Mary’s Book Recommendations

Attachment styles

• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind – and Keep – Love by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

• The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships by Diane Heller

Copendency

• Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie
  • A primer for anyone curious about codependency.
• The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations on Codependency by Melody Beattie
• Run Like Hell: A Therapist’s Guide to Recognizing, Escaping, and Healing from Trauma Bonds by Nadine Macaluso
• Facing Codependence: What It Is, Where It Comes from, How It Sabotages Our Lives by Pia Melody
  • Feeling codependent? This is the book for you.

Grief

• Anxious Grief: A Clinician’s Guide to Supporting Grieving Clients Experiencing Anxiety, Panic, and Fear by Claire Bidwell Smith
  • Listen to my podcast interview here
• It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand by Megan Devine

Quit Lit

• Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp
• Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget by Sarah Hepola
• The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober: Discovering a happy, healthy, wealthy alcohol-free life by Catherine Gray
• This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol, Find Freedom, Discover Happiness, and Change Your Life by Annie Grace
  • Annie’s account of her own substance use made everything click. A must read for the sober curious.
• Dry: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
  • I read this book in 2004 when I was talking about my relationship with alcohol in therapy
• Quit Like a Woman: The Radical Choice to Not Drink in a Culture Obsessed with Alcohol by Holly Whitaker
  • Listen to the Audiobook – so engaging and fun.
• Carry On, Warrior: The Power of Embracing your Messy, Beautiful Life by Glennon Doyle
  • If you’re a Glennon fan you’ll love this book.
• Unbroken Brain: A Revolutionary Way of Understanding Addiction by Maia Szalavitz
  • A beautiful shift around thinking about alcohol and addiction.
• Euphoric: Ditch the Alcohol, and Gain a Happier, More Confident You by Karolina Rzadkowolska

Trauma

• The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van de Kolk
• When The Body Says No: Exploring the Stress Disease Connection by Gabor Mate
• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard Schwartz

Disclaimer: This information is for educational purposes only; it solely provides self-help tools for your use. This information is not intended to provide health care or psychological therapy services and is not intended to diagnose or treat any physical or mental ailment of the mind or body. The content is not a substitute for therapy or any advice given by a licensed psychologist or other licensed or registered professionals.