Recommended Books

Some of the my favorite books for learning more about our health conditions and developing coping skills.

THE ESSENTIALS 

• Living Well with Migraine Disease and Headaches: What Your Doctor Doesn’t Tell You…That You Need to Know by Teri Robert

• How to be Sick: A Buddhist-Inspired Guide for the Chronically Ill & their Caregivers by Toni Bernhard

• The Woman’s Migraine Toolkit: Managing Your Headaches from Puberty to Menopause by Dawn Marcus, MD & Philip Bain

• Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness by Jon Kabat-Zinn

• Break Through Pain: A Step-by-Step Mindfulness Meditation Program for Transforming Chronic and Acute Pain by Shinzen Young

• Taking Charge of Your Fertility, 10th Anniversary Edition: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health by Toni Weschler

• The Migraine Brain: Your Breakthrough Guide to Fewer Headaches, Better Health by Carolyn Bernstein & Elaine McCardle

OTHER GREAT STUFF 

• Chocolate & Vicodin: My Quest for Relief From the Headache That Wouldn’t Go Away by Jennette Fulda

•  All In My Head: An Epic Quest to Cure an Unrelenting, Totally Unreasonable, and Only Slightly Enlightening Headache by Paula Kamen

• My Secret by Gretchen Rautman (If you know a child migraineur you need this book.)

• Think Like a Pancreas: A Practical Guide to Managing Diabetes with Insulin by Gary Scheiner

• Balancing Pregnancy with Pre-Existing Diabetes: Healthy Mom, Healthy Baby by Cheryl Aikon

• Unexpected Blessings: Finding Hope and Healing in the Face of Illness by Roxanne Black

• Know Your Rights: A Handbook for Patients with Chronic Illness by Jennifer Jaff

• Disability Workbook for Social Security Applicants 7th Edition 2008 by Douglas M. Smith & Barbara W. Smith

• How to Get SSI & Social Security Disability: An Insider’s Step by Step Guide by Mike Davis

• A Delicate Balance: Living Successfully with Chronic Illness by Susan Milstrey Wells

• The Body Broken by Lynne Greenberg

• Migraine Your Questions Answered (Q&A) by Carol A. Foster

• The Dance of Anger: A Woman’s Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships by Harriet Lerner

• The Feeling Good Handbook by David D. Burns

• Conquering Your Migraine: The Essential Guide to Understanding and Treating Migraines for all Sufferers and Their Families by Seymour Diamond and Mary Franklin

• Headache Through the Ages by Seymour Diamond and Mary Franklin

• Fertility, Cycles & Nutrition by Marilyn M. Shannon

• The Worry Trap by Chad LeJune

READING AS ENTERTAINMENT

If you’re interested in what I’m reading for entertainment, check out these links:

• Books I Read in 2007
• Books I Read in 2008
• Books I Read in 2009
• Books I Read in 2010
• Books I Read in 2011
• Books I Read in 2012