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