Book Review – A New Kind of Christian
A work of fiction about two friends who are growing their faith in Jesus beyond mainstream beliefs and practices.
Book Review – There Is No Box
A book that explains how to develop a flexible, relatable approach to leading others and shaping your identity as a leader.
Book Review – Searching for Sunday
An engaging and challenging book that is both memoir and catharsis of the author’s struggle to find connection and meaning with other Christians and the Church.
Book Review – Precision Psychiatry
Len's Star Rating: 10 out of 10. A visionary book on the future of understanding and treating mental disorders through the lens of measurement-based, personalized psychiatric care.
Book Review – Boundaries for Your Soul
A helpful book on accepting and managing difficult emotions, thoughts, and memories by using a Christian-oriented application of Internal Family Systems (IFS) approaches and interpersonal boundary setting.
Book Review – Games People Play
A book on transactional analysis that is most useful as a historical reference.
Book Review – The Self-Healing Mind
An encouraging book that primarily addresses complementary, natural strategies for improving mental health and depressive symptoms.
Book Review – Science over Stigma
An excellent resource based on facts, logic, and scientific findings for mental health clinicians and advocates in combating misinformation and educating the public to reduce harmful mental health stigma.
Book Review – Educated
A collection of life stories and memories of a young woman in her experiences of the transformational power of education, friendships, and choosing self to escape the entrapments of poverty, isolation, and a dysfunctional, abusive family system.
Book Review – Poor Charlie’s Almanack
A collection of quotes and speeches by Charles Munger with some additional, limited background on his life and investment style.
Book Review – Antifragile
A book that expands upon concepts found in Dr. Nassim Taleb’s previous books Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan.
Book Review – The Bed of Procrustes
A collection of pearls of wisdom and philosophical musings by Dr. Nassim Taleb.
Book Review – The Black Swan
A superb book that looks at rare, unexpected risks and rewards in the economy and life from an accurate, countercultural perspective.
Book Review – Out of the Cave
A book on depression from a Christian perspective that effectively addresses mental health stigma and covers a wide range of ideas and natural strategies for addressing depression.
Book Review – Broken Minds
A good book on personal accounts of depression from a Christian perspective.
Book Review – Get Out of Your Head
A book written for Christian women about addressing negative thoughts by using the strategy of thought replacement.
Book Review – Spiritual Depression
A book that is most useful as a historical example of literature that worsens mental health stigma among Christians.
Book Review – On Purpose Leadership
A book that focuses on the role of personal development in enhancing leadership primarily in business settings.
Book Review – Weight Lifting Is a Waste of Time
A book that provides the backstory, rationale, and research that supports the X3, a muscle-building variable resistance system.