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

The book you want everyone you love to read : sane and sage advice to help you navigate all of your most important relationships
Perry, Philippa
Paper Book
INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER From author of the million-copy international bestselling The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read, psychotherapist Philippa Perry helps you with managing all the other important relationships and connections in your life...

158.2 Perry 2023

The racism of people who love you : essays on mixed race belonging
Mehta, Samira K.
Paper Book
An unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race people face in family spaces and intimate relationships across their varying cultural backgrounds In this emotionally powerful and intellectually provocative blend of memoir, cultural criticism, and theory,...

306.845 Mehta 2023

Sounds fake but okay : an asexual and aromantic perspective on love, relationships, sex, and pretty much anything else
Costello, Sarah
Paper Book
'Somehow, over time, we forgot that the rituals behind dating and sex were constructs made up by human beings and eventually, they became hard and fast rules that society imposed on us all.' True Love. Third Wheels. Dick pics. 'Dying alone'. Who decided this was...

306.7 Costello 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

The school of hard talks : how to have real conversations with your (almost grown) kids
Kline, Emily (Clinical psychologist)
Paper Book
"Think you can 'create' the perfect child? Dream on! Then stop dreaming and start reading this book. We can't control our kids' life trajectories, but we can create relationships with them that are genuine, warm, and encouraging. Here's your road map!" -Lenore Skenazy, president of...

155.5 Kline 2023

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

Codependent no more : how to stop controlling others and start caring for yourself
Beattie, Melody
Paper Book
In a crisis, it's easy to revert to old patterns. Caring for your well-being during the coronavirus pandemic includes maintaining healthy boundaries and saying no to unhealthy relationships. The healing touchstone of millions, this modern classic by one of America's best-loved...

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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