Recommended Reads for Growth and Connection
Curated book suggestions to support your personal journey and relationships.
Book Recommendations for Couples
Resources to Understand, Heal, and Strengthen Your Relationship
Total Marriage Refresh
A wonderful place to begin your journey. Dr. Fisher’s work encompasses a variety of concepts and tools he has developed over the past 20 years to support couples.
The 5 Love Languages
Much of our relationship revolves around how you and your partner experience love. The concept of the 5 Love Languages provides a foundation for understanding this connection. It’s a helpful way to discover both your own and your partner’s love languages, guiding you to nurture and fill each other’s emotional love tanks.
The Seven Levels of Intimacy
The moment I realized I didn’t truly understand the different types of intimacy—how to define and nurture them—was when I discovered this book. It has transformed every relationship in my life. This is an excellent read for anyone wanting to deepen their understanding of the foundations and various forms of intimacy in relationships.
Hold Me Tight
The scientific insights alone make this book worth the read. One section that stood out explored how emotional closeness and support can accelerate physical healing—truly fascinating. The book also challenges the idea that we must be fully whole before entering a relationship, offering instead the empowering perspective that a committed partnership can help us grow, dream bigger, and take bolder steps forward.
The Four Seasons of Marriage
Gary Chapman uses the rhythm of nature’s seasons to describe the emotional and relational shifts that occur within marriage. Just like spring, summer, fall, and winter, relationships transition through cycles—each bringing its own challenges and blessings. From the chill of winter’s disconnection to the warmth of summer’s joy, this book offers insight into identifying your current season and tools to navigate change with grace. It’s a gentle yet powerful reminder that all seasons are part of the journey—and that growth is always possible.
Communication Skills for Couples
At the heart of every thriving relationship is healthy, empathetic communication. This book offers practical tools to help couples move beyond recurring arguments, emotional disconnection, and the fear of being misunderstood. Much like effective couples communication coaching, it focuses on building trust and deepening intimacy through intentional dialogue. With a step-by-step approach, it aligns with the principles of communication coaching for couples helping you strengthen your bond, navigate conflict, and ensure you feel truly seen and heard. This guide transforms communication into a lasting foundation of love and understanding.
Book Recommendations for Life Transitions and Healing
Inspiring reads to help you navigate change, rediscover yourself, and move forward.
Rebuilding
Rebuilding, a trusted divorce recovery resource for 35 years, is now in its updated fourth edition. This self-help book utilizes Bruce Fisher’s proven 19-step “divorce process rebuilding blocks” to help individuals piece their lives back together after a breakup. It offers a healthier, less traumatic approach to divorce recovery for individuals and their children, incorporating research, practice, and feedback from countless users. The book also features Fisher’s Healing Separation model.
Conscious Uncoupling
Instead of viewing relationship endings as personal failures, Conscious Uncoupling offers a path of mutual respect and kindness. Katherine Woodward Thomas provides five steps to navigate this challenging terrain: find emotional freedom, reclaim your power, heal your heart, become a love alchemist, and create your happy “even after” life. This guide helps you move towards an empowered and flourishing new life.
Two Homes, One Childhood
Robert Emery, an expert in the field, presents a paradigm-shifting model for parenting in two homes. He emphasizes that parents have one chance to protect their children’s childhood during separation or divorce. Emery introduces a Hierarchy of Children’s Needs in Divorce, offering advice for successful parenting from infancy through young adulthood. He advocates for joint custody, highlighting that parents should prioritize the children’s side above all else.
Radical Acceptance
Amidst global crises and anxiety, Tara Brach’s Radical Acceptance offers inner freedom and compassion. This updated classic features a new introduction and guided meditations. Brach addresses the suffering caused by self-judgment and offers a path to freedom through practical guidance developed over 40 years. Through stories, interpretations, and meditations, she shows how to stop warring with ourselves and live fully.
Radical Compassion
Tara Brach, a beloved mindfulness teacher, offers the RAIN meditation as a lifeline for difficult times. This easy-to-learn four-step practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) loosens the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs. Through stories, Brach and her students demonstrate how to deal with overwhelm, loss, painful relationships, and past trauma, discovering love, forgiveness, compassion, and wisdom within.
Breakup Recovery 101
Breakup Recovery 101 offers a strategy for surviving the end of a romantic relationship and healing. Nora Williams provides practical methods for regaining trust and seeking true love by refocusing attention on yourself. The strategy includes disengagement rules, working through grief, breaking cycles of failed relationships, and managing obsessive thoughts about your ex. Take control of your emotions and life today.