There is so much information on the Internet and in books, it can be overwhelming. The following resources are some of my favorites and from what appeared to be trustworthy sources.
Parenting/Family
Parenting from the Inside Out: How A Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive
by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and Mary Hartzell, M.Ed.
Born out of a series of parents’ workshops that combined Siegel’s cutting-edge research on how communication impacts brain development with Hartzell’s thirty years of experience as a child-development specialist and parent educator, Parenting from the Inside Out guides parents through creating the necessary foundations for loving and secure relationships with their children.
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
The Attachment Connection: Parenting a Secure and Confident Child Using the Science of Attachment Theory
by Ruth P. Newton, PhD
This book sorts out the facts from the fiction about parent-child attachment and shows how paying attention to the emotional needs of your child, particularly during the first five years of development, can help him or her grow up happy, secure, and confident. You’ll discover how your child’s brain is developing at each stage of growth and learn to use reasonable, easy-to-implement guidelines based on sound science to foster secure attachment, healthy social skills, and emotional regulation in your child.
The Out-of-Sync Child Has Fun: Activities for Kids with Sensory Processing Disorder
by Carol Stock Kranowitz, M.A.
Chock full of fun and functional activities to improve children’s sensory systems (touch, movement and balance, body position, vision, hearing, smelling and tasting) and their sensory-related skills (oral-motor skills, motor planning, fine-motor skills, bilateral coordination and crossing the midline).
Building Emotional Intelligence
by Linda Lantieri
Pioneering educator Linda Lantieri offers a breakthrough guide for helping children quiet their minds, calm their bodies, and identify and manage their emotions. Here are Lantieri’s proven techniques arranged according to age group. Emotional Intelligence is the definitive guide to cultivating resiliency in children.
Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (A New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook)
by Steven C. Hayes with Spencer Smith
A general purpose ACT workbook. RCTs show that it works as an aid to ACT or on its own, but it will also keep new ACT therapists well oriented.
General Health and Nutrition Education
As a reminder, I am not a doctor or nutritionist and am therefore not an expert on health or nutrition. Please consult the experts. Talk to your primary care physician before making any decisions about your health, and consult a nutritionist about the best eating plan for you.
Brain Maker
by David Perlmutter, M.D.
Dr. Perlmutter explains the potent interplay between intestinal microbes and the brain, describing how the microbiome develops from birth and evolves based on lifestyle choices, how it can become “sick,” and how nurturing gut health through a few easy strategies can alter your brain’s destiny for the better. With simple dietary recommendations and a highly practical program of six steps to improving gut ecology, Brain Maker opens the door to unprecedented brain health potential.
Wellness Uprising
by Rob Pell
Wellness Uprising delivers long-term, drug-free, health solutions based on time-tested wisdom – a far better approach. The solutions offered function within the framework of the wisdom that has kept humans alive and healthy since the beginning of time. This will help you understand why so many of today’s so-called medical “advances” often fall short, or may even cause you great harm.
Documentaries
Food Matters
Hungry for Change
What’s With Wheat?
Forks over Knives
Kids Menu
What The Health
Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead
Fed Up
Sugar Coated
Fat: A Documentary
Un-Inflame Me: Reversing the American Diet & Lifestyle
Diet Fiction
Additional Resources
Declaration for Mental Health Treatment