Highly recommended by the Green Shoe Team. Mellody sets forth five primary adult symptoms of this crippling condition, then traces their origin to emotional, spiritual, intellectual, physical, and sexual abuses that occur in childhood.

All of us need positive affirmation throughout our lives. As children, these powerful messages helped us to know that we were worthwhile, that it was all right to want food and to be touched, and that our very existence was a precious gift.

Codependent No More helps you to break old patterns, maintain healthy boundaries, and say no to unhealthy relationships. It offers a clear and achievable path to freedom and a lifetime of healing, hope, and happiness.

Through the lens of moving personal stories, Dr. Gabor Maté shows how emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness, cancer, and many other serious illnesses. Drawing on scientific research this book provides answers to important questions about the effect of the mind-body link on illness and health and the role that chronic stress and one's individual emotional makeup play in an array of common diseases.

Narcissistic mothers teach their daughters that love is not unconditional, it is given when they behave in accordance with maternal expectations and whims. As adults, these daughters have difficulty overcoming feelings of inadequacy.

Aware provides practical instruction for mastering the Wheel of Awareness, a life-changing tool for cultivating more focus, presence, and peace in one's day-to-day life. Cultivating kind intention can literally help reduce fear, anxiety, and stress.

Discover practical strategies for navigating relationships with emotionally immature individuals. This insightful guide offers tools for setting boundaries, fostering healthy interactions, and reclaiming your emotional well-being.

Unlock the path to healing and self-discovery. This eye-opening book provides valuable insights and strategies for overcoming the impact of emotionally immature parenting, empowering you to build healthier relationships and achieve emotional resilience

Dr. Carnes also gives a clear explanation of the bond that compels people to tolerate the intolerable, and for the first time, maps out the brain connection that makes being with hurtful people comparable to 'a drug of choice.'

You're learning to let go, to live your life free of the grip of someone else's problems. And yet you find you've just started on the long journey of recovery. This is a guided tour about what happens next. and mastering the art of self-care.

Growing up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional family often prevents us from creating healthy physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual boundaries. This pamphlet offers meaningful insight on how to build healthy boundaries.

Life-affirming counsel from a leading therapist and speaker of deep personal faith. Riemersma understands the unique discouragement that people of faith experience when their actions do not line up with their sincere beliefs. Riemersma's book is packed with warm, personal stories and immediately applicable insights. She guides readers through paradigm-altering understandings with helpful definitions and summaries, self-inventories, action steps, and resources.

Boundaries separate us from others physically and emotionally. In fact, they are essential for our mental and physical health as well as for developing healthy relationships.

A three-part approach to recovery first shows recovering codependents how to move beyond denial of their childhood history of abuse. Learn techniques to identify concrete ways in which the symptoms of codependence operate in their lives.

An intimate collection of stories, teachings, and insights from Krishna Das, who has been called "the chant master of American yoga" by the New York Times. Experience chanting in a unique and special way.

The Rhythm of Life will help you to bring into focus who you are and why you are here. Through this book, Matthew Kelly will help you discover your legitimate needs, deepest desires, and unique talents. He will introduce you to the-best-version-of-yourself and lead you to a life filled with passion and purpose.

Interpreting the famous Alcoholics Anonymous Twelve Steps specifically for codependence, this book combines Melody’s expertise to turn your life around—one step at a time.

Breaking new ground in identifying the major cause of relationship failure as the need to control - in marriages and families, with friends, and within organizations. This is an impressive contribution to the literature on recovery and personal change.

Multiple affairs, compulsive pornography, prostitutes, and voyeurism—no matter their “drug” of choice, men who act out sexually leave their partners reeling in fear, rage, shame, and isolation. But there is hope.

When we manage the stresses of the day by turning to outside 'mood managers' such as food, sex, work, shopping, gambling, drugs, and alcohol rather than healthier forms of 'self-soothing,' it is because we lack emotional sobriety.

Twelve-step work, exercises, and journaling, this book compassionately and realistically outlines the recovery process for Love Addicts, and comforts and motivates those looking to establish and maintain healthy, happy relationships.

Explore your “family tree,” and trace the visible and invisible patterns that have influenced you. Learn about family secrets that are healthy, and about secrets that can limit your wholeness and freedom—even if you don’t know they exist.

Have you ever wondered "Why did I do that?" or "Why can't I just control my behavior?" Others may judge our reactions and think, "What's wrong with that person?" When questioning our emotions, it's easy to place the blame on ourselves; holding ourselves and those around us to an impossible standard. It's time we started asking a different question.

An essential guide for recognizing, preventing, and healing childhood trauma from infancy through adolescence - what parents, educators, and health professionals can do. Understand how trauma is imprinted on the body, brain, and spirit - often resulting in anxiety, nightmares, depression, physical illnesses, addictions, hyperactivity, and aggression. Gain insight into children’s innate ability to rebound with the appropriate support and provides their caregivers with tools to overcome and prevent trauma.

A great inspirational writer tells his greatest story - an amazing narrative that will hold you spellbound.. as it reveals exciting new secrets for you personal happiness and success "A work that will lift the mind and heart of every reader"

Kessler’s journey with grief began when, as a child, he witnessed a mass shooting at the same time his mother was dying. He shares insights, collective wisdom, and powerful tools for those experiencing loss.

No adult need ever experience the helpless feelings of childhood again. Here are his proven methods and visualization exercises, developed in his popular workshops, for recognizing, preventing, and diffusing regression in ourselves and others.

Shame is the motivator behind our toxic behaviors: the compulsion, co-dependency, and addiction that breaks down families and destroy personal lives. Address root causes and release from the shame that binds them to their past failures.

The field of mental health is in an exciting position to bring together diverse ideas from a range of disciplines that illuminate our understanding of human experience: neurobiology, developmental psychology, traumatology, and systems theory.

Trauma is a fact of life but it doesn't have to be a life sentence. Levine shares his essential methods to address unexplained symptoms of trauma at their source―the body―to return us to the natural state in which we are meant to live.

Through a step-by-step process of exploring the unfinished business of each developmental stage, we can break away from destructive family rules and roles and free ourselves to live responsibly in the present. Find new joy and energy in living.

Hope Rising provides a roadmap to measure hope in your life. Challenge yourself, to be honest about your own struggles and end the cycle of shame and blame related to trauma, illness, and abuse. Increase your Hope score and thrive because of it.

Issues we think of as typically male—difficulty with intimacy, workaholism, alcoholism, abusive behavior, and rage are attempts to escape depression. These escape attempts hurt the people men love and pass their condition on to their children.

This book is based on the idea that trauma is neither a disease nor a disorder, but rather an injury caused by fright, helplessness, and loss that can be healed by engaging our innate capacity to self-regulate high states of arousal and intense emotions.

Recovery therapist Cathryn Taylor offers a step-by-step guide to reparenting the children within and healing their shame, anger, and feelings of abandonment. Using written and verbal exercises - In the end, you will reap the rewards of the wisdom of your true self.

Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains—but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents.

365 insightful and delightfully warm daily reflections, Journey to the Heart will comfort and inspire us all as we begin to discover our true purpose in the world and learn to connect even more deeply with ourselves, and the magic and mystery in the world around and within us.

Problems are made to be solved, Melody reminds us, and the best thing we can do is take responsibility for our own pain and self-care. In this daily inspirational book, Melody encourages us to remember that each day is an opportunity for growth and renewal.

Lose yourself in a kaleidoscopic world of coloring spectacular patterns and more. Immerse yourself in mesmerizing mandalas. Intricate patterns, stunning pictures, and so much more. Coloring is the perfect way to relax, unwind, and unleash your creativity.

Coloring isn't just for kids anymore, as more and more adults are discovering the benefits of "art therapy" to release stress. Inside this book are 30 ready-to-color illustrations for grown-ups that encourage creative expression. Creativity can help to stabilize, integrate, and re-order our inner lives.

This immensely useful book explores Zen's rich tradition of chanted liturgy and the powerful ways that such chants support meditation, expressing and helping us truly uphold our heartfelt vows to live a life of freedom and compassion.

The concept of Living Light as a Feather comes from an ancient Egyptian myth that elucidates the belief that only a worthy person can enter eternity. Upon death, the heart is placed on a scale and the soul can only live forever if the worthy heart is as light as a feather.

This basic text for AA members and groups around the world lays out the principles by which members recover and by which the fellowship functions. Originally published in 1952, Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions is a classic book used by AA members and groups around the world. It lays out the principles by which AA members recover and by which the fellowship functions. The basic text clarifies the Steps which constitute the AA way of life and the Traditions, by which AA maintains its unity.

Words can inspire, motivate and change us if we let them. Words can lift us to action. Words can move us to anger and rage or to love and tears. Most important, words can heal. May the words in this book be an inspiration for you when and as you need them. Read it by the page, one day at a time, or at random as you are so moved. Know that you are worthy of joy, that you deserve to have joy in your life. May you take this time to find joy and may you know peace and love.

An excellent enhancement to therapy, daily thoughts provide clients with ongoing insights into issues such as surrendering, the damaging effects of manipulation, and healthy communication. Explore personal growth.

From a pioneer in the field of mental health comes a groundbreaking book on the healing power of "mindsight," the potent skill that allows you to make positive changes in your brain–and in your life.

Therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology. The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society.

Recovery—whether from addictive or compulsive behaviors, codependency, childhood trauma, dysfunction, or loss—is not an event to be conquered, but an ongoing process of healing and self-discovery. It requires patience, perseverance, and self-awareness.

Highlighting the fascinating link between a child’s neurological development and the way a parent reacts to misbehavior, No-Drama Discipline provides an effective, compassionate road map for dealing with tantrums, tensions, and tears—without causing a scene.

In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson offer a revolutionary approach to child rearing with twelve key strategies that foster healthy brain development, leading to calmer, happier children.

An interactive approach that allows readers not only to think more deeply about how the ideas fit their own parenting approach but also develop specific and practical ways to implement the concepts -- and bring them to life for themselves and for their children.

In neurobiology and attachment research, explain how interpersonal relationships directly impact the development of the brain and offer parents a step-by-step approach to forming a deeper understanding of their own life stories, to help them raise compassionate and resilient children.

A beautifully illustrated guided journal that helps women slow down and enjoy life rather than pushing for perfection. Give yourself permission to be Present, Not Perfect.

A revised and expanded edition of Ready to Heal provides an opportunity for women to break free from painful addictive relationships. Break free from the chains of addictive relationships that sabotage happiness and self-respect.

Usually hidden under our grown-up personas, the Inner Child holds the key to intimacy in relationships, physical and emotional well-being, recovery from addictions, and the creativity and wisdom of our inner selves. Discover the Creative and Magical Child that can heal your life.

When facing contentious issues such as screen time, food choices, and bedtime, children often act out or shut down, responding with reactivity instead of receptivity. Our kids can be taught to approach life with openness and curiosity. When kids work from a Yes Brain, they’re more willing to take chances and explore. the authors give parents skills, scripts, and activities to bring kids of all ages into the beneficial “yes” state. You’ll learn.

Growing up in a home where there is addiction or relationship trauma puts a child at great risk for long-term, post-traumatic stress effects that adversely compromise adult relationships.

This book provides an integrative, seven-step program to help you finally overcome drug and alcohol addiction, once and for all. If you're ready to step toward recovery, this book can help you beat your addiction and get back to living a full, meaningful life.

This highly influential work--now in a revised and expanded third edition incorporating major advances in the field--gives clinicians, educators, and students a new understanding of what the mind is, how it grows, and how to promote healthy development and resilience be a success in every aspect of your life.

A Green Shoe favorite, The Body Keeps the Score uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. Trauma is a fact of life and can literally reshape both body and brain. Learn how to reclaim your life.

Within its pages, you will discover the cause of emotionally impaired families. You will learn how unhealthy rules of behavior are passed down from parents to children, and the destructive effect this process has on our society. The choices you make every day can affect--and improve--your world.

What transforms this book from words on a page to effective daily practices are the ten guideposts to wholehearted living. The guideposts not only help us understand the practices that will allow us to change our lives and families, they also walk us through the unattainable and sabotaging expectations that get in the way.

Diagnose the causes of faulty relationships—many of them rooted in childhood—and provides tools for readers to heal themselves, enabling them to establish and maintain healthy relationships. Learn wisdom on what it takes to sustain true intimacy and trusting love in our most vital relationships.

Between the ages of 12 and 24, the brain changes in important, and oftentimes maddening, ways. It’s no wonder that many parents approach their child’s adolescence with fear and trepidation. Parents and teens can work together to form a deeper understanding of the brain science behind all the tumult, they will be able to turn conflict into a connection and form a deeper understanding of one another.