Books & References
Emotions
Atlas of the Heart
Brene Brown
Daring Greatly
Brene Brown
Healing the Shame That Binds You
John Bradshaw
Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman
How Emotions Are Made
Lisa Barrett
Rage Becomes Her
Soraya Chemaly
Calming the Emotional Storm
Sheri Van Dijk
Mindsight
Dan Siegel
Relationships
Monsters in Love
Resmaa Menakem
Secure Relating: Holding Your Own in an Insecure World
Sue Marriott & Sue Kelley
You Are the One You've Been Waiting For (Internal Family Systems)
Richard Schwartz
Wired for Love
Stan Tatkin
The High-Conflict Couple
Alan E. Fruzzetti
All About Love
bell hooks
On Repentance and Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World
Danya Ruttenberg
Getting to Zero: How to Work Through Conflict in Your High-Stakes Relationships
Jayson Gaddis
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Dr. Sue Johnson
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
Amir Levine, Rachel Heller
Getting the Love You Want
Harville Hendrix & Helen LaKelly Hunt
Mating in Captivity
Esther Perel
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
John Gottman
Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict into Connection
John & Julie Gottman
Trauma
What Happened to You?
Oprah Winfrey & Bruce Perry
It Didn't Start with You
Mark Wolynn
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
The Myth of Normal
Gabor Maté
Complex PTSD
Pete Walker
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stephanie Foo
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Judith Herman
Waking the Tiger
Peter Levine
The Choice: Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible
Dr. Edith Eger
No Bad Parts
Richard Schwartz
When Things Fall Apart
Pema Chödrön
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
Running on Empty
Jonice Webb and Christine Musello
Healing the Soul Wound: Trauma-Informed Counseling for Indigenous Communities
Eduardo Duran
Career/Life Path
Designing Your Life
Bill Burnett & Dave Evans
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol Dweck
IKIGAI
Héctor García, Francesc Miralles
The Art of Work
Jeff Goins
Transitions
William Bridges
Off Balance
Matthew Kelly
Be Your Future Self Now
Dr. Benjamin Hardy
Start with Why
Simon Sinek
Lean In
Sheryl Sandberg
The Way of Integrity
Martha Beck
Finding Your Own North Star
Martha Beck
What Color Is Your Parachute?
Richard N. Bolles
Race
My Grandmother's Hands
Resmaa Menakem
Caste
Isabel Wilkerson
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?
Beverly Daniel Tatum
How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
Heavy
Kiese Laymon
Becoming Abolitionists
Derecka Purnell
Decolonizing Therapy
Jennifer Mullan
Rest Is Resistance
Tricia Hersey
Hood Feminism
Mikki Kendall
White Fragility
Dr. Robin DiAngelo
The Color of Law
Richard Rothstein
The Other Slavery
Andrés Reséndez
The New Jim Crow
Michelle Alexander
Eloquent Rage
Brittney Cooper
Between the World and Me
Ta-Nehisi Coates
So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
Mediocre
Ijeoma Oluo
Teaching While the World Is on Fire
Lisa Delpit
Other People's Children
Lisa Delpit
How the Word is Passed
Clint Smith
I Am Not Your Negro
James Baldwin
Evicted
Matthew Desmond
Finding Latinx
Paola Ramos
The Hidden Rules of Race
Andrea Flynn and Dorian T. Warren
Gender + Sexuality
Untamed
Glennon Doyle
Of Boys and Men
Richard V. Reeves
For the Love of Men
Liz Plank
The Creation of Patriarchy
Gerda Lerner
Sex at Dawn
Christopher Ryan, Cacilda Jetha
Come As You Are
Emily Nagoski
Better Sex Through Mindfulness
Lori A. Brotto
The Man They Wanted Me to Be: Toxic Masculinity and a Crisis of Our Own Making
Jared Yates Sexton
Transgender History
Susan Stryker
The Transgender Teen
Stephanie A. Brill, Lisa Kenney
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love
Jonathan Van Ness
Redefining Realness: My Path to Womanhood, Identity, Love & So Much More
Janet Mock
Delusions of Gender
Cordelia Fine
Stone Butch Blues
Leslie Feinberg
Feminism Is for Everybody
bell hooks
Bad Feminist
Roxanne Gay
Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
bell hooks
Beyond the Gender Binary
Alok Vaid-Menon
How To Raise A Boy: The Power of Connection to Build Good Men
Michael C. Reichert
We Are Everywhere
Matthew Riemer and Leighton Brown
Stonewall
Martin Duberman
Body Image
The Beauty Myth
Naomi Wolf
Fearing the Black Body
Sabrina Strings
The Body Is Not an Apology
Sonya Renee Taylor
More Than a Body
Lexie Kite & Lindsay Kite
Body Neutrality: The Liberating Practice of Accepting Your Body Exactly as It Is
Ayla Freitas Ghibaudy
Unbearable Lightness
Portia de Rossi
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Roxanne Gay
Good Girls: A Study and Story of Anorexia
Hadley Freeman
Boundaries
Boundaries
John Townsend & Henry Cloud
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
Nedra Glover Tawwab
Not Nice
Dr. Aziz Gazipura
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Dr Robert Glover
The Art of Saying No
Damon Zahariades
The Assertiveness Guide for Women
Julie de Azevedo Hanks & Rebecca Roberts
Codependent No More
Melody Beattie
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson
Addiction
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Gabor Mate & Peter A. Levine
Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change
Jeffrey Foote PhD, Carrie Wilkens PhD, Nicole Kosanke PhD, Stephanie Higgs PhD
Inside Rehab
Anne M. Fletcher
Dopamine Nation
Dr. Anna Lembke
Understanding Addiction
Dr. Charles Smith & Dr. Jason Hunt
Alcoholic Anonymous - Online Intergroup
https://aa-intergroup.org/meetings/
Art/Creativity
The Artist Way
Julia Cameron
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Creative Act
Rick Rubin
Your Brain on Art
Susan Magsame and Ivy Ross
The Creative Habit
Twyla Tharp
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles
Steven Pressfield and Shawn Coyne
Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: And Other Tough-Love Truths to Make You a Better Writer
Steven Pressfield and Shawn Coyne
Steal Like an Artist
Austin Kleon
Big Magic
Elizabeth Gilbert
Parenting
Raising Mentally Strong Kids
Daniel G. Amen and Charles Fay
Hunt, Gather, Parent
Michaeleen Doucleff
Somatic
When the Body Says No
Gabor Maté