Education and Resources for Self Growth

At WellPath, we believe that patient education is an essential part of healing. Growth doesn’t only happen in session—it unfolds through reflection, insight, and empowerment in your everyday life. This space is dedicated to ongoing learning and inspiration to support:

  • Self-Growth

  • Self-Reflection

  • Self-Insight

  • Self-Empowerment

  • Self-Compassion

We’ve curated a selection of quotes, book recommendations, and reflective prompts to guide and nourish your journey. We encourage you to ask your clinician which resources may best support your individual path.

Words to Inspire Your Path

“Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.”

— Helen Keller

“It’s from a dynamic process of confrontation with the truth that solutions will arise.”

— Gabor Maté

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

— Helen Keller

“Ask yourself, ‘What do I need to hear?’ Then write it down.”

— Jacqueline Whitney

“I’ve been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”

— Mark Twain

“Trauma involves a lifelong pushing down, a tremendous expenditure of energy, to not feel the pain. As we heal, that same energy is liberated for life and for being in the present.”

— Gabor Maté

“Life is not linear. There are ups and downs, twists and turns. A challenge awaits you at almost every corner—but it is the struggle to overcome them that makes it worthwhile.”

Recommended Reading for Self Empowerment and Insight

Here are some of our favorite books that explore healing, resilience, boundaries, trauma, self awareness, and more:

  • The Gift of Therapy – Irvin Yalom

  • Outgrowing the Pain Together – Eliana Gil

  • Where to Draw the Line – Anne Katherine

  • Full Catastrophe Living – Jon Kabat-Zinn

  • In an Unspoken Voice – Peter Levine

  • Boundaries: Where You End and I Begin – Anne Katherine

  • Give Without Giving Yourself Away – Patti Breitman and Connie Hatch

  • The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel van der Kolk

  • Life Without Ed – Jenni Schaefer

  • Eating in the Light of the Moon – Anita Johnston

  • Waking the Tiger – Peter Levine

  • The Ego and the Mechanisms of Defense – Anna Freud

  • Being Mortal – Atul Gawande

  • Beyond Loss – Paula D’Arcy

  • Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death – Irvin Yalom

  • Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl

  • Attached – Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

“You have done far more than you realize to get to this point. Celebrate yourself in this moment, the world is lucky to have you.”