RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Trauma Healing

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, Peter Levine

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness, Richard Schwartz

Bodydreaming: In the Treatment of Developmental Trauma, Marian Dunlea

Somatic Therapy

Focusing, Eugene Gendlin

Somatic Internal Family Systems, Susan McConnell

Moving Consciously: Somatic Transformations through Dance, Yoga, and Touch, Sondra Fraleigh

Hakomi Mindfulness-Centered Somatic Psychotherapy, Halko Weiss

Soul Work

Soulcraft: Crossing the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche, Bill Plotkin

The Soul’s Code: In Search of Character and Calling, James Hillman

Awakening the Soul: A Deep Response to a Troubled World, Michael Meade

Bringing the Soul Back Home, Robert Moss

Relationships and Attachment

Living Nonviolent Communication, Marshall Rosenberg

Wired for Love, Stan Tatkin

The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep Lasting Intimate Relationships, Diane Poole Heller

The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples, John Gottman

Grief Tending

The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief, Francis Weller

Earth Grief: The Journey Through Ecological Loss, Stephen Harrod Buhner

Shadow Work

The Little Book on the Human Shadow, Robert Bly

Romancing the Shadow: A Guide to Soul Work, Connie Zweig

Shadow Dance: Liberating the Power of your Creativity, David Rico

Meeting the Shadow: The Power Hidden of the dark Side of Human Nature, edited Connie Zweig and Jeremiah Abrams

Dreamwork

Conscious Dreaming: A Spiritual Path For Everyday Life, Robert Moss

Tracks in the Wilderness of Dreaming, Robert Bosnak

The Dream and the Underworld, James Hillman

Inner Work: Using Dreams and Active Imagination for Personal Growth, Robert Johnson

Indigenous Wisdom

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

Sandtalk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World, Tyson Yunkaporta

Belonging

Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home, Toko Pa Turner

If Women Rose Rooted: The Journey to Authenticity and Belonging, Sharon Blackie

Mythology

Wisdom of the Mythtellers, Sean Kane

Women Who Run With Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Courting the Wild Twin, Martin Shaw

A Branch From the Lightening Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace of Wildness, Martin Shaw

Ecopsychology

Beoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology, David Abram

Active Hope: How to To Face the Mess We’re In Without Going Crazy, Joanna Macy

Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, edited by Theodore Roszak

Creativity

Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbet

Ensoling Language, Stephen Harrod Buhner

Deep Play, Diane Ackerman

Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Contemplative Wisdom

Anam Cara, John O’Donohue

The Wisdom of No Escape, Pema Chödrön

Radical Acceptance: Embracing your Life with the Heart, Tara Brach

The Wise Heart, Jack Kornfield