10 of the Best Books to Gift This Holiday Season
Explore hand-selected favorites from PESI Publishing
PESI Team
Looking for the perfect gift for everyone on your holiday shopping list? Look no further! From workbooks to card decks to journals, PESI Publishing has a variety of titles that are sure to please. Give the gift of self growth with 10 of our favorite titles.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: The Workbook: A Toolkit for Editing Your Story and Changing Your Life
From New York Times bestselling author Lori Gottlieb, this empowering, one-of-a-kind workbook offers a step-by-step process for becoming the author of your own life by giving it a thorough edit."[Lori Gottlieb’s] book actually propelled me into the therapy field, and to be able to have a glimpse of Lori's own approach applied to myself made me feel like I was in the therapy room with her as my own therapy! It’s the ultimate companion to the original book."
~ Serena, Amazon customer
~ Serena, Amazon customer
Feeling Great: The Revolutionary New Treatment for Depression and Anxiety
David Burns, author of Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy, is back with a new and revolutionary high-speed treatment for depression and anxiety. You owe it to yourself to FEEL GREAT!"Using this book is as close to having personal therapy with Dr. Burns as one can possibly get—it's like having him right there in the room with you. This book actually achieves the ambitious goal of making extremely powerful and effective therapy available, accessible, and usable to the general public more than any resource I've seen."
~ Michael D. Greenwald, PhD, LCP
~ Michael D. Greenwald, PhD, LCP
Life Notes: A Guided Journal
It can be intimidating to stare at the pages of a blank journal, which is why this DIY memoir offers a step-by-step guide to express your thoughts, emotions, moments, and memories."This beautifully produced journal provides a clear structure for eliciting my own story that can be passed on for generations. It’s also a perfect gift to enable others to document and honor their parents’, grandparents’, aunts’, uncles’, cousins’, children’s, and friends’ lives."
~ Cyd Jenefsky, PhD, Vice Provost, University of the Pacific
~ Cyd Jenefsky, PhD, Vice Provost, University of the Pacific
RETHiNK Card Deck: Mindful Conversation Starters: 56 Questions to Encourage Compassion, Shift Perspective & Build Connection
At home, in the classroom, or running a clinical practice—these conversation cards are meant to get you thinking about who you are and how you interact with the world around you."My groups love these cards because they give them a chance to share things they normally wouldn’t even think about. They really work."
~ S. Gray, Amazon customer
~ S. Gray, Amazon customer
We All Have Parts: An Illustrated Guide To Healing Trauma With Internal Family Systems
With simple language and illustrations, this little book will help teach your adult and adolescent clients how to understand their trauma symptoms and how Internal Family Systems works to heal them."Colleen West has given us a gift. This little book paints a tender, evocative, and yet very clear picture of exactly how trauma impacts our beings. Equally vital, it provides an accessible, understandable, and wonderfully illustrated map for healing."
~ Patricia L. Papernow, author of Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships
~ Patricia L. Papernow, author of Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships
Healing Grief Card Deck: 55 Practices to Find Peace
This card deck from David Kessler, one of the world’s foremost experts on grief and grieving, has 55 practices that remind you that grief is evidence of your love."These cards are wonderful in that they have powerful and comforting messages. You can work your way through them at your own pace or hang on to one that comforts you until you are ready to move on. I just feel these cards are truly the gift that goes on giving!"
~ Dr. Debora Chelson, Amazon customer
~ Dr. Debora Chelson, Amazon customer
The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook: Practical Mind-Body Tools to Heal Trauma, Foster Resilience and Awaken Your Potential
Including strategies like mindfulness, yoga, EMDR, and relational therapy, bestselling author Dr. Arielle Schwartz provides this must-read approach to trauma recovery."In The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook, Dr. Arielle Schwartz presents her vast knowledge and understanding of neuroscience in a user-friendly way. Appropriate for clinicians and survivors of trauma alike, the skills and insights presented in this volume will help to transform lives. Wherever you are at in your healing journey, I highly suggest that you add it to your library."
~ Jamie Marich, PhD, LPCC-S, LICDC-CS, REAT
~ Jamie Marich, PhD, LPCC-S, LICDC-CS, REAT
Train Your Brain Card Deck: 100 Techniques to Heal Trauma and Build Resiliency
Developed by trauma expert Dr. Jennifer Sweeton, the techniques in this deck give trauma survivors tangible, body-based interventions to completely retrain their brains."I really like the presentation of information. There is enough to get a person going in the right direction without overwhelming or flooding them on the topic."
~ Amazon customer
~ Amazon customer
Reflect: Awaken to the Wisdom of the Here and Now
You'll journal. You’ll practice. And of course, you’ll reflect. Discover the wonder and stillness that exists for you as you tap into your unique human capacity for accessing meaning, presence, and wisdom."Rarely will you hold in your hands a book whose pages possess the power and potential of initiating self-transformation, inspiring a daily journey into open heart awareness, and deepening a connection to timeless wisdom. This book is an illuminating ode to awe!"
~ Randall Fitzgerald, author and journalist
~ Randall Fitzgerald, author and journalist
Transforming Grief & Loss Workbook: Activities, Exercises & Skills to Coach Your Client Through Life Transitions
Despite any loss your client may be experiencing, you can coach them to happiness again with exercises and activities derived from CBT, positive psychology, spirituality, mindfulness, and meditation."A wonderful book to help those who are grieving understand their loss in a different perspective and to gain hope and encouragement."
~ Amazon customer
~ Amazon customer
