Katie’s Bookshelf

Welcome to my virtual library for healing & discovery. I’m glad you’re here…

Healing Trauma

Fables and Spells- adrienne maree brown

The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed- Jasmin L Cori

The Tao of Trauma- Alaine D. Duncan & Kathy Kain

Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma workbook- Janina Fisher

What My Bones Know- Stephanie Foo

Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal- Belleruth Naparstek

It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle- Mark Wolynn

Somatic-focused

The Revolutionary Trauma Release Process: Transcend Your Toughest Times- David Berceli 

Polyvagal Exercises for Safety & Connection- Deb Dana

Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy: Bringing the Body into Treatment- David Emerson

Overcoming Trauma Through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body- David Emerson

The Politics of Trauma- Staci K. Haines

Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship- Laurence Heller & Aline LaPierre

What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World- Prentis Hemphill

Rest is Resistance- Tricia Hersey

Nurturing Resilience: Helping Clients Move Forward from Developmental Trauma- Kathy Kain & Stephen Terrell

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma- Bessel van der Kolk

In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness- Peter Levine

Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body- Peter Levine 

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma- Peter Levine

Trauma and Memory- Peter Levine

Freedom from Pain: Discover Your Body’s Power to Overcome Physical Pain- Maggie Phillips & Peter Levine

Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox: 125 Worksheets and Exercises to Treat Trauma & Stress- Manuela Mischke-Reeds

Polyvagal Theory- Stephen Porges

The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders- John E Sarno

ACT & DBT-focused

Building A Life Worth Living- Marsha M. Linehan

Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety- Kelly Wilson

Parts work/Internal Family Systems-focused

Parts Work: An Illustrated Guid to Your Inner Life- Tom & Lauri Holmes

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Repairing Wholeness- Dick Schwartz

Racial Trauma

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome- Joy DeGruy, Ph.D.

Living While Black: Using Joy, Beauty, and Connection to Heal Racial Trauma- Guilaine Kinouani

My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - Resmaa Menakem

Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger- Lama Rod Owens

Me and White Supremacy- Layla F Saad

Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love & Liberation- Rev. angel Kyodo Williams & Lama Rod Owens, with Jasmine Syedullah, PhD.

The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health: Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help you Deserve- Rheeda Walker, Ph.D.

Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace- Rev. angel Kyodo Williams

Attachment & Relationships

How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship & Community- Mia Birdsong

Understanding & Treating Chronic Shame: Healing Right Brain Relational Trauma- Patricia DeYoung

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy- Jessica Fern

ACT with Love: Stop Struggling, Reconcile Differences, and Strengthen Your Relationship with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy- Russ Harris

The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships- Diane Poole Heller

Healing Your Attachment Wounds- Diane Poole Heller

Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love- Dr. Sue Johnson

The Polyamory Paradox- Irene Morning


Grief

When Things Fall Apart- Pema Chodron

The Way of Wakan: Reflections on Lakota Spirituality and Grief- David J. Mathieu

The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully- Frank Ostaseski

Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger- Lama Rod Owens

Keep Moving- Maggie Smith

Disability Justice

Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy- edited by Kelly Jensen

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body- Rebekah Taussig (Kansas City writer)

Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, & Desire- edited by Alice Wong

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century- edited by Alice Wong

Disabled Voices- edited by S.B. Smith

Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life- Alice Wong

Sins Invalid


Femme Healing

Women Who Run with the Wolves- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Girlhood- Melissa Febos

Bad Feminist- Roxane Gay

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot- Mikki Kendall

The Moon is Always Female- Marge Piercy


Sexuality, Pleasure & the Erotic

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good- adrienne maree brown

Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century- Barbara Carrellas

Good Sex: Getting Off Without Checking Out- Jessica Graham 

Healing Sex: A Mind-Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma- Staci K. Haines

The New Topping Book- Dossie Easton, Janet W. Hardy

Sex Yourself- Carlyle Jansen

Sex from Scratch: Making Your Own Relationship Rules- Sarah Mirk

Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit, & Joy in the Female Body- Tami Lynn Kent

Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power- Audre Lorde

Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life- Emily Nagoski

Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic & the Domestic- Esther Perel

Living an Orgasmic Life: Heal Yourself and Awaken Your Pleasure- Xanet Pailet

Slow Pleasure: Explore Your Pleasure Spectrum- Euphemia Russell

Private Pain: It’s About Life, Not Just Sex- Ditza Katz + Ross Lynn Tabisel

Sensual Self: Prompts and practices for getting in touch with your body: A guided journal- Ev’Yan Whitney

Maternity

Birth Without Fear- January Harshe