Resources
Trauma
It Didn't Start With You
Mark Wolynn
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My Grandmother's Hands
Resmaa Menakem
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Waking The Tiger: Healing Trauma
Peter Levine
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What my Bones Know
Stephanie Foo
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What Happened To You?
Bruce Perry
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When The Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
Gabor Mate
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The Body Keeps The Score
Bessel Van Der Kolk
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Complex PTSD: From Surviving To Thriving
Peter Walker
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Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson
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No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Richard C. Schwartz
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The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
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I'm Glad My Mom Died
Jennette McCurdy
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Body Image
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
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Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation
Hilary Kinavey
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Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Linda Bacon
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BIPOC Resources
The Pain We Carry: Healing From Complex PTSD For People of Color
Natalie Y. Gutierrez
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The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health: Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help You Deserve
Rheeda Walker
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
Joy A. Degruy
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Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit
Mary Frances-Winters
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Emotional Self-Care for Black Women: Discover How to Raise Your Self-Esteem, Eliminate Negative Thinking and Heal from Past Traumas Even if Your Life is Chaotic Right Now
Alicia Magoro
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Where I Belong: Healing Trauma and Embracing Asian American Identity
Soo Jin Lee
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Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Kathy Park Hong
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Homecoming: Healing Trauma to Reclaim Your Authentic Self
Thema Bryant
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Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
Fariha Roisin
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WOMEN
Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Clarissa Pinkola Estes​
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Untamed
Glennon Doyle
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Sacred Woman: A Guide to Healing the Feminine Body, Mind, and Spirit
Queen Afua
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Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Mikki Kendall
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Men Explain Things to Me
Rebecca Solnit
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Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Emily Nagoski
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White Folks
White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism
Robyn DiAngelo
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How to Be an Antiracist
Ibram X. Kendi
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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race
Beverly Daniel Tatum
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So You Want to Talk About Race
Ijeoma Oluo
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Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm
Robyn DiAngelo
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White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
Regina Jackson & Saira Rao
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The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
Michelle Alexander
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Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Layla Saad
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Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
Ibram X. Kendi
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White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color
Ruby Hamad
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Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents
Isabel Wilkerson
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Emotions + Emotional Intelligence
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Brene Brown
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Language of Emotions
Karla Mclaren
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Religion + Deconstruction
The Exvangelicals: Loving, Living, and Leaving the White Evangelical Church
Sarah McCammon
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When Religion Hurts You: Healing from Religious Trauma and the Impact of High-Control Religion
Laura E. Anderson
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Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free
Linda Kay Klein
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The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth
Beth Allison Barr
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Boundaries
​Set Boundaries, Find Peace
Nedra Glover Tawwab
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Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships
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Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
Melody Beattie
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Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life
Henry Cloud
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The Book of Boundaries
Melissa Urban
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Neurodivergence
​ADHD 2.0
Dr. Edward Hallowell and Dr. John J. Ratey​
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Divergent Mind
Jenara Nerenberg
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Understanding ADHD
by Robert Jason Grant
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Understanding Autism
by Robert Jason Grant
Couples + Relationships
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
Emily Nagoski
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Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
Esther Perel
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Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections
Emily Nagoski
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Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection
Julie Schwartz Gottman, John M. Gottman
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The Love Prescription: Seven Days to More Intimacy, Connection, and Joy
Julie Schwartz Gottman, John M. Gottman
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The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
John M. Gottman, Nan Silver
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Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Julie Schwartz Gottman, John M. Gottman
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She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman
Ian Kerner
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Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
Jessica Fern
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Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
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Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
Sue Johnson
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Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do
Eve Rodsky
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Securely Attached
Eli Harwood
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Parenting
Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be
Becky Kennedy
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Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too
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Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings: How to Stop the Fighting and Raise Friends for Life
Laura Markham
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No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame
Janet Lansbury
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The Yes Brain: How to Cultivate Courage, Curiosity, and Resilience in Your Child
Daniel J. Siegel
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Raising An Emotionally Intelligent Child: The Heart of Parenting
John M. Gottman, Joan DeClaire
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The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
Daniel J. Siegel
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Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids
Hunter Clarke-Fields
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How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7
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Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behavior and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids
Mona Delahooke
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Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children's Behavioral Challenges
Mona Delahooke
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Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors
Robyn Gobbel
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Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child
Ross W. Greene