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 – Raising Good Humans Every Day
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A helpful parenting book on using mindfulness strategies in parenting children.
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 – Let It Go
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. An excellent self-help book on effectively downsizing, decluttering, and dealing with the emotions stirred up in the process.
Book Review – Mental Health and the Church
Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A book that focuses on reducing mental health stigma in the church and improving church worship environments, primarily for families of children with special needs.
Book Review – I Love Jesus, But I Want to Die
Len's Star Rating: 4 out of 10. A first-person account of experiencing and overcoming depression and suicidality as a Christian.
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 – Searching for Sunday
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. An engaging and challenging book that is both memoir and catharsis of the author’s struggle to find connection and meaning with other Christians and the Church.
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 – Games People Play
Len's Star Rating: 3 out of 10. A book on transactional analysis that is most useful as a historical reference.
Book Review – Out of the Cave
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A book on depression from a Christian perspective that effectively addresses mental health stigma and covers a wide range of ideas and natural strategies for addressing depression.
Book Review – Broken Minds
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A good book on personal accounts of depression from a Christian perspective.
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 – Empty Out the Negative
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A positive book from a Christian perspective on improving happiness and confidence.
Book Review – Emotions: Can You Trust Them?
Len's Star Rating: 1 out of 10. A disappointing book with Christian theological perspectives on guilt, anger, romantic love, and God’s will.
Book Review – A Helping Hand
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent book on depression and end-of-life issues from a Christian perspective that decreases stigma and provides rational biblical support to people struggling with depression and those who care for them.
Book Review – God’s Answers to Life’s Difficult Questions
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. An encouraging book on addressing emotional problems and life stresses from a Christian perspective.
Book Review – Overcoming Spiritual Depression
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. An excellent book on depression from a Christian perspective that is spiritual, logical, and practical.
Book Review – Becoming Emotionally Whole
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent Bible study on emotions and has an encouraging and uplifting tone throughout.