The Well

Books

Susan Beekman and Jeanne Holmes, Battles, Hassles, Tantrums & Tears: Coping With Conflict and Creating a Peaceful Home : Good Housekeeping Parent Guide (Good Housekeeping Parent Guides)
We wrote this book together while raising our kids and exploring peacemaking at home with other parents. It’s still full of practical ways to deal respectfully with yourself and your children.

Byron Katie, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
A classic introduction to the most powerful and life-changing form of inquiry that I know.

Byron Katie, A Thousand Names for Joy: Living in Harmony with the Way Things Are
Stephen Mitchell, translator of the Tao Te Ching, combines the text with commentary by Byron Katie, bringing a fresh point of view to the ancient text.

Byron Katie, I Need Your Love - Is That True?: How to Stop Seeking Love, Approval, and Appreciation and Start Finding Them Instead
“If I prayed for one thing, it would be, “Lord, deliver me from the need for love, approval, and appreciation.” Here’s the guide.

Martha Beck, Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live
Chock full of exercises to help you understand your social self while connecting with your essential self.

Martha Beck, Steering by Starlight: Find Your Right Life, No Matter What!
Research-based guidance for finding your own unique destiny and learning to steer with your own guidance.

Martha Beck, The Four Day Win: End Your Diet War and Achieve Thinner Peace
An absolutely complete guide to making befriending your body at the same time you lose weight.

Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha
Traces a deepening path for connecting to true and radical self-love.

Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
An encyclopedic look at the power of awareness of the moment, quoting and connecting sacred texts and figures from Jesus to Buddha.

Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
Enough said. I pick it up to remind myself.

Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
A powerful and radical vision of change, beginning with your own mind.

Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Shambhala Classics)
I have probably read this book more times than any other. Deeply compassionate and healing.

Brooke Castillo, If I'm So Smart, Why Can't I Lose Weight?: Tools to Get it Done
Clever, simple and profound guide to changing the way you think about food and eating forever.

Jill Bolte Taylor, My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey
Harvard neuroanatomist’s experience of a stroke and what her right hemisphere taught her. Bolte’s deep and hard-earned wisdom is a gift to all of us seeking to understand our own minds.

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Draw it up. Water from the well.
—Traditional Spiritual

These words to an African American spiritual rang in my mind when I decided to name my practice Oasis. Here are some of the deep wells that continue to inspire and renew me in my journey.