Resources

Books (Read and Approved):
- Anxiety
   - The Perfectionist's Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Morgan Schafler
- Grief
    - Beloved by Toni Morrison
    - Tinkers by Paul Harding
    - The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
-  Health
    - It's Not Hysteria: Everything You Need to Know About Your Reproductive Health by Karen Tang, MD, MPH
-  LGBTQ+ Representation
   - All Fours by Miranda July
    -  Big Swiss by Jen Beagin
    -  Boulder by Eva Baltasar
    - Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
    -  Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
    -  The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
- Acceptance and Mindfulness 
  - The Art of Mindful Living by Thich Nhat Hanh
   - Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  -  The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker
   - The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris
   - Radical Acceptance - Embracing Your Life with the Heart of the Buddha by Tara Brach, Ph.D.
   - Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
   - The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- OCD
  - "Pure O" OCD: Letting Go of Obsessive Thoughts with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy by Chad LeJeune, PhD
- Philosophy
   - Go Tell it On the Mountain by James Baldwin
    -  Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
    - The Stranger by Albert Camus
    - The Trial by Franz Kafka
- Politics and Systemic Oppression
   - Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
   - The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
    - On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder
- Relationships
    - Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic by Esther Perel
    - Platonic: How the Science of Attachment Can Help You Make - And Keep - Friends by Marisa G. Franco, Ph.D.
    - The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel
    - The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love by bell hooks
- Science Behind Trauma
   - The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, MD 
   - Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma by Pete Walker
   - Fawning: Why the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves--and How to Find Our Way Back by Dr. Ingred Clayton
   - My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma &  the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts & Bodies by Resmaa Menakem MSW, LICSW, SEP
   - No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness by Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D.
   - The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color by Natalie Y. Gutierrez, LMFT
   - Trauma Recovery: A Mind-Body Approach to Becoming Whole by Arielle Schwartz
   - What Happened to You? by Bruce D. Perry MD, Ph.D & Oprah Winfrey 
    - What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
- Self Growth, Trauma, and Powerful Narratives
  - Atlas of the Heart by Brené Brown
   - A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith
   - Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
   - Educated by Tara Westover
   - East of Eden by John Steinbeck
   - The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
   - If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin
   - In The Dream House by Marmen Maria Machado
  -   I Never Promised You a Rose Garden by Joanne Greenberg
   - Know My Name by Chanel Miller
   - A Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
   - Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
- Self Help
  - Atomic Habits by James Clear
  - How to Keep House While Drowning by K.C. Davis, LPC 
- Neurodivergence
 - Unmasking Autism by Devin Price Ph.D.