Book Review – I Shouldn't Feel This Way
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent book that addresses the disconnect and disappointment people often feel between how they desire to think, feel, and act and what frequently happens in real life.
Book Review – Atomic Habits
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. An excellent book on developing positive habits and eliminating negative ones.
Book Review – When Worry Works
Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A good book that addresses the maladaptive patterns that parents can experience when reacting to anxiety over their adolescent’s academic achievement.
Book Review – The Gift of Empathy
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A helpful book on developing empathy skills and considering opportunities to express empathy to others.
Book Review – Precision Psychiatry
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. A visionary book on the future of understanding and treating mental disorders through the lens of measurement-based, personalized psychiatric care.
Book Review – Boundaries for Your Soul
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A helpful book on accepting and managing difficult emotions, thoughts, and memories by using a Christian-oriented application of Internal Family Systems (IFS) approaches and interpersonal boundary setting.
Book Review – Get Out of Your Head
Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A book written for Christian women about addressing negative thoughts by using the strategy of thought replacement.
Book Review – I’m Not Supposed to Feel Like This
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A Christian book on anxiety and depression that outlines strategies that predominantly rely on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) approaches.
Book Review – Hope Prevails
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A Christian book on depression that primarily addresses the condition from a spiritual viewpoint.
Book Review – Christians Get Depressed Too
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A great, practical book with Christian theological perspectives and advice on improving depression.
Book Review – I'm OK-You're OK
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A thought-provoking and hope-inspiring book on how transactional analysis approaches can improve life and relationships.
Book Review – Mindset
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. An excellent, inspiring book on developing a growth outlook and approach to life and relationships.
Book Review – Brainstorm
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent book for teens, young adults and parents to better understand the amazing personal, interpersonal and neurobiological changes that occur in adolescence.
Book Review – The ACT Workbook for Teens with OCD
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A great workbook on acceptance and commitment strategies and exposure and response prevention for teens with OCD.
Book Review – The OCD Workbook for Teens
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. An excellent, engaging self-help workbook on research-proven strategies for combatting OCD.
Book Review – Overcoming Depression One Step at a Time
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A good workbook on behavioral activation strategies for combatting depression.
Book Review – Activating Happiness
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A good book on behavioral activation and other life strategies for dealing with depression.
Book Review – Control Your Depression
Len's Star Rating: 4 out of 10. A dated yet solid book on strategies and exercises for improving depression that includes an excellent chapter on behavioral activation strategies.
Book Review – Dare to Lead
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent book on leadership that introduces the concept of vulnerability as the foundation of developing strengths, such as courage, integrity, authenticity and connection.
Book Review – Fooled by Randomness
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent, engaging book on the effects of randomness and rare events on financial systems and life in general.