Book Recommendations

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Communication

  • Sherts, M. | Conscious communication
  • Rosenburg, M. | Non-violent communication
  • Chapman, R. | Healthy relationships: overcome anxiety, couple conflict, insecurity

Relationships

  • Hendricks, G. & K. | Conscious loving: the journey to co-commitment
  • Hendricks, G. & K. | Conscious loving ever after: how to create thriving relationships at midlife and beyond
  • Scott, S. & Davenport, B. | Mindful relationship habits: 25 practices for couples to enhance intimacy, nurture closeness, and grow a deeper connection
  • Richo, D. | How to be an adult in relationships: the five keys to mindful loving age work 
  • Chapman, G. | The 5 love languages

  • Hendrix, H. & Hunt, H. | Getting the love you want

  • Kusi, M. & A. | Questions for couples: 469 thought-provoking conversations starters…

Infidelity

  • Perel, E. | The state of affairs
  • Skinner, K. | Treating trauma from sexual betrayal: the essential tools for healing
  • Gardner, A. | Healing From infidelity: how to recover from the heartbreak caused by your partner’s affair, rebuild trust and save your relationship

Healing from Relationships

  • Forward, S. & Frazier, D. | Emotional blackmail
  • Gibson, L. | Adult children of emotionally immature parents: how to heal from distant, rejecting or self-involved parents
  • Cloud, H. & Townsend, J. | Boundaries: when to say yes, how to say no to take control of your life
  • Clarke, L. | Courage to cure co-dependency
  • Sarkis, S. | Gaslighting: recognize manipulative and emotionally abusive people - and break free
  • Fjelstad, M. | Healing from a narcissistic relationship: a caretaker’s guide…

Ending Relationships

  • Thomas, K. | Conscious uncoupling
  • Hartley, G. & Brower, E. | Better apart: the radically positive way to separate

Sexuality - General

  • Joannides, P. | Guide to Getting It On (6th ed)
  • Davis, P. | The passion parties guide to great sex
  • Franklin, E. | Pelvic power
  • Kerner, I. | She comes first
  • Kerner, I. | He comes next
  • Nelson, T. | Getting the sex you want
  • Watson, L. | Wanting sex again
  • Resnick, S. | The heart of desire
  • Resnick, S. | Body-to-body intimacy
  • Keesling, B. | Sexual healing
  • Schnarch, D. | Intimacy & desire
  • Blakeway, J. | Sex again: recharging your libido
  • Siegal, S. | Your brain on sex
  • Snyder, S. | Love worth making: …great sex…long-lasting relationship
  • Strgar, W. | Sex that works
  • Firestone, Firestone et al. | Sex & love in intimate relationships

Sex: Illustrated

  • Bastyra, J. & Lacroix, N.  | The good sex bibleThe men’s health & women’s health big book of sex
  • Rinna, L. & Kerner, I. | The big fun sexy sex book
  • Harwick, A. | The new sex bible for women
  • Hooper, A. | The ultimate sex book

Sex & aging

  • Price, J. | Better than I expected: straight talk about sex after 60
  • Block, J. | Sex over 50

Sex: Female

  • Orenstein, P. | Girls & sex
  • Nagoski, E. | Come as you are
  • McCarthy, B. & McCarthy, E. | Finding your sexual voice:celebrating female sexuality
  • Ogden, G. | The return of desire
  • Goldstein, A. & Brandon, M. | Reclaiming desire
  • Blakeway, J. | Sex again: recharging your libido
  • Sheehy, G. | Sex & the seasoned woman
  • Riedl, M. | Yoni massage: awakening female sexual energy
  • Meston, C. & Buss, D. | Why women have sex
  • Katz, D. & Tabisel, R. | Parting the curtains: a woman’s book of sex & sexuality
  • Daedone, N. | Slow sex; the art & craft of the female orgasm
  • Foley, S., Kope, S., et al. | Sex matters for womenFor yourself:the fulfillment of female sexuality
  • Dodson, B. | Sex for one 
  • Ladas, A., Whipple, B., et al. | The G spot

Sex: Male

  • Orenstein, P. | Boys & sex
  • Morgentaler, A. | The truth about men & sex
  • Riedl, M. & Becker, J. | Lingam massage
  • Metz, M. & McCarthy, B. | Coping with erectile dysfunction: how to regain confidence & enjoy great sex
  • Metz, M. & McCarthy, B. | Coping with premature ejaculation
  • Kaplan, H. S. | How to overcome premature ejaculation

Painful Sex

  • Coady, D. & Fish, N. | Healing painful sex
  • Prendergast, S. & Akincilar. | Pelvic pain explained
  • Bilheimer, Echenberg | Secret suffering : how women’s sexual & pelvic pain affects their relationships
  • Herrera, I. | Ending female pain: a women’s manual

Sex: illness

  • Katz, A. | Woman, cancer, sex
  • Katz, A. | Man, cancer, sex
  • Katz, A. | Breaking the silence on cancer & sexuality
  • Katz, A. | Sex when you’re sick
  • Guntupalli, S. & Karinch, M. | Sex and cancer: intimacy, romance and love after diagnosis and treatment

Sex: Spiritual

  • Sellers, T.S. | Sex, God, and the conservative church: erasing shame from sexual intimacy
  • Klein, L. | Pure: inside the evangelical movement that shamed a generation of young women and how I broke free
  • Ellens, J. H. | Sex in the Bible
  • Ellens, J. H. | The spirituality of sex
  • Hirsch, D. | Redeeming sex
  • Bishop, C. | Sex & spirit
  • Mirdad, M. | An introduction to tantra & sacred sexuality
  • Anand, M. | The art of sexual magic
  • Chia, M. | Taoist secrets of love: cultivating male sexual energy
  • Chia, M. | Healing love through the Tao: cultivating female sexual energy
  • Towler, S. | The tao of intimacy & ecstasy: realizing the promise of spiritual union

Sex: Consensual Nonmonogamy

  • Hardy, J. & Easton, D. | The ethical slut
  • Anapol, T. | Polyamory in the 21st century
  • Aaron, M. | Modern sexuality
  • Veaux, F. & Rickert, E. | More than two:…ethical polyamory
  • Orion, R. | A therapist’s guide to consensual nonmonogamy

Sex: Kink

  • Makai, M. | Domination & submission: the BDSM relationship handbook (2013)
  • Harris, S. | Tongue tied: untangling communication in sex, kink and relationships
  • Taormino, T. | The ultimate guide to kink: bdsm, role play and the erotic edge

LGBTQ+

  • Corwin, G. | Sexual intimacy for women: a guide for same-sex couples
  • Eriksen, T. | Unconditional: a guide to loving and supporting your LGBTQ child
  • Gainsburg, J. | The savy ally: a guide for becoming a skilled LGBTQ+ advocate
  • Erickson-Schroth, L. | Trans bodies, trans selves: a resource for the transgender community

Trauma

  • Van der Kolk, B. | The body keeps the score
  • Levine, P. | In an unspoken voice
  • Levine, P. | Waking the tiger
  • Macfarlane, E. | The sacred path beyond trauma: reaching the divine through nature’s healing symbols
  • Naparstek, B. | Invisible heroes: survivors of trauma & how they heal

Parenting: Antiracism

  • Harvey, Jennifer | Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America
  • Kendi, Ibram X. | Antiracist Baby
  • Tatum, Beverly D. | Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
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