Resources
A curated collection of books, tools, and support resources I find myself returning to, for clients and anyone curious about the work of healing.
Insight Timer
A free meditation app with thousands of guided sessions. Useful for building a consistent mindfulness practice between sessions.
Calm
Guided meditations, sleep stories, and breathing exercises. Particularly helpful for anxiety, stress, and sleep difficulties.
Calm Harm
An app designed to help manage the urge to self-harm by providing tasks and activities grounded in evidence-based techniques.
How We Feel
A simple, research-backed tool for checking in with your emotions, building emotional vocabulary, and tracking how you feel over time.
Atlas of the Heart
A guide to mapping the language of human emotion, helping us make sense of what we feel and find deeper connection.
The Body Keeps the Score
A foundational text on how trauma lives in the body and the many pathways toward healing, including somatic, relational, and beyond.
Codependent No More
A compassionate guide to understanding and overcoming codependency, with practical tools for reclaiming your own life.
The Expressive Body in Life, Art, and Therapy
An exploration of how movement, art, and embodied expression can become powerful tools for personal transformation.
The Highly Sensitive Child
Helping our children thrive when the world overwhelms them, with practical strategies for parents of sensitive kids.
Hold Me Tight
A deeply insightful look at how emotional bonds shape our relationships and how to strengthen them through connection.
Mating in Captivity
A bold exploration of desire and intimacy in long-term relationships, unlocking erotic intelligence.
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
A therapist turns the lens on herself. Part memoir, part exploration of what therapy can offer. Warm, honest, and often funny.
The Modern Loss Handbook
A candid, practical guide to navigating grief and loss in all its forms, with wisdom from a wide community of voices.
Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image
An insightful look at how the mother-daughter relationship shapes our experience of our bodies and sense of self.
My Grandmother's Hands
A somatic exploration of how racial trauma lives in our bodies and how we can begin to heal individually and collectively.
On Grief and Grieving
A compassionate guide to understanding the stages and experiences of grief, offering comfort and perspective for those who are mourning.
Renegade Grief
A fresh, honest exploration of grief that challenges conventional expectations and makes space for the full range of loss.
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work
Research-backed principles for building stronger, healthier partnerships grounded in decades of relationship science.
The Teenage Brain
A neuroscientist's survival guide to raising adolescents, offering insight into why teens think and act the way they do.
The Whole-Brain Child
Practical strategies for nurturing your child's developing mind, helping them thrive emotionally and intellectually.
The Wild Edge of Sorrow
A poetic, soulful guide to grief as a communal and sacred experience, inviting us to tend our sorrows with care.
The Wisdom of Your Body
A compassionate invitation to reconnect with the body as a source of wisdom, healing, and belonging.
Your Body Is Not an Apology
A powerful call to radical self-love and body liberation, challenging systems that teach us to feel shame about our bodies.
If you or someone you know is in crisis, please reach out to one of these resources.
Help is available.