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Recommended Reading & Resources
There is so much information out there, it’s hard to know what’s what. Kate made this resource list to help. In it you’ll find books, podcasts, content creators, coaches, and organizations that share Kate’s values and beliefs as a licensed therapist.
Kate gets no kickbacks, commissions, perks, benefits, bonuses, or rewards for recommending any of these resources. She has no working relationship with any publishing house, authors, companies, content creators, coaches, or organizations. This resource list is a labor of love, from Kate, to help people find their way through the gray areas of life.
Self/Trauma
When I Say No, I Feel Guilty — Manuel J. Smith
The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook — Kristin Neff & Christopher Germer
No Bad Parts — Richard Schwartz
The Will to Change — bell hooks
Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect — Jonice Webb
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self — Alice Miller
The Courage to Be Disliked — Fumitake Koga & Ichiro Kishimi
Untamed — Glennon Doyle
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype — Clarissa Pinkola Estés
In Praise of Difficult Women — Karen Karbo
Be Ready When the Luck Happens — Ina Garten
Building a Life Worth Living — Marsha M. Linehan
Boundaries — Anne Katherine, M.A.
Wordslut — Amanda Montell
It’s Not Always Depression — Hilary Jacobs Hendel
The Easy Way to Stop Drinking Alcohol — Allen Carr
Complex Trauma: From Surviving to Thriving — Pete Walker
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle — Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski
ACEs —The CDC & Kaiser Permanente
Parenting / Reparenting
Unconditional Parenting — Alfie Kohn
Couples Counseling for Parenting — Stephen Mitchell, PhD & Erin Mitchell, MACP (Instagram)
Anything she’s ever written — Dr. Becky
Anything he’s ever written — Dan Siegel
Conscious Parenting — Dr. Shafali
Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide For Separation, Liberation & Inspiration —Karen C. L. Anderson
Daughters with Narcissistic Mothers: Dealing with a Self-Absorbed mother and Healing from Narcissistic Abuse. Recovering from Psychological Abuse and Emotionally Immature Parents — Alma S Bailey
Guiding Cooperative Children — Rachel Thomas
Marriage
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love — Dr. Sue Johnson
Boundaries in Marriage —Henry Cloud and John Townsend
Mating in Captivity — Esther Perel
Nonviolent Communication — Marshall Rosenberg
How to Keep House While Drowning — KC Davis
Fight Right — John & Julie Gottman
Shameless — Nadia Bolz Weber
Come As You Are — Emily Nagoski
Come Together —Emily Nagoski
Family Systems
The Drama Triangle — Salvador Minuchin
Bowen Theory — The Bowen Institute/Dr. John Bowen
Children of Emotionally Immature Parents — Lindsay Gibson
Spirituality / Deconstruction
Wild Mercy — Mirabai Starr
The Forbidden Female Speaks — Pamela Kribbe
The Christ Within — Pamela Kribbe
Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving, and Finding the Church— Rachel Held Evans
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind—Yuval Noah Harari
Separation of Church and Hate: A Sane Person's Guide to Taking Back the Bible from Fundamentalists, Fascists, and Flock-Fleecing Frauds — John Fugelsang
Christian Resources
Boundaries in Marriage — Henry Cloud and John Townsend
Love Does: Discover a Secretly Incredible Life in an Ordinary World — Bob Goff & Donald Miller
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