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The Balancing Act

Nedra Glover Tawwab is a therapist and the author of Set Boundaries, Find Peace. In this book she looks at the balance between depending on other people and protecting yourself. Giving too much can cost you your sense of self, and holding back too much can leave you isolated. She covers codependency, hyper independence and attachment styles, and each chapter ends with reflection prompts.

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Why Am I Like This?

Sabrina Zohar writes about the patterns people repeat in relationships. She uses psychology and nervous system research to explain where those patterns come from and how to break them. It came out in October.

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The New Attachment Theory

Thais Gibson's newest book on Integrated Attachment Theory moves past naming your attachment style and into the beliefs and needs underneath it, with a secure way of relating as the goal. It's the book I'd hand anyone who wants to understand the method from the source.

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Attached

Attachment theory without the textbook language, for anyone who has ever needed constant reassurance, or needed the opposite. Useful information to have before the first real fight about it.

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