BIBLIOTHERAPY:
A GROWING LIST OF GUIDANCE ALONG THE JOURNEY
SELF LOVE
Good Morning, I Love You: Mindfulness and Self-Compassion Practices to Rewire Your Brain for Calm, Clarity, and Joy
Shauna Shapriro PhD
Real Self-Care: A Transformative Program for Redefining Wellness (Crystals, Cleanses, and Bubble Baths Not Included)
Pooja Lakshmin MD
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha
Tara Brach
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety
Sarah Wilson
The Gifts of Imperfection
Brené Brown
Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion
Pema Chödrön
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Emily Nagoski & Amelia Nagoski
When Pain is the Doorway: Awakening in the Most Difficult Circumstances
Pema Chödrön
The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety
Alan Watts
The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
Pema Chödrön
COUPLES
Getting the Love You Want
Harville Hendrix & Helen Hunt
Fierce Intimacy
Terrence Real
Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship
Terrence Real
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Dr. Sue Johnson EdD
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
John Gottman PhD
Brené with Dr. John & Julie Gottman (3 Parts)
SEX
Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
Emily Nagoski PhD
Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters - and How to Get It
Laurie Mintz
PARENT-CHILD RELATIONSHIPS
Warming the Stone Child: Myths and Stories about Abandonment and the Unmothered Child
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Permission to Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive
Marc Brackett
Relationship Matters: TEDx Talk
Dr. Gordon Neufeld
GRIEF & LOSS
The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science of How We Learn from Love and Loss
Mary-Frances O'Connor
Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death
Joan Halifax
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
Francis Weller
The Wilderness of Grief: Finding Your Way
Alan D. Wolfelt PhD
The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully
Frank Ostaseski
Walking Each Other Home: Conversations on Loving and Dying
Mirabai Bush & Ram Dass
HISTORY & CULTURE
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World
Michael Pollan
COMMUNICATION & CONNECTION
Nonviolent Communication: Create Your Life, Your Relationships, and Your World in Harmony with Your Values
Marshall Rosenberg PhD
The Dance of Connection
Harriet Lerner
Together: The Healing Power of Human Connection in a Sometimes Lonely World
Vivek H. Murthy
A Fearless Heart: How the Courage to Be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives
Thupten Jinpa Ph.D.
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
Brené Brown
Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone
Brené Brown
The Power of Vulnerability: Teachings of Authenticity, Connection, and Courage
Brené Brown
A Return to Love Workshop: The Basics of A Course in Miracles
Marianne Williamson
EXISTENTIAL; FEELING LOST
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
This One Wild and Precious Life: The Path Back to Connection in a Fractured World
Sarah Wilson
The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, & Douglas Carlton Abrams
Of Water and Spirit: Ritual Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman
Malidoma Patrice Somé
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brené Brown
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman
The Essential Rumi
Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism
Fumio Sasaki
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
Irvin D. Yalom
Standing at the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet
Joan Halifax
The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself
Michael A. Singer
The Seat of the Soul
Gary Zukav
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
Michael Pollan
WOMEN'S ISSUES
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes
Elizabeth Lesser
On Our Best Behavior: The Price Women Pay To Be Good
Elise Loehnen
Unbound: A Woman's Guide to Power
Kasia Urbaniak
Feminine Consciousness, Archetypes, and Addiction to Perfection
Marion Woodman
Untamed
Glennon Doyle
The Wild Woman's Way
Michaela Boehm
How to Be a Woman
Caitlin Moran
HEALING TRAUMA
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel A. van der Kolk
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Peter A. Levine