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Self-Awareness
Strengths Finder 2.0 - Tom Rath
This book works to unlock readers’ natural talents and provide strategies to reach their highest potential by focusing on developing strengths rather than fixing “flaws.”
Flow, Creativity and the Evolving Self - Mihaly Csikzentmihalyi
This book looks at the “flow,” a state of mind that allows for great creativity, positivity, and engagement with life.
Necessary Endings - Henry Cloud
This book encourages readers to make impactful changes to unlock their full potential with fulfilling lives—though goodbyes are likely to be part of the challenge.
The 9 Types of Leadership: Mastering the Art of People in the 21st Century Workplace - Beatrice Chestnut
This book outlines the 9 enneagram types under the lens of leadership, but the information in The 9 Types of Leadership has value in every relationship, working directly with each type’s patterns and habits for readers to understand themselves better and work on breaking those cycles.
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You - Elaine N. Aron
This book focuses on familiarizing the reader with their “highly sensitive” trait—a characteristic that makes one deeply process stimuli and finds themself easily stimulated by it (among other things). The Highly Sensitive Person helps readers work with their traits to establish healthy relationships and work through strained ones of the past.
Courage To Be Disliked - Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
With information that some call “liberating,” Courage To Be Disliked encourages readers to be their fullest, happiest selves by letting go of guilt, shame, and other negative emotions tied up in “being liked.”
Relationships
Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No To Take Control of Your Life - Henry Cloud and John Townsend
Boundaries helps you set healthy limits with the people in your life—partners, friends, co-workers, yourself. This book helps readers work through guilt and shame surrounding boundaries so they can maintain healthy relationships.
Radical Candor - Kim Scott
Though aimed more for working relationships, Radical Candor still provides valuable groundwork for 4 types of relationships—manipulative insincerity, obnoxious aggression, ruinous empathy (where most of my clients fall), and the strong bonds of radical candor—a type of relationship with healthy limits where BOTH people matter.
Messages (The Communication Skills Book) - Matthew McKay
As the title suggests, this book outlines strategies for strong communication—a key factor in all healthy relationships. From conflict resolution to effective communication with your first family, Messages is a great foundational book for stronger connections.
OliveMe Counseling YouTube Channel
My Youtube Channel has short, 5-10 minute videos on a variety of topics—including personal growth. If you’re looking for bite-sized resources on relationships, my channel is a great place to start your search. Like the video below, I suggest books and other resources related to the video’s topic.
Other resource pages
Here’s a compilation of links to other resource pages that all lead to personal growth.
