These are a few books I’ve read (or listened to) that touched me deeply and/or transformed parts of my being. If you’re looking for something to read, I suggest allowing yourself to be attracted to a title energetically or even seeing if your body feels lighter when one of these books is the one that you may need to read now.

Somatics, trauma, IFS and expressive arts therapy  

  • The body keeps the score, Bessel Van Der Kolk 

  • The body in expressive arts, Daria Halprin

  • Waking the Tiger, Peter Levine

  • Healing Trauma, Peter Levine 

  • Trauma and Memory, Peter Levine and Besse A. Van Der Kolk

  • My grandmother’s hands, Resmaa Menakem

  • When the body says no, Gabor Maté

  • Internal family systems skills training, Richard Schwartz

  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, Lyndsay C. Gibson

  • The practical guide for Healing Developmental Trauma, Laurence Heller P.h.D., Brad J. Kammer LMFT

Trauma true stories (with hope!)

  • The choice, Edith Eva Egar

  • What my bones know, Stephanie Foo

Communication Skills 

  • The naked truth, Daniel Munro

  • Non violent communication, Marshall Rosenberg

  • Say What You Mean, Oren Jay Sofer

Manifestation, Channeled and Energy

  • Hands of Light, Barbara Ann Brennan

  • Ask and it is given, Esther and Jerry Hicks

  • Biology of Belief, Bruce Lipton

  • Practical Intuition, Laura Day

  • Conversations with God, Neal Donald Walsh

  • Your Energetic Boundaries, Cyndi Dale

Self development/ Purpose

  • The power of Habit, Charles Duhigg

  • Smarter, Faster, Better, Charles Duhigg

  • Atomic Habits, James Clear

  • The highly sensitive person, Elaine N. Aron

  • Braving the wilderness, Brene Brown

  • You are a badass, Jen Sincero

  • The 4 agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz

  • The happiness project, Gretchen Rubin

  • Dare to Lead, Brené Brown

  • My stroke of insight, Jill Bolte Taylor

  • Ho’oponopono, Maria Elisa Hurtado Graciet

  • The wisdom of the Enneagram, Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

  • Be you and change the world, Dr. Dan Heer

  • Your resonant self, Sarah Peyton

  • Hardwiring Happiness, Rick Hanson

  • Breaking the Habit of being Yourself, Joe Dispenza

  • The art of asking, Amanda Palmer

  • Finding your own North Star, Martha Beck

  • The art of asking, Amanda Palmer

  • A year to live, Stephen Levine

Spirituality

  • The power of now, Eckhart Tolle

  • The discourse summaries, S.N. Goenka

  • The myth of freedom, Chogyam Trungpa

  • The prophet, Kahlil Gibran

  • The four agreements, Don Miguel Ruiz

Relationships 

  • Your brain on love, Stan Tatkin

  • The mastery of Love, Don Miguel Ruiz

  • The highly sensitive person in love, Elaine N. Aron

  • The 5 love languages, Gary Chapman

  • The seven principles for making marriage work, John M. Gottman

  • Conscious Loving, Gay Hendricks PhD, Kathlyn Hendricks

Sexuality

  • Femme désirée, femme désirante Dr. Daniele Flaumenbaum

  • L’effet source, Jaques Salomé

  • Urban Tantra, Annie Sprinkle

  • Vagina, Naomi Wolf

  • Pussy, Regena Thomashauer

  • Getting the sex you want, Tammy Nelson

Intentional Business and Money

  • The 4-hour workweek, Timothy Ferris

  • Building a story Brand, Donald Miller

  • Find your why, Simon Sinek

  • Start with why, Simon Sinek

  • Scarcity, Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir

  • Will it Fly, Pat Flynn

  • Thinking in systems, Donatella H. Meadows

  • Turning Pro, Steven Pressfield

  • The soul of money, Lynne Twist

  • You are a badass at making money, Jen Sincero

  • Secrets of the Millionaire Mind, T. Harv Ecker

  • Think and grow Rich, Napoleon Hill

  • Earn what you deserve, Jerrold Mundis

  • Rich dad poor dad, Robert T. Kyosaki

  • I will teach you to be rich, Ramit Sethi

Environmental philosophy

  • The more beautiful world our hearts know is possible, Charles Eisenstein

  • Climate, Charles Eisenstein

  • Sacred Economics, Charles Eisenstein

  • Braiding sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

Yoga/Health optimization

  • Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, B.K.S. Iyengar

  • Asana Pranayama Mudra Bandha, Swami Satyananda Saraswati

  • A systematic course in the ancient tantric techniques of Yoga and Kriya, Swami Satyananda Saraswati

  • Breath, James Nestor

  • Quench, Dana Cohen, Gina Bria

Body shame

  • The body is not an apology, Sonya Renee Taylor

  • Fearing the black body, Sabrina Strings

Performing, theater, public speaking 

  • Ted Talks, Chris Anderson

  • Creating a role, An actor prepares, Building a character, Stanislavsky

  • The art of dramatic writing, Lajos Egri

Happy Reading/ Listening! (let me know if you do, would love to hear how the book touched you.)