the library
books
MY GO TO
Sometimes someone else gives us the words for what we’ve been feeling all along.
A collection of books I return to, recommend, and share with clients exploring trauma, relationships, the body, parenting, identity, faith, and healing.
Take what resonates, leave what doesn’t, and let these resources be a starting point for your own curiosity.
TRAUMA + THE NERVOUS SYSTEM
Understanding trauma, its lasting effects, and the ways our minds and bodies adapt to what we’ve experienced.
THE BODY + EMBODIMENT
Resources for reconnecting with the body and becoming curious about what it carries.
RELATIONSHIPS + FAMILY
For exploring attachment, intimate relationships, family-of-origin patterns, friendship, and the relationships that shape us.
PARENTING
Resources for understanding your children while becoming more aware of what you bring from your own childhood into parenting.
IDENTITY, CULTURE + SYSTEMIC TRAUMA
Exploring the intersections of trauma, identity, race, culture, relationships, and larger systems.
FAITH, SEXUALITY + RELIGIOUS TRAUMA
For exploring faith, shame, sexuality, the body, and experiences within religious communities.
PARENTAL ALIENATION + HIGH-CONFLICT CUSTODY
Resources for parents navigating alienation, rejection, high-conflict separation, false accusations, and complicated custody relationships.
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris
Why Does He Do That?
By Lundy Bancroft
By Lundy Bancroft
What my bones know
by Stephanie Foo
by Stephanie Foo
I recommend reading these resources alongside therapeutic work so you have space to process what comes up and explore how what you’re reading intersects with your own story.
READ WITH CARE
Some books can help us feel understood. Others can bring us face-to-face with experiences, memories, or emotions that may be difficult to hold on our own.
The Pain We Carry
by Natalie Gutiérrez
by Natalie Gutiérrez
The Drama of the Gifted Child
by Alice Miller
by Alice Miller
Your internal blue state may feel like the melancholy periwinkle,
playful, but also reflection of the pain and grief you feel not only on your behalf but on behalf of others, maybe you’re afraid of another blue, even the dark blue that is almost imperceptibly close to black, the darkest part of the ocean where light doesn’t touch because of its depth.
playful, but also reflection of the pain and grief you feel not only on your behalf but on behalf of others, maybe you’re afraid of another blue, even the dark blue that is almost imperceptibly close to black, the darkest part of the ocean where light doesn’t touch because of its depth.
