The Dance of Anger / The Dance of Intimacy / The Dance of Deception
10 best books like The Dance of Anger / The Dance of Intimacy / The Dance of Deception (Harriet Lerner): Crying: A Natural and Cultural History of Tears, The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships, Romancing the Ordinary: A Year of Simple Splendor, Goddesses in Older Women, The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, and the Repressed Feminine, Glad No Matter What: Transforming Loss and Change into Gift and Opportunity, Mindfulness Yoga: The Awakened Union of Breath, Body, and Mind, The Procrastinator's Guide to Getting Things Done, Living Like You Mean It: Use the Wisdom and Power of Your Emotions to Get the Life You Really Want, Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty
Crying: A Natural and Cultural History of Tears
| Author | Tom Lutz |
| ISBN | 0393321037 |
In this wide-ranging and provocative study, Tom Lutz looks at the ways people have understood weeping from the earliest known representations of tears in the fourteenth century B.C. to the tears found in today’s films. Drawing on works of literature, philosophy, art, and science from the writings...
The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships
| Author | Patrick J. Carnes |
| ISBN | 1558745262 |
Exploitive relationships can create trauma bonds - chains of trust that link you to someone who is dangerous, abusive, and toxic. Divorce, employee relations, litigation, incest and child abuse, family and marital systems, domestic violence, hostage situations, kidnapping, professional exploitation...
| Author | Sarah Ban Breathnach |
| ISBN | 0743218779 |
In her first major book since "Something More," #1 "New York Times" bestselling author Sarah Ban Breathnach takes readers to a new level of personal fulfillment and spiritual awareness as they learn to rediscover and savor the sensual experience of daily life. Organized as a saunter through the year,...
| Author | Jean Shinoda Bolen |
| ISBN | 0060929235 |
"Knowing which archetypes are stirring and strong in you will help you to come into your own third phase with additional consciousness," says Jean Shinoda Bolen. When Bolen's earlier book Goddesses in Everywoman was first published, it became a surprise bestseller and an unexpected star in the womens'...
| Author | Marion Woodman |
| ISBN | 0919123031 |
I took a couple of months to read The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter by Marion Woodman. I'm not sure why it took me so long, but I think it had to do with finally realizing what a victim of stress I allowed myself to be for my entire adult life, going from a skinny kid and teen to a fat middle-aged adult and wondering...
| Author | S.A.R.K. |
| ISBN | 1577319354 |
Though SARK has empowered millions to live their creative dreams, manage their businesses, and savor personal connections, the deaths of her mother and cat and the end of a treasured relationship tested her ability to walk her talk. But as Glad No Matter What shows, she journeyed through the spirals...
Mindfulness Yoga: The Awakened Union of Breath, Body, and Mind
| Author | Frank Jude Boccio |
| ISBN | 0861713354 |
Whether you have no background in meditation or yoga or have been practicing for years, Mindfulness Yoga is for you. This groundbreaking book introduces an entirely new form of yoga, Mindfulness Yoga, which seamlessly integrates the Buddha's teachings on the Four Foundations of Mindfulness with...
The Procrastinator's Guide to Getting Things Done
| Author | Monica Ramirez Basco |
| ISBN | 1606232932 |
Everyone waits till the last minute sometimes. But many procrastinators pay a significant price, from poor job performance to stress, financial problems, and relationship conflicts. Fortunately, just as anyone can endlessly delay, anyone can learn how to stop! Cognitive-behavioral therapy...
| Author | Ronald J. Frederick |
| ISBN | 0470377038 |
In LIVING LIKE YOU MEAN IT, author Ronald J. Frederick, does a brilliant job of describing why people are so afraid of their emotions and how this fear creates a variety of problems in their lives. While the problems are different, the underlying issue is often the same. At the core of their distress is...
| Author | Victoria Moran |
| ISBN | 0062517333 |
Some women exude radiance -- a glow that brings out the inherent beauty -- beyond conventional "prettiness." This quality, says women's wellness visionary Victoria Moran, is independent of age or body type. Rather, it is the result of a well-tended soul.
In this inspirational and Wise book, Moran...
| Author | Jean Illsley Clarke |
| ISBN | 1568381905 |
As time-tested as it is timely, the expert advice in this book has helped thousands of readers improve on their parenting practices. Now, substantially revised and expanded, Growing Up Again offers further guidance on providing children with the structure and nurturing that are so critical to their...
This Is Not the Life I Ordered: 50 Ways to Keep Your Head Above Water When Life Keeps Dragging You Down
| Author | Deborah Collins Stephens |
| ISBN | 1573243051 |
If you've ever felt overworked, overwhelmed, or just plain unlucky, this book is for you. Through this collection of stories, wisdom, and practical advice, you'll meet four ordinary women who have faced extraordinary life challenges. Together, they have a history of 6 marriages, 10 children, 4 stepchildren,...
Lying in Weight: The Hidden Epidemic of Eating Disorders in Adult Women
| Author | Trisha Gura |
| ISBN | 0060761482 |
A girl with an eating disorder grows up. And then what?
In this groundbreaking new book, science journalist Trisha Gura, Ph.D., explodes the myth that those who suffer from eating disorders, including anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, are primarily teenage girls. In reality, these...
Perfect Daughters: Adult Daughters of Alcoholics
| Author | Robert J. Ackerman |
| ISBN | 1558749527 |
This new edition of Perfect Daughters, a pivotal book in the ACoA movement, identifies what differentiates the adult daughters of alcoholics from other women.
When this groundbreaking book first appeared over ten years ago, Dr. Ackerman identified behavior patterns shared by daughters...
| Author | Melissa Fay Greene |
| ISBN | 0306815184 |
At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, October 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. The devastation to the building was vast-but even greater were the changes those 50 sticks of dynamite made to Atlanta, the South, and ultimately, all...
The Complete Novels: Voyage in the Dark / Quartet / After Leaving Mr Mackenzie / Good Morning, Midnight / Wide Sargasso Sea
| Author | Jean Rhys |
| ISBN | 0393022269 |
Second time through all of these, though first time doing it in one big lump. Certainly Voyage and WSS stand out above the rest for me, though all remain essential reading. Her use of hyphens is particularly interesting to me - both as a device to indicate a break or shift in thought or as, conversely,...
Lifeskills for Adult Children
| Author | Janet Geringer Woititz |
From the author of the "New York Times" bestseller Adult Children of Alcoholics, this book affirms and encourages ACoAs by developing skills for living.
Imagine how good you would feel if:
• You could stand up for yourself without losing your temper
• You could make a decision...
| Author | Janet Geringer Wotitiz |
| ISBN | 0932194257 |
What am i doing right now? Eating packets of taco bell hot sauce until my mouth feels like its going to act like the southern states in the civil war and run away by secession for a little while or something... best simile ever, right guys? Cuz that like so totally shows that I know like a lot about American...
The Way of Qigong: The Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing
| Author | Kenneth S. Cohen |
| ISBN | 0345421094 |
Qigong is an integrated mind-body healing method that has been practiced with remarkable results in China for thousands of years. The Chinese have long treasured qigong for its effectiveness both in healing and in preventing disease, and more recently they have used it in conjunction with modern...
The Hungry Self: Women, Eating and Identity
| Author | Kim Chernin |
| ISBN | 0060925043 |
Pretty phenomenal read, fascinating for anybody in or near an eating disorder. Just recently finished this one and let me assure you, I had to read some sentences or paragraphs four or five times because I just needed to eat this shit up. NO PUN INTENDED. I absorbed this book and its messages. Very valuable...
How Can I Forgive You?: The Courage to Forgive, the Freedom Not To
| Author | Janis Abrahms Spring |
| ISBN | 0060009314 |
Until now, we have been taught that forgiveness is good for us and that good people forgive. Dr. Spring, a gifted therapist and the award-winning author of After the Affair, proposes a radical, life-affirming alternative that lets us overcome the corrosive effects of hate and get on with our lives—without...
Overcoming Passive-Aggression: How to Stop Hidden Anger from Spoiling Your Relationships, Career and Happiness
| Author | Tim Murphy |
| ISBN | 1569243611 |
In Overcoming Passive-Aggression, Dr. Tim Murphy and Loriann Hoff Oberlin provide an in-depth look at a topic we've all faced but haven't always recognized: Hidden anger. When people don't express their views and feel compelled to conceal their true beliefs and emotions, behaving in ways that don't...
Love Is a Story: A New Theory of Relationships
| Author | Robert J. Sternberg |
| ISBN | 0195131029 |
In this groundbreaking work, Robert Sternberg opens the book of love and shows you how to discover your own story--and how to read your relationships in a whole new light.
What draws us so strongly to some people and repels us from others? What makes some relationships work so smoothly and others...
Emotional Sobriety: From Relationship Trauma to Resilience and Balance
| Author | Tian Dayton |
| ISBN | 0757306098 |
Picking up right at the point where Janet Woititz’s 1990 hit book Adult Children of Alcoholics left off, clinical psychologist Tian Dayton’s latest contribution contains fresh perspectives and new analysis on how to gain back emotional stability after growing up with the trauma of addiction,...
Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating
| Author | Geneen Roth |
| ISBN | 0452270847 |
There is an end to the anguish of compulsive eating - and this book tells how to achieve it. Geneen Roth, whose "Feeding the Hungry Heart" brought understanding and acceptance to tens of thousands of readers, now outlines a proven program for resolving the conflicts at the root of eating disorders. Using...
