Looking for Help or Encouragement?

The Delphi Public Library may have just what you need …

Here is just a sampling of self-help materials found on the library shelves. Ask a staff person for help in finding these and more titles.

Conquering Depression, Fear, or Anxiety

Triumph over fear: a book of help and hope for people with anxiety, panic attacks, and phobias
By Jerrilyn Ross                                                   616.85 Ross

Mastering your mood: temperament types, comfort zones, and the psychobiology of emotions
By Melvin Kinder                                                 152.4 Kinder

Getting your life back: the complete guide to recovery from depression
By Jesse Wright                                                  616.85 Wright

End the struggle and dance with life: how to build yourself up when the world gets you down
By Susan Jeffers                                                  158.1 Jeffers

Dark nights of the soul: a guide to finding your way through life’s ordeals
By Thomas Moore                                                204.42 Moore

Painfully shy: how to overcome social anxiety and reclaim your life
By Barbara G. Markway                                         616.85 Markway

The anxiety & phobia workbook
By Edmund J. Bourne                                           616.85 Bourne

Taking Care and Control of Yourself

Self nurture: learning to care for yourself as effectively as you care for everyone
By Alice Domar and Henry Dreher                           305.42 Domar

Spring cleaning for the soul: love lessons for life: an inspirational guide for finding financial and spiritual abundance right where you are
By Joy Krause                                                     158.1 Krause

The success principles: how to get from where you are to where you want to be
By Jack Canfield                                                  158 Canfield

Finding your own north star: claiming the life you were mean to live
By Martha Beck                                                   158.1 Beck

Choices: taking control of your life and making it matter
By Melody Beattie                                               170.44 Beattie

Never good enough: freeing yourself from the chains of perfectionism
By Monica Ramirez Basco                                     155.2 Basco

In control: no more snapping at your family, sulking at work, steaming in the grocery line, seething at meetings, stuffing your frustration
By Redford and Virginia Williams                           152.4 Williams

Don’t worry, make money: spiritual and practical ways to create abundance and more fun in your life
By Richard Carlson                                               332.024 Carlson

Finding Happiness

Happiness is a choice
By Barry Neil Kaufman                                         158 Kaufman

The pursuit of happiness: who is happy and why
By David G. Myers                                               158 Myers

Feeling good: the new mood therapy
By David D. Burns                                               158.1 Burns

How to want what you have: discovering the magic and grandeur of everyday existence
By Timothy Miller                                                170 Miller

The nine fantasies that will ruin your life and the eight realities that will save you
By Joy Browne                                                    158 Browne

Stumbling on happiness
By Daniel Gilbert                                                 158 Gilbert

The happiness hypothesis: finding modern truth in ancient wisdom
By Jonathan Haidt                                               170 Haidt

Happiness: lessons from a new science
By P.R.G. Layard                                                 170 Layard

The saints’ guide to happiness: everyday wisdom from the lives of the saints
By Robert Ellsberg                                               248.4 Ellsberg

The art of happiness: a handbook for living
By the Dalai Lama                                               294.3 Bstan

Your tomorrows can be different from your yesterdays
By H. Norman Wright                                           248.4 Wright

Battling Addiction

7 tools to beat addiction
By Stanton Peele                                                 616.86 Peele

Hooked but not helpless: kicking nicotine addiction
By Patricia L. Allison                                            362.296 Allison

Controlling your drinking: tools to make moderation work for you
By William R. Miller                                             613.81 Miller

Alcoholism, drug addition, and the road to recovery: life on the edge
By Barry Stimmel                                                 362.29 Stimmel

Achieving Mind-Body Wellness

Stop being your symptoms and start being yourself
By Arthur Barsky and Emily Deans                          616 Barsky

Mind your heart: a mind/body approach to stress management, exercise, and nutrition for heart health
By Aggie Casey                                                   613 Casey

Instant emotional healing: acupressure for the emotions
By Peter T. Lambrou                                            616.89 Lambrou

Ageless body, timeless mind: the quantum alternative to growing old
By Deepak Chopra                                               612.6 Cho

Brain fitness: anti-aging strategies for achieving super mind power
By Bob Goldman                                                  153.1 Goldman

Managing Stress

When your body gets the blues: the clinically proven program for women who feel tired and stressed and eat too much
By Marie Annette Brown                                       616.85 Brown

Good stress, bad stress: an indispensable guide to identifying and managing your stress
By Barry Lenson                                                  155.904 Lenson

StressRelief for disasters great and small: what to expect and what to do from day one to year one and beyond
By Georgia Witkin                                               155.9 Witkin

The how-to-be book: a fable with exercises to take the stress out of your life
By Thomas Thiss                                                 155.9 Thiss

Dealing with Grief

On grief and grieving: finding the meaning of grief through the five stages of loss
By Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler           155.9 Kubler-Ross

Awakening from grief: finding the way back to joy
By John E. Welshons                                            155.9 Welshons

Life after loss: conquering grief and finding hope
By Raymond A. Moody                                          155.9 Moody

Mourning and dancing: a memoir of grief and recovery
By Sally Downham Miller                                       155.9 Miller

The grief recovery handbook: the action program for moving beyond death, divorce, and other losses
By John W. James                                               152.8 James