These are books I read when I didn’t know what I didn’t know and I was fervently searching in the dark. All of these resources were helpful lights in my journey. As I reflect back, I can see the many lights in the darkness.
Pre-Discovery Book List
- Leslie Vernick: How to Act Right When Your Spouse Acts Wrong, The Emotionally Destructive Relationship, and The Emotionally Destructive Marriage
- Andrew Peterson The God of the Garden and Adorning the Dark
- Sally Clarkson: Help I’m Drowning and The Life Giving Parent
- Jimmy Evans: 21 Day Inner Healing Journey and The Four Laws of Love
- Lysa Terkeurst: Forgiving What You Can’t Forget, The Forgiveness Journal/ DVD and It’s Not Supposed to Be This Way
- Cindy Beall: Rebuilding a Marriage Better Than New: Healing the Broken Places, Resolving Unmet Expectations, Moving Your Relationship Forward and Healing Your Marriage When Trust Is Broken: Finding Forgiveness and Restoration
- Francis Chan: Crazy Love
- Brant Hansen: Unoffendable
- William Lu: Eat to Beat Disease
- Michael Todd: Relationship Goals
- Sheila Walsh: It’s Okay Not to be Okay
- Sue Johnson: Created for Connection and Hold Me Tight
- Oprah Winfrey: What Happened to You
- Toby Slough: Not Yet: Finding Freedom When Anxiety, Depression, and Other Crap Come Knocking at Your Door
- Sheryl Sandberg: Option B- Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy
- Craig Groeschel: Winning the War in Your Mind
- Elisha Magill: Making Beauty With Ashes: How God Saved My Marriage
- David Platt: Something Needs to Change
- Phyllis Fagell: Middle School Matters- 10 Key Skills Kids Need to Thrive in Middle School and Beyond and How Parents Can Help
- Amy Carroll: Exhale: Lose Who You’re Not, Love Who You Are, Live Your One Life Well
- Laura Doyle: The Empowered Wife: Six Surprising Secrets for Attracting Your Husband’s Time, Attention, and Affection
