Sometimes it’s difficult to know what to read to support your Emotional Healing journey. Because of that, I’ve put together a list of 100 Best Psychology/Self Help Books that will assist you in healing naturally.
Twelve Categories of the 100 Best Psychology/Self-Help Books:
1. Healing Anxiety and Depression
2. Adult Recovery from Dysfunctional Families
3. Healing Verbal and Emotional Abuse
4. Healing Sexual Abuse
5. Energy Healing
6. Antidepressants and Natural Alternatives
7. Healthy Relationships 8. Healthy Parenting
9. Finding Happiness
10. Affirmations and Visualization
11. Spirituality
12. Positive Prayer
1. The Best Books for Healing Anxiety and Depression
Healing Anxiety and Depression
The Anxiety & Phobia Workbook 
From Panic to Power: Proven Techniques to Calm Your Anxieties, Conquer Your Fears, and Put You in Control of Your Life
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy By David Burns
Beat the Blues Before They Beat You: How to Overcome Depression
Anxiety Free: Unravel Your Fears Before They Unravel You
Choosing Light-Heartedness, A 33 Day Journey to Overcome Anxiety, Depression and Dysfunctional Family Issues
Anxiety Rescue: Simple Strategies to Stop Fear from Ruling Your Life
Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
Undoing Depression: What Therapy Doesn’t Teach You and Medication Can’t Give You
Depressed and Anxious: The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Workbook for Overcoming Depression & Anxiety
10 Steps to Take Charge of Your Emotional Life: Overcoming Anxiety, Distress, and Depression Through Whole-Person Healing
2. The Best Books for Adult Recovery from Dysfunctional Families
The Journey from Abandonment to Healing: Turn the End of a Relationship into the Beginning of a New Life
It Will Never Happen to Me: Growing Up With Addiction As Youngsters, Adolescents, Adults
Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem
Healing the Shame that Binds You By John Bradshaw
Homecoming: Reclaiming and Championing Your Inner Child
Adult Children of Abusive Parents: A Healing Program for Those Who Have Been Physically, Sexually, or Emotionally Abused
Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life
Adult Children: The Secrets of Dysfunctional Families
An Adult Child’s Guide to What’s ‘Normal’
Outgrowing the Pain: A Book for and About Adults Abused As Children
The Child Abuse Recovery Workbook: Your Life is what Your Parents Made It – How to Make it Yours
Broken Toys Broken Dreams: Understanding and Healing Codependency, Compulsive Behaviors and Family
Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body
The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self
Journey Toward Complete Recovery : Reclaiming Your Emotional, Spiritual & Sexual Wholeness
Learning to Love Yourself: Finding Your Self-Worth By Sharon Wegscheider-Cruise
Lifeskills for Adult Children
3. The Best Books for Healing Verbal and Emotional Abuse
Emotional Vampires: Dealing With People Who Drain You Dry
Overcome Your Shame
The Verbally Abusive Relationship: How to recognize it and how to respond
Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You
Healing the Scars of Emotional Abuse
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
Speak Peace in a World of Conflict: What You Say Next Will Change Your World
Emotionally Free : Letting Go of the Past to Live in the Moment
4. The Best Books for Healing Sexual Abuse
Surviving Childhood Sexual Abuse: Practical Self-help For Adults Who Were Sexually Abused As Children
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse 20th Anniversary Edition
Beginning to Heal: A First Book for Men and Women Who Were Sexually Abused As Children
The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse By Wendy Maltz
Safe at Last: A Handbook for Recovery from Abuse
Abused Boys: The Neglected Victims of Sexual Abuse
5. The Best Books for Antidepressants and Natural Alternatives
The Anti-Depressant Fact Book: What Your Doctor Won’t Tell You About Prozac, Zoloft, Paxil, Celexa, and Luvox
The Chemistry of Joy: A Three-Step Program for Overcoming Depression Through Western Science and Eastern Wisdom
“Addiction”
Depression-Free, Naturally: 7 Weeks to Eliminating Anxiety, Despair, Fatigue, and Anger from Your Life
America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics And How We’ve Been Deceived
Natural Prozac: Learning to Release Your Body’s Own Anti-Depressants
6. The Best Books for Energy Healing
Five Simple Steps to Emotional Healing: The Last Self-Help Book You Will Ever Need
Freedom at Your Fingertips: Get Rapid Physical and Emotional Relief with the Breakthrough System of Tapping
7 Minutes to Natural Pain Release
The Secret of Instant Healing
The Healing Code
Instant Emotional Healing: Acupressure for the Emotions
Instant Pain Elimination: How to Stop the Pain You Feel in 2 Minutes or Less
7. The Best Books for Healthy Relationships
How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving
Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 20th Anniversary Edition
Receiving Love: Transform Your Relationship by Letting Yourself Be Loved
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus: The Classic Guide to Understanding the Opposite Sex
The Gift of Betrayal: How to Heal Your Life When Your World Explodes By Eva Wood, M.D.
Conscious Loving: The Journey to Co-Commitment
Fighting for Your Marriage: A Deluxe Revised Edition of the Classic Best-seller for Enhancing Marriage and Preventing Divorce
The New Intimacy: Discovering the Magic at the Heart of Your Differences
Family First: Your Step-by-Step Plan for Creating a Phenomenal Family
8. The Best Books for Healthy Parenting
Parenting With Love And Logic By Foster Cline and Jim Fay
Attachment Parenting: Instinctive Care for Your Baby and Young Child
Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids: 7 Keys to Turn Family Conflict into Cooperation
Tapping for Kids: A Children’s Guide to Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) By Angie Muccillo
Trauma-Proofing Your Kids: A Parents’ Guide for Instilling Confidence, Joy and Resilience
The Continuum Concept: In Search Of Happiness Lost By Jean Liedloff
Positive Discipline
9. The Best Books for Finding Happiness
The Ultimate Happiness Prescription: 7 Keys to Joy and Enlightenment
The Art of Happiness, 10th Anniversary Edition: A Handbook for Living
Happiness Now: Timeless Wisdom for Feeling Good FAST
ENJOY LIFE! Healing with Happiness
Emotional Freedom: Liberate Yourself from Negative Emotions and Transform Your Life
Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillment
Happy for No Reason: 7 Steps to Being Happy from the Inside Out
10. The Best Books for Affirmations and Visualization
The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits
The Power
Creative Visualization: Use the Power of Your Imagination to Create What You Want in Your Life By Shakti Gawain
You Can Heal Your Life
The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World
Your Destiny Switch: Master Your Key Emotions, and Attract the Life of Your Dreams
Zero Limits: The Secret Hawaiian System for Wealth, Health, Peace, and More
11. The Best Books for Spirituality
Guilt is the Teacher, Love is the Lesson
The Presence Process: A Journey into Present Moment Awareness
Alchemy of the Heart
The Ten Commitments: Translating Good Intentions into Great Choices
Free to Love, Free to Heal: Heal Your Body by Healing Your Emotions
True Love: A Practice for Awakening the Heart
Love Is Letting Go of Fear
Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon’s Experience with Exceptional Patients
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment
A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose By Eckhart Tolle
A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of “A Course in Miracles”
12. The Best Books for Positive Prayer
Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine
Handbook of Positive Prayer
Prayers for Healing: 365 Blessings, Poems, & Meditations from Around the World
Miracle Prayer: Nine Steps to Creating Prayers That Get Results
Divine Guidance: How to Have a Dialogue with God and Your Guardian Angels
Illuminata: A Return to Prayer
13. The Best Books for Healing Your Body Naturally
Mind Over Medicine: Scientific Proof That You Can Heal Yourself
Love, Medicine and Miracles: Lessons Learned about Self-Healing from a Surgeon’s Experience with Exceptional Patients
Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips
Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It!
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My three favorite self-help books are: Your erroneous zones ( Wayne Dyer ) Personhood ( Leo Buscaglia) and Risking ( Viscott ). Digesting them can lead to big understandings and perhaps even life changes as needed.