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

