The resources on this page will assist with different therapies or difficulties you may be encountering. (The links to books and other materials to purchase are via Amazon and I receive a commission payment from any purchases made via the links as an affiliate. Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates.)
Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world
Mark Williams and Danny Penman. This is a really useful guide to the principles and practises of mindfulness and how to use them in day-to-day life. It also includes a CD of guided meditations.
Mindfulness: a practical guide to relieving pain, reducing stress and restoring wellbeing
Vidyamala Burch and Danny Penman. This is a follow-up to the above title but focuses on pain and how mindfulness can help to relieve it. Both of the authors have personal experience in using mindfulness for pain, plus they also teach on the subject.
The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion: Freeing Yourself from Destructive Thoughts and Emotions
Dr. Christopher Germer, PhD. Life is hard, but we make it harder on ourselves through undue expectations that can never be lived up to. This means that we spend our lives beating ourselves up, so can never be truly happy as we’ll always perceive ourselves as not good enough. It’s as if we believe that we can only be happy when we are perfect and life does not present any problems to us. That’s never going to happen. By taking a lighter, more accepting and understanding approach to ourselves and those around us, we can achieve that elusive happiness without anything ‘happening’, as we can achieve it through understanding rather than beating ourselves up for imaginary ‘failings’. This book is a complete life-changer and should be compulsory reading for everyone alive.
The Mindful Way Through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness
Williams, Teasdale, Segal, Kabat-Zinn. Jon Kabat-Zinn has pioneered a unique approach to the treatment of depression and other stress-related illnesses. Rather than ‘fixing’ us through drugs or lengthy periods of talking therapies, we can use mindfulness and meditation to allow us to ‘see’ what we really need to heal. This practise of regular mindfulness and awareness lifts the depressive feelings allowing us to discover our lives again. The book comes with an accompanying CD that can be used for step-by-step mindfulness meditation. This is an incredibly powerful treatment to use if you ever find yourself stuck in a depressive cycle or are prone to suffer from bouts of depression.
Full Catastrophe Living: How to cope with stress, pain and illness using mindfulness meditation
John Kabat-Zinn. This author is considered to be one of the primary founds of mindfulness in the modern age, and he helped to formulate the current therapeutic approach to it. This is quite and long detailed guide to the topic but is also very comprehensive.
Elain Aron. This is the original guidebook for people who people who are highly sensitive, written by the psychologist who first investigated and coined the term. It contains definitions and explanations of what it means to be highly sensitive together with some guidance on how to live in the world with the trait.
The Empath’s Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People
Dr Judith Orloff. Judith is an Empath, which many highly sensitive people also find themselves as, where they pick and feel other people’s emotions and sensations. This book is not just for Empaths though, as many people are naturally empathic, as are highly sensitive people.
The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius 
