Below is a selection of books that inform my practice. It includes books on psychology, trauma, sociology, history, and culture.

Trauma

The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel van der Kolk

Trauma and Recovery, by Judith Herman

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture, by Gabor Mate

My Grandmother’s Hands, by Resmaa Menakem

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Joy DeGruy

Psychology

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price

Body

Anti-Diet: Reclaim your time, money well-being and happiness through intuitive eating by Christy Harrison

Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia by Sabrina Strings

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown

Gender and Sexuality

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern

Ace: What asexuality reveals about desire, society and the meaning of sex by Angela Chen

The Velvet Rage: Overcoming the pain of growing up gay in a straight man’s world by Alan Downs

Gender Magic: Live Shamelessly, Reclaim Your Joy, & Step Into Your Most Authentic Self by Rae McDaniel

History

The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story, edited by Nikole Hannah-Jones

Sociology

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit

Memoir

Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

Who is Wellness For? by Fariha Roisin