MEDITATIONS
BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS
“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.”
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
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
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
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
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
