Reading Recommendations

  • For your relationship with yourself

    • Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach

    • The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook by Kristen Neff and Christopher Germer

    • Focusing by Eugene T. Gendlin (there’s an hour-ish long abridged audio version, free on Hoopla)

  • On love and connection

    • All About Love by bell hooks

    • How We Show Up by Mia Birdsong

    • Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Martin Rosenberg

    • Healing Your Attachment Wounds by Diane Poole Heller

  • For your relationship with the Earth

    • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

    • Your Guide to Forest Bathing by M. Amos Clifford

    • If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie

    • Give Your Yard Back to Nature,” Popular Mechanics (July/August 2019) by me

  • On intergenerational trauma

    • It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn

    • My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem

  • Medicinal storytelling

    • Any audiobook by Clarissa Pinkola Estes (free on Hoopla)

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