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)