Books, articles and resources
by other folks 🙂

Harvard Business Review’s 10 Must Read Articles on Emotional Intelligence
including these classics:  Primal Leadership and What Makes a Leader? by Daniel Goleman, Ph.D.

Harvard Business Review’s 10 Must Reads On Managing Yourself
including What to Ask the Person in the Mirror? and How Resilience Works.

Dr. Dennis Charney’s Resilience Prescription PDF’s (Resilience prescription Charney 10 step and Resilience-Prescription-Promotion)

Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach

Most of us struggle with feelings of unworthiness, insecurity and fear.  This book helps you get under those feelings with mindfulness and compassion.  Also see the three hour essence of the teaching in an audiobook at SoundsTrue.com.  You can also get a free audiobook version of the whole book at Hoopladigital. 

Brené Brown’s TED talks on vulnerability and shame.

The Art of Forgiveness, Lovingkindness and Peace by Jack Kornfield

Inspirational quotes and meditations that many have found extremely thought-provoking and healing.

The Joy of Living: Unlocking the Secret and Science of Happiness by Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Great beginner’s guide to the Buddhist view of mind and Buddhist practice combined with modern neuroscience, by a teacher who suffered intense panic attacks as a child until he had a meditative “nervous breakthrough.”

Search Inside Yourself: The Unexpected Path to Achieving Success, Happiness (and World Peace) by Chade-Meng Tan

Tan is one of the original Googlers, and he started the company’s in-house emotional intelligence and mindfulness program.  An easy starting place.

A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives by Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D.

A wonderful book by one of the architects of Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Training program describing how compassion can be at the center of self- and society-transformation

The Kindness Handbook by Sharon Salzberg

A wonderful pocket-sized introduction to self-compassion.

Full Catastrophe Living:  Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain and Illness by Jon Kabat-Zinn

The title says it all.  This is a wonderful guide to mindfulness techniques to reduce stress and pain, and lead a healthier life.

Online Mindful Self-Compassion Test

Instructions for Lovingkindness meditation from Jack Kornfield (A Path with Heart) and Tara Brach (Radical Acceptance).

There are many other good books on mindfulness and compassion helpful for the modern reader.  Such as The Buddha Walks Into a Bar by Lodro Rinzler, or even, for a fun view of the Bay Area political and spiritual movements from the Beatniks to the early 21st Century, Wes Nisker’s The Big Bang, The Buddha and the Baby Boom: The Spiritual Experiments of my  Generation. 

Dr. Dzung Vo, a pediatrician in Canada specializing in Adolescent medicine, has a great set of resources on Mindfulness for Teens.

Enjoy!

general psychology (CBT and informational)

Mind Over Mood, by Greenberger and Padesky

A classic guide to cognitive behavioral therapy for mood disorders.  Includes worksheets which I occasionally use as homework or work through in session with my clients.

Feeling Good, The New Mood Therapy and The Feeling Good Handbook both by David Burns

Very well written consumers’ guides to cognitive behavioral therapy.  The Handbook is more comprehensive, and has detailed chapters on more subjects, and includes worksheets.

Overcoming Depression by Demitri Papolos, M.D. and Janice Papolos

An outstanding guide to depression and bipolar disorder.

The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook by Edmund Bourne

Excellent place to start for CBT of anxiety.  Especially great chapter on personality traits common to anxiety (perfectionism, excessive need for approval, tendency to ignore physical and psychological signs of stress, and excessive need for control).