Awareness & Mindfulness

  • Aware by Daniel Siegel

  • Mindsight by Daniel Siegel

  • UCLA Mindful Awareness Research Center offers free guided meditations

  • Insight Timer, a free app, offers thousands guided meditations

  • Ten Percent Happier’s free guided meditations and more

  • Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn

  • Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn

  • Breath by James Nestor

Stress & ANXIETY

  • Rewire Your Anxious Brain by Catherine Pittman and Elizabeth Karle

  • Anchored: How to Befriend your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory by Deb Dana

  • The Power of Now by Eckart Tolle

  • The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook by Edmund Bourne

  • The Anxiety and Worry Workbook by David Clark and Aaron Beck

  • Learn more about anxiety and effective tools for anxiety management

  • The Telomere Effect by Elizabeth Blackburn and Elissa Epel

  • Learn more about your stress level with a stress test

  • Useful strategies for stress reduction

Behavioral Change

  • Meditations to Change Your Brain by Rick Hanson and Richard Mendius

  • Hardwiring Happiness by Rick Hanson

  • Atomic Habits by James Clear

  • The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge

  • Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown

  • Cleaning Up Your Mental Mess by Caroline Leaf

  • Dialectical Behavioral Therapy components explained with accompanying practical exercises

  • Mindset by Carol Dweck

  • The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are by Brene Brown

Finances

  • Your Money or Your Life: 9 Steps to Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Achieving Financial Independence by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez

Depression

  • Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World by Vivek Murthy

  • Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David Burns

  • Mind Over Mood by Dennis Greenberger and Christine Padesky

  • Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin Seligman

  • Learn more about depression and some useful cognitive behavioral strategies

Relationships

  • Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg

  • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman and Nan Silver

  • The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples by John Gottman

  • Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel

Parenting

  • Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be by Becky Kennedy

  • Parenting from the Inside Out by Daniel Siegel and Mary Hartzell

  • Our Babies Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent by Meredith Small

  • A Good Enough Parent by Bruno Bettelheim

  • The Yes Brain by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

  • No Drama Discipline by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

  • The Whole Brain Child by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

  • The Power of Showing Up by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

  • How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

  • Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

  • Hey Sigmund by Karen Young has helpful and practical information on parenting, being human and child development

  • Kids in the house is the largest video library on parenting, pregnancy, adoption and childhood

  • Dr. Tina Bryson has a helpful blog for parents

Trauma

  • Getting Past Your Past by Francine Shapiro

  • Anchored: How to Befriend your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory by Deb Dana

  • The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

  • Understand the impact of adverse childhood experiences on adult health outcomes from this remarkable study by the CDC and Kaiser Permanente (1998)

  • After the Crisis: Helping Young Children Heal (PDF) 

  • Tips for Parents with School Age Children after a traumatic event (PDF)