Here is a selection of books that Patrea personally recommends.
Topics
Positive Psychology
| Authentic Happiness | Flourish: A New Understanding of Happiness and Wellbeing | Finding Flow: The Psychology of Engagement with Everyday Life | Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience | Happier |
| Martin E.P. Seligman | Martin E.P. Seligman | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | Tal Ben-Shahar |
| Learned Optimism | Positivity | The How of Happiness | The Myths of Happiness | |
| Martin E.P. Seligman | Barbara L Fredrickson | Sonja Lyubomirsky | Sonja Lyubomirsky | |
Personal Effectiveness | ||||
| Be Your Best | Don't Sweat the Small Stuff - and it's all small stuff | Emotional Intelligence | Fearless Living | First things First |
| Linda Adams | Richard Carlson | Daniel Goleman | Rhonda Britten | Stephen R. Covey, A.R. Merrill & R.R. Merrill |
| Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement without Giving In | Lateral Thinking | The Confidence Gap | The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People | |
| Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, & Bruce Patton | Edward de Bono | Russ Harris | Stephen R. Covey | |
Managing Emotions | ||||
| Breaking the Patterns of Depression | Destructive Emotions | Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway | Feeling Good | Letting It Go: Attaining Awareness from Adversity |
| Michael D. Yapko | The Dalai Lama & Daniel Goleman | Susan Jeffers | David D Burns | Bev Aisbett |
| The Happiness Trap | The Pursuit of Perfect | |||
| Russ Harris | Tal Ben-Shahar | |||
Mindfulness / Awareness | ||||
| Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness | Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill | Know Thyself | New Frontiers in Medicine | Strangers to Ourselves: Discovering the Adaptive Unconscious |
| Jon Kabat-Zinn | Matthieu Ricard | Craig Hassed | Craig Hassed | Timothy D. Wilson |
| The Invisible Gorilla: How Our Intuitions Deceive Us | The Mindful Brain | Wherever You Go, There You Are | ||
| Christopher Chabris & Daniel Simons | Daniel J. Siegel | Jon Kabat-Zinn | ||
Communications / Relationships | ||||
| Communicate or Disintegrate | Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most | Everyone Can Win | Fearless Loving | Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action |
| Des Coroy | D.Stone, B.Patton, S.Heen | Helena Cornelius & Shoshana Faire | Rhonda Britten | Simon Sinek |
| Ten Lessons to Transform Your Marriage: America's Love Lab Experts Share Their Strategies for Strengthening Your Relationship | The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts | The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work | Too Good to Leave Too Bad to Stay | Tricky People |
| John M. Gottman, Julie S. Gottman, & Joan Declaire | Gary D Chapman | John M. Gottman & Nan Silver | Mira Kirshenbaum | Andrew Fuller |
| You Paid How Much for That?! | ||||
| Natalie H. Jenkins, Scott M. Stanley, William C. Bailey, & Howard J. Markham | ||||
Health, Brain, Body | ||||
| Its Never too Late to Change Your Mind | My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey | Spark! The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain | The Brain That Changes Itself | Weight Loss for Food Lovers |
| Michael Valenzuela | Jill Bolte Taylor | John J Ratey & Eric Hageman | Norman Doidge | George Blair-West |
Change / Managing Change | ||||
| Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Revolution in Change | Changing for Good | Fish! A Proven Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results | Positive Leadership: Strategies for Extraordinary | The Tipping Point |
| David L. Cooperrider & Diana Whitney | James Prochaska, John Norcross, & Carlo DiClemente | Stephen C Lundin, Harry Paul, & John Christensen | Kim S. Cameron | Malcolm Gladwell |
| Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your Life | You Are Not Your Brain: The 4-Step Solution for Changing Bad Habits, Ending Unhealthy Thinking, and Taking Control of Your Life | |||
| Spencer Johnson & Kenneth Blanchard | Jeffrey Schwartz & Rebecca Gladding | |||
Sport & Exercise Psychology | ||||
| Coaching for Performance: GROWing Human Potential and Purpose | Flow in Sports: The keys to optimal experiences and performances | Golf: The Inner Game | The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance | |
| Sir John Whitmore | Susan Jackson & Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi | W. Timothy Gallwey | W. Timothy Gallwey | |
Autobiographies / Memoirs that Inspire | ||||
| Letters to Sam: A Grandfathers Lessons on Love, Loss, and the Gifts of Life | Long Walk to Freedom | Lucky Man | Man's Search for Meaning | Still Me |
| Daniel Gottlieb | Nelson Mandela | Michael J. Fox | Viktor E. Frankl | Christopher Reeve |
| The Measure of a Man: A Spiritual Autobiography | Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart | Tuesdays with Morrie | ||
| Sidney Poitier | Gordon Livingston | Mitch Albom | ||
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