Essential Reading
We believe that lifelong growth is nurtured not only through counseling but also through intentional learning. Our Essential Reading page features trusted resources that have shaped our clinical practice, pastoral care, and trauma-informed approach. Whether you're seeking deeper emotional insight, stronger relationships, or a better understanding of the connection between body, mind, and spirit, these books offer practical tools grounded in both research and biblical wisdom.
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Each title has been carefully selected to support your journey toward wholeness, whether you're exploring boundaries in marriage, uncovering attachment patterns, or healing from trauma. We invite you to explore, reflect, and let these resources accompany you on your path to resilience and restoration.
How We Love, Expanded Edition: Discover Your Love Style, Enhance Your Marriage
Relationship experts Milan and Kay Yerkovich explain why the ways you and your spouse relate to each other go back to before you even met. Drawing on the powerful tool of attachment theory, Milan and Kay explore how your childhood created an “intimacy imprint” that affects your marriage today.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
n The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.
Boundaries in Marriage: Understanding the Choices That Make or Break Loving Relationships
In Boundaries in Marriage, Drs. Henry Cloud and John Townsend, counselors and authors of the New York Times bestseller Boundaries, will show you how healthy marriages are marriages with boundaries. They promote love by protecting individuals.
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains—but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents.
Couples Therapy Workbook for Healing: Emotionally Focused Therapy Techniques to Restore Your Relationship
Grounded in Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)―a trusted approach used by thousands of therapists―this relationship workbook helps partners identify painful patterns, express emotional needs safely, and re-establish secure connection. No therapy experience required.
The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
The Let Them Theory will forever change the way you think about relationships, control, and personal power. Whether you want to advance your career, motivate others to change, take creative risks, find deeper connections, build better habits, start a new chapter, or simply create more happiness in your life and relationships, this book gives you the mindset and tools to unlock your full potential.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
n The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains—but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents.
The Let Them Theory: A Life-Changing Tool That Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About
The Let Them Theory will forever change the way you think about relationships, control, and personal power. Whether you want to advance your career, motivate others to change, take creative risks, find deeper connections, build better habits, start a new chapter, or simply create more happiness in your life and relationships, this book gives you the mindset and tools to unlock your full potential.