Originally posted here: FDS-Approved Self-help Books
In-Depth Learning: Self-help and vital information for women
Spotting Red Flags
📔 Why Does He do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men || Lundy Bancroft
📔 The Gift of Fear || Gavin De Becker
📔 Emotional Blackmail || Susan Forward
📔 Game's People Play || Eric Berne
📔 In Sheep's Clothing & Character Disturbance || George K Simon
📔 Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking || Malcom Gladwell
📔 Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know || Eric Berne
📔 Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception ||Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, Susan Carnicero, Don Tennant
📔 Dangerous Personalities: An FBI Profiler Shows You How to Identify and Protect Yourself from Harmful People || Joe Navarro
📔 The Definitive Book of Body Language: How to read others' attitudes by their gestures || Allan Pease
📔 What Every Body Is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-reading People || Joe Navarro
📔 Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us || Robert. D. Hare
📔 Becoming Bulletproof: Protect Yourself, Read People, Influence Situations, and Live Fearlessly || Evy Poumpouras
Childhood Trauma
📔 Complex PTSD || Pete Walker
📔 The Human Magnet Syndrome || Ross Rosenberg
📔 Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents || Lindsay Gibson
📔 Growing up Again || Jean Illsley Clarke and Connie Dawson
📔 The Body Keeps the Score || Bessel van der Kolk
📔 It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle || Mark Wolynn
Healing
📔 Boundaries || Henry Cloud, John Townsend
📔 Psychopath Free || Jackson MacKenzie
📔 When I Say No I Feel Guilty || Manuel J. Smith
📔 The Art of Saying No || Damon Zahariades
📔 Not Nice || Aziz Gazipura
📔 Codependent No More || Melanie Beatty
📔 Beyond Codependency || Melanie Beatty
📔 Women Who Love Too Much || Robin Norwood
📔 Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect || Jonice Webb
📔 Running on Empty No More: Transform Your Relationships With Your Partner, Your Parents and Your Children || Jonice Webb
📔 Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy || David Burns
📔 The Sexual Healing Journey || Wendy Maltz
📔 Fed Up: Emotional Labor, Women, and the Way Forward || Gemma Hartley
📔 The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress Tolerance || Matthew Mckay
Self Improvement
📔 The Power of Habit || Charles Duhigg
📔 Atomic Habits || James Clear
📔 The Defining Decade || Meg Jay
📔 Daring Greatly || Brene Brown
📔 The Four Agreements || Don Miguel Ruiz
📔 How to Break Out of Prison || John Wareham
📔 Getting Things Done || David Allen
📔 Highly Intuitive People: 7 Right-Brain Traits to Change the Lives of Intuitive-Sensitive People || Heidi Sawyer
📔 The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People || Stephen R. Covey
📔 The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up || Marie Kondo
📔 The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck || Mark Manson
📔 When Things Fall Apart || Pema Chodron
📔 The Power of Now || Eckhart Tolle
📔 The Bullet Journal Method || Ryder Carroll
📔 Applying Psychology to Everyday Life || Kenneth Strongman
📔 Why We Sleep || Matthew Walker
📔 Insecure in Love || Leslie Becker Philips
Female Empowerment, History & Education
📔 Women who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype || Clarissa Pinkola Estés
📔 Women Who Launch: The Women Who Shattered Glass Ceilings || Marlene Wagman-Geller
📔 Outspoken: 50 Speeches by Incredible Women from Boudicca to Michelle Obama || Deborah Coughlin
📔 Cupcakes and Kalashnikovs: 100 Years of the Best Journalism by Women || Eleanor Mills
📔 Book of Awesome Women Writers: Medieval Mystics, Pioneering Poets, Fierce Feminists and First Women of Literature || Becca Anderson
📔 The Warrior Goddess Training Program: Becoming the Woman You Are Meant to Be || HeatherAsh Amara
📔 Goddesses in Every Woman: Powerful Archetypes in Women's Lives || Jean Shinoda Bolen
📔 Bygone Badass Broads: 52 Forgotten Women Who Changed the World || Mackenzi Lee, Petra Eriksson
📔 Bad Girls Throughout History || Ann Shen
📔 In Praise of Difficult Women || Karen Karbo
📔 Women and Power: A Manifesto || Mary Beard
📔 I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and was Shot by the Taliban || Malala Yousafzai, Christina Lamb
📔 The Story of Ruth Bader Ginsburg || Susan B Katz (An inspiring biography about the famous female lawyer who fought to establish sex discrimination legislation in the US during the 70's)
📔 The Truth Will Set You Free, But First It Will Piss You Off: Thoughts on Life, Love and Rebellion || Gloria Steinem
📔 City of Omens || Dan Webb ( About the harms of the sex trade and the women who go missing at the South American border)
📔 Your Silence Will Not Protect You: Essays and Poems || Audre Lorde
📔 The Creation of Patriarchy || Gerda Lerner
📔 The Suffragettes || Penguin Little Black Classics
Health and Fitness
📔 The Happy Kitchen: Good Mood Food || Rachel Kelly
📔 Period Power || Maisie Hill
Special Section: Recommendation by Forum Members
Credit to @erythrura
📔 Invisible Women. Exposing data bias in a world designed for men || Caroline Criado Perez
📔 How to win friends and influence people || Dale Carnegie
Credit to @Runner_Woman
📔 The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility || Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
📔 Taking Charge of Your Fertility, 20th Anniversary Edition: The Definitive Guide To Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, And Reproductive Health || Toni Weschler
Credit to @supernova
📔 Making space: women and the man-made environment
📔 Down girl: The logic of misogyny
📔 In Defense of Witches: The Legacy of the Witch Hunts and Why Women Are Still on Trial
Credit to @golddustwoman
📔 All About Love || Bell Hooks
📔 Communion: The Female Search for Love || Bell Hooks
📔 Obsessive Love: When It Hurts too Much to Let go || Susan Forward
📔 Unrequited: Women and Romantic Obsession || Lisa Phillips
📔 Overcoming Unwanted and Intrusive Thoughts || Sally Winston
📔 Witches, Midwives, and Nurses: A History of Women Healers || Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English
📔 Lost Goddesses of Early Greece || Charlene Spretnak
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