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Language Warning: Adult screening is recommended for some of these books.
I am familiar with some of these books and some really piqued my interest. I hope to read them. I am curious why I Wish Someone Would Have Told Me is not on this list? I am asking out of curiosity, not from being insulted. Thank you.
One of my FAVORITES!!!!
I did not include teen books in this roundup cuz there aren’t five… there is ONE and that’s your book
Was wondering the same
Amazing Post! such great timing!!!
I wish someone would have told me is a great one too…
Thank you!
thanks!
Can you post books on self development like anger or other characteristics? Not on the middah perspective because for that we have our seforim, and although we don’t really need more than that, I wouldn’t mind seeing some good book jewish or otherwise on these character traits.
Thanks loads!!
For secular books that can help with work on middos, I would focus on learning about underlying processes, like trauma, burnout, parts work (such as IFS or inner child work), and understanding practical neuroscience . Books by Daniel Siegel are great, including his parenting books even if you are learning about this to help yourself. I have found that I get the most out of non-pathologizing, non-shaming, straightforward texts that help me understand the science behind behaviors and emotions.
I am a social worker working in the cancer community, and other recommendations I can share are
It’s OK That You’re Not OK by Megan Devine
Healing the Adult Sibling’s Grieving Heart by Alan Wolfelt
and for general mental health, Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff
Making Sense of Suffering – Artscroll is a hidden gem (printed in 2002 so it is older). Incredible resource for thinking adults. It’s can’t-put-it-down material.
Fabulous book!
Excellent list, thank you. I would humbly add On Death & Dying by Kübler Ross
I struggle with that book as it was meant for those dying not for those grieving
Hi thank you for the list. Do you possibly have a book to recommend for a daughter mourning a mother who is still living but due to mental illness isn’t able to fill the mother role?
I don’t have any book recommendations, but I wanted to say that what you’re describing sounds like ambiguous loss (or ambiguous grief), which is a term for when the person is still there, but the relationship has changed, or isn’t what you want it to be…the concept, basically, of mourning someone still alive. For me, finding out about this concept was enormously healing in itself. So while I don’t have any specific book about it that I can think of, (right now anyway) I just wanted to let you know that that concept exists and is real–maybe if you look into it you’ll find something helpful for your situation. Wishing you luck with this difficult challenge…
Motherless Daughters was a seminal book for me when I lost my mother. I have returned to it and recommended it many times over 25 years. Each re-reading reaches me anew at different milestones in my life. The book shares essays and interviews of women who lost their mithers at different points of life. It was like the group of older, wiser friends I didn’t have who were there for me when I was so alone. My friends couldn’t relate and my therapist couldn’t show me how to.get through, but those women’s stories did. I fervently wish no one else should ever need this book. But if you need it, Im glad it’s there.
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