18 best-selling mental health books like The Tender Parts: A Guide to Healing from Trauma through Internal Family Systems Therapy by Ilyse Kennedy

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The Tender Parts: A Guide to Healing from Trauma through Internal Family Systems Therapy

By: Ilyse Kennedy

4.03

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

If we look deeply enough, we can connect to all the parts within us. Ten years ago, Ilyse Kennedy …

If you liked the mental health plot in The Tender Parts: A Guide to Healing from Trauma through Internal Family Systems Therapy by Ilyse Kennedy , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Gift from the Sea

By: Anne Morrow Lindbergh

3.86

Format: 240 pages, Paperback

In this inimitable, beloved classic--graceful, lucid and lyrical--Anne Morrow Lindbergh shares her … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • self help
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2. Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship

By: Garry L. Landreth

4.09

Format: 129 pages, Hardcover

Play Therapy, 2nd Edition, is a thorough update to the 1991 first edition best-selling books, the m… read more

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  • counselling
  • social work
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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3. The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

By: Irvin D. Yalom , Nicola Ferguson

3.66

Format: 162 pages,

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  • counselling
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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4. The Chemistry of Calm: A Powerful, Drug-Free Plan to Quiet Your Fears and Overcome Your Anxiety

By: Henry Emmons

3.25

Format: None pages, ebook

Marrying Eastern techniques of meditation with traditional Western solutions of diet and exercise, … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health

5. You Are The One You've Been Waiting For: Bringing Courageous Love To Intimate Relationships

By: Richard C. Schwartz , None

3.00

Format: None pages, Audiobook

In this new audio version, Richard Schwartz, the developer of the Internal Family Systems Model, ap… read more

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6. Will I Ever Be Good Enough? Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers

By: Karyl McBride

4.12

Format: 80 pages, Hardcover

The first book for the millions of daughters suffering from the emotional abuse of selfish, self-in… read more

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7. Dog Songs

By: None , Mary Oliver

3.60

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Mary Oliver's Dog Songsis a celebration of the special bond between human and dog, as understood th… read more

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8. I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression

By: Terrence Real

3.62

Format: 57 pages,

Twenty years of experience treating men and their families has convinced psychotherapist Terrence R… read more

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9. Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

By: Katherine May

3.86

Format: 241 pages, Hardcover

An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knoc… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"The problem with “everything"

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"Much to my regret, I have yet to befriend a robin."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"The only thing breaking me was pretending to be like everyone else."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

"You need to live a life that you can cope with, not the one that other people want."

-Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

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10. Heart Berries

By: Terese Marie Mailhot

3.84

Format: 143 pages, Hardcover

Heart Berries is a powerful, poetic memoir of a woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Indian … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • mental health
"Pain expanded my heart."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"You are such a home to me."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"Romanticism requires bravery and risk."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

"Sometimes suicidality doesn’t seem dark; it seems fair."

-Terese Marie Mailhot, Heart Berries

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11. Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

By: Becky Kennedy

4.55

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

"This book is for any parent who has ever struggled under the substantial weight of caregiving--whi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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12. Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live)

By: Eve Rodsky

3.56

Format: 352 pages, Kindle Edition

A revolutionary, real-world solution to the problem of unpaid, invisible work that women have shoul… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
"Resentment grows out of perceived unfairness."

-Eve Rodsky, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live)

"From where we sat, this man appeared to be enjoying a luxury all of the women we know couldn't imagine: the freedom to focus on one task at a time."

-Eve Rodsky, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live)

"A reminder, in itself, takes tremendous mental effort by you . It requires knowing what needs to be done, remembering what needs to be done, and reminding someone to get it done, whereas the person b…"

-Eve Rodsky, Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (And More Life to Live)

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13. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

By: Richard C. Schwartz

4.15

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind—and healing the many parts t… read more

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  • counselling
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"The big insight was that giving a troubled person a psychiatric diagnosis and seeing that as the sole or main cause of their symptoms was unnecessarily limiting, pathologizing, and could become self-…"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

"IFS can be seen as attachment theory taken inside, in the sense that the client’s Self becomes the good attachment figure to their insecure or avoidant parts. I was initially amazed to discover that …"

-Richard C. Schwartz, No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

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14. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

By: Stephanie Foo

4.52

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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15. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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16. Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance

By: Kelly McDaniel

4.15

Format: 227 pages, Paperback

An insatiable need for sex and love. Periods of overeating or starving. A pattern of unstable and p… read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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17. Sometimes Therapy is Awkward

By: Nicole Arzt

3.90

Format: 218 pages, Paperback

Sometimes therapy is awkward. And sometimes it's also painful, messy, and downright confusing. In i… read more

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  • counselling
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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18. It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

By: Ramani Durvasula

4.58

Format: 362 pages, Kindle Edition

A transformative guide to protecting and healing yourself from the narcissism you can’t see, from p… read more

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  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"You may have had the belief that to forgive is divine but have come to learn that to discern may be transcendent."

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

"Radical acceptance of the injustice is part of this process-it not fair, I cannot change it; I can, however, chart a different and authentic course forward and learn from this. Be kind to yourself, t…"

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

"I am tired of people calling those of us who get stuck in these cycles "codependent" or "addicted" to the narcissistic relationship. It's not that. If you have any empathy, have normal cognitive func…"

-Ramani Durvasula, It's Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People

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19. Punch Me Up to the Gods

By: Brian Broome

4.33

Format: 250 pages, Hardcover

Punch Me Up to the Gods introduces a powerful new talent in Brian Broome, whose early years growing… read more

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  • nonfiction
"My second baby was a girl. Cutest thing you ever did see. He was happy with a girl. His first born. He liked havin’ a girl. He fell in love with her and played with her and praised her every move. Se…"

-Brian Broome, Punch Me Up to the Gods

"I think about my father and the clarity that comes with age tells me that he must have suffered... He was anxious. He was lonely. And he was insecure. There is no thing on earth more dangerous than a…"

-Brian Broome, Punch Me Up to the Gods

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20. The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

By: Mary-Frances O'Connor

4.19

Format: 236 pages, Hardcover

A renowned grief expert and neuroscientist shares groundbreaking discoveries about what happens in … read more

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  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"In humans as well, it is because your loved one existed that certain neurons fire together and certain proteins are folded in your brain in particular ways. It is because your loved one lived, and be…"

-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

"Grief is a heart-wrenchingly painful problem for the brain to solve, and grieving necessitates learning to live in the world with the absence of someone you love deeply, who is ingrained in your unde…"

-Mary-Frances O'Connor, The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss

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21. Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma

By: Galit Atlas

4.24

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning psychoanalyst Dr. Galit Atlas draws on her patients' stories—and her own life experie… read more

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  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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22. Designing Your Life - How to Build a Well-Lived Joyful Life

By: Bill Burnett

3.91

Format: None pages, None

designing your life read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • self help
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23. The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

By: Deb Dana

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

This book offers therapists an integrated approach to adding a polyvagal foundation to their work w… read more

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  • counselling
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"The job of the autonomic nervous system is to ensure we survive in moments of danger and thrive in times of safety. Survival requires threat detection and the activation of a survival response. Thriv…"

-Deb Dana, The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)

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24. Introduction to Internal Family Systems

By: Richard C. Schwartz

4.28

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

A highly accessible introduction to a therapeutic approach that brings our inner “parts” into harmo… read more

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  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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25. The Modern Gentleman

By: Meghan Quinn

3.96

Format: 215 pages, Kindle Edition

Have you ever hit rock bottom? I embarrassingly have. It’s why I’m wearing my girl's decorat… read more

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26. Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir

By: Anna Marie Tendler

3.65

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A powerful memoir that reckons with mental health as well as the insidious ways men impact the live… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
Cover of Healing from Toxic Relationships: 10 Essential Steps to Recover from Gaslighting, Narcissism, and Emotional Abuse by Stephanie Moulton Sarkis

27. Healing from Toxic Relationships: 10 Essential Steps to Recover from Gaslighting, Narcissism, and Emotional Abuse

By: Stephanie Moulton Sarkis

4.18

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

From the psychologist and author of Gaslighting comes a practical recovery plan outlining ten found… read more

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  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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28. ACT for Treating Children: The Essential Guide to Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Kids

By: Tamar D. Black

4.56

Format: 232 pages, Paperback

Written by an experienced educational and developmental psychologist, ACT for Treating Children off… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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29. Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy: Awareness, Breath, Resonance, Movement and Touch in Practice

By: Susan McConnell

4.00

Format: 278 pages, Kindle Edition

Discover the innovative intersection of somatic therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS), featurin… read more

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  • counselling
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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30. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy, Third Edition: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures

By: Francine Shapiro

4.38

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The authoritative presentation of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy, thi… read more

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  • counselling
  • social work
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
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31. The Tender Parts: A Guide to Healing from Trauma through Internal Family Systems Therapy

By: Ilyse Kennedy

4.03

Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition

If we look deeply enough, we can connect to all the parts within us. Ten years ago, Ilyse Kennedy … read more

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  • counselling
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  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help

26 Best nonfiction books like The Tender Parts: A Guide to Healing from Trauma through Internal Family Systems Therapy by Ilyse Kennedy

Transform Your Habits

Gift from the Sea

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

3.86

Transform Your Habits

Play Therapy: The Art of the Relationship

Garry L. Landreth

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients

Irvin D. Yalom , Nicola Ferguson

3.66

Transform Your Habits

The Chemistry of Calm: A Powerful, Drug-Free Plan to Quiet Your Fears and Overcome Your Anxiety

Henry Emmons

3.25

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Transform Your Habits

ACT Made Simple: An Easy-to-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Steven C. Hayes , Russ Harris

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT

Steven C. Hayes , Russ Harris

4.12

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Dibs in Search of Self

Virginia M. Axline

4.32

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