Books

Why do some couples thrive while others struggle? A licensed psychologist reveals the science and real-life stories behind relationships that last.

Are you searching for relationship advice that is practical, evidence-based, and genuinely helpful? In this insightful book, Dr. Dan Boynton, a licensed psychologist with years of experience helping...

Raising Kids With Autism: The Parent’s Survival Playbook
The Asperkids’ (Secret) Book of Social Rules

Are you raising, teaching, or loving a child on the autism spectrum? This friendly, practical guide is here to help, every step of the way.
Written by licensed psychologist Dr. Dan Boynton, Ph.D., this book is filled with real-world advice, lived...

What if your family’s greatest strengths and greatest struggles come from the same invisible source?
In this enlightening and compassionate guide, Dr. Dan Boynton reveals how the subtle force of emotional fusion operates within every family system, quietly shaping the way we think, feel, connect, and even disagree. Whether your family is loving...

What Parents Need to Know About Children with Bipolar Disorder: A Guide for Hope, Advocacy, and Real Answers

Raising a child with intense mood swings, explosive emotions, and unpredictable behavior can feel like living on a roller coaster with no seatbelt.

You’re doing your best, but the labels keep changing. ADHD? Anxiety? DMDD? What if it’s...

Does Your Child, Teen, or Young Adult Have PDA? (Pathological Demand Avoidance)
By Dr. Dan Boynton, Ph.D.

“Why won’t my child get out of the car?”

“Why does my teen shut down over the smallest request?”

“Why does my young adult avoid everything, yet still has moments of brilliance and charm?”

If these questions sound familiar, you’re not alone. Many...

The Gift of Bipolar
By Dr. Dan Boynton, Ph.D.

What if your greatest challenges also held the seeds of your greatest strengths?

In The Gift of Bipolar, Dr. Dan Boynton, Ph.D., blends clinical insight with deeply human stories to uncover the surprising strengths hidden within the bipolar experience.

Rather than focusing solely on symptoms and...

Managing Bipolar Disorder: A Comprehensive Guide to Symptom Control and Daily Functioning
By Dr. Dan Boynton, Ph.D.

A clear, compassionate, and comprehensive guide to living well with bipolar disorder.

Whether you’re newly diagnosed, supporting a loved one, or treating patients in a clinical setting, this book provides the tools and knowledge you...

Beyond Cravings: Understanding and Treating Pica
By Dr. Dan Boynton, Ph.D.

Why would someone crave and eat chalk, dirt, paper, or soap?

Pica is the persistent urge to eat non-food items. Often misunderstood, overlooked, or casually dismissed as a strange habit. But for many individuals, from children with autism to adults coping with trauma, pica...

Feeling depressed does not always mean you have depression.

You may feel exhausted, empty, unmotivated, hopeless, disconnected, or unlike yourself. But those feelings can come from many different places. Depression may be the right explanation—but it may also be grief, burnout, chronic stress, anxiety, trauma, ADHD, bipolar disorder, a...

Your mind is always preparing. Even when nothing is wrong, it rarely feels safe to stop thinking.

You replay conversations. You anticipate problems. You plan for what might happen, check what could go wrong, and look for reassurance that only seems to work for a few minutes.

For many people with generalized anxiety disorder, worry does not feel...

You are not bad with people. Your mind has simply learned to treat being seen as a threat.

Social anxiety can make an ordinary conversation feel like an evaluation. You may carefully monitor your words, expressions, posture, and tone while wondering whether everyone can see how uncomfortable you feel. Even after the interaction ends, your mind...

What if the reason you cannot keep a job is not laziness, poor discipline, or a lack of ambition?

You start with energy and determination. You work hard, learn quickly, and promise yourself that this job will be different. Then the excitement fades. The work becomes repetitive, small tasks begin piling up, criticism feels unbearable, and quitting...

Fear is exhausting, especially when you keep telling yourself you should be over it by now.

In Why Can’t I Just Stop Being Afraid?, Dr. Dan Boynton helps readers understand fear without shame, blame, or empty advice to “just think positive.” This book is not about becoming fearless. It is about learning why fear shows up, why it can feel so...

Why do I keep getting in my own way when I know what I want?

You make the plan. You promise yourself this time will be different. You know what would help. And then, somehow, the old pattern shows up again.

You avoid the task. Push away the person. Overspend. Overeat. Shut down. Procrastinate. Wait to feel ready. Start over again on Monday.

And...

Adult ADHD is often misunderstood because it does not always look like hyperactivity, distraction, or irresponsibility.

In real life, adult ADHD may look like chronic overwhelm, scattered effort, unfinished tasks, emotional intensity, lateness, clutter, procrastination, burnout, and private shame. Many adults with ADHD are bright, hardworking,...

You are not weak. You are not broken. And this is not just about food.

If you have ever eaten when you were not hungry, gone back to the kitchen after dinner, eaten in secret, or promised yourself that tomorrow would be different, you are not alone.

Why Can’t I Just Stop Eating? looks beneath the surface of overeating and explores the shame,...

What if the task is not really the problem?

Sometimes the thing you are asked to do is small. Take out the trash. Wipe the counter. Help with the project. Answer the message. Pick up the thing you walked past three times.

But inside, the reaction is much bigger than the task.

Why should I have to do it?

Why is this always on me?

Why should I be the...

You can picture the better version of yourself clearly. So why does she always feel just out of reach?

Maybe she wakes up early, stays organized, follows through, answers texts on time, keeps the kitchen clean, and somehow handles life without constantly feeling overwhelmed. Maybe she is calmer, more confident, more focused, more emotionally...

For the reliable one, the nice one, the capable one, and the exhausted one who keeps wondering, “Where did my life go?”

You are not selfish for wanting your time back. You are not cold for needing space. And you are not wrong for feeling tired of being the person everyone else runs out of.

Why Can’t I Just Stop Letting People Steal My Time? is a...

When a child’s anger becomes the weather in the house, everyone learns to watch the sky.

Some children do more than have tantrums. Their anger is too big, too frequent, too confusing, and too hard to calm. A simple request can become an hour-long battle. A small disappointment can turn into screaming, threats, tears, shame, or destruction....