Cindy Brosh Counseling, Inc.

On Grief:

• We are But a Moment’s Sunlight (A collection of poetry about grief) – by C. Adler and S. Adler
• Tuesdays with Morrie – by Mitch Albom
• The Sacred Journey – by Frederick Buechner
• A Sacred Sorrow: Reaching Out to God in the Lost Language of Lament – Michael Card
• Learning to Live Again – Sue Carpenter
• When Things Fall Apart – Pema Chodron
• How to Survive the Loss of a Love – Colgrove, Bloomfield & McWilliams
• When Life and Beliefs Collide – Carolyn Curtis James
• Being Mortal – Atul Gawande
• Going to Pieces without Falling Apart – Mark Epstein
• Coping – Frederick Flach
• Concerning Death: A Practical Guide for the Living – Earl Grollman (ed.)
• Healing Grief – Amy Hillyard Jensen
• Life Lessons – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
• On Death and Dying – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross
• Overcoming Life’s Disappointments – Harold Kushner
• When Bad Things Happen to Good People – Harold Kushner
• A Grief Observed – C.S. Lewis
• Don’t Take My Grief Away – Doug Manning
• The Awakened Heart – Gerald May
• When Going to Pieces Holds You Together – William A. Miller
• In the Midst of Winter: Selections from the Literature of Mourning – Mary Jane Moffat
• Dark Nights of the Soul – Thomas Moore
• Grief and How to Live With It – Sarah Morris
• What Can I say? How to Help Someone Who is Grieving: A Guide – Kelly Osmont
• Tear Soup – Pat Schweibert
• When Mourning Comes – W. Silverman & K. Cinnamon
• A Grace Disguised – Gerald Sittser
• Empty Branch: A Memoir – Marilyn Weisenburg
• Dark Night of the Soul – St. John of the Cross
• Living Through a Personal Crisis – Ann Kaiser Stearns
• When God Weeps – Joni Erikson Tada
• The Courage to Grieve – Judy Tatelbaum
• Living with an Empty Chair – Roberta Temes
• A Severe Mercy – Vanacken
• Good Grief – Granger Westberg
• Night – Eli Wiesel
• Lament for a Son – Nicholas Wolterstorff
• On Grief and Grieving – Elizabeth Kubler Ross and David Kessler

 

On Grieving Children:

• Books to Help Children Cope with Separation & Loss – Joanne Bernstein
• 35 Ways to Help a Grieving Child – Dougy Center (a pamphlet)
• Explaining Death to Children – Earl Grollman (Ed.)
• Talking About Death: A Dialogue Between Parent and Child – Earl Grollman (Ed.)
• When Someone Very Special Dies – Heegdard
• A Terrible Thing Happened – Holmes
• Helping Children Grieve – Huntley
• On Children and Death – Elizabeth Dubler-Ross
• Learning to Say Goodbye (helping children grieve the loss of a parent) – Eda LeShan
• Sad Isn’t Bad – Mundy
• It Must Hurt A Lot – Doris Sanford
• Tear Soup – Pat Schweibert
• I Miss You – Thomas
• Badger’s Parting Gifts – Susan Varley
• Helping Your Child to Understand Death – Anna Wolf

On Therapy and Personal Growth:

• Love’s Executioner – Irvin Yalom
• The Road Less Traveled – M. Scott Peck
• Telling Secrets – Frederick Buechner
• The Hero with a Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell
• Hope and Dread in Psychoanalysis – Stephen A. Mitchell
• Engendered Lives: A New Psychology of Women’s Experience – Ellyn Kaschak
• Women Who Run with the Wolves – Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity – Julia Cameron
• Growing Up Again – J. Clarke & C. Dawson
• The Awakened Heart – Gerald May
• Parables for Personal Growth – Melinda Reinicke
• Will and Spirit – Gerald May

On Marriage & Relationships:

• The 7 Principles for Making Marriage Work – John Gottman
• Passionate Marriage – David Schnarch
• Intimacy and Desire – David Schnarch
• Wounds of Passion – Bell Hooks
• The Dance of Intimacy – Harriet Lerner
• The Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships – Harriet Lerner
• How to Survive the Loss of a Love – Peter McWilliams
• Getting the Love you Want – Harville Hendrix
• Hold Me Tight – Sue Johnson
• Raising our Children, Raising Ourselves – Naomi Aldort
• Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls – Mary Pipher
• Raising Cain: Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys – D. Kindlon & M. Thompson

• Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes – William Bridges
• Awakening at Midlife – Carolyn Brehony
• When the Heart Waits – Sue Monk Kidd
• Falling Upward – Richard Rohr
• Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life – James Hollis
• Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey – James Hollis

• Trapped in the Mirror – Elan Golomb
• Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up’s Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents – N.W. Brown

On Addiction:

• False Intimacy – Harry Schaumburg
• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts – Gabor Mate
• Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction – Patrick Carnes
• Don’t Call it Love: Recovery from Sexual Addiction -Patrick Carnes
• Breathing Under Water – Richard Rohr
• A Gentle Guide Through the 12 Steps – Patrick Carnes
• Addiction and Grace – Gerald May  

On Trauma:

• The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk
• The Heart of Trauma – Bonnie Badenoch
• The Polyvagal Theory – Stephen W. Porges
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings – Maya Anjelou
• Too Scared to Cry – Lenore Terr
• Trauma and Recovery – Judith Herman
• Principles of Trauma Therapy – John Briere, Catherine Scott
• The Secret Trauma – Diana Russell
• Thou Shalt Not be Aware – Alice Miller
• Outgrowing the Pain – Eliana Gil
• United We Stand – Eliana Gil
• Facing Shame – Merle Fossham & Marily Mason
• The Subtle Power of Spiritual Abuse – Jeff VanVonderham
• The Courage to Heal – Ellen Bass & Laura Davis
• Allies in Healing – Laura Davis
• Secret Survivors – E. Sue Blume

 For Women:

• Here All Dwell Free: Stories to Heal the Wounded Feminine – Gertrud Mueller Nelson
• Redeeming Eve – Heather Webb
• Crossing to Avalon – Jean Shinoda Bolen
• Wise Woman Archetype: Menopause as Initiation – Jean Shinoda Bolen
• Women who Run with the Wolves – Clarissa Pinkola Estes
• Untie the Strong Woman – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

For Men:

• Real Boys – Willam Pollack
• Gods in Everyman: Archetypes that Shape Men’s Lives- Jean Shinoda Bolen
• I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression – Terrence Real
• From Wild Man to Wise Man – Richard Rohr
• Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life – James Hollis

On Spirituality:

• Spirituality of the Psalms – Walter Brueggemann
• Bless the Space Between Us – John O’Donahue
• Eternal Echoes – John O’Donahue
• I and Thou – Martin Buber
• The Magnificent Defeat – Frederick Buechner
• The Weight of Glory – C.S. Lewis
• The Places that Scare You – Pema Chodron
• The Dance of the Dissident Daughter – Sue Monk Kidd
• The Beginning of Desire – Avivah Zornberg
• Braving the Wilderness – Brene Brown
• The Post-Evangelical – Dave Tomlinson
• My Grandfather’s Blessings – Rachel Naomi Remen

On Attachment:

• Being and Loving – Althea Horner
• Attachemnt and Loss – J. Bowlby
• Attachement in Psychotherapy – David Wallin
• Attachement Theory and Close Relationships – K.A. Brennan
• Attachment Across the Life Cycle – M.D.S. Ainsworth
• Attached – Amir Levine
• Attachment Theory in Practice – Sue Johnson
• Hold me Tight – Sue Johnson