Carrie’s Bookshelf

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    • Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use it For Good: Kimberly Ann Johnson

    • No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model: Richard Schwartz

    • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: Call of the Wild: Bessl VanDer Kolk

    • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma: Bessl VanDer Kolk

    • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: Peter Levine

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

    • Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How They Heal: Belleruth Naparstek

    • Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy: Bringing the Body into Treatment: David Emerson

    • Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body: Peter Levine

    • The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed: Jasmin L Cori

    • Overcoming Trauma Through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body: David Emerson

    • The Revolutionary Trauma Release Process: Transcend Your Toughest Times: David Berceli

    • Freedom from Pain: Discover Your Body’s Power to Overcome Physical Pain: Maggie Phillips & Peter Levine

    • Trauma is Really Strange: Steve Haines

    • Recovery from Gaslighting and Narcissistic Abuse, Codependency and Complex PTSD: Don Barlow

    • It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who we are and how to end the Cycle: Mark Wolynn

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

    • White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide: Carol Anderson

    • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (autobiography 1 of 6): Maya Angelou

    • A Black Women’s History of the United States: Daine Ramey Berry & Kali Nicole Gross

    • The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century: Grace Lee Boggs & Scott Kurashige

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

    • Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West: Dee Brown

    • Deep Diversity: Overcoming Us vs. Them: Shakil Choudhury

    • Between the World and Me: Ta-Nehisi Coates

    • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race: Beverly Daniel Tatum

    • Women, Race, & Class: Angela Y. Davis

    • White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism: Robin DiAngelo

    • Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: American’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing: Joy DeGruy

    • An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States: Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

    • Long Time Coming: Reckoning With Race in America: Michael Eric Dyson

    • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: Reni Eddo-Lodge

    • A New Story of American Racism: Laura Gomez

    • On Juneteenth: Annette Gordon-Reed

    • The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story: Nikole Hanna-Hones

    • Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America: Charisse Jones & Kumea Shorter-Gooden

    • Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America: Ibram X. Kendi

    • How to be an Anti-Racist: Ibram X. Kendi

    • When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir: Patrisse Khan-Cullors & Asha Bandele

    • Mindful of Race: Transforming Racism from the Inside Out: Ruth King

    • An African American and Latinx History of the United States: Paul Ortiz

    • The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America: Andres Resendez

    • The Color of Law: Richard Rothstein

    • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor: Layla Saad

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

    • Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform your Sex Life: Emily Nagoski

    • Living an Orgasmic Life: Healing Yourself and Awaken Your Pleasure: Xanet Pailet

    • Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic & the Domestic: Ester Perel

    • Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good: Adrienne Maree Brown

    • Good Sex: Getting Off Without Checking Out: Jessica Graham

    • Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit, & Joy in the Female Body: Tami Lynn Kent

    • Sex Yourself: Carlyle Jansen

    • Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century: Barbara Carrellas

    • Sex From Scratch: Making Your Own Relationship Rules: Sarah Mirk

    • Private Pain: It’s About Life, Not Just Sex: Ditza Katz & Ross Lynn Tabisel

    • It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand: Megan Devine

    • The Hot Young Widows Club: Lessons on Survival from the Front Lines of Grief: Nora McInerny

    • After This: When Life is Over, Where Do We Go?: Claire Bidwell Smith

    • When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times: Pema Chodron

    • The Invisible String: Patrice Karst

    • Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss: Hope Edelman

    • Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief: Joanne Cacciatore

    • What My Bones Know: Stephanie Foo

    • Ambiguous Loss: Pauline Boss

    • Sex From Scratch: Making Your Own Relationship Rules: Sarah Mirk

    • Healing Your Attachment Wounds: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships: Diane Poole Heller

    • Daring to Trust: Opening Ourselves to Real Love & Intimacy: David Richio

    • Conscious Uncoupling: Katherine Woodward Thomas

    • Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay: Mira Kirshenbaum

    • Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma, and Consensual Nonmonogamy: Jessica Fern

    • The Ethical Slut: A guide to Infinite Sexual Possibilities: Dossie Easton & Catherine Liszt

    • The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate: Gary Chapman

    • The Second Half of the Mountain: A Guide to Personal Alchemy After Awakening: McCall Erickson

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

    • The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt: Russ Harris

    • The Wild Woman’s Way: Unlock Your Full Potential for Pleasure, Power, and Fulfillment: Michaela Boehm

    • The Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who you Think You’re supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are: Brene Brown

    • Self-Therapy: A Step-By-Step Guide to Creating Wholeness and Healing Your Inner Child Using IFS: Jay Early

    • The Gift of Therapy: Irvin Yalom

    • Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image: Learning to Love Ourselves as we are: Hillary McBride

    • The Joy of Being Selfish: Why You Need Boundaries And How to Set Them: Michelle Elman

    • Common Shock: Kathe Weingarten

    • Present Over Perfect: Shauna Niequist

    • Love Warrior: Glennon Doyle

    • Broken Open: Elizabeth Lesser

    • Daring Greatly: Brene Brown

    • The Every Body Book: The LGBTQ+ Inclusive Guide for Kids about Sex, Gender, Bodies, and Families: Rachel Simon

    • And That’s Their Family!: Kailee Coleman

    • The Book of Pride: LGBTQ Heroes Who Changed the World: Mason Funk

    • How to They/Them: A Visual Guide to Nonbinary Pronouns and the World of Gender Fluidity: Stuart Getty

    • It’s Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing up, Sex, and Sexual Health: Robbie Harris

    • S.E.X. The All-You-Need-To-Know Sexuality Guide to Getting You Through Your Teens and Twenties: Heather Corinna

    • Narrating The Closet: Tony Adams

    • Epistemology of the Closet: Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick

    • Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer: Rki Wilchns

    • Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery: Catherine Gildiner

    • Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy: Awareness, Breath, Resonance, Movement, and Touch in Practice: Susan McConnell

    • Self-Therapy: A Step by Step Guide to Creating Inner Wholeness Using IFS, A New, Cutting-Edge Therapy: Jay Earley

    • The Person of the Therapist Training Model: Harry Aponte

    • The Therapist Workbook: Jeffery Kottler

    • The Mindful Therapist: Dan Siegel

    • Building Your Ideal Private Practice: Lynn Grodzki

    • And Baby Makes Three: Julie and John Gottman

    • Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life: Christie Tate

    • Hold me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love: Susan Johnson