As you reconnect with your true self, we hope you can use some of these useful tools and readings that we’ve found helpful in our own journeys.
Non-Fiction
The Wisdom of Your Body – Hillary McBride
Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image – Hillary McBride
Where Words Can’t Reach – Madeleine De Little
The Whole Brain Child – Dan Siegel
Mindsight – Daniel Siegel
Parenting from the Inside Out – Daniel Siegel
Brainstorm – Daniel Siegel
The Gifts of Imperfection – Brene Brown
Daring Greatly – Brene Brown
The Atlas of the Heart – Brene Brown
Mating in Captivity – Ester Perel
State of Affairs – Ester Perel
Magic in the Muck – Jennifer Nagel
The body keeps the score – Bessel Vanderkolk
Waking the Tiger – Peter Levine
When things fall apart – Pema Chodron
Hold me tight – Sue Johnson
The heart of Trauma – Bonnie Badenoch
When the Body Says No – Gabor Mate
Scattered Minds – Gabor Mate (ADHD)
The Myth of Normal – Gabor Mate
Hold onto your Kids – Gordon Neufeld
Stamped from the Beginning – Ibram X. Kendi
Anti-racist baby – Ibram X Kendi
The Great Sex Rescue – Shiela Gregoire
Me and White Supremacy – Layla Saad
Braiding Sweet Grass – Robin Wall Kimmer
Radical Acceptance, Radical Compassion – Tara Brach
It’s not always depression – Hilary Jacobs Hendel
Call of the Wild- Kimberly Ann Johnson
Burnout – Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
Come as you are – Emily Nagoski
Bittersweet – Susan Cain
The Book of Joy – 14th Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, and Douglas Abrams
Healing the Legacy of Trauma – Janina Fischer
Untamed – Glennon Doyle
What my bones know (memoir and education of complex ptsd) – Stephanie Foo
As it Always Is (novel – family with a transgender child) – Laurie Frankel
Know My Name – (Story of fighting in court as victim of sexual assault)-Chanel Miller
Between the World and Me – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Sacred Instructions – Sherri Mitchell
Educated – (How blind we can be to our own trauma, we believe it’s normal) – Tara Westover
From the Ashes (Memoir of an Indigenous youth and his resilience to overcome)- Jesse Thistle
Being Well – Rick Hanson
The Liturgist (spiritual trauma episode)
Other People’s Problems (Live therapy sessions)- Hillary McBride
Back from the abyss – Hillary McBride episode
Let’s give a damn (parenting) – Hillary McBride
We can do all things – Glennon Doyle
Where should we begin (couples therapy)- Ester Perel
Unlocking us – Brene Brown
Where words can’t reach (episode with Danielle Braun-Kauffman on shame)- Madeleine De Little
Sounds true: Insights at the edge (Megan Devine – Grief)
On being – Krista Tippett