Conquering your Stress & Fears: a treatment guide for anxiety and trauma-related disorders by Gustavo Kinrys is an informative guide that is extremely relevant in today's busy world. The book has a very easy to follow format that helps guide readers step-by-step through the healing...

Never Enough: A Recovery Workbook For Addictions, Obsessive Compulsive Behaviors and Eating Disorders by Nina Bingham is a workbook designed to assist people suffering from a wide range of disorders in a healthy manner. Bingham outlines multiple disorders from Anorexia and Bulimia to Depression and...

Love Never Quits is a true to life memoir penned by author Gina Heumann which recounts the experience of ‘Surviving and Thriving After Infertility, Adoption and Reactive Attachment Disorder’. This heart-breaking but ultimately heart-warming family drama focuses on Gina and Aaron, a married couple who...

There is nothing like a personal crisis to put your life into perspective and make you look at your life, behaviors, and actions with a fresh outlook. Hope Anderson has faced many challenges in her life; bipolar and a lack of self-worth resulted in years...

Losing the Atmosphere: A Baffling Disorder, A Search for Help, and the Therapist Who Understood by Vivian Conan documents the author's experience with mental illness and her journey to wholeness with forensic detail. In this gripping memoir, Conan shares her journey as she struggled with...

Today, as a grandmother, my memories of how my two daughters tried my patience and drove me to despair when they were squabbling, misbehaving youngsters have grown dim. As I read Keri Williams’ memoir But, He Spit in my Coffee, I couldn’t help but wonder...

Stalked by Demons, Guarded by Angels: The Girl with the Eating Disorder by Simone Yemm is an account of the author's struggle with bulimia. Right from birth, Simone's mother laments her body size. The words she uses to describe her newly born baby will haunt...

Brody the Lion Needs a Hair Cut by Dr. Kristin Wegner starts with Brody, a little lion cub that hates getting haircuts. The sensation of getting his hair wet and the buzzing noise of the clippers makes Brody want to run away, but with his...

Stop This Game: My Life with Bipolar Disorder by Jaka Tomc begins in Ljubljana in August 2010 and his memoir provides an intimate account of how he coped with an incurable and dangerous malady. His mother and uncle tried their best to help Jaka with...

Antonieta Contreras, a board-certified neurofeedback clinician, details the neurobiology of trauma in her book, Traumatization and Its Aftermath: A Systemic Approach to Understanding and Treating Trauma Disorders. Contreras differentiates between trauma and traumatization, giving examples to clarify the meaning. The author explores many topics, such...

At 14, Lina Daniels feels like her life is starting to crash and burn at rapid speed. Tasks that were once easy to do become impossible to complete; one minute she's on a high, the next, she's having a full-blown meltdown. And soon, Lina's education...

Most people understand being sad in different situations; however, most do not understand the clinical forms of depression, including Bipolar, Major Depression, and Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD). Sam, a young boy, suffers from SAD and is ashamed to share his condition with others because of...

In A Pickle Over Pandas is probably the most NECESSARY book I've reviewed this year and I've reviewed quite a few. I think it is a must-read for anyone with children. The PANDAS in this children’s story is not describing our furry black and white...

Washed Away: From Darkness to Light, a memoir written by Nikki Dubose with James Johanson, is a series of dark memories of her dysfunctional family life, and the misery caused by addictions and abuse. Nikki Dubose recounts the tragic story of her life, dealing with...

Hatching Charlie: A Psychotherapist's Tale by Charles Creath McCormack is a memoir with a powerful inspirational message. I was hesitant when I picked up this book, but the author’s promise in the prologue encouraged me and I am happy I read it. He writes: “I...

Functional Emotional Fitness™ (The Mechanism of Emotion and The Gut-Brain Influence) by Kelly Burris is a nonfiction health and fitness book that would appeal most to a mixed audience of adults and young adults who are looking to improve themselves through increasing the level of...

The Recovery Formula: An Addict’s Guide to Getting Clean and Sober Forever by Beth Burgess is a guide for anyone addicted to alcohol or drugs who is ready to do something about it. Beth proposes a four-point approach. She tells people they must: 1) Get...

The Happy Addict: How to be Happy in Recovery from Alcoholism or Drug Addiction by Beth Burgess is for people who have put down the drink or drugs, but are still struggling to be happy and healthy. To overcome the hurdles that often face one...

What is Self Esteem? How to Build your Self Esteem and Feel Happy Now by Beth Burgess is an uplifting book that will show readers how to develop a healthier sense of self-esteem and self worth that many of us tend to lack. People often...

Instant Wisdom: 10 Easy Ways To Get Smart Fast is a nonfiction self-help book written by Beth Burgess, a therapist, coach, and author. She’s also the founder of Wiseism.com, a site designed to assist people who want to enrich their lives through amping up their...