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Resources and Links

General

General Resources
For Couples
For Parents
For LGBTQ+ Folks

Book Lists

Couples

  • Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love

  • Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

  • Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

  • The Relationship Cure

  • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

  • What Makes Love Last?

Parents

  • Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain

  • Good Enough Parenting: An In-Depth Perspective on Meeting Core Emotional Needs and Avoiding Exasperation

  • How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk

  • The Baby Book, Revised Edition: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two (Sears Parenting Library)

  • The Connected Child: Bring Hope and Healing to Your Adoptive Family

  • The Hurried Child, 25th anniversary edition

  • The Power of Play: Learning What Comes Naturally

LGBTQ+

  • As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as A Girl

  • Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women, and the Rest of Us

  • The Gender Quest Workbook: A Guide for Teens and Young Adults Exploring Gender Identity

  • The Invisible Orientation: An Introduction to Asexuality

  • The Transgender Workbook:: Your Journey to Womanhood

  • You and Your Gender Identity: A Guide to Discovery

Love and Sexuality

Sexuality Education For Young People

  • A Better Way to Teach Kids About Sex

  • Amazing You!: Getting Smart About Your Private Parts

  • Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity

  • Celebrate Your Body (and Its Changes, Too!): The Ultimate Puberty Book for Girls

  • Consent: The New Rules of Sex Education: Every Teen's Guide to Healthy Sexual Relationships

  • Everything You Never Wanted Your Kids to Know About Sex (But Were Afraid They'd Ask): The Secrets to Surviving Your Child's Sexual Development from Birth to the Teens

  • Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

  • Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today's Young Kids

  • Let's Talk About Body Boundaries, Consent and Respect: Teach children about body ownership, respect, feelings, choices and recognizing bullying behaviors

  • Lets Talk About Where Babies Come From

  • Sex is a Funny Word: A Book about Bodies, Feelings, and YOU

  • What Makes a Baby

  • What's in There?: All About Before You Were Born (Let's Talk about You and Me)

  • Who Has What?: All About Girls' Bodies and Boys' Bodies (Let's Talk about You and Me)

  • 30 Days of Sex Talks for Ages 3-7: Empowering Your Child with Knowledge of Sexual Intimacy

  • 100 Questions You'd Never Ask Your Parents

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Relationships and Sexuality

  • Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It

  • Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life

  • Sheet Music: Uncovering the Secrets of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage

  • This Is Your Brain on Sex: The Science Behind the Search for Love

  • The Ethical Slut, Third Edition: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love

  • The Man’s Guide to Women: Scientifically proven secrets from the “Love Lab” about what women really want.

  • The Smart Girl's Guide to Polyamory: Everything You Need to Know About Open Relationships, Non-Monogamy, and Alternative Love

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Sexual Practices

  • BDSM 101

  • On Blossoming: Frank and Practical Advice on Our Bodies, Sexual Health, Sensuality, Pleasure, Orgasm, and More

  • Sex for One: The Joy of Selfloving

  • SM 101: A Realistic Introduction

  • Ultimate Guide to Kink: BDSM, Role Play and the Erotic Edge

Children and Adolescents

  • A Mother for Choco (Paperstar)

  • A Tribe Apart: A Journey into the Heart of American Adolescence

  • Alerting Kids to the Danger of Abuse and Neglect (Alerting Kids to the Danger Zones)

  • Alphabreaths: The ABCs of Mindful Breathing

  • Baby Owl Lost Her Whoo

  • Breathe

  • Do You Have a Secret? (Let's Talk About It!)

  • Doggie Doesn't Know No

  • Everyone Poops (My Body Science Series)

  • Good Pictures Bad Pictures Jr.: A Simple Plan to Protect Young Minds

  • Goodbye Mousie

  • Happy Birth Day!​

  • Hurt 2.0 (Youth, Family, and Culture)

  • I Am NOT Going to School Today!

  • I'm a Big Brother

  • It's Tough to Be Gentle: A Dragon's Tale

  • Let's Talk

  • Listening to My Body: A guide to helping kids understand the connection between their sensations (what the heck are those?) and feelings so that they can get better at figuring out what they need.

  • Maybe Days: A Book for Children in Foster Care

  • My Body Is Private (Albert Whitman Prairie Books (Paperback))

  • My Dad Loves Me, My Dad Has a Disease: A Child's View: Living with Addiction

  • Nathan Meets His Monsters

  • Princess Potty

  • Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America

  • Teen Coloring Book: Inspirational Quotes: Positive Teenage Inspiration for Boys, Girls, Teens, Tweens, Older Kids, Adults, Cute Gift Idea with ... Relief & Relaxation, Anti Stress Designs

  • The Elephant With Small Ears

  • The Penguin and the Fine-Looking Fish

  • The Redo Roo

  • What's So Yummy?: All About Eating Well and Feeling Good (Let's Talk about You and Me)

  • When a Family is in Trouble: Children Can Cope with Grief from Drug and Alcohol Addiction​

  • When A Friend Dies

  • When Lions Roar

  • Where Is My Mommy?: A Book about Children's Fears

  • Who's In My Family?: All About Our Families (Let's Talk about You and Me)

  • You Weren't with Me

  • You're Perfect the Way You Are!

Special Topics

Autism Spectrum Disorder

  • Everyday Games for Sensory Processing Disorder: 100 Playful Activities to Empower Children with Sensory Differences

  • Kids in the Syndrome Mix of ADHD, LD, Autism Spectrum, Tourette's, Anxiety, and More!: The one stop guide for parents, teachers, and other professionals

  • Son Rise: The Miracle Continues

  • The Autistic Brain: Helping Different Kinds of Minds Succeed

  • The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband

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Trauma and Resilience

  • Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing

  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

  • Trauma and Resilience in the Lives of Contemporary Native Americans

  • Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors

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Grief and Loss

  • Tear Soup: A Recipe for Healing After Loss

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Memory and Cognition

  • Dancing with Elephants: Mindfulness Training For Those Living With Dementia, Chronic Illness or an Aging Brain (How to Die Smiling Series) (Volume 1)

  • Learning to Speak Alzheimer's: A Groundbreaking Approach for Everyone Dealing with the Disease

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