Here at Steady Heart Counseling we want to provide you all the tools and resources that will help enable you to become a loving parent to yourself. Recovery involves learning how to restore a sense of safety by reclaiming a loving relationship with one's self holistically. By doing this you become who you need to be in all of your relationships around you as well.

 A sample of recommended books that will help you in your healing journey...with plenty more to come over time...

For Individuals:

• The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. http://besselvanderkolk.net/the-body-keeps-the-score.htm 

• 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery, Babette Rothschild http://www.somatictraumatherapy.com

• Trauma and Recovery: The aftermath of violence-- from domestic abuse to political terror, Judith Lewis Herman, http://www.jimhopper.com/trauma_and_recovery/#ex

• A Year of Living Mindfully: 52 Quotes & Weekly Mindfulness Practices, Richard Fields, Ph.D., Editor, Co-author, http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15724076-a-year-of-living-mindfully-52-quotes-weekly-mindfulness-practices

• The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are, Brene Brown, Ph.D., L.M.S.W., http://brenebrown.com

• The Loving Parent Guidebook: The Solution is to Become Your Own Loving Parent

• Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One by Joe Dispenza

  For Couples:

•  Sue Johnson Videos: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Sue+Johnson

• Hold me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love (the Dr. Sue Johnson Collection Book 1) Also by the Workbook

• Types of Love We Experience: https://www.verywellmind.com/types-of-love-we-experience-2303200

• The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--and Keep-- Love, https://a.co/d/eG5lot1

• The Gottman Institute, https://www.gottman.com/couples/

• Forgiving What You Can’t Forget: Discover How to Move On, Make Peace with Painful Memories, and Create a Life that’s Beautiful Again by Lysa Terkeurst