Books & 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