Books and Resources

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General

Books

• Aisling Leonard-Curtin & Trish Leonard-Curtin: The Power of Small: How to Make Tiny But Powerful Changes When Everything Feels Too Much
• Russ Harris: The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT
• Russ Harris: The Reality Slap: Finding Peace and Fulfillment When Life Hurts
• Anthony Biglan: The Nurture Effect: How the Science of Human Behavior can Improve our Lives & our World
• Steven Hayes: Get Out of Your Mind and into Your Life
• Steven Hayes: A Liberated Mind: How to Pivot Toward What Matters
• Joe Oliver, Jon Hill and Eric Morris: ACTivate Your Life

Podcasts

• Wisdom for Wellbeing
• Psychologists off the Clock

Apps

• 29K Seek Happiness, Find Meaning

Parenting

• Christopher McCurry: Parenting Your Anxious Child with Mindfulness and Acceptance: A Powerful New Approach to Overcoming Fear, Panic, and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
• Matthew Sanders: Every Parent: A Guide to Constructive Parenting
• Lisa Coyne & Amy Murrell: The Joy of Parenting: An Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Guide to Effective Parenting in the Early Years
• Koa Whittingham: Becoming Mum
• Free, online parenting course: Parent Works

Being Woman

• Jill Stoddard: Be Mighty: A woman’s guide to liberation from Anxiety, Worry and Stress using Mindfulness and Acceptance
• Blog: Be Mighty
• Podcasts: Ladies We Need to Talk

Relationships

• Russ Harris: ACT with Love: Stop Struggling, Reconcile Differences, and Strengthen Your Relationship with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Children & Adolescents

• Ben Sedley: Stuff that Sucks – Accepting what you can’t change and committing to what you can
• Tim & Sandra Bowden: I Just Want to be … ME!: Building Resilience in Young People
• Joseph Ciarrochi, Louise Hayes, and Anne Bailey: Get out of your mind and into your life for teens: A guide to living and extraordinary life
• Russ Harris & Bev Aisbett: The Illustrated Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living
• Movie: Inside Out (Pixar / Disney 2015)

Trauma

• Victoria Follette and Jacqueline Pistorello: Finding Life Beyond Trauma : Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to Heal from Post-Traumatic Stress and Trauma-Related Problems

Impact of Food on Mood/Behaviour

• Sue Dengate: Fed Up

Mindfulness

• App: Headspace – Guided Meditation and Mindfulness
• App: The ACT Companion
• App: Smiling Mind
• Jennifer Cohen Harper – Little Flower Yoga for Kids
• Eline Snel – Sitting Still Like a Frog – Mindfulness Exercises for Kids (and their parents)
• Susan Kaiser Greenland – The Mindful Child

OCD

• Jon Hershfield: When a Family Member has OCD
• Ben Sedley and Lisa Coyne: Stuff That’s Loud: A Teen’s Guide to Unspiraling When OCD Gets Noisy (The Instant Help Solutions Series)

Separated Parents

• John Moran, Tyler Sullivan and Matthew Sullivan: Overcoming the Co-Parenting Trap: Essential Parenting Skills When a Child Resists a Parent
• See also this post specifically on additional resources.