BOOK RESOURCES
Something for your reading pleasure
I often get asked about book resources, so this page contains my favorite books, split into 8 categories.
I encourage you to purchase these books from your local bookstore. If you’re not able to do that, you can purchase from Amazon by clicking on the book title, and I will receive a small referral fee.
Intimacy & Relating
A General Theory of Love
by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon
Embracing Our Selves: Voice Dialogue Manual
by Hal Stone and Sidra L. Stone
Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic
by Esther Perel
Partnering: A New Kind of Relationship
by Hal Stone and Sidra L. Stone
The Art of Receiving and Giving:
The Wheel of Consent
by Betty Martin D.C., with Robyn Dalzen
Undefended Love
by Jett Psaris and Marlena S. Lyons
Neuroscience
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
by Lisa Feldman Barrett
The Body Has a Mind of it's Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost) Everything Better
by Sandra Blakeslee and Matthew Blakeslee
Personal Development
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
Coming Apart: Why Relationships End and How to Live Through the Ending of Yours by Daphne Rose Kingma
Directing the Power of Conscious Feelings: Living Your Own Truth
by Clinton Callahan
No More Mr. Nice Guy
by Robert A. Glover
The Courage to be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
The Power of Focusing: A Practical Guide to Emotional Self-Healing
by Ann Weiser Cornell
We're all doing time: A Guide for Getting Free
by Bo Lozoff
When Things Fall Apart:
Heart Advice for Difficult Times
by Pema Chödrön
Sexuality
Coming Together: Embracing your Core Desires for Sexual Fulfillment and Long-Term
by Danielle Harel PhD and Celeste Hirschman MA
The Ethical Slut: A Guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities
by Dossie Easton and Catherine A. Liszt
Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power
by Carolyn Elliott
Gender & Queer Sexuality
How to Understand Your Gender: A Practical Guide for Exploring Who You Are
by Alex Iantaffi and Meg-John Barker
Women’s Sexuality
Pussy: A Reclamation
by Regena Thomashauer
Seductress: Women Who Ravished the World and Their Lost Art of Love
by Elizabeth Prioleau
Woman: An Intimate Geography
by Natalie Angier
Women's Anatomy of Arousal: Secret Maps To Buried Pleasure
by Sheri Winston
Vagina: A New Biography
by Naomi Wolf
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
by Sabrina Strings
How to Be an Anti-racist
by Ibram X. Kendi
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
by adrienne maree brown
The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
by Sonya Renee Taylor
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
by Michelle Alexander
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
by Aubrey Gordon
Trauma & Healing
Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use It For Good
by Kimberly Ann Johnson
Emotional Anatomy
by Stanley Keleman
Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship
by Laurence Heller and Aline LaPierre
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
by Bessel van der Kolk
Transforming Trauma: The Path to Hope and Healing
by James Samuel Gordon
What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
by Gabor Maté
Social Justice