Below you will find many of the books Rick and the other therapists recommend on a regular basis.  We recommend leaders read these and also refer them to their groups as additional relevant education. 

Betrayal

• Keep Walking: 40 Days to Hope and Freedom After Betrayal - a Devotional written by our own Survivors' Blogger, Lynn Cherry
• Worthy of Her Trust by Stephen Arterburn and Jason B. Martinkus
• Not Just Friends by Shirley P. Glass
• Healing Your Marriage When Trust is Broken by Cindy Beall
• Rebuilding a Marriage Better than New by Cindy Beall
• Private Lies by Frank Pittman
• When Godly People do Ungodly Things by Beth Moore
• After the Affair by Janis A. Spring
• Unfaithful: Hope and Healing After Infidelity by Gary and Mona Shriver

Marriage

• Boundaries in Marriage by Henry Cloud and John Townsend (used in Married for Life following EMSO/EMSW courses)
• Love Must be Tough by James Dobson
• Intimacy Ignited by Linda Dillow and Lorraine Pintus
• Restoring the Pleasure by Penner & Penner
• Crucial Conversations by Patterson
• Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski 

Shame

• Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
• Shame Interrupted by Edward T. Welch

Forgiving

• How Can I Forgive You by Janis A. Spring
• Forgive for Good by Frederic Luskin
• Stuck: How to Overcome Your Anger and Reclaim Your Life by Remy Diederich
• The Gift of Forgiveness by Charles Stanley

Lust and Sexual Addiction

• Every Man's Battle by Stephen Arterburn and Fred Stoeker
• Out of the Shadows by Patrick J. Carnes Ph.D.
• Surfing for God by Michael John Cusick
• Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions by Gerald G. May

Co-Dependency

• One-Way Relationships by Alfred Ells
• When People Are Big and God is Small by Edward T. Welch

Trauma

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van derk Kolk M.D.
• Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine
• Trauma and Memory by Peter A. Levine Ph.D. and Bessel A. van der Kolk M.D.

Spiritual Growth

• Strong Women, Soft Hearts by Paula Rinehart
• The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck
• The People of the Lie by M. Scott Peck
• Abba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging by Brennan Manning
• Wild at Heart by John Eldredge

Uncategorized

• Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy by David D. Burns M.D.
• The Grief Recovery Handbook by John W. James & Russell Friedman