Books, Music & Movies, Links
Books
Melody Beatty (Melody was at the front end of describing co-dependency)
Co-Dependent No More
Judith Bemis/Amr Barrada (exceptional book that has changed lives)
Embracing the Fear: Learning How to Manage Anxiety and Panic Attacks
Claudia Black (great writer about being a child of an alcoholic)
It Will Never Happen to Me
Joan Borysenko, PhD
Minding the Mind, Mending the Body
John Bradshaw
Home Coming: Reclaiming and Championing your Inner Child
Brene’ Brown (just read all she’s written)
The Gifts of Imperfection
Daring Greatly
Frederick Buechner
Telling Secrets-A Memoir
A Room Called Remember
Dom Helder Camara
A Thousand Reasons for Living
Ian Cron
Chasing Francis
Marliee P Dunker (excellent read on the distortions of faith in the lives of a christian leader)
Days of Glory, Seasons of Night
Victor Frankl
Man’s Search for Meaning
Abraham Joshua Heschel (beautiful book)
I Asked For Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology
Robert Hicks (one of the best books describing this life as a male)
Masculine Journey
(Out of print but worth the search)
Barbara Johnson—the Geranium lady, her first book
Where Does a Mother Go to Resign?
Alan Jones
Exploring Spiritual Direction: An Essay on Christian Friendship
James Kavanaugh
Tears and Laughter of a Man’s Soul
Will You Still Love me?
And on the sixth day God made man…HONEST?
Ernest Kurtz/Katherine Ketcham
The Spirituality of Imperfection: Story Telling & The Search for Meaning
Nate Larkin
Samson Society and the Pirate Monks
Mike Lew
Victim No Longer: The Classic Guide for Men Recovering from Sexual Child Abuse
Brennan Manning
Abba’s Child
The Ragamuffin Gospel
Reflections for a Ragamuffin (Daily)
Ruthless Trust
Gerald May
Addiction and Grace
Brian McLaren
A Generous Orthodoxy
A New Kind of Christian
The Last Word…and the Word after That
Wayne Muller
How Then, Shall We Live? Four Simple Questions That Reveal the Beauty and Meaning of Our Lives
Legacy of the Heart: The Spiritual Advantages of a Painful Childhood
Sabbath: Restoring the Sacred Rhythm of Rest
Joseph Nassal
Faith Walkers: Passages of Suffering and Hope
Mark Nepo (I still always have a Nepo book going)
Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What is Sacred
The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have
The Exquisite Risk: Daring To Live An Authentic Life
The Endless Practice: Becoming Who You Were Born to Be
The One Life We’re Given: Finding the Wisdom that Waits in Your Heart
Kent Nerburn
Letters to My Son: A Father’s Wisdom on Manhood, Life & Love
Neither Wolf nor Dog
The Wolf at Twlight
The Girl who Sang to Buffalo
Henri Nouwen
Can You Drink the Cup?
Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
The Inner Voice of Love: A Journey through Anguish to Freedom
The Return of the Prodigal Son
The Road to Daybreak: A Spiritual Journey
The Wounded Healer
Eleanor Payson, MSW (best I’ve ever read about Narcissistic Personality Disorder)
The Wizard of Oz and other Narcissists
Michael Quoist
Prayers
Richard Rohr (I love this man, a mentor for many years now)
Wild Man to Wise Man: Reflections on Male Spirituality
Adam’s Return
Everything Belongs
Falling Upward
Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi
What the Mystics Know: Seven Paths to Your Deeper Self
Breathing Underwater
Divine Dance
Universal Christ
The Wisdom Pattern: Order/Disorder/Reorder
Lewis Smedes
How Can It Be All-Right When Everything Is All-Wrong?
Janis Abrahms Spring
After the Affair: Healing the Pain & Rebuilding Trust When a Partner has Been Unfaithful
Barbara Brown Taylor
An Altar in the World
Leaving Church
Learning to Walk in the Dark
Holy Envy
Macrina Wiederkehr
Season’s of Your Heart-Prayers and Reflections
A Tree Full of Angels-Seeing the Holy in the Ordinary
Seven Sacred Pauses
Christian Wiman (great book)
My Bright Abyss
Janet Woititz
Children of Alcoholics
Philip Yancey
What’s So Amazing About Grace?
The Jesus I Never Knew
Soul Survivor: How My Faith Survived the Church
Reel Therapy via the movies
The Kid The Kid
understanding our inner childPeaceful Warrior
male mentoring / life wisdom (exceptional)Ordinary People
family dysfunctionThe Great Santini
family disjunctionTrip to Bountiful
aging & family dynamicsCry My Beloved Country
racismSimon Birch
preadolescent coming of ageDr. Strange
men’s work/ egoThe Shack
experiencing God/ refining our theologyAurora Borealis (2005)
dealing with death/dyingOne Week (2008)
dealing with death/dying
Music
Beth Nielson Chapman – Sand and Water
Beth Nielson Chapman – Deeper Still
Hammock - Universalis & Silencia
Daily Meditation Books
Listening to Your Life
by Frederick BuechnerBread for the Journey: A Daybook of Wisdom and Faith
by Henri NouwenReflections for Ragamuffins
by Brennan ManningMy Utmost for His Highest
by Oswald ChambersLiving the Message
by Eugene Peterson (translator of The Message)A Year with C.S. Lewis: Daily Readings from His Classic Works
by C. S. LewisGlimpses of Grace: Daily Thoughts & Reflections
By Madeleine L’ EngleThe Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present in the Life You Have
by Mark NepoOn the Threshold of Transformation: Daily Meditations for Men
by Richard RohrJesus Calling
by Sarah YoungThe Spring within Us
Richard Rohr