Self-Paced Resources & Helpful Links

to Support Your Journey

This collection includes books, videos, podcasts, and other resources that I frequently recommend to support continued reflection, growth, and healing between sessions (or wherever you happen to be on your journey).

Take what resonates, leave what doesn't, and trust that you don't have to explore it all at once.

Apps, Podcasts, Videos & TedTalks

Healing is rarely built from one conversation or one perspective alone.

While certainly not an exhaustive or fully comprehensive list, these are some of the resources I return to most often because they help introduce, deepen, or reframe concepts that frequently emerge throughout the therapeutic process and our understanding of ourselves, our relationships, and the systems we exist within.

My Most Recommended Books

Book cover for "What My Bones Know" by Stephanie Foo, featuring a colorful arrangement of flowers and bones on a dark background.

The memoir sheds light on C-PTSD in a significantly more relatable, hopeful and narrative-style approach that I recommend as an alternative to The Body Keeps the Score. Stephanie Foo weaves together personal experience, research, and interviews to illuminate what it means to heal from Complex PTSD. This deeply human book offers validation, hope, and a reminder that healing is rarely linear.. but it is possible.

Cover of a book titled "The Body Is Not an Apology" by Sonya Renee Taylor, featuring a woman lying on her back surrounded by colorful flowers.

A powerful call toward radical self-love that challenges body shame, beauty standards, and systems of oppression. This book encourages readers to build a more compassionate relationship with themselves while recognizing how individual healing and social justice are deeply connected.

Book cover of 'Love and Rage' by Lama Rod Owens with a flame design and a broken heart in the center, and a red circle in the top right corner indicating it as a best seller.

A thoughtful exploration of relationships, conflict, and emotional accountability that challenges us to move beyond blame and toward deeper connection. This book offers practical and compassionate tools for navigating rupture, repair, and the complexities of loving ourselves and others.

Book cover titled "No Bad Parts" with a minimalist line drawing of a face integrated into colored abstract shapes, promoting healing trauma and restoring wholeness through the Internal Family Systems Model.
Book cover titled 'Running on Empty: Overcome Your Childhood Emotional Neglect' by Jonic Webb, PhD, with Christine Musello, PsyD.

Grounded in Internal Family Systems (IFS), this book introduces the idea that every part of ourselves (even the ones we struggle with) has a purpose. It offers a compassionate framework for understanding inner conflict and cultivating greater self-leadership, healing, and integration.

Jonice Webb explores the often-overlooked impact of Childhood Emotional Neglect (CEN) and how growing up without consistent emotional attunement can shape our relationships, self-worth, and emotional lives. With insight and practical guidance, this book helps readers identify what may have been missing and how to begin building the emotional connection and self-compassion they deserve.

Poster with the words 'PLEASURE ACTIVISM' in large, bold letters, and the phrase 'New York Times Best Seller' at the top. The poster features colorful silhouettes of animals and insects arranged beneath the text.

An invitation to reimagine pleasure as a source of healing, resilience, and collective liberation. This book explores how joy, embodiment, and connection can become meaningful acts of resistance in a world that often asks us to disconnect from ourselves.

Book cover titled "Mother Hunger" by Kelly McDaniel with a light-colored fabric background and purple text.
Silhouettes of women with pink and purple abstract backgrounds and bold white text reading 'Oppression and the Body' and a subtitle 'Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions'.

A compassionate exploration of the lasting impact of unmet maternal needs across the lifespan. Whether your relationship with your mother was marked by absence, inconsistency, or emotional disconnection, this book offers language, validation, and pathways toward healing.

Book cover titled 'Medicine Wheel for the Planet' with a circular symbol divided into four colors (green, white, yellow, red) and a turtle shape with a face at the top.

This book examines the profound ways systemic oppression becomes embodied, influencing our nervous systems, relationships, and overall well-being. It invites readers to understand healing as both an individual and collective process rooted in context, justice, and liberation.

Book cover titled "Shameproof Parenting" by Mercedes Samudio, LCSW, featuring silhouettes of parents and children in blue and orange around an orange circle, with the subtitle encouraging finding a unique parenting voice and raising healthy children.

Drawing from Indigenous wisdom and ecological perspectives, this book invites readers to reconnect with themselves, one another, and the living world. It offers a holistic lens on healing that emphasizes reciprocity, balance, and our relationship with the communities and environments that sustain us.

This book offers practical guidance for raising children through connection rather than fear, shame, or punishment. Grounded in attachment and emotional attunement, it helps caregivers foster resilience, secure relationships, and healthy emotional development.