Family Relationships

Take a moment to think about family dynamics, and how you can understand, build upon, or change family (and other!) relationships.

Updated November 21, 2024
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Drama free : a guide to managing unhealthy family relationships
Tawwab, Nedra Glover
Paper Book
Instant New York Times Bestseller From the bestselling author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace, a road map for understanding and moving past family struggles--and living your life, your way.     Every family has a story. For some of us, our...

362.82 Tawwab 2023

The origins of you : how breaking family patterns can liberate the way we live and love
Pharaon, Vienna
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER From licensed therapist and popular Instagram relationship expert Vienna Pharaon (@mindfulmft, +683K followers) comes a profound guide to understanding and overcoming wounds from your Family of Origin--the foundation of how we relate to others, ourselves, and the...

362.2085 Pharaon 2023

Freedom from family dysfunction : a guide to healing families battling addiction or mental illness
Perlmutter, Kenneth
Paper Book
The headlines ring with stories of opioid addiction and overdose. Parents complain about their children's screen addiction, law enforcement decries the flood of fentanyl, scores of Americans overdose and die daily, and teen alcohol poisoning and marijuana-induced psychosis rates continue to rise....

616.8915 Perlmutter 2019

Mother, nature : a 5,000-mile journey to discover if a mother and son can survive their differences
Jenkins, Jedidiah
Paper Book
NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the author of To Shake the Sleeping Self . . . "Exquisitely written and completely compelling . . . As Jedidiah Jenkins traces a 5,000-mile route with his wildly entertaining mother, Barb, he begins to untangle the live wires of a parent-child...

917.304 Jenkins Jenkins 2023

Sink : a memoir
Thomas, Joseph Earl
Paper Book
"A brilliant and brilliantly different" (Kiese Laymon), wrenching and redemptive coming-of-age memoir about the difficulty of growing up in a hazardous home and the glory of finding salvation in geek culture. Stranded within an ever-shifting family's desperate but volatile attempts to love, saddled...

372.374 Thomas Thomas 2023

Moms moving on : real life advice for conquering divorce, co-parenting through conflict, and becoming your best self
Dempsey-Multack, Michelle
Paper Book
Trust your gut, take care of yourself, and find new life on the other side with this "straightforward" (Ilene S. Cohen, PhD, award-winning author of When It's Never About You), empowering guide to divorce for moms. We hear it all the time on the news. The divorce rates are...

306.893 Dempsey-Multac 2022

Us : getting past you & me to build a more loving relationship
Real, Terrence
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES, WALL STREET JOURNAL, AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER * Stop working on yourself as an individual and start working on your relationship as a couple, with the help of the renowned family therapist and author of The New Rules of Marriage ...

306.7 Real 2022

Change your brain every day : simple daily practices to strengthen your mind, memory, moods, focus, energy, habits, and relationships
Amen, Daniel G.
Paper Book
Wall Street JournalandPublishers Weeklybestseller366 Days to a Better Brain, Mind, and Life!In Change Your Brain Every Daypsychiatrist and clinical neuroscientist Daniel Amen, MD, draws on over 40 years' clinical practice with tens of thousands...

612.82 Amen 2023

When violence begins at home : a comprehensive guide to understanding and ending domestic abuse
Wilson, K. J.
Paper Book
Addresses the needs of various audiences, including battered women, teenaged victims of dating violence, educators, community leaders, and the batterers themselves.

362.8292 W694 2006

Codependent no more : how to stop controlling others and start caring for yourself
Beattie, Melody
Paper Book
REVISED AND UPDATED * With a New Chapter on Trauma and Anxiety, a List of Resources, and More * 2023 Nautilus Book Award Winner * As Heard on Glennon Doyle's We Can Do Hard Things Podcast The cultural phenomenon that has helped heal millions of readers, this modern classic...

616.86 Beattie 2022

Hormonal : the hidden intelligence of hormones : how they drive desire, shape relationships, influence our choices, and make us wiser
Haselton, Martie Gail
Paper Book
The hidden intelligence of hormones and their role in empowering women to succeed sexually, reproductively, and socially. Did you know women walk more, eat less, socialize more, meet more men, dance more, and flirt more when they're ovulating? Or that PMS may have evolved to...

613.0424 Haselton 2018


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