Gottman Relationship Institute – resources from 30 years of research on how to have happy relationships that will last

Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg – techniques for better communication and dealing effectively with conflict

Center for Non-Violent Communication – articles and audio clips on how to express your needs without generating defensiveness in your partner

Imago Dialogue 101 – simple dialogue script to practice a way of communicating with your partner that will help strengthen connection  

ACT with Love by Russ Harris – techniques from Acceptance and Committment Therapy for letting go of ideas that cause difficulties in your partnership

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield – an examination of resistance, and how it keeps us from doing the important things in our lives

Getting Unstuck by Pema Chodron – ideas for coping with difficulty, seeing new perspective and changing what you do

Grapefruit by Yoko Ono – ways to shake up your brain and get out of the box

Kaiser’s Guided Imagery Program – FREE! Listen to or download various stress reduction, relaxation, imagery, mindfulness, and pain management audio programs

Calming Your Anxious Mind by Jeffrey Brantley – mindfulness techniques for fear and anxiety

The Underachiever's Manifesto by Ray Bennett – thoughts to help perfectionists remove some of the pressure and enjoy life more

1-2-3- Magic by Thomas Phelan – straightforward ways to manage your child's behavior

Still Quiet Place by Amy Saltzman – mindfulness for kids and their parents

Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman – A guide for understanding your child on an emotional level and learning how to communicate & interact in healthy ways

TED video programs – FREE! Online videos of lectures from some of the most interesting psychologists and neuroscientists of our time. Check out How the Mind Works, under "More Featured Themes".  Or do a search for Jill Bolte, Philip Zimbardo, VS Ramachandran, Robert Sapolsky, Michael Merzenich, Oliver Sacks, Marvin Minsky, Steven Pinker, or Richard Dawkins. 


my mind is
a big hunk of irrevocable nothing which touch and taste and smell
and hearing and sight keep hitting and chipping with sharp fatal
tools
in an agony of sensual chisels i perform squirms of chrome and ex
-ecute strides of cobalt
nevertheless i
feel that i cleverly am being altered that i slightly am becoming
something a little different, in fact
myself
Hereupon helpless i utter lilac shrieks and scarlet bellowings.
    – e.e. cummings

Dr. Brooke Armstrong provides counseling and psychotherapy for anxiety, depression, creative block and relationships. Dr. Brooke Armstrong does couples counseling and marriounseling, sex therapy and stranagment.