Book Recommendations


Covering a wide range of topics including feminism, systemic oppression, self-love, and interpersonal trauma, these books form a valuable collection with each serving as a powerful tool to foster insight, self-discovery, and healing. 

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

By: Lindsay C. Gibson

Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection

By: Mimi Zhu

Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation

By: Dalia Kinsey

Know My Name: A Memoir

By: Chanel Miller

Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger

By: Lama Rod Owens

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

By: Resmaa Menakem

The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color

By: Natalie Y. Gutiérrez

The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love

By: Sonya Renee Taylor

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

By: Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

No Visible Bruises: What We Don’t Know About Domestic Violence Can Kill Us

By: Rachel Louise Snyder

Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions

By: Christine Caldwell & Lucia Bennett Leighton

Queering Sexual Violence - Radical Voices from Within the Anti-Violence Movement

By: Jennifer Patterson

The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice

By: Staci Haines

Trauma and Recovery

By: Judith Lewis Herman, M.D.

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

By: Stephanie Foo

Written on the Body: Letters from Trans and Non-Binary Survivors of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence

By: Lexie Bean 

It Didn't Start With You

By: Mark Wolynn

The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog

By: Bruce D. Perry, M.D., PhD & Maia Szalavitz