Books

Body Image, Disordered Eating

  • The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

  • Eating in the Light of the Moon by Anita Johnston

  • Women Food and God by Geneen Roth

  • Intuitive Eating by Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole

  • 8 Keys to Recovering from an Eating Disorder by Carolyn Costin

  • Over the Top: a Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness

  • The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown

Creativity

  • The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron

  • Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

  • Bird by Bird by Annie Lamott

  • Art Is a Way of Knowing by Pat B. Allen

Relationships and Love

  • The Three Marriages by David Whyte

  • Anam Cara by John O’Donohue

  • Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel

  • Co-Dependent No More by Melody Beattie

  • The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner

  • The Art of Loving by Eric Fromm

  • All About Love by bell hooks

  • Real Love by Sharon Salzberg

  • Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life by Marshall Rosenberg, Ph.D

  • If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path by Charlotte Kasl

Women and spirituality

  • Psychotherapy Grounded in the Feminine Principle by Barbara Stevens Sullivan

  • Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estès

  • The Other Side by Jennifer Higgie

  • Not that Bad and Difficult Women by Roxane Gay

  • Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit

  • On Being Human by Jen Pastiloff

  • The Heroine’s Journey by Maureen Murdock

  • Belonging by Toko Pa Turner

  • The Moon Book- Lunar Magic to Change Your Life by Sarah Gottesdiener

  • Come as You Are by Dr. Emily Nagoski

  • Outrageous Openness- Letting the Divine Take the Lead by Tosha Silver

Trauma, Grief and Loss

  • When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron

  • The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller

  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

  • The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

  • The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts

  • On Grief & Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief through the Five Stages of Loss by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

  • Internal Family Systems Theory by Richard Schwartz

  • The Mosaic Mind: Empowering the Tormented Selves of Child Abuse Survivors by Richard Schwartz

Social Justice, white privilege, dismantling systemic racism

  • Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

  • My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

  • Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown

  • Pleasure Activism by adrienne maree brown

  • So You Want to Talk About Race? By Ijeoma Oluo

  • How to Be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi

  • Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love & Liberation by Jasmine Syedullah, Lama Rod Owens, and Rev. angel Kyodo williams

  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

  • The Will to Change by bell hooks

Podcasts & Videos

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Organizations & other healing modalities

https://www.reikitothepeople.com Reiki healing and teaching

https://www.thelotuscollaborative.com Eating Disorder Recovery in SF and Santa Cruz, CA.

IFS Institute

https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/help-support/contact-helpline - National Eating Disorder Assoc.