Below are a few of my reading recommendations.

 

Relationships

• John Welwood: Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart

• John Welwood: Love and Awakening: Discovering the Sacred Path of Intimate Relationship

• John Welwood: Journey of the Heart: The Path of Conscious Love

• Esther Perel: Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence

• Sue Johnson: Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

• Marlena S. Lyons, Jett Psaris: Undefended Love

• Thomas Lewis: A General Theory of Love

• Gary Chapmen: The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts

Sex

• Dr. Gina Ogden: The Return of Desire: A Guide to Rediscovering Your Sexual Passion

• Ian Kerner: She Comes First

• Barbara Keesling: Sexual Healing

• Celeste Hirshman and Danielle Harrel: Cockfidence

• Paul Joannides: The Guide to Getting It On

• Betty Dodson: Sex for One: The Joy of Self-loving

• Jack Morin: The Erotic Mind: Unlocking the Inner Sources of Passion and Fulfillment

• Jeese Bering: Perv: The Sexual Deviant in all of us

• Jennifer Gunter: The Vagina Bible

• Jane Juska: A Round-Healed Woman: My Late Life Adventure in Sex and Romance

• Thomas Moore: Dark Eros: The Imagination of Sadism New Edition

• Jaiya Hanauer: Red Hot Touch: A Head-to-Tie Handbook for Mind- Blowing Orgasms

• Ken Page: Deeper Dating: How to Drop the Games of Seduction and Discover the Power of Intimacy

Personal Growth

• Lindsay C. Gibson : Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

• Patrick Carnes, PhD:The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships

• Ellen Hendriksen: How to be Yourself: Quiet Your Inner Critic and Rise Above Social Anxiety

• Alice Miller :The Drama of A Gifted Child

• Julia Samuel : Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving

• Hilary Jacobs Hendel :It’s Not Always Depression: A New Theory of Listening to Your Body, Discovering Core Emotions and Reconnecting With Your Authentic Self

• Bessel van der Kolk M.D.: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

• Tarcher Perigee : Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help YouFind – and Keep – Love

Break – ups

• Susan Piver: The Wisdom of a Broken Heart: How to Turn the Pain of a Breakup into Healing, Insight, and New Love

• Pema Chodrom: When Things Fall Apart

• Esther Perrel : State of Affairs, Rethinking Infidelity

Non Monogamy

• Tristan Taormino: Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships

• Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy: The Ethical Slut

• Franklin Veaux :More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory

Mindfulness

• Sharon Salzberg and Sakyong Mipham : Quiet Mind: A Beginner’s Guide to Meditation

• Bhante Henepola Gunaratana: Mindfulness in Plain English

• Tara Brach: Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha

• John Kabat-Zinn: Wherever you go, there you are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday

• Shauna Niequist : Present Over Perfect: Leaving Behind Frantic for a Simpler, More Soulful Way of Living

• Mark Nepo : Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred

I love book recommendations. If you feel I’m missing something from this list, please let me know!