Trauma Healing

• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine

• My Grandmothers Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of our Bodies and Hearts by Resmaa Menakem

• Call of the Wild by Kimberly Ann Johnson

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk

Books to continue your own healing of Internalized Racism:

• Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval by Saidiya Hartman

• Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor by Layla F. Saad

• White Fragility: Why its so Hard for White People to Talk about Racism by Robin Diangelo

Intersectional Feminism:

• Ain’t I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by Bell Hooks

• Feminism is For Everybody: Passionate Politics by Bell Hooks

• Women, Race, and Class by Angela Y. Davis

• Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde

• Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption by Rafia Zakaria

Menstrual/Moon Cycle Awareness:

• Moon Time: Living in Flow with your Cycle by Lucy H. Pearce

• Moon Phases: Use the Lunar Cycle to Connect with Nature and Focus Your Intentions by Cecilia Lattari

• In the Flo: Unlock your Hormonal Advantage and Revolutionize your Life by Alisa Vitti

Body Politics:

• The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

• The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty are Used Against Women by Naomi Wolf

• Caliban and the Witch: Women, The Body and Primitive Accumulation by Silvia Federici

• Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit, and Joy in the Female Body by Tami Lynn Kent

• Men Explain things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

• Nymphomania: A History by Carol Groneman

Indigenous Wisdom:

• You are the Medicine: 13 Moons of Indigenous Wisdom, Ancestral Connection, and Animal Spirit Guidance by Asha Frost

• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Sexuality:

• Come as You Are: The Surprising new Science that will Transform your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski

• Women’s Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps to Buried Pleasure by Sheri Winston

Embodiment/Internal Felt Sense:

• Bodyfulness: Somatic Practices for Presence, Empowerment, and Waking Up in This Life by Christine Caldwell

• Your Body Knows the Answer: Using Your Felt Sense to Solve Problems, Effect Change, and Liberate Creativity by David I. Rome

Being Better in Relationship with Other Humans:

• Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg

• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown

• Codependent No More by Melody Beattie

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini

• Technically Wrong: Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

• Living in the Power Zone: How Right Use of Power Can Transform Your Relationships by Cedar Barstow

Patriarchy/Capitalism:

• The Soul of Money: Transforming your Relationship with Money and Life by Lynne Twist

• The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule by Angela Saini

• Goddesses: Mysteries of the Feminine Divine by Joseph Campbell

Archetypes:

• Women Who Run With Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

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

• Maiden to Mother: Unlocking our Archetypal Journey Into the Mature Feminine by Sarah Durham Wilson

Inspirational:

• Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May

• Light is the New Black by Rebecca Campbell

• Brene Brown Collection

• The Surrender Experiment: My Journey into Life’s Perfection by Michael A. Singer

Parenthood/Pregnancy:

• Tarot for Pregnancy: A Companion for Radical Magical Birthing Folks by Brittany Carmona-Holt

• Spirit Babies: How to Communicate with the Child You are Meant to Have by Walter Makichen

• Noise: A Manifesto Modernising Motherhood by Danusia Malina-Derben

Fun Fiction:

• Earthseed Series by Octavia E. Butler

• Dune Series by Frank Herbert

• Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac

• Harry Potter Series by J. K. Rowling