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