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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing by K.C. Davis
Burnout by Emily Nagoski, PhD
Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey
Sensitive: The Hidden Power of the Highly Sensitive Person in a Loud, Fast, Too- Much World by Jenn Granneman & Andre Solo
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
Anything by: bell hooks, Audre Lorde, Angela Davis, Brene Brown, Ijeoma Oluo
For the Love of Men: A New Vision for Mindful Masculinity by Liz Plank
When Panic Happens by Charles Schaeffer
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DECOLONIZING THERAPY: Oppression, Historical Trauma & Politicizing Your Practice by Dr Jennifer Mullen
Trauma Stewardship by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
The Gift of Therapy by Irvin Yalom
Staring at The Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death by Irvin Yalom
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz
Sometimes Therapy is Awkward by Nicole Arzt
Letters to A Young Therapist by Mary Pipher
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Dr. Nadine Burke Harris
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If I Betray These Words: Moral Injury in Medicine and Why It’s So Hard for Clinicians to put Patients First by Dr. Wendy Dean
Trauma Stewardship by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky
Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté & Daniel Maté
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Marya
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The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
Disability Visibility by Alice Wong
Fat Talk: Parenting in the Age of Diet Culture by Virginia Sole-Smith
More Than a Body: Your Body Is an Instrument, Not an Ornament by Lexie Kite & Lindsay Kite
What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk about Fat by Aubrey Gordon
The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness and Connection through Embodied Living by Hillary McBride
Eat to Love: A Mindful Guide to Transforming Your Relationship with Food, Body, and Life by Jenna Hollenstein
Girlhood by Melissa Febos
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown
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So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
Let This Radicalize You by Kelly Hayes
Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Y. Davis
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Healing Resistance: A Radically Different Response to Harm by Kazu Haga
Feminism is for Everybody: Passionate Politics by bell hooks
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
Hood Feminism by Mikki Kendall
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Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder, 2nd Edition, by Lock and Le Grange
When Your Teen Has an Eating Disorder by Lauren Mulheim
Anti Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-being and Happiness through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison
“I'm, Like, So Fat!” Helping Your Teen Make Healthy Choices about Eating and Exercise in a Weight-Obsessed World by Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
Almost Anorexic: Is My (or My Loved One's) Relationship with Food a Problem? by Thomas and Schaefer
Overcoming Binge Eating by Christopher Fairburn
No Weigh! A Teen's Guide to Positive Body Image, Food, and Emotional Wisdom by Darpinian, Sterling, and Aggarwal
How to Nourish your Child Through an Eating Disorder: A simple plate by-plate approach to rebuilding a healthy relationship with food by Casey Crosbie and Wendy Sterling
Life Without ED: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and how you Can too by Jenni Schaefer and Thom Rutledge
8 Keys to Recovery from an Eating Disorder: Effective Strategies from Therapeutic and Personal Experience by Carolyn Costin and Gwen Schubert Grabb
Empty: A Memoir by Susan Burton
Sick Enough: A Guide to the Medical Complications of Eating Disorders by Jennifer L. Gaudiani
Loving Someone with an Eating Disorder: Understanding, Supporting, and Connecting with Your Partner by Dana Harron, PsyD
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The Whole Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind by Dan Siegel
Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors by Robyn Gobbel
The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
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Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen
Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown
Come Together by Emily Nagoski
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire by Alice Wong
Mating In Captivity by Esther Perel
Queer: The Ultimate LGBT Guide for Teens by Kathy Belge and Marke Bieschke
The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet Hardy
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The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living and Leaving the White Evangelical Church by Sarah McCammon
Cultish by Amanda Montell
When Religion Hurts You by Laura E Anderson
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