Book List

Resource yourself with recommended reading, viewing, and listening materials

Addiction:

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• Books:

  • Addiction as an Attachment Disorder - Philip J. Flores

  • In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts - Gabor Mate

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Anxiety:

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• Books:

  • The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan Watts

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Depression:

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• Books:

  • The Noonday Demon - Andrew Solomon

  • An Unquiet Mind - Kay Fedfield Jamison

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• Podcasts: 

  • The Hilarious World of Depression

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Eating Disorders:

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• Books:

  • Addiction to Perfection - Marion Woodman

  • Descent to the Goddess - Sylvia Perera

  • Eating in the Light of the Moon - Anita A. Johnston

  • Hunger - Roxane Gay

  • In the Labyrinth of Binge Eating - Hilda Dulin Lee

  • Pursuing Perfection - Margo Maine, Joe Kelly

  • Women Food and God - Geneen Roth

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• Podcasts: 

  • Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison​

  • F Your Diet Podcast with Kimberly Weiss

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Grief: 

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• Books: 

  • It's OK that You're Not OK - Megan Divine

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• Podcasts:

  • What's Your Grief Podcast

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Immigration:

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• Books:​
  • The House on Mango Street - Sandra Cisneros
  • In the Country We Love - Diane Guerrero
  • Useful Phrases for Immigrants - May-lee Chai
  • The Red Umbrella - Christina Diaz Gonzalez
  • The Book of Unknown Americans - Cristina Henriquez
  • The Mortifications - Derek Palacio
  • The Leavers - Lisa Ko

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Intersectional Feminism:

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• Books:​
  • On Intersectionality - Kimberlé Crenshaw
  • Women, Race, and Class - Angela Y. Davis
  • Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism - Patricia Hill Collins
  • Woman, Native, Other - Trinh T. Minh-ha
  • The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions - Paula Gunn Allen
  • Gender Trouble - Judith Butler
  • Sister Outsider - Audre Lorde
  • Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America - Melissa Harris-Perry
  • This Bridge Called My Back - Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa

  • Women and Gender in Islam - Leila Ahmed

  • Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg
  • Assata - Assata Shakur
  • The Rejected Body - Susan Wendell
  • Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to Slutwalk - Melinda Chateauvert

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LGBTQIA:

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• Books:​
  • On Being Different - Merle Miller
  • Boy Erased - Garrard Conley
  • Party of One - Dave Holmes
  • The Rules Do Not Apply - Ariel Levy
  • Rubyfruit Jungle - Rita Mae Brown
  • Gender Outlaw - Kate Bornstein​

Military:

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• Books:​
  • Once a Warrior, Always a Warrior - Charles Hoge
  • The Things They Cannot Say - Kevin Sites
  • War and the Soul - Edward Tick
  • Warrior's Return: Restoring the Soul After War - Edward Tick
     

• Documentaries:

  • We Are Not Done Yet - HBO​

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• TED Talks:
  • Our Lonely Society Makes it Hard to Come Home from War - Sebastian Junger
  • Why Veterans Miss War - Sebastian Junger
  • How to Talk to Veterans About War - Wes Moore
  • Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink​

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Mindfulness:

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• Books:

  • I Am Peace - Susan Verde

  • Mindsight - Dan Seigel

  • Wherever You Go, There You Are - Jon Kabat-Zin

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• Apps​

  • Calm

  • Headspace

  • Insight Timer

  • Meditation Studio

  • Relaxio

  • Stop, Breathe & Think

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Race and Privilege:

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• Books:

  • Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates 

  • White Fragility: Why it's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism - Robin DiAngelo

  • Citizen - Claudia Rankine

  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - Michelle Alexander

  • White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide - Carol Anderson

  • The Hate U Give - Angie Thomas

  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? - Beverly Daniel Tatum

Relationships:

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• Books:

  • Codependent No More - ​Melody Beattie

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Self Growth / Individuation:

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• Books:​

  • The Divine Within - Aldous Huxley

  • The Eden Project - James Hollis

  • The Genius Myth - Michael Meade

  • Inner Work - Robert Johnson

  • Medicine Stories - Aurora Levins Morales

  • Quiet: The Power of Introverts... - Susain Cain

  • Pathways to Bliss - Joseph Campbell

  • Swamplands of the Soul - James Hollis

  • Tattoos on the Heart - Gregory Boyle

  • Women Who Run with the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estés

  • The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan Watts

  • You Are a Badass - Jen Sincero

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Sex and Sexuality:

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• Books:

  • Arousal: The Secret Logic of Sexual Fantasies - Michael Bader

  • Jung and Sex - Edward Santana​

  • The Soul of Sex - Thomas Moore

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Trauma:

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• Books:

  • The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk​

  • The Boy Who was Raised as a Dog - Bruce Perry

  • The Drama of the Gifted Child - Alice Miller

  • Trauma and Recovery - Judith L. Herman

  • Trauma and the Soul - Donald Kalsched

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