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Guidance and Resources on Addiction and Recovery

Best Books and Workbooks

I have curated these lists so you don't have to spend your time searching!
I regularly recommend these products to clients, use them myself, or just think they're really great options for cultivating holistic wellness in your daily grind. ​
This collection of my favorite books and workbooks provide practical and evidence-based guidance on topics that impact holistic wellness:

Relationships, Partnership, Separation, & Divorce
Parenting & Co-Parenting
Neurodiversity
Self-Love & Self-Nurturing 
Addiction and Recovery
Mindset & Motivation

Partnership, Marriage, Separation, & Divorce

Staying Together "for the Sake of the Children"

This article by Mel Schwartz, LCSW provides a compassionate and helpful perspective of why separation or divorce is sometimes a healthier choice for the kids. 

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Partnership Quality Questionnaire

Gottman's 17 Areas Scale helps you and your partner explore areas of your relationship that are going well, and areas that needs some work. This is a great tool for identifying relationship goals, guiding couples' discussions, and making decisions about relationship future. 

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Uncoupling with Integrity

This workbook helps partners explore the process of uncoupling, separating, or divorcing with intentional focus on maintaining respect, fostering healing, and collaborating on a healthier future. 

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Addiction and Recovery

Relationships Impacted by Addiction and Mental Illness

Relationships in Recovery

This compassionate, judgment-free guide shares powerful tools you can use to recognize the differences between healthy and unhealthy relationships, set and maintain boundaries, reestablish emotional intimacy, communicate your feelings and needs, and end harmful relationships respectfully.

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Relationship Recovery is Essential for Addiction Recovery

This article explores reasons that relationship repair and rebuilding are essential for recovery from addiction, and is applicable to mental illness as well. 

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Helping Families Help

This organization helps families use a scientific approach called CRAFT which helps family members feel better about themselves, get their own life on track, and improve their relationship with their loved one.

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If you are in a life-threatening situation, seek support immediately:

  • Call or text the National Suicide and Crisis Hotline at 988

  • Text "NAMI" to 741741 to have your call routed to a crisis center near you

  • Go to the nearest Emergency Room or contact 911, but please be aware that first responders and police are not trained mental health providers and may even pose a danger to people of color, non-English speakers, immigrants, neurodivergent, and disabled people.  

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