Spirituality

Living Compass Resources
Living Compass offers a variety of resources for improving adult wellness, including the Adult Faith & Wellness Notebook and the accompanying Facilitator's Guide.

Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
A story of life reflection and the value of a good friend.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom
A inspiring story of personal value and the importance of those who love us. A good read to help one appreciate!

The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck
A book that examines the attributes of a fulfilled human being and the factors that contribute to emotional, psychological, and spiritual health.

The Art of Happiness by HH Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler
This book includes the Dalai Lama's perspective on life outlook and purpose and lends a new way to look at life and joy. It gives a unique Eastern view on attitude and outlook.

The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
This book clearly explains the the Taoist view using characters from the popular A.A. Milne stories about Pooh Bear and his friends.

Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret by Judy Blume
A short novel depicting a story of a young girl coming into her own and showing the importance of religion, guidance, and belief.

Firstlight by Sue Monk Kidd
A collection of personal essays and inspirational stories about spirituality in the life of the popular author, Sue Monk Kidd.

Stages of Faith by James Fowler
A work about the staged development of spirituality and faith throughout a life time. An interesting way to understand the interaction of religion and psychology.

Sprituality & Aging by Robert Atchley
A book that examines the meaning of being and how the experience of aging relates to ones spirituality and wisdom.

The Different Drum by M. Scott Peck
A combination of psychology, spirituality and philosophy, this work discusses value and how to live a healthy spiritual life.

A Deepening Love Affair: The Gift of God Later in Life by Jane Thibault
A book about God's love and how to be more receptive to that love in one's life. A good book for those searching for "something more" later in life.

Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life by Richard Rohr
This book describes how life is a journey and about how the second half of life can hold spiritual richness. It discusses how growth and opportunity fit into life.

Chicken Soup to Inspire the Body & Soul
A collection of short stories that lend valuable lessons on the importance of health of the body and soul.

Rest & Play

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie
Utilizing old fashioned common sense, Carnegie goes into how futile and destructive worry can be in life. A way to get perspective on how to deal with problems and what to emotionally invest in.

The Promise of Sleep by William Dement & Christopher Vaughn
A book about the importance of sleep and the current research behind sleep disorders and the benefits of sleep. It also provides information on how to reclaim a healthy sleep pattern which is vital to reducing stress and revitalizing health.

The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher
This book offers a fun, bizarre, and original way to look at the chaos of life and the images around us everyday. A funny, interesting read that gives a new perspective.

Emotions

Living Compass Advent Daily Devotional
This 30-page booklet (newly created each year) contains readings and reflections for each day of Advent, which connect the Scriptures of the week to a life of wellness in the 21st century. These booklets can be used by individuals as a spiritual practice, in a small group setting, or by an entire parish. The booklets will be available on this website several weeks before Advent each year. Booklets are shipped in packs of 25.

Living Compass Lent Daily Devotional
This 30-page booklet (newly created each year) contains readings and reflections for each day of Lent, which connect the Scriptures of the week to a life of wellness in the 21st century. These booklets can be used by individuals as a spiritual practice, in a small group setting, or by an entire parish. The booklets will be available on this website several weeks before Lent each year. Booklets are shipped in packs of 25.

The Difference Maker by John C. Maxwell
A book about how attitude is so important in life and in handling stress and your emotions. Equips readers with techniques to get through emotionally tough times.
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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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Confident Conversation by Mike Bechtle
Communication is an art, and anyone--whether shy or outgoing--can improve his or her conversational skills. In this book, Bechtle offers a straightforward guide to making good conversation that works for any personality type. He highlights the art of give and take, stresses the importance of listening, and gives confidence to those who hesitate to strike up a conversation.
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Letting Go of Anger: How To Get You Emotions Under Control by Annie Chapman
Tips from the authors own experiences handling her anger. Give advice on how to identify anger in yourself, understand its causes, and draw on words of wisdom and spirituality to get through it.
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Pulling Your Own Strings by Wayne Dyer
A book that shows readers the ways in which we can take control over our emotions and, ultimately, over the feelings we experience throughout life. About adopting an attitude of confidence and control versus victimization. A book about how to become more positive about life.
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Your Erroneous Zones by Wayne Dyer
A book that examines self-esteem and how we sometimes manage to get in our own way. A great approach for looking at where your life can be improved and resource for tools to overcome your personal emotional challenges in life.
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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

Emotional Intelligence by Daniel Goleman
Based on brain and behavioral research, this book looks into why successful individuals have high emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence involves areas of life such as self-awareness, altruism, empathy, and several others. A great way to think about emotions in your own life.
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Driven to Distraction by Edward M. Hallowell, M.D. and John J. Ratey, M.D.
Through vivid stories of the experiences of their patients (both adults and children), the authors show the varied forms ADD takes -- from the hyperactive search for high stimulation to the floating inattention of daydreaming -- and the transforming impact of precise diagnosis and treatment.
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Grief Recovery
This book has helped millions of people recover from grief as it helps readers make a series of small actions towards healing.

Relationships

Getting the Love You Want by Harville Hendrix
For partners seeking a path to intimacy and passionate friendship.
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Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Dr. Sue Johnson
Through stories from her marriage therapy practice, the author gives illuminating advice and practical exercises that will help readers learn to nurture, protect and grow their adult intimate relationship.
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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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The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
An interesting and revolutionary way to view how you communicate with others around you, especially with a life partner. A valuable resource in understanding more about yourself and your loved ones.

Bridges Not Walls by John Stewart
A book that clearly explains the basic facets of interpersonal communication. Lends insight into how you communicate with others and understanding more about why we say the things we do to one another.

Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny & Others
Lends tools for communicating when emotions are running strong and the conversation is important to your relationship. A good way to discover how you communicate with loved ones.

You Just Don't Understand! by Deborah Tannen
A sociolinguists take on the language differences of men and women. Understanding each others intentions and the reasons why we may communicate in different styles.

That's Not What I Meant! by Deborah Tannen
A view into why conversation breaks down and how there are many different types and styles of communication among us. Insight into these moments and styles can help to smooth communication in your life and with your loved ones.

The Emotionally Destructive Relationship by Leslie Vernick
By a counselor and social worker, this book goes into what behaviors hurt and can damage a relationship, how to confront that situation, and how to get out when you feel trapped.

Confident Conversation by Mike Bechtle
Communication is an art, and anyone--whether shy or outgoing--can improve his or her conversational skills. In this book, Bechtle offers a straightforward guide to making good conversation that works for any personality type. He highlights the art of give and take, stresses the importance of listening, and gives confidence to those who hesitate to strike up a conversation.
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to A Healthy Relationship by Dr. Judy Kuriansky
A book helpful for all levels of couples - from those who have never dated anyone else before to those who have dated quite a bit but now want to learn more about their relationship. A great way to understand others and how you interact with them!
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How To Avoid Falling in Love With A Jerk or Jerkette by John Van Epp, Ph.d
Based on years of research on marital and premarital happiness, this book will help you break destructive dating patterns that have kept you from finding the love you deserve. How to understand others, yourself, and the nature of relationships in order to have greater success in love.
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Care for Body

The Insomnia Workbook
The Insomnia Workbook: A Comprehensive Guide to Getting the Sleep You Need.
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The Gift of Years: Growing Older Gracefully by Joan Chittister
A new way to view growing older as a gift and ways to make your older years as balanced and healthy as they have ever been. A perspective that shows that these years could be the best and the healthiest, spiritually and otherwise, of your life.
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The Lost Art of Walking by Geoff Nicholson
A very well-written book about the history of the importance of walking, from strolls that inspired great novels to migrations that changed the lives of ancient peoples. A great idea for an exercise habit that is as inspiring as it is simple!
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Move Yourself: The Cooper Clinic Medical Director's Guide To All The Healing Benefits of Exercise by Ted Mitchell, Tim Church, and Martin Zucker
Move Yourself is the breakthrough program you've been waiting for. Based on cutting-edge research from the medical director of the world-renowned Cooper Clinic, this practical, easy-to-follow guide gives you the strategies and advice you need to improve your strength, flexibility, mood, weight, and overall health. All it takes is a few minutes of low-dose physical activity each day to start seeing results.
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Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain by John Ratey and Eric Hagerman
Did you know you can beat stress, lift your mood, fight memory loss, sharpen your intellect, and function better than ever simply by elevating your heart rate and breaking a sweat? The evidence is incontrovertible: Aerobic exercise physically remodels our brains for peak performance. An inspiring work to get you motivated to exercise!
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Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
Full of incredible characters, amazing athletic achievements, cutting-edge science, and, most of all, pure inspiration, Born to Run is an epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? In search of an answer, the author offers an inspiring tale that may encourage readers to start running themselves!
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Stress Resiliency

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.
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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.

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky
Why don't zebras get ulcers--or heart disease, diabetes and other chronic diseases--when people do? In a fascinating look at the science of stress, biologist Robert Sapolsky presents an intriguing case, that people develop such diseases partly because our bodies aren't designed for the constant stresses of a modern-day life--like sitting in daily traffic jams or growing up in poverty. Rather, they seem more built for the kind of short-term stress faced by a zebra--like outrunning a lion.
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The Relaxation Response by Herbert Benson and Miriam Z. Klipper
This book demystifies the mantra meditation used in the transcendental meditation program, explaining how anyone can reap its advantages with or without the help of a guru. If you want to understand the beginnings of today's alternative medicine movement, or if you're simply looking to learn a simple meditation technique without a lot of metaphysical trappings, this is a good place to start.
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Stress Management for Dummies by Allen Elkin
A beginners guide to understanding how stress works, why does it occur? Easy and humorous tips for getting your stress under control and being able to view life's troubles with greater positivity and control.
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Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
A book about how meditation can be a very important practice in its own right. How to go about meditation and what the practice of it could mean for you and your life. A great way to improve your stress release methods!
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School & Work

For Richer, Not Poorer by Ruth L. Hayden
Nationally recognized educator and author, Ruth Hayden shows couples how to improve their relationship by learning how to permanently resolve one of the biggest issues in any marriage - Money.
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Making the Most of Your Money by Jane Bryant Quinn
Bestselling author Jane Bryant Quinn starts out by helping you determine exactly where you stand on money matters and explaining basic money management techniques. Next, Quinn offers comprehensive discussions about insurance needs, home ownership, college funding, investment planning, and retirement. A useful series of appendices provides additional information on insurance, college, bonds, pensions, and more.
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Personal Finance For Dummies by Eric Tyson
Personal Finance for Dummies offers sound and practical advice for those who want to get control over their personal financial lives.
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You Can Do It (Even if Others Say You Can't) by John Mason
Change your way of thinking and you can change your life. This book offers readers inspirational truth in bite-sized pieces, making them easy to remember and apply to life's issues, big and small. It powerfully shows that the past does not equal the future and readers can live fruitful and fulfilling lives when they step forward in faith, believing that God will provide the means to accomplish the impossible.
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Organization

Getting Things Done by David Allen
This best selling book helps individuals and companies take a look at how they can be more efficient and be successful in reaching their goals. Highly recommended.

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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Get It Together Girl! by Karyn Beach
Designed for the woman who doesn't have the time to get organized! This book uses the time and the money you have to get you the organization you crave. Overwhelmed by being or feeling disorganized? This book gets you together in just 15 minutes a day, 5 days a week. Weekends are optional!
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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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