Book Recommendations:

• Hold Me Tight. Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Dr. Susan Johnson 

• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by Dr. John Gottman and Nan Silver

• Are Men and Women From Different Planets? No- your partner is NOT an alien!! 
by Susan Johnson

• After the Affair: Healing the Pain and Rebuilding Trust When a Partner Has Been Unfaithful, 2nd Edition by Dr. Janis A. Spring

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. By Dr. Bessel van der Kolk

• Freedom from Your Inner Critic: A Self-Therapy Approach. By Dr. Jay Earley and Bonnie Weiss, LCSW

• Bring Yourself to Love: How Couples Can Turn Disconnection Into Intimacy. By Dr. Mona Barbera

• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. By Resmaa Menakem

• Healing Collective Trauma: A Process of Integrating our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds. By Julie Jordan Avritt and Thomas Hübl

• It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who we are and How to End the Cycle. By Mark Wolynn

• The Attachment Effect: Exploring the Powerful Ways Our Earliest Bond Shapes Our Relationships and Lives.

  By Peter Lovenheim

• The Mosaic Mind: Empowering the Tormented Selves of Child Abuse Survivors. By Regina A. Goulding