Resource Library

You think your pains and your heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.” 

- James Baldwin

Trauma & The Body

  • My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resma Menakem

  • In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness by Peter Levine

  • What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo

Grief & Loss

  • Goodbye: A First Conversation about Grief by Megan Madison, Jessica Ralli, & Isabel Roxas

  • The Grieving Brain: The Surprising Science on How we Learn from Love and Loss by Mary Frances O’Conner, PhD

  • The Grieving Body: How the Stress of Loss Can Be an Opportunity for Healing by Mary Frances O’Conner, PhD

  • On Grief & Grieving by Elsabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler

  • When People Grieve: The Power of Love in the Midst of Pain by Paula D’Arcy

Perinatal & Parenting

  • Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman, PhD

  • The Whole Brain-Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind by Daniel J Siegel, MD & Tina Payne Bryson, PhD

  • Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts by Karen Kleiman, MSW

  • Raising Twice-Exceptional Children by Kircher-Morris, Emily

Yoga & Mental Health

  • Overcoming Trauma Through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body by David Emerson & Elizabeth Hopper, PhD

  • Restorative Yoga for Ethnic and Race-based Stress and Trauma by Gail Parker, PhD

  • The Mindful Brain by Daniel Siegel

  • The Miracle of Mindfulness by Thich Nhat Hanh

Sexuality & Relationships

  • Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski, PhD

  • Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How it Can Help You Find and Keep Love by Amir Levine, MD & Rachel SF Heller, MA

  • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman

Social Justice and Advocacy

  • Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice by Jennifer Mullan