Self-Compassion Exercises
Keys to Managing Depression
6 Family Roles
10 Things About Codependency
Tips for Overcoming Perfectionism
14 Days of Gratitude
Questions for Kids
Gratitude Journal Prompts
Self-Care Ideas
Journal Prompts
Break the Pattern of Codependent Relationships
Codependent Helping
Coping with Loneliness and Grief During the Holidays
Coping with Challenging People and Situations
Feeling Words
Give Yourself Loving Kindness During the Holidays
Guided Visualization
Healing Shame Meditation
Hobbies for Adults
How to Avoid Codependency
How to be a Better Friend to Yourself
How to Spot a Codependent Friendship
Journal Prompts to Help You Overcome People Pleasing
Meditation for Shame, Self-Criticism & Feeling Unworthy
Reframing Codependent Guilt
Self-Care Plan
Self-Validation Worksheet
Setting Limits with Yourself
Signs of Perfectionism
Sleep Tips
Stop Trying to Change People
Untwist Your Perfectionist Thinking
Weak or Rigid Boundaries
What do You do for Fun
Recommended Reading
Codependency and Boundaries
- Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
- The Better Boundaries Workbook by Sharon Martin
- The Disease to Please by Harriet Braiker
- Adult Children of Alcoholics by Janet Woititz
- Recovery: A Guide for Adult Children of Alcoholics by Herbert Gravitz and Julie Bowden
Dysfunctional Families
- Toxic Parents by Susan Forward
- If You Had Controlling Parents by Dan Neurharth
- Running on Empty by Jonice Webb
- The Emotionally Absent Mother by Jasmin Lee Cori
Relationships
- Who’s Pulling Your Strings by Harriet Braiker
- The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
- Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How it Can Help You Find and Keep Love by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
- After the Affair by Janis Abrahms Spring
- The Better Boundaries Workbook by Sharon Martin
Parenting
- The Whole Brain Child by Daniel Siegel
- Get Out of my Life, But First Could You Drive Me and Cheryl to the Mall? by Anthony Wolf
- Yes, Your Teen is Crazy! by Michael Bradley
Depression/Mental Health
- Feeling Good by David Burns
- Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman
- 8 Keys to Mental Health through Exercise by Christina Hibbert
- DARE: The New Way to End Anxiety and Stop Panic Attacks by Barry McDonagh
For Women
- Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood
- Why Does He Do That? By Lundy Bancroft
- The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
- The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner
- Perfect Daughters by Robert Ackerman
For Men
- I Don’t Want to Talk about It by Terrence Real
- Silent Sons by Robert Ackerman
Trauma and Healing
- Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
- The Body Keeps Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
- You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay
- Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine
Self-worth/Happiness/Other
- The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
- Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
- Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff
- Forgive for Good by Fred Luskin
- The Happiness Project by Gretchen Rubin
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
- Emotional Freedom by Judith Orloff
- The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron
Habit/Behavior Change
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin
- Small Move, Big Change by Caroline Arnold
Grief/Perinatal Loss
- Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby by Deborah Davis
- Bearing the Unbearable by Joanne Cacciatore
Understanding and Healing from Narcissistic Abuse
Reading List
- Why Is it Always About You?: The 7 Deadly Sins of Narcissism by Sandy Hotchkiss
- Disarming the Narcissist: Surviving and Thriving with the Self-Absorbed by Wendy T. Behary
- The Verbally Abusive Relationship by Patricia Evans
- Loving Him without Losing You: How to Stop Disappearing and Start Being Yourself by Beverly Engel
- How to Break Your Addiction to a Person: When and Why Love Doesn’t Work by Howard Halpern
- Red Flags of Love Fraud: 10 Signs You're Dating a Sociopath Rethinking Narcissism: The Secret to Recognizing and Coping with Narcissists by Craig Malkin
- The Wizard of Oz and Other Narcissists: Coping with the One-Way Relationship in Work, Love,
- and Family by Eleanor Payson
- The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
- Freeing Yourself from the Narcissist in Your Life by Linda Martinez-Lewi
- The Better Boundaries Workbook by Sharon Martin
- Toxic Parents by Susan Forward
- If You Had Controlling Parents by Dan Neurharth
- Trapped in the Mirror: Adult Children of Narcissists in their Struggle for Self by Elan Golomb
- Children of the Self Absorbed: A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents by Nina Brown
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
- Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers by Karyl McBride
- Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
- Don’t Call it Love by Gregory Jantz and Tim Clinton
- Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to
- Manipulate You by Susan Forward
- The Human Magnet Syndrome: The Codependent Narcissist Trap by Ross Rosenberg
- Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
- The Body Keeps Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
- Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
- Healing the Shame that Binds You by John Bradshaw
- Black Swan: The Twelve Lessons of Abandonment Recovery by Susan Anderson
- The Abandonment Recovery Workbook by Susan Anderson