Mental Wellness Books Available at COTD

All of the books below are available for check out in the COTD library or available for purchase at the CONNECT wall in the back of the sanctuary.  
Our library hours are: Sundays, from 10:30-11:00 am & Wednesdays, from 4:00-5:00 pm

Hope & Healing for Unhealthy Anger

This workbook helps us to see all our emotions, including anger, as gifts from God and part of what it means to be created in His image and with His help, we can begin to express it in healthy, productive, God-honoring, relationship-building ways.

Hope & Healing for Grief

This workbook shows how to move into our sorrow so we can move through it; moving from asking “why “to “what now”?

Hope & Healing for Loneliness

This workbook reminds us that God’s divine design for all of us is to be connected. We are helped to understand the nature of loneliness, given concrete steps toward meaningful connections and encouraged to take those steps.

Hope & Healing for Depression

After exploring the sources and symptoms of depression, this workbook presents a pathway, through God’s power, to work through the depression, restoring laughter and gratitude and recover joy and purpose in life.

A Vision for Change

Whether your loved one faces addiction, mental illness, or even if you don't know what underlies a change in your loved one's behavior, you need to advise of a trusted team of experts. From finding help all the way to urgent intervention, the authors are your experts to show you the way. 

The New Codependency

This is a follow-up volume to Beattie’s groundbreaking work Codependent No More. This book clears up misconceptions about codependency and provides guidance in learning how to be who we are and reclaim our lives by renouncing unhealthy practices.

Boundaries

People often focus so much on being loving and giving they forget their own limits. This book shows how to set healthy boundaries in all your relationships in order to have the freedom to walk as the loving, giving, fulfilled individual God created you to be.

Facing Codependence: What it is, Where it Comes From, How it Sabotages Our Lives

This book provides a framework for identifying codependent thinking, emotions and behavior and provides an effective approach to recovery.

Recovering from Losses in Life

Certified trauma expert H. Norman Wright shows how to work through loss and come out a stronger person on the other side.

How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal From Your Past and Create Your Self

Dr. Nicole LePera, a holistic psychologist, shows readers how to recognize their core beliefs, identify conditioned thought patterns, and tune into their own intuition in a process of reconnecting to their true selves.

Forgiving What You Can't Forget

With deep empathy, therapeutic insight and rich Bible teaching, Lisa Terkeurst shows how to let go bound up resentment and overcome the resistance to forgiving people who aren’t willing to make things right.

Attached: The Science of Adult Attachment and How it can Help You Find and Keep Love

This book will help the reader understand whom they are attracted to as partners, why and what they can do to reach fulfillment in love.

Don’t Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning and End of Suffering

This book offers a completely new paradigm and understanding of where our human experience comes from allowing us to end our own suffering and create how we want to feel at any moment.

Anxious for Nothing: Finding Calm in a Chaotic World

Based on Philippians 4:6-7, Max Lucado shows how we can invite God to reframe the way we face our fears and win the war on worry.

You’ll Get Through This: Hope and Help for Your Turbulent Times

Lucado shows us how God is in the business of redeeming the broken and will help us through whatever tough times we are going through. God will use this mess for good.

Retrain Your Brain: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in Seven Weeks

Seth J. Gillihan’s goal in writing this book is to introduce the reader to a set of skills that can help relieve anxiety and depression.

Get Out of Your Head: Stopping the Spiral of Toxic Thoughts

Allen shows how we allow false thoughts about who we are influence our thoughts about who God is and how he will work in our lives. When we stop our spinning minds and escape toxic thinking patterns, and submit to the mind of Christ, the promises and goodness of God will flood our lives in remarkable ways.

Communicating Your Feelings (Without Starting a Fight)

The techniques in this book will help you have less defensive and more effective communications with others.

Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience

Brown takes us on a journey through 87 emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. We are given the language and tools to access a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection.

Life Skills Mental Health Workbook

This workbook helps students grade 5-8 with a variety of life skills ranging from living a healthy lifestyle to decisions about the future.

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

This book reveals 7 principles that can guide couples on a path toward a harmonious and long-lasting relationship.

The Journey of the Heroic Parent

In writing this book, Reedy has taken lessons learned from his work in wilderness therapy and shares them with parents who are struggling to learn how to turn their children’s lives and successes over to them.

Change Your Brain, Change Your Life

This book shows how the science of SPECT brain scans is being used to treat anxiety, depression, anger, obsessions and compulsion by understanding how the brain structure correlates to these conditions and how this understanding is being used to heal the brain.

Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change and Thrive in Work and Life

David, a leading authority on how our thoughts, emotions and motives can empower or derail us, shows readers how to create meaningful change in their lives in order to thrive.

Safe House: How Emotional Safety is the Key to Raising Kids Who Live, Love and Lead Well

Dr. Straub draws from his extensive research and personal experience to show parents how they can provide their children a place of emotional safety, the key to raising children who will live, love and lead well.

Experiencing Grief

This is a very practical guide for those journeying through the experience of the loss of a loved one.