Books by Esther Adams, Psy.D
Books that nourish the soul, strengthen the heart, and walk with you through life’s hardest moments.
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The Horse-Shaped Hole
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For every rider who has lost a partner, a dream, or a future imagined
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Grief theory woven with real-world equestrian heartache
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Healing for the unseen losses—the ones only horse people understand
This isn’t just about moving on. It’s about carrying forward with grace.
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The Forgiveness Bridge
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What if forgiveness isn’t about excusing harm or reconnecting with unsafe people, but about changing how trauma lives in the mind and body?
The Forgiveness Bridge offers a research-grounded, trauma-informed framework that centers safety, autonomy, grief, and dignity.
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Blending evidence-based forgiveness models with neurobiology, somatic processing, feminist-informed assessment, and narrative reconstruction, it gives therapists, counselors, social workers, and survivors a practical path toward healing without forced positivity or self-abandonment.
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Integrated Grief: Finding a Way Forward in a Changed World
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​Loss changes the world, and grief is the work of learning how to live in that changed world. Integrated Grief: Finding a Way Forward in a Changed World offers clinicians, counselors, and palliative care professionals an evidence-informed framework for supporting grief as a process of integration rather than resolution. Drawing on major contemporary grief theories, the book introduces the Restoration and Reconstruction Framework, addressing seventeen forms of grief, neurobiological stabilization, embodied processing, relational reconstruction, meaning-making, ritual, and end-of-life integration. Grounded in both research and clinical reality, it treats grief not as a disorder to be cured, but as a deeply human process of carrying loss forward with meaning, dignity, and connection.
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The Neuroscience of Survival Flourishing: Rewiring the Predictive Brain for Safety and Flourishing Under Threat
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​What if resilience is not just a mindset, but a biological state the nervous system can relearn? The Neuroscience of Survival Flourishing explores the neurobiology of chronic stress, trauma, hypervigilance, burnout, and human adaptability, revealing why survival mode takes over and how safety can be restored. Blending neuroscience with practical insight, Esther Adams, Doctorate of Psychology, examines predictive processing, vagal regulation, glutamate, epigenetics, and the body’s capacity to heal, offering a compelling roadmap from survival toward genuine flourishing.
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The Psychology of Too Much, Too Long: Bridging the Science of Chronic Overload with Practical Neurological Roadmaps for Personal Transformation
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​Why can’t you “just get over it”? In this groundbreaking book, Esther Adams, Doctorate of Psychology, reveals how chronic stress, burnout, trauma, and crisis reshape the brain and nervous system and how those patterns can be changed. Blending neuroscience, Polyvagal Theory, neuroplasticity, and the science of agency, Adams explains why survival mode takes over, how prolonged stress erodes clarity and control, and what it takes to rebuild safety, purpose, and forward momentum. More than traditional self-help, this is a research-informed roadmap for moving from reactive endurance to genuine flourishing.
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The Amateur's Edge: The Psychology of the Amateur Equestrian Brain
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​The Amateur’s Edge: The Psychology of Grit, Grace, and Growth in Equestrian Sport challenges the limiting belief behind the phrase “I’m just an amateur” and replaces it with a research-based understanding of identity, confidence, nervous system regulation, learning, and performance. Written for amateur riders, trainers, and equine studies professionals, Esther Adams draws on neuroscience, self-efficacy theory, motor learning, attentional control, social identity, and performance psychology to explain why skill can disappear under pressure, how coaching environments shape autonomy, and how the demands of real life can become part of a rider’s strength rather than a barrier. Organized around identity reconstruction, nervous system regulation, constraint optimization, learning autonomy, and sustainable performance, this book offers a practical framework for building not just better rides, but a stronger long-term arc.​
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The Blessings Shift​
Emuna Perspectives for Everyday Life
When life feels overwhelming, it’s not always your circumstances that need to change.
Sometimes, it’s your focus.
The Blessings Shift is a gentle yet powerful guide to reawakening your connection to HaShem in the middle of the everyday.
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Practical tools to anchor yourself in emuna and gratitude
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Perspectives rooted in timeless Jewish wisdom
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Heartfelt encouragement for turning ordinary days into extraordinary journeys
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Rescript Your Reality​​
Transform Your Mind. Transform Your Life.
You're not stuck—you’re just following an old script.
It’s time to write a new one.
ReScript Your Reality gives you clear, evidence-based tools to change the thoughts, emotions, and habits holding you back.
It’s about reclaiming your mind—and with it, your future.
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Break free from self-limiting patterns
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Rewrite your inner narrative with power and clarity
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Build the life you were always meant to live
The story isn't over.
It's just waiting for you to pick up the pen.
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The Dance of Opposites​
Where Struggle and Strength Meet.
Life isn’t either-or.
It’s the constant dance between fear and courage, pain and growth, doubt and faith.
Dance of Opposites helps you step into that tension—not to fight it, but to transform through it.
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Harness dialectical thinking to find your balance in a divided world
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Explore self-schema journaling exercises that reframe who you are and who you can become
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Blend ancient wisdom and modern psychology into a practical path forward
The hardest tensions aren’t there to break you.
They’re there to remake you.
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Pick Me Up HaShem Vol. 1-11​​
You don’t have to find the perfect words.
You just have to be willing to reach for HaShem.
Pick Me Up, HaShem was created for the soul that’s tired, for the heart that’s heavy, and for the spirit that still wants to believe.
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The BIG Book of Reframes​
What if the key to thriving isn’t changing your circumstances, but changing your perspective? In The Big Book of Reframes, bestselling author and psychotherapist Esther Adams, Psy.D., reveals the science of reframing—an evidence-based practice that transforms stress, anxiety, and setbacks into opportunities for growth. Drawing from neuroscience and psychology, this powerful guide offers practical tools and daily strategies to help you shift your mindset, strengthen relationships, and build lasting resilience. Your perspective is your greatest power...This book shows you how to use it.
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Who is Esther Adams, Psy.D?
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Doctor of Psychology, Certified EMDR Therapist, and a multitude of certifications in various therapeutic disciplines.
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A life dedicated to empowering individuals through evidence-based and holistic approaches.
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Lifelong equestrian
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