Self-Help
August 2024
New & Noteworthy
Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma
by Mariel Buque

A trauma psychologist, professor and sound bath meditation healer offers scientific research and practical exercises to help the pain of unhealed emotions and inherited trauma and transform that pain into intergenerational abundance.
Untangle Your Emotions: Naming What You Feel and Knowing What to Do About It
by Jennie Allen

A speaker, Bible teacher and New York Times best-selling author, drawing on scientific research, biblical insight and her own story, provides a transformational path to embracing a healthy relationship with your emotions, which leads to deeper relationships, richer faith and lasting health.
The Age of Magical Overthinking: Notes on Modern Irrationality
by Amanda Montell

Utilizing her linguistic insights and sociological explorations, the best-selling author of Cultish and host of the podcast Sounds Like a Cult delves into the cognitive biases that run rampant in our brains, including “magical thinking,” offering a prevailing message of hope, empathy and forgiveness for our anxiety-riddled human selves.
The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power
by Katherine Morgan Schafler

Filled with stories and brimming with humor, empathy and depth, a psychotherapist and former on-site therapist at Google, in this love letter to her ambitious, high-achieving, full-of-life clients who changed her life, shows you how to embrace and even enjoy your perfectionism by exchanging superficial control for real power.
What it Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World
by Prentis Hemphill

In this groundbreaking book, an expert embodiment practitioner, therapist and activist demonstrates a future in which healing is done in community, weaving together stories from their own experience as a trauma survivor with clinical accounts and lessons learned from their time as a social movement architect.
Habit-Building Books for a Better Life
Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
by James Clear

One of the world’s leading experts on habit formation reveals practical strategies that will teach readers exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
by Stephen R. Covey

A leading management consultant outlines seven organizational rules for improving effectiveness and increasing productivity at work and at home.
The Power of Habit: Why we do What we do in Life and Business
by Charles Duhigg

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Charles Duhigg identifies the neurological processes behind behaviors, explaining how self-control and success are largely driven by habits and providing guidelines for achieving personal goals and overall well-being by adjusting specific habits.
The Creative Habit: Learn it and Use it for Life
by Twyla Tharp

This inspiring guide to unlocking one's creative potential provides a wealth of exercises, anecdotes and advice that comprise evaluating one's creative history, stimulating oneself by becoming active and making time for creative change. 
Making Habits, Breaking Habits: Why we do Things, Why we Don't, and how to Make any Change Stick
by Jeremy Dean

The founder of the popular PsyBlog website explores the science of habit while counseling readers on how to change habits for the better, sharing insights based on hundreds of studies to explain how to overcome "autopilot" decision-making for greater health, creativity and overall well-being.
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