Book Recommendations

I am a HUGE fan of reading and I often recommend books to my clients.

Here is a very incomplete list of books I love.

Eating/HAES:

  • Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating by Christy Harrison

  • What We Don’t Talk About When We Talk About Fat by Aubrey Gordon

Trauma:

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

  • What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo 

Grief/Death:

  • Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death by Irvin D. Yalom

  • The Grief Recovery Handbook by John W. James and Russell Friedman

  • Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss by Hope Edelman

ADHD:

  • You Mean I'm Not Lazy, Stupid or Crazy?!: The Classic Self-Help Book for Adults with Attention Deficit Disorder by Kate Kelly, Peggy Ramundo 

  • Driven to Distraction: Recognizing and Coping with Attention Deficit Disorder by  Edward M. Hallowell, John J. Ratey

Anti-Racist/Feminist Reads:

  • Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez

  • Against White Feminism: Notes on Disruption by Rafia Zakaria

  • The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story created by Nikole Hannah-Jones

  • Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

  • When They Call You a Terrorist by Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele

General/Other:

  • The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living by Russ Harris

  • Bodyfulness: Somatic Practices for Presence, Empowerment, and Waking Up in This Life by Christine Caldwell

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

  • The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients by Irvin Yalom

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

Completely unrelated fiction books that I just love:

  • Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

  • This is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone

  • My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry by Fredrik Backman

  • The Weight of Blood by Tiffany D. Jackson

  • A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers

  • The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera

  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams