RESOURCES

Here is a selection of helpful books on the topic of healing and inner work.

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

My Grandmother’s Hands, Resmaa Menakem

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

Bringing the Soul Back Home, Robert Moss

RELATIONSHIPS AND ATTACHEMENT

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

The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise, Martin Prechtel

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

DREAM WORK

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

INDIGENIOUS WISDOM

Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

Gathering Moss, 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

The Archetypal Artist: Reimagining Creativity and the Call to Create, Mary Antonia Wood

The Artist’s Way, Julie Cameron

Big Magic, Elizabeth Gilbert

Ensoling Language, On the Art of Nonfiction and the Writer’s Life, Stephen Harrod Buhner

Deep Play, Diane Ackerman

Trickster Makes the World: Mischief, Myth, and Art, Lewis Hyde

CONTEMPLATIVE WISDOM

Anam Cara, John O’Donohue

Beauty: The Invisible Embrace, John O’ Donohue

All About Love, Bell Hooks

The Wisdom of No Escape, Pema Chödrön

The Miracle of Mindfulness, Thich Nhat Hanh

Black Liturgies, Cole Arthur Riley

NATURE WRITING

The Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Annie Dillard

Upstream, Mary Oliver

The Anthropology of Turquoise, Ellen Meloy

Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey