink our  priorities, and strive to build rich inner lives marked by humility and  moral depth. 

https://theroadtocharacter.com/

This book by Lisa M. Najavits presents a treatment approach developed  specifically for PTSD and substance abuse. The person with this  difficult-to-treat dual diagnosis, needs to establish safety--to work  toward discontinuing substance use, letting go of dangerous  relationships, and gaining control over such extreme symptoms as  dissociation and self-harm. 

AntiRacist Baby introduces the youngest readers and the grown-ups in their lives to the concept and power of antiracism.

Grief is experienced differently by each of us.  This book by Sameet  Kumar will help you discover that you are capable of transforming and healing the grief you carry and are able to find the spiritual and emotional resilience you need to move through challenging times.  

Here's a great self-help at home book by Edmund J. Bourne, Ph.D. if you're feeling anxious. 

There are so many forms of grief we are all experiencing right now. Even if  you don't personally know someone who has passed away during this pandemic, we’re hearing about deaths every day. Maybe you're missing loved ones that have gone on before. This book by Francis Dorff is one of my favorites on grieving. 

This book by Gavin De Becker is so good. De Becker is a master at helping us understand our fear.  Fearing less seems like a good idea to me right now. 

Yeppers!!  Title of this one says it all. Slow down and take good care of yourself.  Breathe in and out, and if you're looking for a fabulous book to help you, Dr. Nancy K. Schlossberg's Overwhelmed, will hit the spot. 

One of my favorites!   

Faber and Mazlisch believe that parents who demonstrate acceptance, respect and skill in their interactions with their children will raise confident, respectful, independent, responsible, and emotionally intelligent people who know how to resolve differences with others effectively.

This book by William J. Knaus is a powerful resource if you're looking for a tool to help lessen or overcome your feelings of depression.

 This book by Glennon Doyle explores  the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet the  expectations of the world, and start trusting the voice deep within us. 

This is an amazing read! Quote from Silver: "Let what wants to come, come. Let what wants to go, go. If it is mine, it will stay. If not, whatever is better will replace it." Visit her website: https://toshasilver.com/

This book by attorney and politician, Bakari Sellers, is part memoir, part historical and cultural analysis. Sellers takes us on an eye-opening journey through the South's past, present, and  future. He writes of the crisis affecting the other “Forgotten Men & Women".