Recommendations to get started today on the road to a better self, arranged by topic
Anxiety
Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life (workbook), by Steven C Hayes, Ph.D.
For Children
Depression
Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer Johnson, Kenneth Blanchard
It’s Not Always Depression, by Hilary Jacobs Hendel, LCSW
Complex-PTSD/childhood trauma
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz
Reinventing Your Life: The Breakthough Program to End Negative Behavior…and Feel Great Again by Jeffrey E. Young , Janet S. Klosko , et al.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
Marriage
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John M. Gottman PhD, Nan Silver, et al.
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
After the Affair, by Janis Spring
The Five Love Languages, by Gary Chapman
Self Esteem
I Thought It Was Just Me, by Brené Brown
Teens
Don’t Let Emotions Run Your Life, by Sheri Van Dijk
Family relationships
Codependent No More, by Melodie Beattie
Boundaries, by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
The Mind Renewed 