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Moods

Rating: Five Stars The Feeling Good Handbook The Feeling Good Handbook
By: David Burns
ISBN: 0452281326
Lots of exercises for overcoming a variety of problems using a cognitive behavioural approach, this book is excellent.
Rating: Five Stars Mind Over Mood Mind Over Mood
By: Dennis Greenberger and Christine Padesky
ISBN: 0898621283
This is a great workbook for helping to deal with a wide variety of emotional problems using cognitive strategies.
Rating: Four Stars Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway
By: Susan Jeffers
ISBN: 0712671056
This book provides strategies for dealing with your voice of doom which holds you back from something you want or need to do.
Rating: Five Stars You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy: A Self Help book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy: A Self Help book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder
By: Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo
ISBN: 0743264487
A wonderfully helpful guide to understanding and coping with Attention Deficit Disorder in everyday life. It is not just helpful to adults with ADD but also to parents of children and adolescents struggling with this disorder as they gain insight into how ADD impacts their child's life.

Substance Abuse

Rating: Five Stars Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
By: Melody Beattie
ISBN: 0894864025
This is a best seller and excellent resource for those living with a partner who is suffering from alcohol or drug addiction. The author's personal experience describes self-care strategies and ways to feel less responsible for others.

Personal Effectiveness

Rating: Five Stars The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
By: Stephen Covey
ISBN: 0671663984
This has been a best seller for many years. The ideas here are excellent and have led to many spin off books. This book tends to appeal more to men.
Rating: Four Stars Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and it's All Small Stuff Don't Sweat the Small Stuff and it's All Small Stuff
By: Richard Carlson
ISBN: 0786881852
This book shows you how to keep the little things in life from driving you crazy. Its a best seller that has bred a number of spin off books.
Rating: Four Stars The Present The Present
By: Spencer Johnson
ISBN: 0385509308
A brief and engaging story which will help you focus on what will make you happy and successful in your work and personal life.
Rating: Four Stars Who Moved My Cheese? Who Moved My Cheese?
By: Spencer Johnson
ISBN: 0399147241
A brief, amusing and simple parable that reveals some profound truths about how each of us handle unexpected change.
Rating: Four Stars Whale Done: The Power of Positive Relationships Whale Done: The Power of Positive Relationships
By: Ken Blanchard
ISBN: 074323538X
Whale Done is a short and excellent transformational story about the power of focusing our energy towards positive outcomes rather than, as most of us do, wasting our energy on what is going wrong.
Rating: Four Stars How Full is Your Bucket How Full is Your Bucket
By: Tom Rath and Donald Clifton
ISBN: 1595620036
Organized around a simple metaphor of a dipper and a bucket, and based on solid research, this book will show you how to increase the positive moments in your work and personal life.
Rating: Three Stars Tuesdays with Morrie Tuesdays with Morrie
By: Mitch Albom
ISBN: 0307275639
This is the story of a man's love for his mentor. It is a great little book especially for men who are looking for more meaning in their lives.