Non-Fiction Books and Resources I recommend:

  • Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker

  • Mamma and the Meaning of Life, Love’s Executioner (and most other books) by Irving Yalom

  • Radical Acceptance and Radical Compassion by Tara Brach

  • The Power of Your Other Hand and Recovery of Your Inner Critic by Lucia Capachione

  • Embracing our Selves by Hal and Sidra Stone

  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

  • The Myth of Normal by Dr. Gabor Mate

  • The Gift of Failure by Jessica Lahey

  • Hold On To Your Kids by Dr. Gabor Mate and Dr. Gordon Neufeld

  • Disarming the Narcissist by Wendy Behary

  • The Slow Down Diet by Marc David

  • Siddhartha by Herman Hesse

  • Hold me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Dr. Sue Johnson, EdD

What I am reading now:

  • The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge, MD

  • Holistically Treating Complex PTSD: A Six-Dimensional Approach by Pete Walker

  • No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz

  • The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

  • The Anxious Generation by Jonathon Heidt

Children and Young Adult Recommendations

  • Nobody Hugs a Cactus by Carter Goodrich

  • Most books by Mo Willems

  • Same, Same, but Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw

  • The Llama Llama series by Anna Dewdney

  • Don’t Worry, Little Crab by Chris Haughton

  • A Light in the Attic by Shel Silverstein

  • Here in the Real World by Sara Pennypacker

  • Pax by Sara Pennypacker

  • Pax, Journey Home by Sara Pennypacker

  • Song for a Whale by Lynne Kelly

  • The Wild Robot (series) by Peter Brown