Books for Outside of the Session Room

So much inner-work happens outside the session room, when you are navigating your every day life. Here’s a list of some of my favorite written works to help you keep the momentum going in between!

While there may be a few titles that stay tried and true on this list, it will be updated intermittently so be sure to check back.

Grief

Growing Through Grief: A Compassionate Guide to Finding Meaning and Purpose After Life-Altering Loss by Alex Mammadyarov, LMHC

It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand by Megan Devine, LPC

Rehearsals For Dying: Digressions on Love and Cancer by Ariel Gore

Feminism

Break the Good Girl Myth: How to Dismantle Outdated Rules, Unleash Your Power, and Design a More Purposeful Life by Majo Malifino

Women, Race and Class by Angela Davis

Hood Feminism: Notes From the Women that a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall

Reclaiming UGLY! A Radically Joyful Guide to Unlearn Oppression and Uplift, Glorify, and Love Yourself by Vanessa Rochelle Lewis

Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD

Trauma

Trauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman, MD

The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment by Babette Rothschild MSW, LCSW

Returning Home to Our Bodies: Reimaging the Relationship Between Our Bodies and the World

Identity

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

But What Will People Say? Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures by Sahaj Kaur Kohli MAEd, LGPC

Unlearning Shame: How We Can Reject Self-Blame Culture and Reclaim Our Power by Devon Price, PhD

Relationships and Attachment

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD

PolySecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern CCTP, HHP

Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves--And How to Find Our Way Backby Dr. Ingrid Clayton

Body Image

Health at Every Size: The Surprise Truth About Your Weight by Linda Bacon PhD.

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

Drink Water and Mind Your Business by Dr. Donna Oriowo