Helpful resources for healing in Santa Cruz
Valuable resources to help you address a variety of life challenges.
Emotional Health:
Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself, Melody Beattie
The Complete Enneagram: 27 Paths to Greater Self-Knowledge, Beatrice Chestnut
Boundaries For Your Soul: How to Turn Your Overwhelming Thoughts and Feelings into Your Greatest Allies, Alison Cook & Kimberly Miller
The Road Back to You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery, Ian Morgan Cron
Wholeheartedness: Busyness, Exhaustion and Healing the Divided Self, Chuck DeGroat
Anatomy of the Soul: Surprising Connections Between Neuroscience and Spiritual Practices That Can Transform Your Life and Relationships, Curt Thompson MD
The Soul of Shame: Retelling the Stories We Believe About Ourselves, Curt Thompson MD
Self to Lose - Self to Find: A Biblical Approach to the 9 Enneagram Types, Marilyn Vancil
relational Health:
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No To Take Control of Your Life, Henry Cloud and John Townsend
The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide From the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert, John Gottman and Nan Silver
Safe Haven Marriage: Building a Relationship You Want to Come Home To, Dr. Archibald Hart and Dr. Sharon Hart Morris
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations For a Lifetime of Love, Sue Johnson
Anxiety:
Can Christianity Cure Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder? A Psychiatrist Explores the Role of Faith in Treatment, Dr. Ian Osborn
Depression:
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, Dr. David Burns
I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression, Terry Real
Trauma/Emotional Pain:
The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel Van Der Kolk MD
Mending the Soul: Understanding and Healing Abuse, Steven Tracy
It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle, Mark Wolynn
Foster Families:
ReMoved, a short video that illustrates a bit about the daily reality that many foster children face.
The Post Institute: great support materials for foster and adoptive parents who want to understand and address some of the challenging behaviors that foster children often exhibit.