Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
by Dr. Christiane Northrup

Dr. Northrup offers a wonderful perspective on the female body and a woman’s physical and emotional health. She enlightens us with how women have specifically played certain roles in our society that have fostered certain unhealthy patters. While I don’t agree with some of her perspectives, I have certainly benefited tremendously from her wisdom and insight. She is a physician trained under the Western medical model, but who has a great interest in holistic forms of treatment…namely nurturing ourselves and letting go of baggage.

The Wisdom of Menopause
by Dr. Christiane Northrup

This book, as well as Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom will assist you in making an informed decision on what is best for you regarding how to deal with menopause and other health concerns.

The Energy Balance Diet: Lose Weight, Control Your Cravings and Even Out Your Energy
Joshua Rosenthal

This is my favorite “diet” book. It truly offers a balanced approach to eating, one that can be and should be sustained for life. It also has amazingly delicious, easy recipes. It is unfortunately out of print, however you can purchase used copies over the internet. Another option is to check it out at your local library. Clients of mine may request to borrow this book while they are working with me.

Integrative Nutrition: The Future of Nutrition
by Joshua Rosenthal

This is Joshua’s new book. I have not had the opportunity to read it yet, but with The Energy Balance Diet being my favorite book to recommend to clients, I’m sure this one is excellent as well. Joshua Rosenthal is the founder of the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, the school where I earned my certification in holistic health counseling.

The Self-Healing Cookbook: A Macrobiotic Primer for Healing Body, Mind and Moods With Whole Natural Foods
by Kristina Turner

This is also another one of my favorites and a favorite of my clients. It is a basic book with macrobiotic principles. She has simple and interesting way to express how our food affects our mood and our mood affects our food. This book also contain some great recipes.

Your Body Knows Best
by Ann Louise Gittleman

A great book for helping you to get in touch with your body, understand it's cravings and needs, and letting it be the final decider in how you will choose to nourish it.

The Calorie King's 2006 Calorie, Fat & Carbohydrate Counter

Everything you need to know for getting a handle on what your calorie needs are and how much is contained in the food you eat. It also includes common restaurants and cuisines.

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Bulimia, a guide to recovery: Understanding & overcoming the binge-purge syndrome
by Lindsey Hall and Leigh Cohn

This is one of my favorite books to support healing for the issues related to bulimia. The authors give very practical tips for alternatives to bingeing and purging. They also are very good at validating your experience and feelings.

Books By Geneen Roth

Geneen Roth has authored several books about one’s relationship with food, particularly in the context of binge eating, or eating for comfort. One of her most popular is “When Food Is Love.” She offers a humorous, down to earth, authentic perspective. She has had a lot of success with her own recovery.

Boundary Power: How I Treat You, How I Let You Treat Me, How I Treat Myself
by Mike O'Neil, Charles E. Newbold

A terrific workbook for understanding how your boundaries have been violated and how you may be violating other's boundaries emotionally, physically, verbally, spiritually etc. It helps you to understand how you have been hurt in the past and how that may be causing you to have unhealthy boundaries in the present. The workbook also gives support for understanding and developing healthy boundaries.

Dr. Ruth's Guide to Talking about Herpes
by Dr. Ruth

I hear this is a very straight forward book that helps encourage people struggling with the embarrassment and shame of having herpes. She offers a number of stories from other people who have traveled this journey. A client of mine found this book to be one of her most supportive resources.

See my article on Fertility Awareness: 100% natural birth control

Fertility Awareness is also an excellent tool for helping you to discover patterns and symptoms in your menstrual cycle. It can help you to discover and resolve problems that may be related. I highly encourage all women to learn and practice Fertility Awareness if for nothing else than to understand on a deeper level how your body works.

The Garden of Fertility: A Guide to Charting Your Fertility Signals to Prevent or Achieve Pregnancy--Naturally--and to Gauge Your Reproductive Health
by Katie Singer

Taking Charge of Your Fertility: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health (Revised Edition)
by Toni Weschler

I share books that have encouraged my own spiritual journey toward Christianity. I am not one to condone any kind of judgement toward others and their beliefs. I know personally what it is like to search and not be sure of what you believe in terms of God or spirituality. I believe 100% that each person must take their own journey and discover truth for themselves. That being said, I do believe that there is an absolute truth. I don't think any of us have a complete hold on it, but I do believe that if you seek you will find!

Mere Christianity
by C. S. Lewis

This is my favorite book, and C.S. Lewis is by far my favorite author. C.S. Lewis is a well studied man who attended the University of Oxford, and taught at both Oxford and Cambridge. He is well known for his fiction, like the Chronicles of Narnia, but what many people don't know is that he also wrote many non-fiction apologetic works regarding the Christian faith. Mere Christianity was a significant book along my own search for spiritual truth. At an early age, Lewis shunned Christianity and became an atheist, but later in life he came to belief in a God and eventually to Christianity. Lewis writes from an honest and sincere place. His arguments are non-manipulative, solid, and thorough. His work is very intelligent. He is also willing to be human and vulnerable, admitting areas where he does not have the answer, but still providing solid explanations for why those particular answers do not hinder his faith.

For more info on C.S. Lewis: http://www.cslewisinstitute.org/pages/resources/cslewis/index.php

Pursuit of God
by A.W. Tozer

Another one of my greatly loved books by an author who died in 1963. This is a book that can be read daily, chapter by chapter, each encouraging you to seek truth and know God. He writes from a personal place, not a judgemental one. This book has inspired me day in and day out to love God and love those around me to a greater degree. "The meek man cares not at all who is greater than he, for he has long ago decided that the esteem of the world is not worth the effort." - A.W. Tozer

The Sacred Romance: Drawing Closer to the Heart of God
by Brent Curtis and John Eldredge

This book was such an encouragement as I was seeking to really begin living my life from my heart. It is about breaking free from the religion of rules, and living from desire...desires that have been planted in your heart by God. It is about freedom. A non-christian equivalent of this book is The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Wild at Heart: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
by John Eldredge

Sort of an equivalent of The Sacred Romance for men. It talks about the wild, adventurous, masculine spirit that has been planted within men, but that has often been suppressed and oppressed by the religion and women. This validates a man's God given need and desire To be a hero, to be a warrior, to live a life of adventure and risk.

It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
by Lance Armstrong

This book was a powerful and inspirational story of Lance Armstrong's successful battle with cancer. I highly recommend!

The Time Traveler's Wife (Harvest Book)
by Audrey Niffenegger

This is my favorite fiction book. Wonderfully, well written and capturing!

Miltons Moment
by Dr. Jeffrey Gilbert

This book was written by a friend and colleague, Dr. Jeffrey Gilbert. It helps to support a pediatric HIV clinic in Kampala, Uganda, where his friend, Cissy Ssuuna, RN, works. Cissy cares for over 7,000 HIV+ children, more then half of who are orphans.