Recommended Books

Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum

Transformed by Birth: Cultivating Openness, Resilience, and Strength for the Life-Changing Journey From Pregnancy to Parenthood by Britta Bushnell

The 4th Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality by Kimberly Ann Johnson

The Highly Sensitive Parent by Elaine Aron, PhD

I’ll Show Myself Out: Essays on Midlife and Motherhood by Jessi Klein

Trauma

Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship by Laurence Heller, PhD and Aline LaPierre, PsyD

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation by Janina Fisher

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine

Workbooks

The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook: A Proven Way To Accept Yourself, Build Inner Strength, and Thrive by Kristin Neff, PhD and Christopher Germer, PhD

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation & Distress Tolerance by Matthew McKay, PhD; Jeffrey C. Wood PsyD; and Jeffrey Brantley, MD

Relationships

Conscious Loving by Gay Hendricks, PhD and Kathlyn Hendricks PhD

Anxious in Love: How to Manage Your Anxiety, Reduce Conflict & Reconnect with Your Partner by Carolyn Daithc, PhD and Lissah Lorberbaum, MA

Addiction and Compulsion

Getting Our Bodies Back by Christine Caldwell

Food and Eating

Women Food and God by Geneen Roth

The Diet Cure: The 8-Step Program to Rebalance Your Body Chemistry and End Food Cravings, Weight Problems, and Mood Swings— Now by Julia Ross, MA

Holistic Healing

Rhythms of Recovery: Trauma, Nature, and the Body by Leslie E. Korn

The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

Staying Healthy with the Seasons by Elson M. Haas, MD

Eastern Body Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self by Anodea Judith

The Four Agreements: A Toltec Wisdom Book by Don Miguel Ruiz

Grief and Loss

Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing by Daniel Foor, PhD

The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller

Spirituality

Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths to Healing Ourselves and Our World by Ed McGaa, Eagle Man

Mysteries of the Dark Moon: The Healing Power of the Dark Goddess by Demetra George

Diamond Heart Book One (Elements of the Real in Man) by A.H. Almaas

Social Justice

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Dr. Joy Degruy

Highly Sensitive People

Divergent Mind by Jenara Nerenberg

Creativity

Free Play: The Power of Improvisation in Life and in the Arts by Stephen Nachmanovitch

Therapy

Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb