Thrive Growth & Recovery: Recommended Books

‍Anxiety/Depression

Anxious for Nothing - Max Lucado: A handbook on casting all thoughts into obedience with Jesus Christ and His will for your daily walk.

Light in the Darkness - Gary Lovejoy, PhD and Gregory Knopf, MD: A deep understanding of depression, its roots, and the potential invitation to light and healing that come from it.

Out of the Cave - Chris Hodges: A short study and handbook for overcoming the impacts of depression in the life of a believer. Finding relief in God’s divine design for our humanity.

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Personal Growth, Healing, Relationships

5 Days to a New Self - Terry Hargrave, PhD, LMFT, and Sharon Hargrave, LMFT: Learning to relate to yourself and others in healthier ways.

Doing Life with Your Adult Children - Jim Burns: Understanding your changing role as a parent of an adult child living with you or languishing rather than thriving in God’s purpose.

For Men Only - Shaunti and Jeff Feldhahn: A primer for men on understanding the needs and heart of a woman.

Get Your Life Back - John Eldridge: Explores ways that we can challenge a comfort culture that has caused us to settle for less or to regress in our emotional, mental, and spiritual life.

Life Without Lack: Living in the Fullness of God - Dallas Willard: Resets our perspectives on living fully in God’s provision, protection, and purpose for our lives.

Our Mothers, Ourselves - Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend: Examining difficult relationships with a mother.

Tired of Trying to Measure Up - Dr. Jeff Van Vonderen

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Recovery

Boundaries - Dr. Henry Cloud and Dr. John Townsend

Codependent No More - Melody Beattie

Father Wound - Kathy Rodriguez

On the Threshold of Hope - Diane Langberg, PhD: 

The New Codependency - Melody Beattie

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Women

Captivating - Stacy Eldridge: Discovering and celebrating God’s design for a woman’s heart.

Enough - Sharon Jaynes: Addressing long held beliefs about how you measure up as a woman.

Made to Crave - Lysa Terkeurst: Exchange cravings for food with cravings for a life-giving relationship with God.

Your Best Yes - Lysa Terkeurst: Learning to prioritize your gifts and talents for God’s kingdom and your well-being.

Unglued - Lysa Terkeurst: Identifying and taming the internal emotional triggers that cause undesirable reactions or resentment in your relationships.

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Spiritual Growth

A Guide for Listening and Inner-Healing Prayer - Rusty Rustenbach

Draw the Circle - Mark Batterson: Learning about and establishing a dedicated circle of believers who cover each other in intentional prayer.

Emotionally Healthy Spirituality - Peter Scazzaro

Emotionally Healthy Relationships - Peter Scazzaro

How People Grow - Dr. Henry Cloud: Acknowledges that deep learning comes from internalized understanding based on an emotional tie to healthy behaviors.

Moving Mountains - John Eldridge: Learning to pray authoritatively for consecration, listening, healing, and against spiritual warfare.

Resilient - John Eldridge: Recognizing God as the source of living water that quenches our thirst when our own resilience has run dry.

The Rest of God - Mark Buchanon: Revisits our concept of Sabbath and reorients us toward soul care.

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