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Maternal Well-Being

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Reading Ideas

  • What Am I Thinking? Having a Baby After Postpartum Depression — Karen Kleiman, MSW
  • The Postpartum Husband: Practical Solutions for Living with Postpartum Depression — Karen Kleiman, MSW
  • Beyond the Blues: Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression & Anxiety — Shoshana Bennett, PhD, Pec Indman, EdD, MFT
  • Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression — Brooke Shields
  • Navigating the Land of If: Understanding Infertility and Exploring Your Options — Melissa Ford
  • Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother — Peggy Orenstein
  • Infertility Survival Handbook — Elizabeth Swire-Falker

Gifted & Talented

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Reading Ideas

  • A Parent's Guide to Gifted Children — J. Webb, PhD, J. Gore, MEd, E. Amend, PsyD, A. DeVries, MSE
  • Misdiagnosis and Dual Diagnoses of Gifted Children and Adults: ADHD, Bipolar, OCD, Asperger's, Depression, and Other Disorders — James Webb, PhD, Edward Amend, PsyD, et al.
  • Living With Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and the Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults — Susan Daniels, Michael Piechowski (Editors)

Disordered Eating

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Reading Ideas

  • Life Without Ed — Jenni Schaefer
  • Eating Mindfully — Susan Albers
  • Intuitive Eating — Evelyn Tribole
  • Gaining: The Truth About Life After Eating Disorders — Aimee Liu
  • Overcoming Binge Eating — Christopher G. Fairburn
  • The Eating Disorder Sourcebook — Carolyn Costin
  • The Parent's Guide to Eating Disorders — Marcia Herrin
  • Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia — Marya Hornbacher

Relationship (With Others & Self)

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Reading Ideas

  • Children of the Self-Absorbed — Nina Brown
  • Narcissistic Lovers: How to Cope, Recover and Move On — Cynthia Zayn, Kevin Dibble, MS
  • The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self — Alice Miller
  • Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers — Karyl McBride, PhD
  • Borderline Mom: A Quick & Dirty Manual of Emotional Self Defense for Children — Georgiana Wright
  • Trapped in the Mirror: Adult Children of Narcissists in Their Struggle for Self — Elan Golomb, PhD
  • The Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment — Stephanie Donaldson-Pressman, Robert Pressman
  • The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defenses of the Personal Spirit — Donald Kalsched
  • Untethered Soul — Michael A. Singer
  • Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life — Henry Cloud, PhD