At RED DOOR our team often recommend books for clients to read, to help them be motivated, heal, understand their situations, and stimulate change.

Attached are some of the books we recommend regularly. We put out blogs featuring book recommendations fairly regularly, so continue to follow our pages to keep your reading list fresh.

Take a look at just a few that we recommend regularly. One of these books could be an instrumental part of your journey to feeling differently.

Dare Greatly

Brené Brown

Brené Brown deserves her fandom status as a self-help guru.

Read any of the Brené Brown books including Dare Greatly, Rising Strong, or the Gifts of Imperfection to help you embrace your own vulnerability, be brave, accept yourself as you are, and review “the story you are telling yourself”.

Why RED DOOR recommends these books. Brené Brown books can help you start to be more realistic and kinder towards yourself. We all can better understand ourselves and challenge how we have interpreted situations. Often, we are too critical of ourselves. This can lead us into rigidity and unhappiness. Brené Brown books help us to start breaking down these critical patterns.

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Atomic Habits

James Clear

Clear’s central hypothesis is that small change compound into big impact. Start small habits and keeping them going is the key to substantive change.

Helping outline what makes a good habit, how to beak bad habits so that you can change outcomes, the cost of your behaviours, and even how you see yourself.

Why RED DOOR recommends this book. When people need to tackle change, and are struggling with motivation, I find this book a helpful resource for them help them frame their goals and understand how and when impact can occur.

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The Good Life: Lessons from the world’s longest scientific study of happiness.

Robert Waldinger & Marc Schulz

This book is built out of a bedrock of research from the Harvard Study of Adult Development as well as a plethora of other longitudinal studies.

The researchers’ study of happiness is not based on what people say will make them happy. Rather they explore what people are doing when they rate their lives as thriving.

One of the greatest influences helping people flourish is the quality of their relationships. This book explores case studies and data exploring what makes relationships positive for them, how these relationships work in a protective manner, how generosity and curiosity shape meaningful connections. If you want to live a good, healthy, satisfying life, this book could help.

Why we recommend it. Helping people identify what relationships work for them, and how to deepen the relationships in their lives, can lead people to having more satisfaction in their lives.

The five things we cannot change

David Richo

Richo talks about the five big challenges that people struggle to understand: including that life is not always fair, everything changes or ends, your plans don’t always work out as you’d like, pain is part of life, and people are not always as loyal and loving as you expect.

Why we recommend this book: In counselling we see how stuck people can get because of these challenges. Whilst we look at the underlying beliefs and our frustrations and hurts when these challenges are played out, clients often need to explore and digest these challenges in private reflective moments. This book allows clients the time to think and consider these challenges on their own.

Can’t hurt me

David Goggins

Over 5 million copies of this book have been sold, attesting to the motivational power of David Goggins. Whist Brené Brown writes to help you better accept yourself, Goggins provides a contrary view of the world, be uncomfortable, strive to be better and do at least one thing a day that is out of your comfort zone. Both Brown and Goggins motivate. Whilst Brown helps you feel calm, Goggins strives to wake you up.

The book recounts much of his personal journey overcoming poverty, self esteem issues, and health challenges. Goggins is a like a Sargent at arms, if you need to go to war with your motivation – this is your man.

Why we recommend this book: When clients need energizing motivation, and particularly have been procrastinating over challenges in their lives, David Goggins trumpets the wake-up call to action.