Reading List

Beating Anger: The Eight-Point Plan for Coping with Rage

Here is the perfect book to help anyone from 16-75 years old to beat their anger – or help anyone else to do the same. Aimed at parents, families, young adults and teachers, social and youth workers, health care professionals, managers, customer service departments, psychotherapists and counsellors – there cannot be many men or women who have not felt uncomfortable when they are angry, and wondered what to do about it.

Mindfulness & the Art of Managing Anger: Meditations on Clearing the Red Mist

Mindfulness & the Art of Managing Anger explores the powerful emotion of toxic anger – what it is, why we experience it and how we can learn to control its destructive power through the very nature of mindfulness. Fusing Western and Buddhist thought, therapeutic tools, specific meditative practices and frank personal anecdotes, this book reveals how we can all clear the red mist for peaceful wellbeing.

It was a time for celebration in the office when it was discovered that Mikes book – Beating Anger, was featured in the Times lifestyle section on Saturday 2 February 2013. Written over 8 years ago, Beating Anger has been shortlisted as one of the top 15 self help books of all time by Cecillia d’Felice, a leading psychologist. Read more here

Our Favourites

1. Facing the Fire: Experiencing and Expressing Anger Appropriately by John Lee and Bill Scott (Bantam Doubleday Bell, 1997)
2. Full Catastrophe Living: How to Cope with Stress, Pain and Illness using Mindfulness Meditation by Jon Kabat-Zinn (Piatkus, 2001)
3. Get Some Headspace: 10 Minutes Can Make All the Difference by Andy
4. Puddicombe (Hodder & Stoughton, 2011)
5. Home Coming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child by John Bradshaw (Piatkus Books, 1999)
6. Mindfulness for Dummies by Shamash Alidina (John Wiley & Sons, 2010)
7. Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg (Puddle Dancer Press, 2003)
8. One to One: Self-Understanding through Journal Writing by Christina Baldwin (M. Evans & Co. Inc., 1977, updated 1991)
9. The Dark Side of the Light Chasers by Debbie Ford (Mobius, 2001)
10. The Mindful Manifesto: How Doing Less and Noticing More Can Help Us
11. Thrive in a Stressed-Out World by Dr Jonty Heaversedge and Ed Halliwell (Hay House UK, 2010)
12. The Path of Mindfulness Meditation: Finding Balance in the Midst of Chaos:
13. The Application of Mindfulness and Vipassana Meditation for Personal Transformation by Peter Strong (Outskirts Press, 2010)
14. The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle (Hodder, 2001)
15. Vinegar into Honey: Seven Steps to Understanding and Transforming Anger, Aggression and Violence by Ron Leifer (Snow Lion Publications, 2008)
16. Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation for Everyday Life  by Jon Kabat-Zinn (Piatkus, 2004)
17. Why Mars and Venus Collide: Improve Your Relationships by Understanding How Men and Women Cope Differently with Stress by John Gray (Harper Element, 2008)

Our Amazon Reading List

1. Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships – Daniel Goleman
2. Tears & Tantrums: What to Do When Babies and Children Cry – Aletha J. Solter
3. Growing Yourself Back Up – John Lee
4. Facing The Fire – John Lee
5. Homecoming – John Bradshaw
6. Healing The Shame That Binds You – John Bradshaw
7. The Family – John Bradshaw
8. Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman
9. Fire In The Belly – Sam Keen
10. The Sibling Society – Robert Bly
11. The Road Less Travelled – M Scott Peck
12. The Dance Of Anger – Harriet Lerner
13. The Dance Of Intimacy – Harriet Lerner
14. The Dance of Deception – Harriet Lerner
15. The Mother Dance -Harriet Lerner
16. Women Who Run With The Wolves – Clarissa Pinkola Estes
17. Reclaiming The Dark Feminine: The Price Of Desire – Carolyn Baker
18. Waking The Tiger – Peter Levine
19. Power And Control – Sandra Horley
20. Women Who Love Too Much – Robin Norwood
21. The Art Of Loving – Eric Fromm
22. The Essential Difference – Simon Baron Cohen
23. Anger At Work – Hendrie Weisinger
24. Don’t Take It Personally! – Elayne Savage
25. The Nice Factor Book – Robin Chandler& Jo Ellen Grzyb
26. Who Moved My Cheese – Spencer Johnson
27. The Private Life Of The Brain – Susan Greenfield
28. Why Men Don’t Listen & Women Can’t Read Maps – Allan & Barbara Pease
29. Nonviolent Communication – Marshall B Rosenberg
30. Stress Management For Busy People – Carol Turkington
31. Managing Stress In A Changing World – Susan Balfour
32. The Book Of Stress Survival – A Kirsta
33. Teach Yourself Managing Stress – Terry Looker & Olga Gregson
34. Eight Essential Steps To Conflict Resolution – Dudley Weeks
35. How To Disagree Without Being Disagreeable – Suzette Haden Elgin
36. Anger Management: A Practical Guide for Teachers, Parents and Carers – Adrian Faupel, Elizabeth Herrick, Peter Sharp
37. Breaking Up Without Cracking Up: Practical Guide to Separation and Divorce – Christopher Compston
38. The Anger Workbook – Lorraine Bilodeau
39. Overcoming Anger And Irritability – William Davies
40. Coping With Temper Tantrums – Nina Grunfeld
41. From Foetus to Child – Alessandra Piontelli
42. Managing Anger: Simple Steps to Dealing with Frustration and Threat – Gael Lindenfield