Books	Author	Notes
The Highly Sensitive Person	Dr. Elaine Aron	The foundation of this book is that some people are born more sensitive – Carl Jung called this innate sensitiveness. These books address strategies using this trait as an asset rather than a limitation.
The Highly Sensitive Person’s Workbook
The Highly Sensitive Child
Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls	Mary Pipher, PhD	Based on her experiences providing therapy to teens, this book addresses the challenges girls are up against in this culture.
Girls will be Girls: Raising Confident and Courageous Daughters	JoAnn Deak, PhD	Written by a school psychologist and educator, this book offers suggestions to problems girls are facing.
Parenting Teens With Love And Logic	Dr. Foster Cline and Jim Fay	A psychiatrist and an educator wrote this book. It addresses the impact of different types of parenting, and includes tips and recommendations on how to help teens become responsible through applying life logic.
The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict	The Arbinger Institute	Both of these books are based on Terry Warner’s work on self – deception. The first book setting is when parents are dropping of their child at a wilderness program. The second book applies these same principles in a business setting.
Leadership and Self Deception: Getting Out of the Box
Twelve Steps and Twelve Traditions	Alcoholic Anonymous	Classic foundation work of 12 step programs
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom	Don Miguel Ruiz	Based on Toltec tradition, this book addresses the impact that agreements have in our lives. To quote “In these agreements we tell ourselves who we are, how to behave, what is possible, what is impossible.”
Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change your Life	Byron Katie	A self inquiry approach developed by Byron Katie when she realized that what had been causing her depression was not the world around her, but rather her beliefs about that world
The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage are Creating a Generation of Unhappy and Disconnected Kids	Madeline Levine	This book is based on a Marin County’s (north of San Francisco) therapist experience with privileged teens in this county.