Books & Media
Suggested Reading and Media
Self Help and Growth
Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed by Lori Gottlieb
Tell Me What You Want: A Therapist and Her Clients Explore Our 12 Deepest Desires by Charlotte Fox Weber
The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine N. Aron
What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson PsyD
The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control: A Path to Peace and Power by Katherine Morgan Schafler
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk M.D.
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn
The Choice: Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger
Grief and Existentialism
Podcast: Queen of Dying by RadioLab
Podcast: Quesithanatology near death experiences with Bruce Greyson by Ologies with Alie Ward
Book: Signs The Secret Language of the Universe by Laura Lynne Jackson
Book: For Small Creatures Such as We Rituals for Finding Meaning in Our Unlikely World by Sasha Sagan
Book: Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson by Mitch Albom
The Alchemist: A Fable About Following Your Dream by Paulo Coelho
Social Commentary
Book: Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
Book: White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad
Book: Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Book: Daring to Drive by Manal al-Sharif
Book: Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcom Gladwell