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Antiracism & Decolonization
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Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies
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The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
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How to Be an Antiracist
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Anti-Racist Psychotherapy: Confronting Systemic Racism and Healing Racial Trauma
Communication & Boundaries
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The Boundaries Flip Chart: A Psychoeducational Tool to Help Clients Set Healthy Limits, Develop Fulfilling Relationships, and Reclaim Their Worth
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Third Edition
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Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
Complex PTSD
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Healing the Shame that Binds You
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Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation
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Transforming The Living Legacy of Trauma: A Workbook for Survivors and Therapists
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Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma
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The Complex PTSD Workbook
Grief Healing
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How to Carry What Can't Be Fixed: A Journal for Grief
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It's OK That You're Not OK
Inner-Child Healing
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Inner Bonding: Becoming a Loving Adult to Your Inner Child
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The Inner Child Workbook: What to do with your past when it just won't go away
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Healing The Child Within: Discovery and Recovery for Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families
Intimacy, Relationships, & Sex Therapy
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The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity
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Where Should We Begin? Conversation Card Game for Couples
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Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
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She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman
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Love Worth Making: How to Have Ridiculously Great Sex in a Long-Lasting Relationship
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Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It
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The Multi-Orgasmic Man: Sexual Secrets Every Man Should Know
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An Intersectional Approach to Sex Therapy: Centering the Lives of Indigenous, Racialized, and People of Color
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Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
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Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families
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The Attachment Theory Workbook
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The High-Conflict Couple: A Dialectical Behavior Therapy Guide to Finding Peace, Intimacy, and Validation
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Phallacy: Life Lessons from the Animal Penis
LGBTQ+ Experience/Support
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Sex Therapy with Erotically Marginalized Clients: Nine Principles of Clinical Support
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Queering Sexual Violence - Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement
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Written on the Body
Mindfulness & Self Compassion
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Living Untethered: Beyond the Human Predicament
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Mindfulness Cards: Simple Practices for Everyday Life
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The Mindfulness Coloring Book: Relaxing, Anti-Stress Nature Patterns and Soothing Designs
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The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook: A Proven Way to Accept Yourself, Build Inner Strength, and Thrive
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Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion
Parenting
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Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
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The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired
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Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids
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The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
Religious Trauma & Deconstruction
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The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe
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Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life
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Faith After Doubt: Why Your Beliefs Stopped Working and What to Do About It
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A New Kind of Christianity: Ten Questions That Are Transforming the Faith
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Inspired: Slaying Giants, Walking on Water, and Loving the Bible Again
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Curveball: When Your Faith Takes Turns You Never Saw Coming
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Sacred Wounds: A Path to Healing from Spiritual Trauma
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You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity
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Shameless: A Case for Not Feeling Bad About Feeling Good (About Sex)
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Sex, God, and the Conservative Church
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How the Bible Actually Works: In Which I Explain How An Ancient, Ambiguous, and Diverse Book Leads Us to Wisdom Rather Than Answers―and Why That's Great News
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Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived
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Bully Pulpit: Confronting the Problem of Spiritual Abuse in the Church
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Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation
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Original Blessing: Putting Sin in Its Rightful Place
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Liberation Theologies in the United States: An Introduction
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She Who Is (25th Anniversary Edition): The Mystery of God in Feminist Theological Discourse
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Red Lip Theology: For Church Girls Who've Considered Tithing to the Beauty Supply Store When Sunday Morning Isn't Enough
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Recovering from Biblical Manhood and Womanhood: How the Church Needs to Rediscover Her Purpose
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Holy Envy: Finding God in the Faith of Others
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The Rebirthing of God: Christianity's Struggle for New Beginnings
Spiritual Integration
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Recipes for a Sacred Life: True Stories and a Few Miracles
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Islamic Mystical Poetry: Sufi Verse from the Early Mystics to Rumi
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The Penguin Book of Hebrew Verse
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The Essential Rumi, New Expanded Edition
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The Gift
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All About Love: New Visions
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The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
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To Speak a Defiant Word: Sermons and Speeches on Justice and Transformation
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Joy Unspeakable: Contemplative Practices of the Black Church
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The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types
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Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
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A Severe Mercy
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We Sang a Dirge
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A Book of Life
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Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home
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The Soul of the Helper: Seven Stages to Seeing the Sacred Within Yourself So You Can See It in Others (Spirituality and Mental Health)
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Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
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Jesus and the Disinherited
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The Alchemist, 25th Anniversary: A Fable About Following Your Dream
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Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
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The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey Through Anguish to Freedom
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The Edge of Words: God and the Habits of Language
Therapy Approaches
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Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche
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Shadow Work Journal for Black Men
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Shadow Work Journal for Black Women
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The Internal Family Systems (IFS) Flip Chart
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Autonomic Nervous System Table: Laminated Card
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Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection: 50 Client-Centered Practices
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Polyvagal Flip Chart: Understanding the Science of Safety
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The Living Legacy of Trauma Flip Chart: A Psychoeducational In-Session Tool for Clients and Therapists
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No Bad Parts
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The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook
Trauma Healing
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Polyvagal Card Deck: 58 Practices for Calm and Change
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Anchored
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My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
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It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
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The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
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Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame: A Relational/Neurobiological Approach
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Widen the Window
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Thriving in the Wake of Trauma