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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 A book on transactional analysis that is most useful as a historical reference.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 – Science over Stigma
Len's Star Rating: 9 out of 10. An excellent resource based on facts, logic, and scientific findings for mental health clinicians and advocates in combating misinformation and educating the public to reduce harmful mental health stigma.
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 – 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 – The Soul of Desire
Len's Star Rating: 7 out of 10. A good but complex book on aspects of desire and beauty from a Christian spiritual perspective.
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 – 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 – 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 – 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.