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Recommended Reading List

Healing Relationships 

• Anger Workbook
  Lorraine Bilodeau
• Dance of Anger
  Harriet Lerner
• Dance of Intimacy
  Harriet Lerner
• Women Who Love Too Much
  Robin Norwood
• Letters From Women Who Love Too Much
  Robin Norwood
• Telling Yourself the Truth
  William Backus
• Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples
  Harville Hendrix
• Healing the Shame that Binds You
  John Bradshaw

Healing Self

• The Courage To Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
  Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
• The Courage to Heal Workbook: For Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
  Laura Davis
• The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
  Sue Monk Kidd
• Finding Our Fathers: How a Man's Life is Shaped by His Relationship with His Father
  Samuel Osherson
• Man Enough
  Frank Pittman
• Abused Boys
  Mic Hunter

Healing Anxiety 

• 60 Second Stress Management: The Quickest Way to Relax and Ease Anxiety
  Andrew Goliszek
• Abolish Anxiety: Discover Inner Peace in a Stressed-Out World
  Bonnie Crandall
• Annie Stories
  Doris Brett (For Children)
• Anxiety, Friend or Foe? (cassette)
  Susan Heitler

Healing Eating Disorders

• Coming Home to Myself: Daily Reflections for a Woman's Body and Soul
  Marion Woodman
• Diary of an Eating Disorder: A Mother and Daughter Share Their Healing Journey
  Chelsea Smith and Beverly Runyon
• Food and Love: Dealing with Family Attitudes About Weight
  Elizabeth Frankenberger
• If You Think You Have An Eating Disorder
  John Barnhill and Nadine Taylor
• It's Not About Food
  Carol Emery Normandi
• Transforming Body Image
  Marcia Germaine Hutchinson

Healing Codependency 

• Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
  Melody Beattie
• Beyond Codependency
  Melody Beattie
• Broken Toys Broken Dreams: Understanding and Healing Codependency, Compulsive Behaviors and Family
  Terry Kellogg
• Flying Boy: Healing the Wounded Man
  John Lee
• Love is a Choice: Recovery for Codependent Relationships
  Robert Hemfelt, et. al.
• Happiness is a Choice
  Frank Minirth, et. al.
• Nikki, The Co-Dependent Cat
  Roger Rhodes
• Learning to Love Yourself
  Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse

Healing Addictions 

• Welcome Home: A Book About Overcoming Addictions
  Suzanne Gelb
• Willpower is Not Enough
  Arnold Washton et. al.
• The Addictive Personality
  Craig Nakken
• Life's Too Short: Pull the Plug on Self-Defeating Behavior and Turn on the Power of Self-Esteem
  Abraham Twerski
• A Gentle Path through the Twelve Steps
  Patrick Carnes
• Addiction and Grace
  Gerald May
• The Big Book
  Bill Wilson
• Twelve and Twelve
  Bill Wilson

Healing Trauma 

• Life After Trauma, A Workbook for Healing
  Dena Rosenbloom
• Childhood Trauma: Your Questions Answered
  Ursula Markham
• Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma
  Francine Shapiro
• Trauma and Recovery
  Judith Herman
• Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse
  Jennifer Freyd
• Children, Bereavement, and Trauma: Nurturing Resilience
  Julie Nagy

 
Healing Self-Esteem 

• Art of Living Consciously
  Nathaniel Branden
• Self-Esteem
  Matthew McKay and Patrick Fanning
• Reviving Ophelia
  Mary Pipher

 
Domestic Violence

• Domestic Violence Sourcebook
  Dawn Bradley Berry
• Getting Free: A Handbook for Women in Abusive Relationships
  Ginny NiCarthy
• It's Not Okay Anymore: Your Personal Guide to Ending Abuse, Taking Charge and Loving Yourself 
  Greg Enns, Jan Black

 
Empowering the Woman

• A Woman In Your Own Right
  Anne Dickson
• The Courage To Heal
  Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
• The Dance Of the Dissident Daughter
  Sue Monk Kidd
• Beyond Codependency
  Melody Beattie
• Reviving Ophelia
  Mary Pipher
• The Heroine's Journey
  Maureen Murdock
• The Feminine Face Of God
  Sherry Anderson
• In a Different Voice
  Carol Gilligan
• Women Who Run With the Wolves
  Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• Transforming Body Image
  Marcia Germaine Hutchinson
• One Day My Soul Just Opened Up
  I.Vanzant
• The Power Of Soul: Pathways To Psychological and Spiritual Growth
  D. Powell-Hopson

Miscellaneous 

• Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes
  William Bridges
• New Peoplemaking
  Virginia Satir
• You Just Don't Understand Me
  Deborah Tannen
• The Road Less Traveled
  M. Scott Peck

Web Sites 

• www.petersons.com
  Provides up to date information on educational programs, financial aid, testing, and careers.
• www.graduate-schools.com 
  Provides comprehensive listings of graduate schools and the advanced degree programs these schools offer; you can also download sample test questions from the GRE, GMAT, and LSAT.
• www.gooeyindustries.com 
  Offers resume building, networking strategies, and access to employers who are actively recruiting via the Internet) - this site requires password to access; please contact the Director of Career Services to obtain authorization.
• www.about.com 
  Provides extensive network of links to a wide range of subjects from eighteenth century protestantism to alcoholism; these sites are maintained by experts in their chosen fields.
• www.mentalhelp.net 
  Provides comprehensive information and professional resources for a wide range of problems, e.g., Attention-Deficit-Disorder, Anorexia, Depression.
  
   
  

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Frances Jarratt-Hortis
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(864) 503-5195
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Spartanburg, SC 29303 
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