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Rating:
4.2 / 5.0

Darby Bonomi’s UNSHRINKABLE: Why Strong Women Secretly Criticize, Diminish, and Thwart Themselves...and How to Stop offers valuable lessons and actionable steps to help women build...

February 17, 2026

THERAPY IS WEIRD

By Joshua Ericson
Rating:
3.5 / 5.0

Though it's a bit repetitive, THERAPY IS WEIRD sees Joshua Ericson offering a reliable and comforting look into the therapy process. Readers can confidently refer...

IR Approved
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0

Richard Ryan’s THE WARRIOR’S GARDEN: Tools for Guarding Your Mind Against Big Tech diagnoses real problems in language that will both inform and compel its...

IR Approved
Rating:
4.3 / 5.0

Part philosophical inquiry, part scientific primer, Zoltan Cendes’s THE OBJECTIVIST’S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY: Answers to the Ultimate Questions of Life, the Universe, and Everything...

IR Approved
Rating:
5.0 / 5.0

Deborah M. Foster’s WHAT'S SO BAD ABOUT BEING POOR? is an essential text for anyone seeking to understand poverty beyond statistics and stereotypes—a vivid reminder...

IR Approved
Rating:
4.4 / 5.0

Those struggling with depression, anxiety, or stress will find many accessible forms of cordial encouragement in Dr. Heidi McKenzie’s highly organized I JUST WANT TO...

IR Approved
November 11, 2024

I’M NOT STUPID, I HAVE HEARING LOSS

By Tracy L Markley
Rating:
4.6 / 5.0

Raw, revelatory, and suffused with hard-won wisdom, Tracy L. Markley's I'M NOT STUPID, I HAVE HEARING LOSS is a must-read memoir that challenges entrenched myths...

IR Approved
October 28, 2024

TOO MUCH

By Cindy Lee Neighbors
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0

Challenging but rewarding, Cindy Lee Neighbors’s TOO MUCH is an incisive memoir of the soul-crushing dysfunction of both medical and military culture in the US.

IR Approved
Rating:
4.0 / 5.0

Balancing harsh realities with more lyrical reflections, John Frederick Zurn's METAMORPHOSIS: From Mental Illness to Spiritual Awakening provides an insight into the author's psyche and...

IR Approved
Rating:
5.0 / 5.0

Augustine Meier's PRACTICAL CLINICAL SUPERVISION FOR PSYCHOTHERAPISTS is a well-researched, well-argued study of a subject that will only grow in importance.

Rating:
3.0 / 5.0

More accessible than some self-help books, but still a challenge to unravel, TRAVELERS WITHIN (Journeys Into Being Human And Beyond) by Val Jon Farris takes...

IR Approved
Rating:
4.3 / 5.0

Utilizing her personal journey as a decades-long case study, Rebecca L. Brown’s SHELTER FROM OUR SECRETS, SILENCE, AND SHAME is a self-help-infused memoir that offers...

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