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Recommended reading

Books I often share

A few reads that clients have found helpful between sessions, grouped by what they're working through.

Somatic

  • Wisdom of Your Body
    by Hillary L. McBride PhD
  • When the Body Says No
    by Dr. Gabor Mate
  • Activate Your Vagus Nerve
    by Dr. Navaz Habib
  • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
    by Dr. Peter Levine
  • The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting
    by Alice Miller & Andrew Jenkins

Trauma

  • Who You Became to Survive
    by Sarah Jane Daniels
  • My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
    by Resmaa Menakem
  • Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships
    by Janja Lalich
  • The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color
    by Jennifer Mullan
  • What My Bones Know
    by Stephanie Foo

Couples

  • We Do
    by Stan Tatkin
  • The Handbook of Consensual Non-Monogamy (Diverse Sexualities, Genders, and Relationships)
    by Michelle Dr. Vaughan & Theodore R. Burnes
  • Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma, and Consensual Nonmonogamy
    by Jessica Fern

Miscellaneous Topics

  • First We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety
    by Sarah Wilson
  • Decolonizing Therapy
    by Jennifer Mullan
  • The Dark Side of the Light Chasers
    by Debbie Ford
  • In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts
    by Dr. Gabor Mate
  • The Aware Baby
    by Aletha Solter
  • Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You
    by Jenara Nerenberg
  • Hold On To Your Kids
    by Gordon Neufeld PhD & Dr. Gabor Mate
  • Women Who Love Too Much
    Co-dependency
    by Robin Norwood

Non-Therapy Books

  • The Way of the Superior Man
    by David Deida
  • Women Who Run With the Wolves
    by Clarisa Pinkola Estes
  • Aphrodite's Daughters
    by Jalaja Bonheim
  • Braiding Sweetgrass
    by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • Her Blood is Gold
    by Lara Owen
  • The Continuum Concept: In Search of Happiness Lost 
    Human Development
    by Jean Liedloff

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