Book Review – Fires in the Dark
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. A fascinating book that explores healing and healers of trauma and mental illness.
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 – A New Kind of Christian
Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A work of fiction about two friends who are growing their faith in Jesus beyond mainstream beliefs and practices.
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 – 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 – Man's Search for Meaning
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. Man’s Search for Meaning, while written 75 years ago, is startlingly relevant to the world we live in today. It is a superb look at surviving, forgiving and finding meaning and is a reminder and warning of atrocities that we collectively must oppose.
Book Review – Parenting from the Inside Out
Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A good book for parents to better understand how their experiences have shaped their interactions with their children and the steps they can take to improve their parenting.
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 – 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 – Feeling Good
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent book on using CBT skills to identify and correct thought patterns that lead to depression and anxiety.
Book Review – I Hear You
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A good book on providing validation to enhance relationships.
Book Review – Feeling Great
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An exceptional book on identifying and correcting thought patterns that lead to depression and anxiety.
Book Review – Guiding the Child
Len's Star Rating: 3 out of 10. A book that was progressive when published in 1930 as it provided information about new ways of parenting and educating troubled children but is now most useful as a historical reference.
Book Review – The Practice of Supportive Psychotherapy
Len's Star Rating: 5 out of 10. A revolutionary book when published in 1984 as the first book dedicated to supportive psychotherapy but is now most useful as historical reference.
Book Review – Doing Supportive Psychotherapy
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. An excellent, approachable, and succinct book on supportive psychotherapy, and it might be the only book a clinician needs in getting started doing supportive psychotherapy.
Book Review – The Not So Big Life
Len's Star Rating: 6 out of 10. A well-written, process-oriented self-help book with many exercises to help the reader develop mindfulness and pursue self-actualization.
Book Review – Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids
Len's Star Rating: 5 out of 10. A solid parenting book with useful information for parents of young children.
Book Review – No-Drama Discipline
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. The best parenting book that has been released since 1998. It has a wealth of ideas for parents with a wonderful mixture of neuroscience, general approaches and specific recommendations.
Book Review – Raising Lions
Len's Star Rating: 3 out of 10. A book about dealing with the challenging behavior of children through the lens of interpersonal dynamics, power differentials, and behavioral strategies and plans.
Book Review – The Whole-Brain Child
Len's Star Rating: 8 out of 10. A concise read and a very good book that blends parenting strategies with the science of childhood emotional and cognitive development.