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See an annotated list of books on spirituality here
"I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have gone ourselves." -E. M. Forster
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For as long as I can remember I've always loved books -- they have taught, comforted, entertained, and helped to shape me. Below is a list of books that I have found to be particularly valuable. By no means is this a complete list. I have loved many books, far too many to include on this page.
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"Healthy Aging" by Andrew Weil
Awakening at Midlife by Kathleen Brehony
Ahead of Your Time: A Complete Guide For End of Life Planning by Dick and Sue Coffin
As Parents Age: A Psychological and...
"Age Happens: The Best Quotes About Growing Older" edited by Bruce Lansky Order Today!
"Aging, Spirituality, and Religion: A Handbook" edited by Melvin Kimble Order Today!
"From Age-Ing to Sage-Ing" by Zalman Shalomi-Schachter Order Today!
"New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time" by Gail Sheehy Order Today!
"The Green Pharmacy : New Discoveries in Herbal Remedies for Common Diseases and Conditions from the World's Foremost Authority on Healing Herbs by James A. Duke
| "Women as Elders: Images, Visions and Issues" edited by Marilyn Bell
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Today! "The Measure of My Days" by Florida Scott-Maxwell Order Today! "Why We Age : What Science Is Discovering About the Body's Journey Throughout Life" by Steven N. Austad Order Today!"1003 Great Things About Getting Older" edited by Lisa Birnbach Order Today! "The Girls with the Grandmother Faces: A Celebration of Life's Potential for Those Over Fifty-five" by Frances Weaver Order Today! "The Last Gift of Time: LIfe Beyond Sixty" by Carolyn G. Heilbrun Order Today! "Be an Outrageous Older Woman" by Ruth Harriet Jacobs Order Today!
"Glory! To the Flowers by Maggie Steincrohn Davis Order Today! "A Ring of Endless Light" by Madeleine L Engle Order Today! "Baby Alicia is Dying" by Lurlene McDaniel Order Today! "Charlottes Web" by E.B. White Order Today! "Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul" by Jack Canfield Order Today! "Emily of New Moon" by Lucy Maud Montgomery Order Today! "Goodnight Moon" by Margaret Wise Brown Order Today! "Hester in the Wild" by Sandra Boynton (currently out of print) "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott ODell Order Today! "Miss Rumphius" by Barbara Cooney Order Today! "The Black Stallion" by Walter Farley Order Today! "The Giving Tree" by Shel Silverstein Order Today! "The Secret Garden" by Frances Hodgson Burnett Order Today!"A Little Princess" by Frances Hodgson Burnett and Tasha Tudor Order Today!
"Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit" by Al Gore Order Today! "The High Price of Materialism" by Tim Kasser "Legacy: A Story of Hope for a Time of Environmental Crisis" by Joanne Poyourow "The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter"
by Peter Singer and Jim Mason "Building the Green Movement" by Rudolph Bahro (out of print) "Hope, Human and Wild: True Stories of Living Lightly on the Earth" by Bill McKibben Order Today! "Heaven is Under Our Feet" edited by Don Henley and David Marsh Order Today! "50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth" by the Earthworks Group (out of print) "50 Simple Things Your Business Can Do to Save the Earth" by The Earthworks Group Order Today! "Muddling Toward Frugality" by Warren Johnson (out of print) "The Green Lifestyle Handbook: 1001 Ways You Can Heal the Earth" edited by Jeremy Rifkin (out of print) "The Healing Earth: Natures Medicine For the Troubled Soul" by Philip Sutton Chard (out of print) "The Power of Place: How our Surroundings Shape our Thoughts, Emotions and Actions" by Winnifred Gallagher Order Today! "The Wilderness Reader" edited by Frank Bergon
The Journey Through Cancer by Jeremy Geffen, MD Healing Ancient Wounds: The Renegade's... wisdom Power Healing: The Four Keys to... the four keys to energizing your body, mind, and spirit "A Different Kind of Healing" by Oscar Janiger and Philip Goldberg (out of print) "Healing into Life and Death" by Stephen Levine Order Today! "Love, Medicine and Miracles" by Bernie Seigel Order Today! "Living With Chronic Illness: Days of Patience and Passion" by Cheri Register Order Today! "Mind as Healer, Mind as Slayer" by Kenneth Pelletier Order Today! "The Insider's Guide to HMO's : How to Navigate the Managed-Care System and Get the Health Care You Deserve" by Alan J. Steinberg, Alan J. Steinberg M. D. Order Today! "The Mozart Effect : Tapping the Power of Music to Heal the Body, Strengthen the Mind and Unlock the Creative Spirit " by Don Cambell Order Today!"The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine" by James Dossey Order Today! "The Complete Medicinal Herbal" by Penelope Ody Order Today! "You Are Not Your Illness: Seven Principles for Meeting the Challenge" by Linda Noble Topf and Hal Zina Bennett Order Today!"One Degree Beyond: A Reiki Journey into Energy Medicine" by Janeanne Narrin ) Order Today! "Sick and Tired of Feeling Sick and Tired: Living with Invisible Chronic Illness" by Paul J. Donoghue and Mary E. Siegel Order Today!
"Journal to the Self: Twenty-two Paths to Personal Growth" by Kathleen Adams Order Today! "Pain and Possibility: Writing Your Way Through Personal Crisis" by Gabriele Rico Order Today! "The Creative Journal: The Art of Finding Yourself" by Lucia Capacchione Order Today! "The New Diary" by Tristine Rainer Order Today! "Giving Voice to Myself: A Memory Book for Women" by Peg Streep and Claudia Karabaic Sargent Order Today! "The Healing Journey: Your Journal of Self-Discovery" by Phil Rich and Stuart Copans Order Today! "Idea Catcher: An Inspiring Journal for Writers" by Editors of Story Press Order Today! "A Trail Through Leaves: The Journal as a Path to Place" by Hannah Hinchman Order Today! Life Styles and Personal Growth BirthQuake: A Journey To Wholeness
The High Price of Materialism by Tim Kasser Awakening Earth: Exploring the Evolution of Human Culture and Consciousness by Duane Elgin Order Today! Phoenix Soul: One Man's Search for Love & Inner Peace by David Essell Order Today! New Age Directory of Planet Earth: The First International Directory of Body-Mind-Spirit Source Book" by Patti Normady Greenwood and Darrell Thomas Wilson. Order Today! "A Country Year: Living the Questions" by Sue Hubble Order Today! "A Return to Love" by Marianne Williamson Order Today! "A Guide for the Perplexed" by E.F. Schumacher Order Today!
"A Better Place to Live: New Designs for Tomorrows Communities" by Michael Corbett (out of print) "Ecology, Community and Life Style" by Arne Naess Order Today! "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" by Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi Order Today! "In Search of the Simple Life" by David E. Shi Order Today! "Man's Search for Meaning" by Viktor Emil Frankl Order Today! "People and Planet" edited by Tom Woodhouse Order Today! "The Aquarian Conspiracy" by Marilyn Ferguson Order Today! "To Have or to Be" by Eric Fromm Order Today! "Voluntary Simplicity" by Duanne Elgin Order Today! "What Really Matters: Searching for Wisdom in America" by Tony SchwartzOrder Today! "Adventures in Simple Living: A Creation-Centered Spirituality" by Rich Hefren (out of print) "Sustainable America: America's Environment in the 21st Century" edited by Daniel Sitarz Order Today! "Your Money of Your LIfe" by Joe Domnguez and Vicki Robin Order Today! "The Circle of Simplicity: Return to the Good Life" by Cecile Andrews Order Today! "A Place Called Simplicity" by Claire Cloninger Order Today! "The Good LIfe: Helen and Scott Nearings Sixty Years of Self-Sufficient Living" by Helen and Scott Nearing Order Today!
And a Sword Shall Pierce Your Heart by Charlotte Mathes Unattended Sorrow by Stephen Levine When a Friend Dies: A Book for Teens About Grieving and Healing by Marilyn E. Gootman After Suicide: Living with the Questions by Eileen Kuehn Healing Through the Dark Emotions by Miriam Greenspan After the Darkest Hour: How Suffering... begins the journey to wisdom Grief and the Healing Arts: Creativity... as therapy "Swallowed by a Snake: The Gift of the Masculine Side of Healing" by Thomas R. Golden Order Today! "Chicken Soup for the Soul" by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen Order Today! "Pathfinders" by Gail Sheehey (out of print) "A Grief Observed" by C.S. Lewis Order Today! "Beyond Endurance: When a Child Dies" by Ronald J Knapp (out of print) "How to Survive the Loss of a Love" by Colgrove, Bloomfield, and McWilliams Order Today! "In the Face of Death" by Peter Noll (out of print) "Necessary Losses" by Judith Viorst Order Today! "The Mourning Handbook" by Helen Fitzgerald Order Today!How to Go On Living When Someone You Love Dies by Therese A. Rando Order Today!
Victims No Longer: Men Recovering from... incest and other sexual abuse "Flying Boy" by John Lee Order Today! "Learning To Live Without Violence" by Daniel Jay Sonkin Order Today! The Secret Love of Sons : How We Men Feel About Our Mothers, and Why We Never Tell by Nicholas Weinstock Order Today! "To Be a Man" by Keith Thompson Order Today! "Violent No More: Helping Men End Domestic Abuse" by Michael Paymar Order Today!
Parents Do Make a Difference: How to... raise kids with solid character, strong minds and caring hearts Understanding Girls With AD/HD Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child "Discipline Without Shouting or Spanking" by Jerry Wychoff and Barbara Unell Order Today! "Siblings Without Rivalry" by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish Order Today! "How to Talk so Kids Cans Learn at Home and in School" by Lisa Nyberg and Rosalyn Anstin Templeton Order Today! "Siblings Without Rivalry" by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish Order Today! "All That She Can Be: Helping Your Daughter Maintain Her Self-Esteem" by Carol J. Earle and Carol Colman Order Today! "Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul" by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hanson Order Today! "How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids will Talk" by Adele Faber Order Today!
Divorce Counseling Homework Planner Grief Counseling Homework Planner Favorite Counseling and Therapy Homework... Favorite Counseling And Therapy... Group Therapy Homework Planner (Book... The Brief Couples Therapy Homework... Chemical Dependence Treatment Homework... The Age of Melancholy: Major Depression and its social origins Brief Family Therapy Homework Planner The Crisis Counseling and Traumatic... Brief Child Therapy Homework Planner... Facilitating Posttraumatic Growth : A... The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology... Creative Interventions for Troubled... children and youth The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a... new generation of therapists and their patients How Clients Make Therapy Work: The... process of active self healing The Heart & Soul of Change: What Works... in therapy The New Handbook of Cognitive Therapy... techniques Windows to Our Children: A Gestalt... therapy approach to children and adolescents Interpersonal Process in Psychotherapy:... a relational approach The Practice of Emotionally Focused... marital therapy Friedman's Fables (with Booklet) Man's Search for Ultimate Meaning Body-Centered Psychotherapy: The Hakomi... method: the integrated use of mindfulness, nonviolence and the body Getting in Touch: The Guide to New... body centered therapies The Body in Recovery: Somatic... psychotherapy and the self A Guide to Treatments That Work Textbook of Transpersonal Psychiatry and... psychology Core Energetics: Developing the Capacity... to love and heal Eating Disorders : A Time For Change :... plans, strategies and worksheets Energy Diagnostic and Treatment Methods Depth-Oriented Brief Therapy: How to Be... brief when you were trained to be deep and vis-versa Grief and the Healing Arts: Creativity... as therapy Something to Draw on: Activities and... interventions using an art therapy approach Working With Groups to Explore Food &... body connections The Body Betrayed: A Deeper... understanding of women, eating disorders and treatment Beyond Empathy: A Therapy of... contact in relationship Psychotherapy Isn't What You Think:... bringing the psychotherapeutic engagement into the living moment We've Had a Hundred Years of... psychotherapy and the world's getting worse A Blue Fire: Selected Writings Therapeutic Metaphors: Helping Others... through the looking glass Shared Grace: Therapists and Clergy... working together "The Gift of Therapy” by Irvin Yalom "Momma and the Meaning of Life: Tales of Psychotherapy" by Irvin Yalom "Lying on the Couch" by Irvin Yalom (a novel) "The Schopenhauer Cure" (a novel) by Irvin Yalom "August" by Judith Rossner (a novel) "Intimacy, Change, and Other Therapeutic Mysteries : Stories of Clinicians and Clients" by David Treadway "Dead reckoning: A Therapist Confronts His Own Grief" by David Treadway "Diary of a Country Therapist" by Marcia Hill "Shopenhaurer’s Porcupines" by Deborah Luepnitz "When You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him" by Sheldon Kopp "Taboo Scarf" by George Weinberg "A Guide to Psychotherapy with Gay and Lesbian Clients" edited by John Gonsiorek Order Today! "In Search of Solutions: A New Direction in Psychotherapy" by William Hudson OHanlon and Michele Weiner-Davis Order Today! "Healing the Incest Wound: Adult Survivors in Therapy" by Christine Courtois Order Today! "Healing Voices: Feminist Approaches to Therapy with Women" by Toni Ann Laidlow, Cheryl Malmo, and associates Order Today! "Homework in Counseling and Psychotherapy" by John L Shelton and Mark Ackermon (out of print) "Loves Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy" by Irvin D. Yalom Order Today! "The Invisible Wound: A New Approach to Healing Childhood Sexual Abuse" by Wayne Kritsberg (out of print) "Awakening the Heart: East/West Approaches to Psychotherapy and the Healing Relationship" edited by John Welwood Order Today! "At the Speed of LIfe: A New Approach to Personal Change Through Body-Centered Therapy" by Gail Hendricks and Kathlyn Hendricks Order Today! Recovery
Saving Graces: finding Solace and Strength from Friends and Strangers by Elizabeth Edwards The Disappearing Girl by Lisa Machoian Coping With Trauma: A Guide to... self understanding I Can't Get over It: A Handbook for... trauma survivors Songs from the Black Chair by Charles Barber Victims No Longer: Men Recovering from... incest and other sexual abuse Unspeakable Truths and Happy Endings:... human cruelty and the new trauma therapy Trust After Trauma: A Guide to... relationships for survivors and those who love them "An Unquiet Mind" by Kay Redfield Jamison Order Today! "A Hole in The World: An American Boyhood" by Richard Rhodes (out of print) "After the Tears: Reclaiming the Personal Losses of Childhood" by Jane Middleton-Moz and Lorie Dwinell (out of stock) "Broken Boys/ Mending Men: Recovery From Child Sexual Abuse" by Stephen Grubman-Black Order Today! "Conspiracy of Silence: The Trauma of Incest" by Sandra Butler Order Today! "Growing Through The Pain: The Incest Survivors Companion" by Catherine Bronson (out of print) "It Will Never Happen to Me: Children of Alcoholics" by Claudia Black Order Today! "Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantages of a Painful Childhood" by Wayne Muller Order Today! "Making Peace With Your Adult Children" by Shauna Smith Order Today! "Outgrowing the Pain: A Book for and About Adults Abused as Children" by Eliana Gil Order Today! "Perfect Daughters" by Robert J. Ackerman Order Today! "Recovering From Rape" by Linda Ledray Order Today! "Sexual Exploitation Within Professional Relationships" edited by Glen Gabbard Order Today! "Strong at the Broken Places" by Linda Sanford (out of print) "The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse" by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis Order Today! "The Obsession: Reflections on the Tyranny of Slenderness" by Kim Chernin Order Today! "The Sexual Healing Journey" by Wendy Maltz Order Today! "The Woman Inside: From Incest Victim to Survivor" by Patty Derosier Barnes Order Today! "Trauma and Recovery" by Judith Lewis Herman Order Today! "Victims No Longer: Men Recovering From Incest" by Mike Lew Order Today! "When Helping You Is Hurting Me: Escaping The Messiah Trap" by Carmen Renee Berry (out of stock) Relationships
"Allies In Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child" by Laura Davis Order Today! "Love and Addiction" by Stanton Peele (out of print) "Love is a Verb: How to Stop Analyzing Your Relationship and Start Making it Great" by Bill OHanlon and Pat Hudson Order Today! "On Caring" by Milton Mayeroff Order Today! "The Art of Loving" by Erich Fromm Order Today! "Women Who Love Too Much" by Robin Norwood Order Today! "I Love You, Let's Work it Out" by David M. Viscott Order Today! "10 Steps to a Great Relationship" by Howard J. Rankin Order Today! Spirituality
Called to Question by Joan D. Chittister "A Worldly Spirituality: The Call to Redeem Life on Earth" by Wesley Granberg-Michaelson (out of print) "As Above, So Below: Paths to Spiritual Renewal in Daily Life" edited by Ronald S. Miller Order Today! "Death of a Hero: Birth of a Soul" by John C. Robinson Order Today! "Fire in the Soul: A New Psychology of Spiritual Optimism" by Joan Borysenko Order Today! "Hymns to an Unknown God" by Sam Keen Order Today! "Nourishing The Soul" edited by Anne Simpkinson Order Today! "Minyan : Ten Principles for Living a Life of Integrity Rabbi Rami M. Shapiro Order Today! "Soul Food : Stories to Nourish the Spirit and the Heart" edited by Jack Kornfield and Christina Feldman Order Today!
"Wrestling with the Prophets: Essays on Creation Spirituality and Everyday Life" by Matthew Fox Order Today!
"Pathfinders" by Gail Sheehy (out of print) "Necessary Losses" by Judith Viorst Order Today! "Light From Many Lamps" edited by Lillian Eichler Watson Order Today! "Managing Transitions: Making the most of Change" by William Bridges Order Today! "The Art of Ritual: A Guide to Creating and Performing Your Rituals for Growth and Change" by Renee Beck Order Today!
My Turn: Women's Search for Self After the Children Leave by Patricia Gottlieb Shapiro I thought it was Just Me by Brenè BrownWomen's Bodies, Women's Wisdom by Christine Northrup The Healing Connection: How Women Form... by Jean Baker Miller and Irene Pierce Stiver "Battered Wives" by Del Martin Order Today! "Chicken Soup for the Womans Soul" by Jack Canfield Order Today! "Circle of Stones: Womans Journey to Herself" by Judith Duerk Order Today! "Everyday Sacred: A womans Journey Home" by Sue Bender Order Today! "Fat is a Feminist Issue" by Susie Orbach Order Today! "I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America" by Brian Lanker Order Today! "Storming Heaven's Gate : An Anthology of Spiritual Writings by Women" edited by Amber Coverdale Sumrall and, Patrice Vecchione Order Today! "The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women" by Naomi Wolf Order Today! "Transforming Body Image" by Maria Germaine Hutchinson Order Today! "Getting Free: A Handbook for Women in Abusive Relationships" by Ginny NiCarthy Order Today! "Women and Madness" by Phyllis Chesler Order Today! "Women Who Love Too Much" by Robin Norwood Order Today!
The Dance of the Dissident Daughter "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" by Rebecca Wells Order Today! "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café" by Fannie Flag Order Today! "Reckoning" by May Sarton Order Today! "Shes Come Undone" by Wally Lamb Order Today! "The Bean Trees" by Barbara Kingsolver Order Today! "The Womans Room" by Marilyn French Order Today! "The Women of Brewster Place" by Gloria Naylor Order Today! "The Book of Ruth" by Jane Hamilton Order Today! "The Boys of My Youth" by Joann Beard Order Today! "Artful Work: Awakening Joy, Meaning, and Commitment in the Work Place" by Dick Richards Order Today! "Confessions of an Accidental Businessman" by James A Autry Order Today! "301 Ways to Have Fun at Work" by Dave Hemsath and Leslie Yerkes Order Today! "The Soul of a Business: Managing by Profit and Common Good" by Tom Chappell Order Today! "The Reinvention of Work: A New Vision of Livelihood for our Time " by Matthew Fox Order Today! "Love and Profit: The Art of Caring Leadership" by James A Autry Order Today! "Awakening Corporate Soul: Four Paths to Unleash the Power of People at Work" by Eric Klein and John B. Izzo Order Today! "A Prayer for Owen Meany" by John Irving Order Today! "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn Order Today! "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo Order Today! "One" by Richard Bach Order Today! "The Celistine Prophesy" by John Redfield Order Today! "The Color Purple" by Alice Walker Order Today! "The House of the Spirits" by Isabel Alende Order Today! "The Kin of Ata are Waiting for You" by Dorothy Bryant Order Today! "The Truth Machine" by James L Halperin Order Today! "Talk Before Sleeping" by Elizabeth Berg Order Today! "My Ishmael: A Sequel" by Daniel Quinn Order Today! "All is Quiet on the Western Front" by Erich Maria Remarque Order Today! "Jonathan Livingston Seagull" by Richard Bach Order Today! "The Bridge Across Forever" by Richard Bach Order Today! "The Golden Notebook" by Doris Lessing Order Today! |
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