books

It’s time again to look at my book pile. As usual, this won’t be a complicated, dense review — just a quick list of what I’m reading right now.

I don’t intentionally read books that have things in common during the same span of time, but I enjoy wondering if there are unintended connections among my interests. See if you can find the connections between the title of this blogpost and my current reading list:

Creative Grieving: A Hip Chick’s Path from Loss to Hope
by Elizabeth Berrien

Standards of Care for the Health of Transsexual, Transgender, and Gender Nonconforming People
by The World Professional Association for Transgender Health

The Solution-Focused Marriage: 5 Simple Habits That Will Bring Out the Best in Your Relationship
by Elliott Connie

The title of this blogpost came to me in a flash. Did those 4 separate words bring you here, too, out of curiosity?

No plans for a high-level, complicated essay on the concepts — spirituality, madness, children, resilience. Just a quick list of the books currently on my reading shelf, all of which I’ve recommended to clients in recent weeks. Some were recommended to me by clients. Some I’ve read in the past, some I’m reading in the present.

The Spiritual Gift of Madness: The failure of psychiatry and the rise of the Mad Pride Movement, by Seth Farber, Ph.D.

10 Principles for Spiritual Parenting: Nurturing your child’s soul, by Mimi Doe with Marsha Walch, Ph.D.

Resilient: How to grow an unshakable core of calm, strength, and happiness, by Rick Hanson, Ph.D. with Forrest Hanson

I’ve wanted to write a brief post on books I read, without actually reviewing them, for long time. And as I looked at my current pile and wondered how they fit together, if at all, the title came to me — and I was intrigued.

Aren’t words fascinating?

Are these words —

Spirituality

Madness

Children

Resilience

— connected or disconnected, to you?