Curl Up With a Good Book, Part 2

In the second of this two-part post, we encourage you to take a moment to browse the following list to see if there is a title that stands out to you or a book that opens a door for NEW HOPE in your current situation. You may want to check with your local library, church or a friend before purchasing.

Healing Hidden Hurts:  Faith to Begin Again by Ronda Brown

As you read Healing Hidden Hurts, the simplistic message of forgiveness becomes relevant. Your total healing and restoration is possible! Prior hurts and unjustified wounds that scarred you mentally and kept you bound in personal prisons are finally released to reveal the true inner beauty and wholeness that you were created for. Lasting inner peace is possible. Complete wholeness and healing can be yours as you learn these simple and easy steps to applying forgiveness. Don t hide or bandage your pain any longer. It’s time for you to be as whole, free and healed as Jesus died to make you.

The Attachment Theory Workbook: Powerful Tools to Promote Understanding, Increase Stability & Build Lasting Relationships by Annie Chen, LMFT

This book has been helpful to use at home or together with a therapist. It is beneficial for those who may struggle to feel secure in relationships and want to build healthier relationships. It provides information on the attachment styles and has quizzes and worksheets that you can take to better understand yourself, and to begin working on building healthier relationships moving forward.

Released from Shame by Sandra D. Wilson

This life changing book explores the power of shame: how we have encountered shame in our past; and how we tend to carry it with us. This book lays out strategies for breaking the power of shame and learning to live free.

Grief Day by Day: Simple Practices and Daily Guidance for Living with Loss by Jan Warner

This grief recovery handbook offers daily reflections and practices that address the day-to-day emotions and experiences that accompany the grieving process so you can create a life in which peace – and even gratitude – can coexist with your grief.

The Memory Box: A Book About Grief (for children) by Joanna Rowland

This book will help children and adults talk about this very difficult topic of grief together.  From the perspective of a young child, the author describes what it is like to remember and grieve a loved one who has died.  The child in the story creates a memory box to keep mementos and written memories of the loved one, to help manage the complex and difficult emotions that can come with grief. There are suggestions to help families make their own memory boxes.

Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries & Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy by Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD

This book offers “powerful tools to help you heal and break free from the coercive control of Emotionally Immature (EI) Parents and other EI people.  You’ll learn practical ways to set boundaries, validate your feelings, and gain emotional autonomy in all your relationships.  If you are ready to stop being subject to hurtful behavior and move beyond the fear of judgment and punishment, this book will help you find the freedom to reclaim your authentic self.”

The Sacred Search (Revised Edition) by Gary Thomas

Gary Thomas helps single people of all ages make wise marital choices by thinking beyond finding a “soul” mate to adopting a more biblical search for a “sole” mate – someone who will walk with you on your spiritual journey.  He encourages readers to consider WHO they want to marry rather than focus on WHY they want to marry.  Gary asks and addresses the question: what if God designed marriage to make us holy more than to make us happy?  The Sacred Search casts a vision for building a satisfying and spiritually enriching relationship rather than just a romantic one.

The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown

This book helped me understand what shame tactics are and how I was affected by something I didn’t understand.

As someone who tends to be a perfectionist, I learned some tips to help me “let go of who I thought I was supposed to be and embrace who I am.”

Topics covered include cultivating authenticity, self-compassion, gratitude and joy, creativity, play and rest and laughter, song, and dance.