Divorce, Kids, Love, Self-discovery, Sex. A Reading List.
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TOP PICK: The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman (if you don’t know your love language, or the love language of your significant other, you’re going to be in trouble. The book I refer to the most as I’m moving into dating again and learning what’s MOST IMPORTANT TO ME: TOUCH.

Divorce is a messy business (get the money & anger out of the way and focus on the kids)

• **Always Dad: Being a Great Father During & After Divorce – Paul Mandelstein
• Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead – Brené Brown
• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead – Brené Brown
• Better Apart: The Radically Positive Way to Separate – Gabrielle Hartley
• Helping Your Kids Cope with Divorce the Sandcastles Way – M. Gary Neuman
• Crazy Time: Surviving Divorce and Building a New Life – Abigail Trafford
• Mom’s House, Dad’s House: Making Two Homes for Your Child – Isolina Ricci
• **Rebuilding: When Your Relationship Ends – Bruce Fisher
• Getting Past Your Breakup  – Susan J. Elliott
• The Complete Single Father: Reassuring Answers to Your Most Challenging Situations – Michael Shimberg
• **Uncoupling – Turning Points in Intimate Relationships – Diane Vaughan
• No More Mr Nice Guy
• The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire

• Post-Divorce Bliss: Ending Us and Finding Me – Jude Walsh

• **A General Theory of Love Thomas Lewis, M. D. et al.
• The Soul of Sex: Cultivating Life as an Act of Love – Thomas Moore
• **  Care of the Soul – Thomas Moore
• The 5 Love Languages  – Gary Chapman
• **The Artist’s Way – Julie Cameron
• **A Writer’s Time (I think you need to write it out) – Kenneth Atchity

• The Boy Crisis – Why Our Boys Are Struggling and What We Can Do About It  – Warren Farrell PhD & John Grey PhD
  

• The Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness: Five Steps to Help Kids Create and Sustain Lifelong Joy – Edward Hallowell, M.D.
• **The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self – Alice Miller
• Resiliency: What We Have Learned – Bonnie Benard
• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
• The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

How Things Went Wrong  (Attempting to Save Your Marriage)

• The Sex-Starved Marriage: Boosting Your Marriage Libido: A Couple’s Guide – Michele Weiner Davis
• Rekindling Desire: A Step by Step Program to Help Low-Sex and No-Sex Marriages – Barry and Emily McCarthy
• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide – John M. Gottman

Depression Resources

• The Depression Cure: The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression without Drugs
• **Get It Done When You’re Depressed
• An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness
• Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness
• Listening to Prozac: The Landmark Book About Antidepressants and the Remaking of the Self
• **Against Depression
• How I Stayed Alive When My Brain Was Trying to Kill Me: One Person’s Guide to Suicide Prevention
• It’s Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Your Authentic Self
• Talking to Depression

• Mind Over Mood Workbook: Change How You Feel by Changing the Way You Think

Dating, Relationships, and Sex

• Single Dad Seeks: Dating Again After Divorce
• Sexual Intelligence: What We Really Want from Sex – and How to Get It – Marty Klein
• His Porn, Her Pain: Confronting America’s PornPanic with Honest Talk about Sex – Marty Klein
• A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells Us About Sexual Relationships – The Deep Data About Our Porn Searches Online
• Get Inside Her: Dirty Dating Tips & Secrets From A Woman
• How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
• Real Love in Marriage: The Truth About Finding Genuine Happiness Now and Forever
• NEW RESOURCE: 5 Skills Porn Teaches You

Recovery and Addiction

• Drinking: A Love Story
• Alcoholics Anonymous: The Big Book
• Paths to Recovery: Al-Anon

Leadership and Self Management

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
• No More Mr. Nice Guy: A Proven Guide for Getting What You Want

** exceptional, must-have, books