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Books about Mindfulness
- General
- Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn [ The classic MBSR reference ]
- Fierce Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff
- Good Morning, I Love You: A Guided Journal by Shauna Shapiro
- Trusting the Gold by Tara Brach
- 10% Happier by Dan Harris
- The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems by Ron Siegel
- Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Mindful Compassion by Paul Gilbert
- Good Morning, I Love You by Shauna Shapiro
- Fully Present by Susan Smalley and Diana Winston
- Breath by Breath: The Liberating Practice of Insight Meditation by Larry Rosenberg
- Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg
- Heal Thy Self by Saki Santorelli [ past director of UMass Center for Mindfulness ]
- Calming Your Anxious Mind by Jeff Brantley
- Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Henepola Gunaratana (partial text available online)
- Pain and Illness
- How To Be Sick by Toni Bernhard
- Back Sense: Halting the Cycle of Chronic Back Pain by Ron Siegel
- Living Well with Pain & Illness by Vidyamala Burch
- Here For Now: Living Well with Cancer by Elana Rosenbaum
- Mindfulness for Children
- Not a book, but in a class all its own, for young children: Wee Meditate
- Good Morning, I Love You, Violet! by Shauna Shapiro
- Mindful Me by Whitney Stewart and Stacy Peterson
- The Mindful Child by Susan Kaiser Greenland
- U Is for Understanding - Claire's journey toward mindfulness by Jana York
- Growing Up Mindful by Christopher Willard
- The Mindful Teen by Dzung X. Vo
- Kindness Curriculum (free, Center for Healthy Minds, Univ of Wisconsin-Madison)
- I Am Here: My Mindful Morning by Lizelle Tucci
- See, Hear, Feel: Mindfulness for Children by Emmanuelle Giumelli
- Karma the Horse Learns Mindfulness by L. Claudine Song
- Sitting Still Like a Frog: Mindfulness Exercises for Kids by Eline Snel
- A Still Quiet Place by Amy Saltzman
- Mindful Mama Podcast and Blog by Hunter Clarke-Fields
- The Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workbook for Kids by Lawrence Shapiro and Robin Sprague
- Child's Mind: Mindfulness Practices to Help Our Children by Christopher Willard
- Mindful Kids (online resources from nuns/monks of Plum Village in France)
- See also the "Mindfulness for Children" section in Mindfulness Training
- Mindfulness and Parenting
- Mindful Discipline by Shauna Shapiro
- Everyday Blessings: The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting by Jon Kabat-Zinn
- Buddhist Authors
- It's Easier than You Think: A Buddhist Way to Happiness by Sylvia Boorstein
- Don't Just Do Something, Sit There by Sylvia Boorstein
- The Wisdom of no Escape and the Path of Loving-Kindness by Pema Chodron
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron
- Everyday Zen: Love and Work by Charlotte Joko Beck
- Nothing Special: Living Zen by Charlotte Joko Beck
- A Path with Heart: A guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life by Jack Kornfield
- Psychotherapy
- Below are just some of the many good books about mindfulness and psychotherapy. How a clinician integrates mindfulness into their work is a very personal thing. No one does this precisely the same way. See Mindfulness in Psychotherapy for a description of my own journey of bringing mindfulness to my clinical practice. - Dave Potter
- Mindfulness and Psychotherapy by Christopher Germer, Ron Siegel, Paul Fulton
- The Art and Science of Mindfulness by Shauna Shapiro & Linda Carlson
- Sitting Together: Essential Skills for Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy by Pollak & Pedulla
- Focusing in Clinical Practice by Ann Weiser Cornell
- Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine
- Healing Trauma: ...Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body by Peter Levine
- The Body Bears the Burden by Robert Scaer
- The Body Remembers & The Body Remembers Casebook by Babette Rothschild
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
- Mindfulness ...in Psychotherapy by Katie Witkiewitz
- Descartes' Error by Antonio Demasio
- Thoughts Without A Thinker: Psychotherapy From a Buddhist Perspective by Mark Epstein
- Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective On Wholeness by Mark Epstein
- Ordinary Mind: Exploring the Common Ground of Zen and Psychoanalysis by Barry Magid
- The Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy - other books on mindfulness and psychotherapy
- See also Psychotherapy and Mindfulness - Presentation given at Antioch University
by Dave Potter May 29, 2020
