DR. MARGY SPERRY
Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

I am available for in person and online sessions.                 (310) 497-7443      |     Email

Resources

Here’s a list of some additional resources that might support you on your journey. Enjoy!

Some books I recommend:

Robert Karen, New York: Oxford Press. (1994)

Alice Miller, New York: Basic Books (1996) 

Cheryl Strayed, New York: Random House  (2012) 

Florence Williams, New York: WW Norton and Company (2017) 

Pema Chodron, Boulder: Shambhalya Publications (1997) 

Books for Couples:

Mitchell, Stephen A., New York: WW Norton and Company  (2002) 

Perel, Esther, New York: Harper Press (2006) 

Johnson, Sue, New York: Little Brown and Company (2008) 

Gottman, John and Nan Silver, New York: Random House  (2015) 

Books on Parenting:

Eileen Paris and Thomas Paris, Warner Books  (1992) 

Dan Siegel and Mary Hartzell, New York: Penguin Books  (2014) 

Some Videos I recommend:

Some Inspirational Quotes:

“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples”

 – Mother Teresa
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples”
 
– Mother Teresa

“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”

 –  Randy Pausch
The Last Lecture
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.”
 
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture

“We must let go of the life we had planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”

 – Joseph Campbell
“We must let go of the life we had planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.”
 
– Joseph Campbell

“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”

 – Helen Keller
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.”
 
– Helen Keller

“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”

– Albert Einstein
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
 
– Albert Einstein

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

 
– Mark Twain
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
 
– Mark Twain

“Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.”

– Oscar Wilde
“Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.”
 
– Oscar Wilde

“To look hard at something, to look through it, is to transform it, convert it into something beyond itself, to give it grace.”

 – Charles Wright 
from Bye-and-Bye
Selected Late Poems

“To look hard at something, to look through it, is to transform it, convert it into something beyond itself, to give it grace.”
 
– Charles Wright  from Bye-and-Bye Selected Late Poems

“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”

 – ​Carl Gaustav Jung
“No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell.”
 
– Carl Gaustav Jung

“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief 
that develops the powers of the mind.”

 – James Thurber
“Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief 
that develops the powers of the mind.”
 
– James Thurber
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