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Bibliotherapy Recommendations

These are a small sample of books I recommend to clients beginning to explore therapy and personal growth. These recommendations include techniques for personal development that can be used within any spiritual tradition, including agnosticism and atheism.

I encourage you to support your local library and independent book stores.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

• The Happiness Trap by Dr. Russ Harris

Complex PTSD and Post-Traumatic Growth

• Trauma Recovery: A Mind-Body Approach to Becoming Whole by Dr. Arielle Schwartz

• Complex PTSD: From Surviving To Thriving by Pete Walker

• Boundary Boss: The Essential Guide to Talk True, Be Seen, and (Finally) Live Free by Terri Cole

Empaths and Highly Sensitive People

• The Empath’s Survival Guide by Dr. Judith Orloff

• The Highly Sensitive Person by Dr. Elaine Aron

Grief

• The Wild Edge of Sorrow: The Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller

• On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler

Intergenerational Trauma

• It Didn't Start With You: How inherited family trauma shapes who we are and how to end the cycle by Mark Woolen

• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay Gibson

Internal Family Systems

• No Bad Parts by Dr. Richard Schwartz

Mindfulness

• Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger by Lama Rod Owens

• The Mindful Geek: Secular Mindfulness for Smart Skeptics by Michael Taft

• The Science of Enlightenment by Shinzen Young

• Radical Acceptance by Dr. Tara Brach

• Neurodharma: New Science, Ancient Wisdom, and Seven Practices of the Highest Happiness by Dr. Rick Hanson

Narcissistic Abuse

• It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People by Dr. Ramani Durvasula

Neurodivergence

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

• Uniquely Human: Updated and Expanded: A Different Way of Seeing Autism by Dr, Barry M. Prizant

Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness

• The Way of the Psychonaut: Encyclopedia for Inner Journeys by Dr. Stanislov Grof

• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan

• States of Consciousness by Dr. Charles Tart

• The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide: Safe, Therapeutic, and Sacred Journeys by Dr. James Fadiman

Personal Inquiry

• Diving in the Inner Ocean: An Introduction to Personal Transformation Through Diamond Inquiry by Dominic Liber

• The Way of Liberation: A Practical Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Adyashanti

• Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg

• The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron

Social Justice and Racial Trauma

• My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

• Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger by Lama Rod Owens

• Awaken Your Roots: Reclaim Your Ancestry and Sovereignty by Heeding the Jaguar’s Call by Lorena Saavedra Smith

• Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation by Rev. Angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens and Jasmine Syedullah, Ph.D.

• How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

Self-Compassion

• Radical Acceptance by Dr. Tara Brach

• Self-Compassion by Dr. Kristin Neff

• Good Morning, I Love You by Dr. Shauna Shapiro

Spiritual Integration and Transpersonal Issues

• Align: Living and Loving from the True Self by Harmony Kwiker

• The End of Your World: Uncensored Straight Talk on the Nature of Enlightenment by Adyashanti

• Spiritual Bypassing: When Spirituality Disconnects Us from What Really Matters by Robert Augustus Masters

• Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis by Dr. Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof

• Mother Night: Myths, Stories, and Teachings for Learning to See in the Dark by Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés Réyes

• The Promise of the Fifth Sun: Ancestral Journey of Self-Discovery by Dr. Jorge Partida

• A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life by Jack Kornfield