Reading list

Trauma & healing

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Maté

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker

The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color by Natalie Y. Gutiérrez

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

Spirituality

Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer

Peace Is Every Step by Thích Nhất Hạnh

No Death, No Fear by Thích Nhất Hạnh

Reconciliation: Healing the Inner Child by Thích Nhất Hạnh

Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke

Social justice

Mad World: The Politics of Mental Health by Micha Frazer-Carroll

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Skin, Tooth, and Bone: A Disability Justice Primer by Sins Invalid

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

Refusing Compulsory Sexuality: A Black Asexual Lens on Our Sex-Obsessed Culture by Sherronda J. Brown

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo

The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

White Tears/Brown Scars: How White Feminism Betrays Women of Color by Ruby Hamad

Healing Justice Lineages by Cara Page and Erica Woodland