books to read

trauma:

• Waking The Tiger by Peter Levine

• In An Unspoken Voice by Peter Levine

• The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk 

• It Did Not Start With You by Mark Wolynn 

• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson 

• Narcissistic Mothers by Theresa Covert

• Permission to Mourn by Tom Zuba 

• Stop walking on Eggshells by Paul Mason

• Mother Hunger by Kelly McDaniel

• No Bad Parts: Healing and Restoring Wholeness with IFS by Richard Schwartz

New Parents / Postpartum:

• Becoming Us by Elly Taylor

• And Baby Makes Three by John and Julie Gottman 

• The Fourth Trimester by Kimberly Ann Johnson

• This Isn't What I Expected by Karen Kleinman

• Dropping the Baby and Other Scary Thoughts by Karen Kleinman 

• Tokens of Affection: Reclaiming Your Marriage After Postpartum Depression by Karen Kleinman 

• The Postpartum Husband by Karen Kleinman 

• Birth of a New Brain: Healing From Bipolar Postpartum Disorder by Dyane Harwood

relationships:

• Attached by Amir Levine

• Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson

• Love Sense by Sue Johnson

• If Buddha Dated by Charlotte Kasl 

• Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work by John Gottman

• The Relationship Cure by John Gottman

• The Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman 

• US by Terrance Real

personal development:

• How To Be An Adult by David Richo

• The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

• Non Violent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg

• Self- Compassion by Krisin Neff

• Radical Compassion by Tara Brach

• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

• Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottilieb 

• The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron

women’s issues:

• Moody Bitches by Julie Holland

• Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler

• Beyond the Pill by Jolene Brighten

• Why We Can’t Sleep: Women’s New Midlife Crisis by Ada Calhoun

sex-positive:

• Many Love: A Memoir of Polyamory and Finding Love by Sophie Lucido

• The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton

• Pussy: A Reclamation by Regena Thomashauer

• Simon Landrein Adult Coloring Book

• Maria Contreras Aravena Adult Coloring Book

• Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel

• Better Sex Through Mindfulness by Lori Brotto

• Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski

• Stepping off the escalator: Uncommon love and life by Amy Gahran

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