The Reading List 

Widen the Window: Training Your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma by Elizabeth Stanley, PhD 

Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming it for the Better) by Linda Bacon, PhD

An Indigenous People's History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 

We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 

E-Squared: Nine Do-It-Yourself Experiments that Prove Your Thoughts Create Your Reality by Pam Grout 

When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection by Gabor Mate, MD 

Untamed by Glennon Doyle 

Clinical Applications of the Polyvagal Theory by Stephen Porges & Deb Dana 

Discovering the Inner Mother: A Guide to Healing the Mother Wound and Claiming Your Personal Power by Bethany Webster 

This is Water by David Foster Wallace

The Violence of Love by Oscar Romero 

The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron 

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown

The Dark Side of the Light Chasers by Debbie Ford 

Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancesetor by Layla Saad

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay Gibson 

Cleanse to Heal by Anthony William

The Great Cosmic Mother: Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth by Monica Sjoo & Barbara Mor

White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo