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 – Free Range Kids
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A refreshing, counter-cultural book on promoting independence in children.
Book Review – Together
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. An eye-opening book on the harmful impact of loneliness and the power of connection to heal its wounds.
Book Review – How to Dad
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A fun and informative book for first-time fathers.
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 – From Strength to Strength
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. An exceptional book and guide on navigating and thriving in the second half of 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 – Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. A challenging and convicting book on Christian faith and living a life of servanthood and sacrifice, which is counter to mainstream American church culture.
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 – There Is No Box
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A book that explains how to develop a flexible, relatable approach to leading others and shaping your identity as a leader.
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 – 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 – Educated
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. A collection of life stories and memories of a young woman in her experiences of the transformational power of education, friendships, and choosing self to escape the entrapments of poverty, isolation, and a dysfunctional, abusive family system.
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.