Book Recommendations
Tao Te Ching:
This is a little book that can go a long way in it’s beneficial effects.
You can open it at any page on any day and find the guidance or comfort you needed on that day.
It comes from ancient Chinese wisdom, a few thousand years old, and it comes in many translations.
The translation I recommend the most is by Timothy Freke. This is out of print and can be found only if you have the energy to hunt it down preloved, but any translation that you can find in the shops today will do.
This is my to-go-to book that both me and my teenaged children love to read a couple of pages daily. It talks to leaders, bringing you back in each page to be the humble leader in your own life.
Facing Codependence, By Pia Mellody:
This is a book I recommend for anyone who has experienced childhood trauma, as well as to partners of people suffering from childhood trauma.
The book is tremendously helpful in understanding yourself and others in your behaviours and pains of today. It also offers concrete ways to work towards healing in your daily life, ways that don’t require extra time in your day, but just focuses on offering new ways to look at and experience your everyday.
Excellent books that help understand trauma, focusing on the body-brain facets of trauma:
Peter Levin’s books, especially In an Unspoken Voice
The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel Van Der Kolk
Resources for couples relationships:
Here I choose to recommend Terry Real‘s books / audios / videos for couples. They are all great at helping you thoroughly understand what you’ve been doing that isn’t effective AND at the same time very hands on in helping you figure out how to make it better.
Choose one of the below, as these are just different modes that cover the same topics:
The New Rules of Marriage – Book
Fierce Intimacy – Audiobook
Staying in Love – Online course
Systemic Family Constellations
Understand how generational issues in our family affect us and how to view them in radically different ways. Very helpful in realising, and releasing from, generational issues you may have or haven’t been aware of, as well as family issues at present.
Here from the many excellent books available I chose a couple:
Love’s Hidden Symmetry, by Bert Hellinger
Family Constellations Revealed, by Indra Torsten Preiss
A (different) book about Grief:
The Smell of Rain on Dust, By Martin Prechtel
It it quite a different book, which brings insight about grief to people in modern society.
I have chosen only a few of many, many excellent books, in order to not overwhelm with choice.
I hope this helps, and please feel free to contact me for recommendations about other subjects, additional books on the above subjects, or with any other questions.
