Reading Lists: Interpersonal Issues and Relationships

Trauma

Playing with Fire by Theo Fleury, 2009

Moving on After Trauma: A Guide for Survivors, Family and Friends by Michael J. Scott, 2007

Boundaries

Better Boundaries: Owning and Treasuring Your Life, Greg Enns and Jan Black, 1998

Communication and Relationships

Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Commitment, A Way to be Fully Together without Giving up Yourself, Gay Hendricks, Ph.D. & Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D., 1992

In the Meantime: Finding Yourself and the Love You Want, Iyanla Vanzant, 1999

Emotional Intelligence: 10th Anniversary Edition; Why it can Matter more than I.Q., Daniel Goleman, 2005

Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most, Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton and Sheila Heen, 1999

Difficult People

Since Strangling Isn’t an Option: Dealing with Difficult People — Common Problems and Uncommon Solutions, Sandra A. Crowe, 1999

Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation and Guilt to Manipulate You,
Susan Forward, 2000

The Bully at Work: What You Can Do to Stop the Hurt and Reclaim Your Rights on the Job,
Gary Naimie and Ruth Naimie, 2000

Affairs

After the Affair, Janis Abrams Spring, 1996

Separation/Divorce

Crazy Time: Surviving Divorce, Abigail Trafford, 1992

Divorce: A Canadian Woman's Guide, Gail Vaz-Oxlade, 2002

The Good Divorce: Keeping Your Family Together when your Marriage Comes Apart (Revised and Updated), Constance Ahrons, Ph.D., 1995

Grief and Loss: Adults

I Don't Know What to Say: How to Help and Support Someone Who is Dying, Robert Buckman, M.D., 2005

I Can't Stop Crying: It's So Hard When Someone You Love Dies, John D. Martin, 2005

How to Go on Living when Someone you Love Dies, Therese Rando, 1991

Grief and Loss: Children

Fred, Posy Simmonds, 1987

The Fall of Freddie the Leaf, Leo Buscaglia, Ph.D., 2002

Parenting

Kids are Worth It: Giving Your Child the Gift of Inner Discipline, Barbara Coloroso, 2003

Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, Energetic, Mary Sheedy Kurcinka, 2006

1-2-3 Magic, Thomas Phelan Ph.D., 2004

How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk, Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish, 1999

Healing from Childhood Sexualized Abuse

The Courage to Heal, 3rd Edition, Ellen Bass and Laura Davis, 1994

Victims No Longer: The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse, 2nd Edition,
Mike Lew, 2004