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Online Speciality Book Resources

Babies, Children, Adolescents, Parents, Families

Relationships, Couples, Marriage

Mentoring, Guiding, Counselling, Self-Guided Learning and Change

Trauma, Dissociation

Life Work, Calling, Mission, Work Life, Vocation, Career, Job

Each of us is a unique strand in the intricate web of life and here to make a contribution. Deepak Chopra

Read books out loud to children, your partner, your close friends, your dog, your cat, your plants, yourself. Read with, to others. Useful, practical, important books.

Most of the following books are available in most public libraries. Share books with friends, neighbors, everybody. Books I’ve recommended often to many people for over 36 years.

When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music. Rumi

Online Speciality Book Resources

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For Families... Parentbooks offers the most comprehensive selection of resources available anywhere - from planning a family to everyday parenting issues to special needs of all kinds. Our friendly and knowledgeable staff can help you find the books you need. For Professionals... Parentbooks' selection of resources for caregivers, counsellors, therapists, educators and clinicians serving the everyday and special needs of families is unequaled. We can help you find exactly what you need for a specific client or situation, and we can help you build your professional library.

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Imagine a light beam emanating from your heart, then spend at least five minutes with your eyes closed, feeling the light extend outward to all living things. Marianne Williamson

Babies, Children, Adolescents, Parents, Families

Parent Effectiveness Training: The Proven Program for Raising Responsible Children. Thomas Gordon. http://www.amazon.com/Parent-Effectiveness-Training-Responsible-Children/dp/0609806939/ref=pd_rhf_p_t_3

How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk. Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. http://www.amazon.com/How-Talk-Kids-Will-Listen/dp/0380811960/ref=pd_sim_b1 Book for Teens by the same authors.

Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too. Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. http://www.amazon.com/Siblings-Without-Rivalry-Children-Together/dp/0380799006/ref=pd_sim_b6

What Do You Really Want for Your Children? Wayne W. Dyer. http://www.amazon.com/What-Really-Want-Your-Children/dp/0380730472/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksandie=UTF8andqid=1316203768andsr=1-1

Bed Timing: The "When-To" Guide to Helping Your Child to Sleep. Marc Lewis and Isabela Granic. http://www.amazon.com/Bed-Timing-When-Guide-Helping/dp/1554680476

The Birth of a Mother: How the Motherhood Experience Changes You Forever. Daniel Stern and Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern. http://www.amazon.com/Birth-Mother-Motherhood-Experience-Changes/dp/product-description/0465015670

Diary of a Baby: What Your Child Sees, Feels, and Experiences. Daniel Stern.

Get Out of my Life, But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall?: A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager.

Anthony Wolf. Emotional Life of the Toddler. Alicia Lieberman.

The Highly Sensitive Child: Helping Our Children Thrive When The World Overwhelms Them. Elaine Aaron.

The Importance of Play. David Elkins.

Kids, Parents, and Power Struggles. Mary Sheedy Kurcinka.

Parenting From The Inside Out. Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell.

Principles of Attachment Focused Parenting. Daniel Hughes.

Scattered Minds: A New Look at the Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder. Gabor Maté.

Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child: The Heart of Parenting. John Gottman and Joan Declaire.

T.I.P.S: Time-In Parenting Strategies. Otto Weininger.

Siblings Without Rivalry. Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlich.

Siblings of children with autism: A guide for families. Sandra Harris and Beth Galesburg.

They Love You, They Love Me Not. Vera Rabie.

My brother Kevin has Autism. Richard Carlson.

My brother has Autism. Melody Igafo-Te'o.

My brother Charlie. Holly Robinson ePete.

Parenting from the Inside Out. Dr. Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell

Women in Power: The Secrets of Leadership. Dorothy W. Cantor, Toni Bernay and Jean Stoess. February 1991 Houghton Miffin 316 pages. http://www.amazon.com/WOMEN-POWER-Secrets-Leadership-Bernay/dp/039553755X

What Would Your Teen Life Coach Say?: A Survival Guide For Girls Entering High School Sandra Dupont MFT. *FREE PDF DOWNLOAD http://www.losangelesteentherapist.com/teenlifecoach_dupont.pdf http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1456304127/ref=cm_li_v_cr_other?tag=linkedin-20

Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys Dan Kindlon, Michael Thompson. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0345434854/ref=cm_li_v_cr_other?tag=linkedin-20

Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls. Mary Pipher, Ruth Ross. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0018ZREKA/ref=cm_li_v_cr_other?tag=linkedin-20

Parenting From the Inside Out. Daniel Siegel, Mary Hartzell http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1585422959/ref=cm_li_v_cr_other?tag=linkedin-20

Worried No More: Help and Hope for Anxious Children Aureen Pinto Wagner Lighthouse Press, 2002-01-15. 162 pages. http://books.google.ca/books/about/Worried_No_More.html?id=cEqk4bi3Kn8C&redir_esc=y

Up and Down the Worry Hill: A Children's Book about Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and its Treatment. Aureen Pinto Wagner, and Paul A. Jutton. http://www.amazon.com/Down-Worry-Hill-Childrens-Obsessive-Compulsive/dp/0967734762/ref=pd_vtp_b_3/185-8186764-9389108

Because Life Goes On… Helping Children and Youth Live with Separation and Divorce. Health Canada 2000.

The differences between people need not act as barriers that wound, harm and drive us apart. Rather, these very differences among cultures and civilizations should be valued as manifestations of the richness of our shared creativity. Daisaku Ikea

Relationships, Couples, Marriage

Build, grow, develop relationships of many different kinds. We are all highly interconnected, interrelated. Strengthen relationship skills. Connect, contact, bond, and attach with important people in our life. Understand patterns, cycles, repeating dances in relationships. Create safety, security, comfort, soothing, and a safe harbour within relationships. Enhance affection, closeness, emotional and physical intimacy.

Singing at the Top of Our Lungs: Women, Love, and Creativity. Claudia Bepko and Jo-Ann Krestan. http://www.amazon.com/Singing-Top-Our-Lungs-Creativity/dp/0060924993

Extraordinary Relationships: A New Way of Thinking About Human Interactions. Roberta M. Gilbert, M.D.1992. http://www.amazon.com/Extraordinary-Relationships-Thinking-About-Interactions/dp/047134690X

The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate. Harriet Lerner. http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Connection-Frustrated-Insulted-Desperate/dp/006095616X/ref=pd_sim_b_2

The Dance of Intimacy. Harriet Lerner. http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Intimacy-Harriet-Lerner/dp/006091646X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_c

The Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships. Harriet Learner. http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Anger-Changing-Patterns-Relationships/dp/006074104X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b

Mindful Loving: 10 Practices To Create Deeper Connections. Henry Grayson. 2003. http://www.amazon.com/Mindful-Loving-Henry-Grayson/dp/1592400612/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8ands=booksandqid=1299543913andsr=1-1

The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts. Gary Chapman. December 2009. http://www.amazon.ca/Five-Love-Languages-Secret-Lasts/dp/0802473156/ref=pd_sim_b_1

Hold Me Tight. Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love. Sue Johnson, Ph.D. http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/0316113018/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=485327511andpf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripeandpf_rd_t=201andpf_rd_i=031611300Xandpf_rd_m=A3DWYIK6Y9EEQBandpf_rd_r=0Q4D8E5RXFT3THP2ECA

Seven Principles for Making a Marriage Work. A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert. John Gotten, Ph.D. 2000. http://www.amazon.ca/Seven-Principles-Making-Marriage-Work/dp/0609805797/ref=pd_sim_b_3

Passionate Marriage. David Snartch.

Marital Separation. Robert Weiss.

Lean On Me.

After the Affair.

Private Lies.

Fighting for Your Marriage.

Why Marriages Succeed or Fail.

A Couple’s Guide to Communication.

Hot Monogamy. Patricia Love and Jo Robinson

For Each Other. Lonnie Barbach

The New Male Sexuality. Bernie Zilbergeld

The Guide to Getting it On. Paul Joannides

The Relate Guide To Sex In Loving Relationships. Sarah Litvinoff

What to Do When He Has a Headache: Renewing Desire and Intimacy in Your Relationship. Janet L. Wolfe.

Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples. Completely revised and updated 2008. 20th Anniversary edition. Harville Hendrix Ph.D. 2008. http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Love-You-Want-Anniversary/dp/0805087001/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpi_1

Getting the Love You Want Workbook: The New Couples' Study Guide. Harville PhD Hendrix, Helen Ph.D. Hunt.

Keeping the Love You Find: A Personal Guide. Ph.D. Harville Hendrix.

Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved. Harville, Hendrix, Helen, Ph.D. Hunt

Giving The Love That Heals: A Guide for Parents. Harville Hendrix Ph.D., and Helen Hunt M.A. August 1998. http://www.amazon.com/Giving-Love-Heals-Harville-Hendrix/dp/0671793993/ref=pd_sim_b_8

Couples Companion: Meditations and Exercises for Getting the Love You Want: A Workbook for Couples. Harville PhD Hendrix. 1994. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0671868837/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

Make Up, Don't Break Up: Finding and Keeping Love for Singles and Couples. Dr. Bonnie Eaker Weil. 2nd edition, March 2010. http://www.amazon.com/Make-Up-Dont-Break-Finding/dp/1605503606

Secret of Staying in Love: Loving Relationships Through Communication. John Powell. S.J. November 1990. http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Staying-Love-Relationships-Communication/dp/0883472996/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksandie=UTF8andqid=1306588883andsr=1-1

Healing the Wounds that Hurt Relationships: Practical and Spiritual Help. Martin W. Rovers. July 2006. http://www.amazon.com/Healing-Wounds-That-Hurt-Relationships/dp/1598560476/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_1?ie=UTF8andqid=1306589181andsr=1-1-fkmr0

Everyone you meet is in need of kindness. Your smile, your hug, your softly spoken word may just be what they need. Your random acts of kindness are crucial to the health of the entire planet. Sri Ravi Shankar

Mentoring, Guiding, Counseling, Self-Guided Learning and Change

Focusing. Eugene T. Gendlin http://www.amazon.com/Focusing-Eugene-T-Gendlin/dp/0553278339/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksandie=UTF8andqid=1316219695andsr=1-1

Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experiential Method. Eugene T. Gendlin http://www.amazon.com/Focusing-Oriented-Psychotherapy-Manual-Experiential-Method/dp/157230376X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_c

Let Body Interpret Dreams. Eugene T. Gendlin. http://www.amazon.com/Let-Body-Interpret-Dreams-P/dp/0933029012/ref=pd_sim_b6

Power of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing. Ann Weiser Cornell. http://www.amazon.com/Power-Focusing-Ann-Weiser-Cornell/dp/157224044X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_c

The Radical Acceptance of Everything. Living a Focusing Life. Ann Weiser Cornell. http://www.amazon.com/Radical-Acceptance-Everything-Weiser-Cornell/dp/0972105832/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_c

Experiential Journaling is a method of Self-Focusing in which the page serves as witness. David Smith. http://www.focusing.org/eShop/product_display.asp?productcode=FB-710

The healing power of emotion: affective neuroscience, development, and clinical practice Diana Fosha, Daniel J. Siegel, Marion Fried Solomon 2009.

Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthough Program to End Negative Behavior and Feel Great Again. Jeffery E. Young. Janet S. Klosko. Http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Your-Life-Breakthough-Behavior/dp/0452272041

Schema Therapy: A Practitioner's Guide. Jeffery E. Young. Janet S. Klosko., Marjorie E. Wisher. http://www.amazon.com/Schema-Therapy-Practitioners-Jeffrey-Young/dp/1593853726/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b

This is Your Brain on Sports: Beating Blocks, Slumps and Performance Anxiety for Good! David Grand and Alan Goldberg. http://www.amazon.com/This-Your-Brain-Sports-Performance/dp/1608448649/ref=cmc_r_pr_product_top

Emotional Healing at Warp Speed - The Power of EMDR. David Grand http://www.amazon.com/Emotional-Healing-Warp-Speed-Power/dp/B001O8WNHA/ref=sr_1_1?s=booksandie=UTF8andqid=1316251071andsr=1-1

Confessions of a Trauma Therapist: A Memoir of Healing and Transformation. Mary K. Armstrong http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1926645197/ref=cm_li_v_cr_self?tag=linkedin-20

Person to Person: The Problem of Being Human. Carl Rogers and Barry Stevens. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0285647172/ref=cm_li_v_cr_self?tag=linkedin-20

Overcoming Animal and Insect Phobias: How to Conquer Fear of Dogs, Snakes, Rodents, Bees, Spiders and More Martin M. Antony and Randi E. McCabe

*FREE PDF DOWNLOAD http://www.martinantony.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Overcoming-Animal-Phobias.pdf Published in 2005 by New Harbinger Publications ISBN: 978-1-57224-388-0 Book is out of print (as of January 2012), but PDF can be downloaded at above link.

Overcoming Medical Phobias: How to Conquer Fear of Blood, Needles, Doctors, and Dentists *FREE PDF DOWNLOAD http://www.martinantony.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Overcoming-Medical-Phobias1.pdf

Martin M. Antony, PhD, and Mark A Watling, MD Published in 2006 by New Harbinger Publications, Oakland, CA ISBN: 1-57224-387-2 Book is out of print (as of November 2011), but PDF can be downloaded at above link.

The Aims of Education and Other Essays. Alfred North Whitehead http://www.amazon.com/dp/0029351804/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close. Pablo Neruda

Trauma

Dissociation in Traumatized Children and Adolescents: Theory and Clinical Interventions (Google eBook) Sandra Wieland Taylor and Francis, 2010-12-08 358 pages.

Love sees untold of treasures far beyond. Lovers trust in the wealth of their hearts while the all knowing mind sees only thorns ahead. To wander in the fields of flowers pull the thorns from your heart. Rumi

Life Work, Calling, Mission, Work Life, Vocation, Career, Job

What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers. Richard Bolles http://www.amazon.com/What-Color-Your-Parachute-2012/dp/1607740109/ref=pd_sim_b_5 This book is revised every year.

What Color Is Your Parachute? Guide to Job-Hunting Online, Sixth Edition: Blogging, Career Sites, Gateways, Getting Interviews, Job Boards, Job Search ... Resumes, Research Sites, Social Networking. Mark Emery Boles and Richard N. Bolles 2011. http://www.amazon.com/Color-Parachute-Guide-Job-Hunting-Online/dp/1607740338/ref=pd_rhf_dp_shvl6

Richard Bolles set of books. http://job-huntingonline.webs.com/theparachutelibrary.htm

Job Hunter’s Survival Guide.

How To Find Your Mission. For Retirement.

Job Hunting For The So Called Handicapped.

http://job-huntingonline.webs.com/ This is the support website for readers of the What Color Is Your Parachute? Guice for Job-Hunting Online. To quickly access the many web sites listed in the book, use the Links pages (choose Links from the menu on the left, or click here). The Links pages, and the links themselves, are arranged in the same order as in the book. Additionally, the Downloads page will let you download a file of all the links to your computer

What Color Is Your Parachute? Job-Hunter's Workbook. http://www.amazon.com/dp/158008009X/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

What Color Is Your Parachute? For Teens, 2nd Edition: Discovering Yourself, Defining Your Future. http://www.amazon.com/dp/158008141X/ref=rdr_ext_tmb

Reinvention of Work. Matthew Fox. http://www.amazon.com/Reinvention-Work-Vision-Livelihood-Time/dp/0060630620

I Could Do Anything If I Only Knew What It Was: How to Discover What You Really Want and How to Get It. http://www.amazon.com/dp/0440505003/ref=rdr_ext_sb_ti_hist_1

Do What You Are: Discover the Perfect Career for You Through the Secrets of Personality Type. Paul D. Tiger and Barbara Barron-Tiger. http://www.amazon.com/Do-What-You-Are-Personality/dp/0316167266/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_b#

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves. Carl Jung

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