Resources
Looking for something different, or not sure if you’re ready for the commitment of coaching? Here are counselors, therapists, books, and resources my clients and I have found helpful.
Rebecca Whittaker, MS, LPC, NCC
www.RebeccaWhittaker.com 4178605346 - By appointment - Plaza Towers, Ste 508, Springfield, MO
Leslie Dawson, MEd, MS, Psychotherapist
www.lesliedawsonlpc.com - 4178308956
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We combine a thoughtful, human-centered approach with clear communication and reliable results. It’s not just what we do—it’s how we do it that sets us apart.
books
The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level - Gay Hendricks
With over 100,000 copies sold, New York Times bestselling author Gay Hendricks demonstrates how to conquer your hidden Upper Limit Problem, go beyond your internal limits, release outdated fears and learn a whole new set of powerful skills and habits to liberate your authentic greatness. Fans of Wayne Dyer, Eckhart Tolle, Marianne Williamson, and Gabrielle Bernstein will discover the way to break down the walls to a better life and step into their Zone of Genius.
The solution is to identify and dismantle the hidden barriers that hold you back.
Conquer Your Hidden Fear: Discover the Upper Limit Problem, the universal human tendency to sabotage ourselves when we achieve new levels of success.
Identify Limiting Beliefs: Uncover the four hidden barriers―such as a deep-seated feeling of being fundamentally flawed―that create a glass ceiling on your happiness and earnings.
Cultivate Success Habits: Learn to use the Ultimate Success Mantra to expand your capacity for joy, abundance, and love on a daily basis.
Live in Your Genius: Move beyond your Zone of Excellence to find and fully express your unique gifts, transforming work into a source of energy and satisfaction.
You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Aweome Life - Jen Sincero
A #1 New York Times bestseller with over 5 million copies sold!
The first ever self-development book to help millions of people around the globe transform their lives using humor, irreverence, and the occasional curse word—now updated and expanded for its 10th anniversary with a brand-new foreword, reader's guide, and more!
In this refreshingly entertaining guide to reshaping your mindset and your life, mega-bestselling author and world-traveling success coach Jen Sincero serves up 27 bite-sized chapters full of hilarious and inspiring stories, sage advice, loving yet firm kicks in the rear, and easy-to-implement exercises to help you:
Identify and change the self-sabotaging beliefs and behaviors that stop you from getting what you want.
Shift your energy and attract what you desire.
Create a life you totally love. And start creating it NOW.
Make some damn money already. The kind you've never made before.
By the end of You Are a Badass, you’ll understand how to blast past what’s holding you back, make some serious changes, and start living the kind of life that once seemed impossible.
I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Men’s Depression - Terrence Real
A bestseller for over 20 years, I Don’t Want to Talk About It is a groundbreaking and hopeful guide to understanding and destigmatizing male depression, essential not only for men who may be suffering but for the people who love them.
Twenty years of experience treating men and their families has convinced psychotherapist Terrence Real that depression is a silent epidemic in men—that men hide their condition from family, friends, and themselves to avoid the stigma of depression’s “un-manliness.” Problems that we think of as typically male—difficulty with intimacy, workaholism, alcoholism, abusive behavior, and rage—are really attempts to escape depression. And these escape attempts only hurt the people men love and pass their condition on to their children.
This groundbreaking book is the “pathway out of darkness” that these men and their families seek. Real reveals how men can unearth their pain, heal themselves, restore relationships, and break the legacy of abuse. He mixes penetrating analysis with compelling tales of his patients and even his own experiences with depression as the son of a violent, depressed father and the father of two young sons.
From Conflict to Courage: How to Stop Avoiding and Start Leading - Marlene Chism
A framework to help managers defuse disagreements in the workplace and turn conflict into an opportunity for growth.
Unresolved workplace conflict wastes time, increases stress, and negatively affects business outcomes. But conflict isn't the problem, mismanagement is.
Leaders unintentionally mismanage conflict when they fall into patterns of what Marlene Chism calls “the Three As:” aggression, avoidance, and appeasing. “These coping mechanisms are ways human beings avoid the emotions that come with conflict,” says Chism. In this book she shows how to fearlessly deal with conflict head-on by expanding your conflict capacity.
Conflict capacity is a combination of three elements. The foundation is the Inner Game—the leader's self-awareness, values, discernment, and emotional integrity. The Outer Game is the skills, tools, and communication techniques built on that foundation. Finally, there's Culture—the visible and invisible structures around you that can encourage or discourage conflict.
Chism offers exercises, examples, and expert guidance on developing all three elements. Leaders will discover techniques to increase leadership clarity, identify obstacles, and reduce resistance. They'll develop powerful skills for dealing with high-conflict people and for initiating, engaging in, and staying with difficult conversations.
Readers will learn that when they see conflict as a teacher, courageously face it, and continually work on transforming themselves, they can get the resolution they are seeking. They can change minds.
“A very practical and excellent how-to guide.” —Bill Stoller, CEO and founder, Express Employment Professionals
“An actionable blueprint for how to handle . . . difficult conversations.” —Tanveer Naseer, MS, Inc. Top 100 leadership and management expert, author of Leadership Vertigo
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents - Lindsay Gibson
A New York Times bestseller—with more than one million copies sold!
If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your childhood as a time when your emotional needs were not met, when your feelings were dismissed, or when you took on adult levels of responsibility in an effort to compensate for your parent’s behavior. These wounds can be healed, and you can move forward in your life.
In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect, and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood. By freeing yourself from your parents’ emotional immaturity, you can recover your true nature, control how you react to them, and avoid disappointment. Finally, you’ll learn how to create positive, new relationships so you can build a better life.
Discover the four types of difficult parents:
The emotional parent instills feelings of instability and anxiety
The driven parent stays busy trying to perfect everything and everyone
The passive parent avoids dealing with anything upsetting
The rejecting parent is withdrawn, dismissive, and derogatory