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In this book, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans show us how design thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what we do or have done for a living, or how young or old we are.

Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff, and It's All Small Stuff - Richard Carlson

Imperfect Control: Our Lifelong Struggles With Power and Surrender - Judith Viorst

 https://greatist.com/happiness/science-broken-heart  

 https://psychcentral.com/blog/10-tips-to-mend-a-broken-heart#1 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/i-hear-you/201902/7-essential-psychological-truths-about-ghosting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehA_3AgT8HE

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jackkelly/2021/02/17/a-new-study-by-indeed-confirms-that-ghosting-during-the-hiring-process-has-hit-crisis-levels/

Kahlil Gibran’s masterpiece, The Prophet is a collection of poetic essays that are philosophical, spiritual, and, above all, inspirational. 

https://copenotes.com/

https://www.nami.org/Blogs/NAMI-Frontline-Wellness/2021/Documenting-the-Traumas-of-First-Responders?fbclid=IwAR1oiX2SQzOpoVo5usCxyIr7xMe673IGMDUHXPdBVmcDxUTIIeQkA1btKhQ

https://youtu.be/x4xuj8npsek

  https://www.psychotherapynetworker.org/magazine/article/2542/facing-the-waves 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/nurturing-self-compassion/202105/languishing-in-the-time-covid?fbclid=IwAR0nJTyIxVE5UJBRYXPTRxBNoYztdKcUQ5QtRUmAbX3OJyAc9SqlQ3vTvz8

https://www.mindfulnessprograms.com/mbsr-workbook?fbclid=IwAR09dP7oZIZhRoe4CjmAHQG1V0_z7x4PpwI2xzmU8SooU-oAJfNbjvmqY2E

 People do escape high conflict. Individuals—even entire  communities—can short-circuit the feedback loops of outrage and blame,  if they want to. This is a mind-opening new way to think about conflict  that will transform how we move through the world. 

Based on Gary Chapman's book. Here's a link to take the quiz:  https://www.5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/ 

How bad does a relationship have to be before getting out is the  only answer? Psychotherapist Mira Kirshenbaum  leads readers from a state of painful ambivalence to a clear sense of  knowing what to do. 

https://www.gottman.com/blog/quiz-negative-sentiment-override/

https://www.bustle.com/wellness/deal-separation-anxiety-from-partner

Don  Gabor helps you strike up a great conversation anytime, anywhere, and  teaches you to learn how to keep the conversation going by asking the  right questions, using body language effectively, and avoiding  conversation pitfalls. 

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/mindful-anger/202008/three-lessons-loss-and-grief

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-courage-suffer/202102/coping-the-one-year-anniversary-the-pandemic?fbclid=IwAR3kTiHpKUtjtl4P_SY-JAaPilyJK4daODU9LkB6ODXq1xya-wntkqDRz04

This  book by Suze Orman, best-selling author, goes beyond the nuts and bolts  of managing money to explore the psychological, even spiritual, power  money has in our lives.  

This book can help you attain more loving, supportive, and deeply satisfying relationships.

Don Miguel Ruiz illuminates the fear-based beliefs and assumptions that undermine love and lead to suffering.   "Happiness can only come from inside of you and is the result of your love". 

Stephen R. Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty, and human dignity. 

The Care & Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls by Valorie Schaefer.  In this book you'll find answers to questions about your changing body, from hair care to healthy eating, bad breath to bras, periods to pimples, and  everything in between. 

The Boy's Body Book: Everything You Need to Know for Growing Up YOU by Kelli Dunham.  Author and nurse Kelli Dunham covers everything from body changes to planning for college, giving pre-teen boys the answers they need to prepare for puberty and beyond.  

This book helps answer the endless and perfectly normal questions that preschool, kindergarten, and early elementary school children ask about how they began. Robie H. Harris and Michael Emberley talk about this subject in a reassuring way, mindful of a child's healthy desire for straightforward information.

Grief Works is an optimistic and compassionate handbook  for anyone suffering a loss--from the expected death of a parent to the sudden death of a child or spouse--as well as a guide for those who want to help their grieving loved ones. Death affects us all. Grief is still so misunderstood.  Julia Samuel shows that people need to understand that grief is a process that has to be  worked through, and she shows if we do the work, we can begin to heal.

Esther Perel on Prolonged Uncertainty and Anticipatory Grief

This Youtube video by Ester Perel is so  helpful at this strange time. "We’re dealing with Prolonged Uncertainty—the sense that, not only do we feel uncertain, we don’t know  when our feeling of uncertainty will end..........And Anticipatory Grief, the realization that we could lose our loved ones."  Please take time to watch this, or share with others who may need to hear this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCP2kKceMb8

Psychologists at Harvard, the University of Virginia and the University of Washington created "Project Implicit" to develop Hidden Bias Tests—called Implicit Association Tests, or IATs, in the academic world—to measure unconscious bias. With all that's happening in our world, we thought we would share this. Here's the link: https://implicit.harvard.edu/…/us…/agg/blindspot/indexrk.htm 

This recovery book,  by Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole is for chronic dieters--and offers a whole new way of eating and making peace with food. This book focuses on nurturing your body rather than on the biology of starvation, and encourages natural weight loss, helping you find the weight you were meant to be.
https://www.intuitiveeating.org/

This intervention guide, from Lakeview Health, is an addiction eBook that is meant for family and friends of the individual who has the addiction disorder.  To download the eBook, click here:   https://www.lakeviewhealth.com/lakeview-health-addiction-resources-florida/family-support-for-addiction-florida/addiction-ebook-and-brochure/?fbclid=IwAR2jvb1dybdi9R_GPMXM5AF00V9cmwHTBVmLdibe19SRWT3mSh1bM43yzV0