Books

Unlearn Your Pain by leading Mind-Body practitioner & researcher Dr. Howard Schubiner. A comprehensive workbook which explains the brain science responsible for chronic pain and medically unexplained symptoms, Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT), and journaling for emotional awareness & expression processing of symptoms. The first 2 chapters are FREE on the website. Buy the workbook in English or Spanish for about $25-$30 from the website or from an online retailer. You will have access to the online pain & symptom reprocessing meditations after purchase. See also Unlearn Your Anxiety & Depression.

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In Unlearn Your Pain: The Science of Recovering from Chronic Pain, Fatigue, Anxiety, and Depression, Dr. Howard Schubiner shares in inspiring and step-by-step detail the program steeped in the latest neuroplasticity research that has proven most effective. The source of much of chronic pain is neurological and the book details a revolutionary program to better health that has saved thousands from a lifetime of misery and depression. Dr. Schubiner describes the latest research and practices between the mind-body connection, all confirmed by clinical trials and studies.

The Pain Reprocessing Therapy Workbook: Using the Brain's Neuroplasticity to Break the Cycle of Chronic Pain by Vanessa M. Blackstone and Olivia S. Sinaiko. Pain reprocessing therapy (PRT)—the most effective current treatment for chronic pain—is a highly streamlined, evidence-based method that actually retrains the brain to accurately interpret sensory signals from the body, interrupting the perpetual pain cycle so you can find some relief. You’ll begin by exploring the ins and outs of how pain works, with special emphasis on understanding the critical relationship between pain and fear. You’ll also discover a wealth of in-the-moment tips to help you quickly recognize the aspects of life that trigger or aggravate your pain—so you can handle it quickly, healthily, and move on with less pain.

Mind Your Body, by psychotherapist Nicole Sachs, is a comprehensive resource for understanding and applying the mind-body connection to healing. It distills 20 years of best practices into a single, accessible guide, giving you the tools to transform your health and reclaim your life. Includes JournalSpeak exercises to uncover and release repressed emotions. Download worksheets to support and guide your healing journey.

The Way Out by Alan Gordon, LCSW & Alon Ziv. This is a humorous and easy read by Gordon, a pain psychologist who recovered from his own chronic back pain, and Ziv, a neuroscientist. You’ll understand the science behind chronic pain and how to get started on your own with Pain Reprocessing Therapy (PRT). Paperback from online retailer is about $20 + shipping.

In They Can't Find Anything Wrong: 7 Keys to Understanding, Treating, and Healing Stress Illness, David Clark, MD (president of the Association for the Treatment of Neuroplastic Symptoms), shares a life-changing approach to stress Illness that is based on detailed interviews with and successful treatment of over 7000 patients. Dr. Clarke goes beyond the typical lifestyle/stress management guides with his perceptions about finding and removing hidden impediments to lasting and meaningful change. Throughout the book, Dr. Clarke uses numerous case histories of patients he has treated.

In Think Away Your Pain: Your Brain is the Solution to Your Pain, Dr. David Schechter shows you how to use the immense power of your thoughts and beliefs to literally change the neural circuitry of your brain. Dr. Schechter combines scientific evidence with 25 years of directly related clinical experience and psychological insight to teach a systematic method to control and eliminate pain with the mind.

Chronic Pain: Your Key to Recovery, by English physiotherapist Georgie Oldfield. The self-empowering approach is backed up by research that supports the body’s response to stress as the root of many common complaints, including; back pain, sciatica, migraines, fibromyalgia, repetitive strain injuries, digestive disorders and other medically unexplained symptoms.

The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity by Norman Doidge, MD. This New York Times bestseller explains how the amazing process of neuroplastic healing works.

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté, MD with his son Daniel Maté. This book untangles common myths about what makes us sick, connects the dots between the maladies of individuals and the declining soundness of society—and offers a compassionate guide for health and healing.

When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection by Gabor Maté, MD explores the role of the mind-body link in conditions and diseases such as arthritis, cancer, diabetes, heart disease, IBS, and multiple sclerosis. He draws on medical research and his own clinical experience as a family physician.

An international bestseller translated into fifteen languages, When the Body Says No promotes learning and healing, providing transformative insights into how disease can be the body’s way of saying no to what the mind cannot or will not acknowledge.

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk. Drawing on more than 30 years at the forefront of research and clinical practice, Bessel van der Kolk shows that trauma literally reshapes both brain and body.

Mind Over Medicine - Revised Edition: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself by Lissa Rankin, MD. New York Times bestseller. Through the process of restoring her own health, Dr. Lissa Rankin discovered that the conventional health care she had been taught to practice was missing an appreciation for how we can control self-healing mechanisms with the power of our own consciousness.

In Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One, Dr. Joe Dispenza bridges the gap between the sciences of quantum physics, neuroscience, brain chemistry, biology, and genetics to show you what is truly possible. Not only will you be given the necessary knowledge to change any aspect of yourself, but you will be taught the step-by-step tools to apply what you learn to make measurable changes in any area of your life. 

The Biology of Belief, by cell biologist Bruce H. Lipton, PhD, explains how all the cells of your body are affected by your thoughts. Using simple language, illustrations, humor, and everyday examples, he demonstrates how the new science of epigenetics is revolutionizing our understanding of the link between mind and matter, and the profound effects it has on our personal lives and the collective life of our species.

In It’s Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self, psychotherapist Hilary Jacobs Hendel presents readers with a unique and pragmatic tool which she calls The Change Triangle-a guide to carry you from a place of disconnection back to your true self. Working the Change Triangle is the step-by-step process at the heart of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), a therapeutic method that teaches patients to identify the defenses and inhibitory emotions (shame, anxiety, and guilt) that prevent them from being in touch with their core emotions (joy, anger, sadness, fear, and excitement).

In allowing ourselves to fully experience core emotions, we move toward an openhearted state where we are calm, curious, connected, compassionate, confident, courageous, and clear. Through moving, persuasive stories of working the Change Triangle with her own patients, Hendel teaches us how to apply these principles to our everyday lives.

The Power of Now, by Eckart Tolle has been widely recognized as one of the most influential spiritual books of our time. The book has helped countless people around the globe awaken to the spiritual dimension in their lives, find inner peace, increased joy and more harmonious relationships.

To make the journey into the Now, we will need to leave our analytical mind and its false created self, the ego, behind. We become connected to the indestructible essence of our Being, “The eternal, ever present One Life beyond the myriad forms of life that are subject to birth and death.” Although the journey is challenging, Eckhart Tolle uses simple language and an easy question-and-answer format to guide us. 

In A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose, Eckhart Tolle shows how transcending our ego-based state of consciousness is not only essential to personal happiness, but also the key to ending conflict and suffering throughout the world. Tolle describes how our attachment to the ego creates the dysfunction that leads to anger, jealousy, and unhappiness, and shows readers how to awaken to a new state of consciousness and follow the path to a truly fulfilling existence.

Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser (cofounder of the Omega Institute in New York). Re-released in 2020, and updated for these challenging times, this book features a new introduction and tools to support readers through life’s difficulties.

During times of transition, amid everyday stress, and even when we face seemingly insurmountable adversity, life offers us a choice: to turn away from change or to embrace it; to shut down or to be broken open and transformed.

In the New York Times bestseller Broken Open, a beautifully crafted blend of moving stories, humorous insights, practical guidance, and personal memoir, Elizabeth Lesser offers tools to help us make the choice we all face in times of challenge: Will we be broken down and defeated, or broken open and transformed?

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by neuroscientist Sam Harris, PhD is for the 20% of Americans who follow no religion, but who suspect that important truths can be found in the experiences of such figures as Jesus, the Buddha, Lao Tzu, Rumi, and the other saints and sages of history. Throughout this book, Harris argues that there is more to understanding reality than science and secular culture generally allow, and that how we pay attention to the present moment largely determines the quality of our lives. Waking Up is part memoir and part exploration of the scientific underpinnings of spirituality.

In Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, Annaka Harris guides us through the evolving definitions, philosophies, and scientific findings that probe our limited understanding of consciousness. Where does it reside, and what gives rise to it? Could it be an illusion, or a universal property of all matter? As we try to understand consciousness, we must grapple with how to define it and, in the age of artificial intelligence, who or what might possess it.

An illuminating meditation on the self, free will, and felt experience, CONSCIOUS offers lively and challenging arguments that alter our ideas about consciousness—allowing us to think freely about it for ourselves, if indeed we can.

In The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher’s Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient, William B. Irvine explains how centuries-old wisdom can help us better cope with everything from the everyday stresses of modern living to its significant crises. He uniquely combines insights from ancient Stoics like Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus with techniques discovered by contemporary psychological research, such as anchoring and framing. The result is Irvine’s surprisingly simple, updated “Stoic test strategy,” which teaches us how to dramatically alter our emotional response to life’s stumbling blocks. Not only can we overcome these obstacles, we can benefit from them, too.

In God at the Edge: Searching for the Divine in Uncomfortable & Unexpected Places, Niles Elliot Goldstein is a young rabbi who sets out to find God in tough and often scary situations: dogsledding above the Arctic Circle, taking the Silk Road into Central Asia without a visa, being chased by a grizzly bear, cruising with DEA agents through the South Bronx, and spending a night in jail in New York City’s Tombs. He explores the connections between struggle and growth, fear and transcendence, and uncertainty and faith, seeking the boundary where the finite meets the Infinite. Goldstein discovers that it can sometimes take a journey to the edge to recognize God’s presence in our lives.

Jewish With Feeling: A Guide to Meaningful Jewish Practice by Rab­bi Schachter-Shalo­mi is a high­ly read­able and prac­ti­cal guide to find­ing spir­i­tu­al ful­fill­ment in a mod­ern world. Schol­ar, mys­tic, teacher, friend to spir­i­tu­al teach­ers from Thomas Mer­ton to the Dalai Lama, from Ram Dass to Native Amer­i­can elders, Schachter-Shalo­mi writes about time, God, rit­u­al, mitz­vah, prayer and oth­er top­ics. Divid­ed into two parts, ​“The Torah of Today” and ​“The Torah of Tomor­row,” the chap­ters explain the mean­ing of Jew­ish tra­di­tions and offer obvi­ous and unex­pect­ed ways of fus­ing them to your lifestyle.

What the Mystics Know: Seven Pathways to Your Deeper Self, by American Franciscan monk, Richard Rohr. Each chapter examines one of the seven core mystical truths. Rohr identifies the despair of everyday life, promotes opportunities for change even in the face of pain, and encourages transforming one's deeper self into a beacon of light that aids in the metamorphosis of others. Illuminating these insights with reflections on Christian and Jewish scriptures while citing the greatest religious writers throughout the ages, Rohr offers an unparalleled window into the wisdom of the mystics in this succinct volume that represents the best of his vast library of writing.

In Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the 2 Halves of Life American Franciscan priest Richard Rohr helps readers come to terms with the two halves of life. In this book, Rohr teaches us that we can’t understand the meaning of "up" until we have fallen "down." More importantly, Rohr describes what "up" can look like in the second half of life.

Most of us tend to think of the second half of life in chronological terms, but this book proposes a different paradigm. Spiritual maturity is found "when we begin to pay attention and seek integrity" through a shift from our "outer task" to the "inner task." What looks like falling down can be experienced as falling upward―and is not necessarily connected with aging. This new edition focuses on practical guidance that you can use to live a life of love and meaning in a world of suffering and challenge.

Everyday Zen by Charlotte Joko Beck is free online as a pdf. Charlotte Joko Beck, the late founder and teacher at the Zen Center of San Diego, offers a warm, engaging, uniquely American approach to using Zen Buddhism to deal with the problems of daily living—love, relationships, work, fear, ambition, and suffering. Everyday Zen shows us how to live each moment to the fullest.

Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek, by Alan Watts. In order to come to your senses, Alan Watts often said, you sometimes need to go out of your mind. Perhaps more than any other teacher in the West, this celebrated author, former Anglican priest, and self-described spiritual entertainer was responsible for igniting the passion of countless wisdom seekers to the spiritual and philosophical delights of India, China, and Japan.

With Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek, you are invited to immerse yourself in six of this legendary thinker's most engaging teachings on how to break through the limits of the rational mind and expand your awareness and appreciation for the great game unfolding all around us. Distilled from Alan Watts’s pinnacle lectures, Out of Your Mind brings you an inspiring new resource that captures the true scope of this brilliant teacher in action.

Susan Gregg's The Toltec Way: A Guide to Personal Transformation brings sacred wisdom to modern readers. The gift of the Toltec is the ability to transcend ordinary human awareness and achieve personal freedom—the ability to choose how to act rather than react to the events in your life. The three Toltec Masteries of Awareness, Transformation, and Intent are the key to transcending your limitations and experiencing yourself as the creator of your life.

Designed to make Toltec wisdom accessible and simple, this book is about change, transforming yourself, and the wildly empowering freedom of personal responsibility. Included in each chapter are exercises and guided visualizations, along with parable-like stories that are powerful sources of wisdom.