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