book recommendations

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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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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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