Spirituality

Living Compass Resources
Living Compass offers a variety of resources for improving adult and family wellness. You can also subscribe to the Weekly Words of Wellness (weekly wellness tips and inspiration) here.

Emotions

Pulling Your Own Strings by Wayne Dyer
As a parent, you may at times feel as if everything is happening to you at once and you have no control over your emotions or life. This book lends a great way to examine life's challenges in a positive light and a way to regain control over your emotions.
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It Gets Better by Dan Savage & Jerry Miller
Part of the "It Gets Better" Project, this book is about those struggling with coming out, bullying, and self-confidence issues in life. It is a great book about how to create a healthy life.
It Gets Better by Dan Savage & Jerry Miller

How to Handle Your Emotions by June Hunt
How to prevent negative emotions from getting the best of you! This book explores anger, depression, fear. rejection. and self-worth.
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The Difference Maker by John C. Maxwell
As a parent, you may experience many times of stress and have trouble handling your emotions in the way you would like for your child to see. This book is about how to understand your emotions and your attitudes in times of stress. A great new outlook on life!
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The Good Enough Teen by Brad Sachs
This book offers practical insights and advise on how to develop realistic expectations for teens and parents so that the child's self esteem is enhanced.

The Family Book by Todd Parr
This book represents a variety of families, some big and some small, some with only one parent and some with two moms or dads, some quiet and some noisy, but all alike in some ways and special no matter what. Teach your child that a family is nothing more than a loving bond between parent and child!
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The Five Love Languages of Children by Gary Chapman
Discover your child's primary communication style and learn what you can do to effectively convey unconditional feelings of respect, affection, and commitment that will resonate in your child's emotions and behavior.
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When Children Grieve by John James and Russell Friedman
This book is good for any adult who are helping a child grieve a death, divorce, a move or other loss.

Relationships

The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
A great way for parents to work on their marriage. A resource to help you understand how you communicate and how your partner communicates. Through understanding comes compassion and healing!

The Five Love languages of Teenagers
Written by Gary Chapman This is a great book for anyone who wants to have a closer connection with a teen.

How To Win As A Stepfamily by Emily B. Visher & John S. Visher
This guide gives helpful advice, strong support and keen insight to families living through the sometimes challenging �blended family� transition.
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Take Back Your Family by Rev. Run & Justine Simmons
For anyone seeking guidance for raising a new generation this book written by hip hop artist, Rev Run, offers a challenge to parents and solutions to 21st century parenting dilemmas.
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Connection Parenting: Parenting Through Connection Instead of Coercion, Through Love Instead of Fear by Pam Leo
Teaches about parenting through connection instead of coercion, and through love not fear.
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Message: The Communication Skills Book by Matthew McKay & The Messages Workbook by Martha Davis, Kim Paleg and Patrick Panning
This two book combination teaches powerful stategies for effective communication at work and home, and then provides a place to apply these skills to the different aspects of their lives.
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Get out of My Life, but First Could You take Me to the Mall?
by Anthony Wolf This is a famous guide for parents advising them on how to live happily with a teenager while also helping them understand their sometimes mysterious behavior.

Helping Your Child Overcome Separation Anxiety or School Refusal by Andrew Eisen, Ph.D. and Linda Engler, Ph.D.
This book helps parents and teacher identify when a child's separation anxiety or school refusal is more than just a phase and offers effective tools they can use to manage their child's anxiety.
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Care for Body

The Care & Keeping of You: The Body Book for Girls (American Girl Library) (Paperback)
This has to be the best book on the market for girls from ages 8 years and older. It fully explains, in plain language, the changes that their bodies are going through, as well as personal hygiene and respect for themselves, without putting a scare into them. We would highly recommend this book for any girl third grade and above.

Rescuing Your Teenager from Depression by Norman Berlinger, MD, Ph.D.
Gives parents the information, inspiration, and wisdom to help their children survive and return to a state of health and resilience. His own son suffered with depression in high school and he speaks from that experience as a parent and includes his professional point of view.
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If Your Adolescent Has an Anxiety Disorder by Edna Foa, Ph.D. and Linda Wasmer Andrews
Growing up can be stressful for any teenager, but it is considerably harder for the many adolescents who develop an anxiety disorder. An essential guide for parents, teachers, or other adults involved with teenagers who may be affected by these disorders. By bringing together two strands of expertise--that of mental health professionals and of parents who have lived through the experience of their own teenager's mental illness--this book provides adult readers with the clinical information and practical advice they need to understand and help the teen.
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The Everything Parent's Guide to Children with Anxiety by Ilene Sandas , M.A., L.P. and Christine Seigel, M.A., L.P.
This guide which is helpful to both parents and teachers as it gives resources, tools, and information needed to help children and teens with anxiety so they can grow to be happy and healthy.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters
Nearly everyone thinks their own family is "nutty" or at least has one or two nuts. With 101 stories of wacky yet lovable relatives, funny foibles, and holiday meltdowns, Chicken Soup for the Soul: Family Matters is often hilarious and occasionally poignant.
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Stress Resiliency

Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
As a parent, especially of young children or working, it is important that you find ways to release the great stress of every day life. This is a book that reviews what meditation is and how valuable it can be in one's life.
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Simplicity Parenting
If you have an inkling that your family may have too hectic an existence and want to explore how to take it all down a notch, this book is a good way to explore the thought. Written by Kim John Payne

Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life by Byron Katie
This book takes the stuff of life -- family, marriage, children, money, addictions, friends, lovers, judgments of self and life, fear, pain, anger, worry, and the thoughts the mind is constantly generating -- and it shows you how to free yourself from the stresses they impose. It shows you how to take things that bother you and make them not bother you. It frees you from that.

The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook
Many self-assessment tools and calming techniques presented in this book to help the reader overcome anxiety and promote their physical and emotional well-being. As a parent is it important to try and maintain a balance in your life to help keep you centered.
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Boundries for Teens:When to Say Yes and How to Say No
This book discusses with parents how to handle the issues of anger, lying, disrespectful behavior plus sex, internet use and drugs, all in a constructive way.

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John and Julie Gottman
John Gottman has revolutionized the study of marriage by using rigorous scientific procedures to observe the habits of married couples in unprecedented detail over many years. Here is the culmination of his life's work: the seven principles that guide couples on the path toward a harmonious and long-lasting relationship. Packed with practical questionnaires and exercises this book is the definitive guide for anyone who wants their relationship to attain its highest potential.
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It Gets Better by Dan Savage and Jerry Miller
Do you have a child struggling with coming to terms with their sexuality or just coming into their own? This book is part of the It Gets Better movement that communicates to teens and adults that, although life may be a struggle, it indeed gets better with acceptance and positivity.
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School & Work

Simplicity Parenting: Raise Calmer, Happier, and More Secure Kids
If you have an inkling that your family may have too hectic an existence and want to explore how to take it all down a notch, this book is a good way to explore the thought. Written by Kim John Payne

Organization

Family Financial Handbook by Larry Burkett
Finances are the leading cause of marital breakdown and strife. Countless families give the false impression of being wealthy while drowning in a sea of debt. Family Financial Workbook is the best tool a family can have to manage their finances with God's direction. With a comprehensive collection of easy-to-follow worksheets, practicality is key feature of this great resource.
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Lists for Life: The Essential Guide to Getting Organized and Tackling Tough To-Dos by Rory Tahari
Filled with more than 100 manageable, easily customizable checklists, resources, and suggestions, Lists for Life offers must-have road maps for staying organized through life's biggest transitions and most stressful situations!
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Organizing Plain and Simple: A Ready Reference Guide With Hundreds Of Solutions to Your Everyday Clutter Challenges by Donna Smallin
The book is laid out like a magazine and is very simple to follow and keeps you interested. Unlike many self-help books, Smallin isn't selling herself and claiming to make up her own new science. She quotes various other organizing experts and provides a pretty extensive set of references and links that the reader can follow up with to continue their newly organized ways.
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Getting Organized by Chris Crouch
A collection of simple ideas that address at least six major issues that could be generating chaos and disorder in your life. Lends solutions for the reader to try out, making your part simple...take a quick look at the idea, try the ideas you like, discard the ones you don't!
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