Recommended Book List

 How Can I Help? by Ram Dass

 Trauma Stewardship by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
 The Places That Scare You by Pema Chodron
 The Final Gifts by Callahan and Kelley
 Three Little Words by Ashley Rhodes Courter
 Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
 Breaking Night by Liz Murray
 Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy by Rinku
Sen
 Saving Normal by Allen Frances
 The Sociopath Next Door by Martha Stout
 Days in the Lives of Social Workers: 58 Professionals Tell Real Life
Stories From Social Work Practice by Linda May Grobman
 Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
 The Gift of Fear by Gavin DeBecker
 Get Me Out of Here: My Recovery from BPD
 The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
 Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine
 The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce Perry
 The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists
and Their Patients by Irvin Yalom
 The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown
 Nickled and Dimed: On Not Getting By in America by Barbara
Ehrenreich
 The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
 Rising Strong by Brene Brown
 Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
 The Compassion Fatigue Workbook by Francoise Mathieu
 Scared Sick: The Role of Childhood Trauma in Adult Diseases
 The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her
American Doctors and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
 The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris
 An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness by Kay Redfield
Jamison
 Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform
Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski
 The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by
Oliver Sacks
 Attachments: Why You Love, Feel and Act the Way You Do by Tim
Clinton and Gary Sibcy
 In an Unspoken Voice by Peter Levine
 The Call to Social Work: Life Stories by Craig Winston Lecroy
 A Trick of the Light by Lois Metzger
 The Whole Brain Child by Daniel Siegel
 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery by Babette Rothschild
 The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls
 Doing CBT by David Tolin
 Self-Compassion: The Proven Art of Being Kind to Yourself by Kristin
Neff
 Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
by Jennifer Block
 To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care by Cris
Beam
 Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert
Sapolsky
 As a Man Thinketh: Classic Wisdom for Proper Thought, Strong
Character and Right Actions by James Allen
 When Helping Hurts: How to Alleviate Poverty Without Hurting the
Poor…or Yourself by Steve Corbett
 When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
 On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy
 Eyes to the Wind by Ady Barkan
 Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth by Julia
Oparah
 Thank You For Your Service by David Finkel
 The Age of Overwhelm by Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky
 Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
 Where’s The Mother? Stories From a Transgender Dad by Trevor
MacDonald
 How to Be an Introvert in an Extrovert World by Michele Connolly
 The Polyvagal Theory by Seb Dana
 A Child Called It: One Child’s Courage to Survive by Dave Pelzer
 In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
 The Depression Cure by Stephen Ilardi
 I Hear You: The Surprisingly Simple Skill Behind Extraordinary
Relationships by Michael Sorrenson
 Building the Bonds of Attachment: Awakening Love in Deeply Troubled
Children by Daniel Hughes
 A Man Named Dave by Dave Pelzer
 My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathways to
Mending our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
 Connecting Paradigms: A Trauma-Informed and Neurobiological
Framework for Motivational Interviewing Implementation by Matthew
Bennett
 On Being a Therapist by Jeffrey Kottler
 My Daddy the Pedophile: A Memoir by Lily Palazzi
 Help Yourself by Dave Pelzer
 Love’s Executioner by Irvin Yalom
 Leaving It at the Office: A Guide to Psychotherapist Self-Care by John
Norcross
 Educated by Tara Westover
 Born For Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered by Bruce
Perry
 Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens
 Bad Childhood, Good Life by Dr Laura Schlessinger
 Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb
 The Lost Boy: A Foster Child’s Search for the Love of a Family by Dave
Pelzer
 But It’s Your Family: Cutting Ties with Toxic Family Members by
Sherrie Campbell
 Letters to a Young Therapist by Irvin Yalom
 Standing on the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet
by Joan Halifax
 I Don’t Want To Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male
Depression by Terrence Real
 The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
 Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs
 Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help
Techniques From EMDR by Francine Shapiro
 The Evil Hours by David Morris
 Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy Seals Lead and Win by Jocko
Willink