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Book Recommendations
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Set Boundaries, Find Peace
Nedra Glover Tawwab, LCSW
Great introduction to setting effective boundaries with family, friends, colleagues, and yourself. It offers exercises to complete at the end of each chapter so that you can immediately apply what you read into your current situation.
The Set Boundaries Workbook
Nedra Glover Tawwab, LCSW
Can be used with the Set Boundaries, Find Peace book or on its own. Includes practical exercises to increase your awareness of your own boundaries and where you can tighter or relax boundaries. Also includes exercises to practice setting boundaries in different situations and settings.
Your Brain’s Not Broken: Strategies for
Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD
Tamara Rosier, PhD
Offers strategies to improve ADHD symptoms, not only addressing the behaviors, but also the complicated thought processes and emotions associated with a neurodiverse brain. Includes explanations for time blindness, motivation, and emotional responses and how an ADHD brain differs from a neurotypical one.
I WILL BE OKAY
DBT Workbook for Adults
Gil Adams
Easy to read workbook that explores complex emotional experiences from the DBT framework. Includes a weekly schedule for skills’ practice and QR codes with videos, meditations, and an additional reading list. It is a more user friendly experience with all the important skills from the traditional DBT “mega” workbook!
Tapping In: A Step-by-Step Guide to Activating Your
Healing Resources Through Bilateral Stimulation
Laurel Parnell, Ph.D
Recommended for EMDR clients wanting additional information on resources or as a reference guide to resources learned in session. Includes many of the commonly used techniques in EMDR resourcing such as safe/calm place, comfort/protective figures, strengthening recent successes, scenes from nature, songs, etc. Also offers basic information on how to do bilateral stimulation for yourself and the principles behind EMDR and the mechanism behind bilateral stimulation.