
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
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