JOURNALS & ESSENTIAL READING
Essential reading and structured prompts for stress tracking, gratitude, and daily emotional check-ins.
The Calm Woman Journal:
A Daily Practice for Regulation, Clear Thinking, and Intentional Living.
Journal for Women – Guided Mindfulness Journaling Notebook
A beautiful, structured journaling companion for navigating major life change. Includes prompts for grief work, identity exploration, values clarification, and visioning the next chapter. One of the most practically useful tools I recommend for the neutral zone.
Estrogen Matters by Dr. Avrum Bluming & Dr. Carol Tavris
The definitive, meticulously researched corrective to two decades of HRT misinformation. Written by an oncologist and a social psychologist, this book makes the case for HRT’s safety and efficacy with clarity, rigor, and compassion. Required reading for any woman trying to make an informed decision about her hormonal health.
Rising Strong — Brené Brown
Brown’s exploration of how we rise after falling — how we face shame, process failure, and write new stories about our experiences — is deeply applicable to the post-divorce identity journey. Her research on vulnerability and shame resilience provides a practical and emotionally honest framework for reconstruction.
Worry for Nothing:Guided Anxiety Journal:
Techniques to help you deconstruct your anxious thoughts and rebuild them in a more accurate and productive way
The Nervous System Reset Journal: Prompts for Emotional Release, Gratitude and Daily Regulation:
Soothing prompts, grounding pages, and compassionate guidance to help you slow down, breathe deeper, and feel supported within your own body again.
Start Where You Are — Meera Lee Patel
A beautifully designed guided journal for self-discovery and identity exploration. The prompts are thoughtful, accessible, and particularly suited to the kind of open-ended questioning that identity reconstruction after divorce requires. One of the most frequently recommended journals in my practice.
Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes — William Bridges
The foundational book on life transitions, now in a fully revised edition. Bridges’s model of endings, the neutral zone, and new beginnings is the most clinically useful framework for understanding transition I have encountered in 15 years of practice. Required reading for anyone in the middle of major change.
The Menopause Journal — A Guided Companion
A beautiful guided journal specifically designed for women navigating the menopausal transition. Includes prompts for grief work, identity exploration, mood tracking, and visioning the next chapter. One of my most-recommended tools for this stage.
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience — Sheryl Sandberg & Adam Grant
A profoundly honest and research-grounded exploration of how we build resilience in the face of life’s hardest transitions. Sandberg’s personal experience of sudden loss combined with Grant’s research expertise makes this one of the most accessible and genuinely useful books on navigating major adversity.
Rebuilding: When Your Relationship Ends — Bruce Fisher & Robert Alberti
The most widely used and clinically respected guide to rebuilding after divorce. Now in its fourth edition, it walks through the emotional process in a structured, compassionate way that has helped millions of people find their footing after separation. I recommend this to virtually every client navigating post-divorce identity work.
The Artist’s Way — Julia Cameron
A classic for a reason. Cameron’s twelve-week program for creative recovery is also one of the most effective identity-reconstruction tools I know — particularly for women in midlife who are reclaiming parts of themselves that were set aside. Morning Pages alone can be genuinely transformative during a major transition.
The Menopause Brain by Dr. Lisa Mosconi
The most comprehensive, science-based, and compassionate book on what menopause actually does to the brain. Written by a neuroscientist. Absolutely essential reading for any woman navigating this transition — or supporting someone who is.
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