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Recommended Reads

Healing from Family Trauma and Dysfunctional Relationships 

  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson 

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

  • Mothers Who Can’t Love by Susan Forward and Donna Frazier Glynn 

  • The Emotionally Absent Mother by Jasmin Lee Cori 

  • Toxic Parents by Susan Forward

  • Why Won’t You Apologize: Healing Big Betrayals and Everyday Hurts by Harriet Lerner 

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Understanding and Navigating Racism and Identity 

  • Black Fatigue: How Racism Erodes the Mind, Body, and Spirit by Mary-Frances Winters

  • Black Women Black Love: America’s War on African American Marriage by Dianne M. Stewart

  • Grieving While Black by Breeshia Wade

  • How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

  • I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L. Sanchez 

  • I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness by Austin Channing Brown

  • Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans by Jenny Wang

  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

  • The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health* by Rheeda Walker

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Coping with Grief and Loss

  • Grief is Love by Marisa Renee Lee

  • Somebody’s Daughter by Ashley C. Ford 

  • The Choice: Escaping the Past and Embracing the Possible by Dr. Edith Eva Eger 

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Parenting and Child Development 

  • Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors by Robyn Gobbel

  • The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris 

  • The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

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Mental Health and Self-Development 

  • Drama Free by Nedra Glover Tawwab

  • Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab

  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

  • Non-violent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall B. Rosenberg

  • Professional Troublemaker: The Fearfighter Manual by Luvvie Ajayi Jones

  • Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know by Adam Grant 

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Trauma and Body-Mind Connection

  • It’s Not Always Depression: Working the Change Triangle to Listen to the Body, Discover Core Emotions, and Connect to Your Authentic Self by Hilary Jacobs Hendel

  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel A. Van der Kolk 

  • The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis 

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Relationships and Marriage

  • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman 

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