Recommended Reading
The books below are my most frequently recommended reads for clients and anyone looking to expand their awareness, nurture their connections, and reweave their inner narratives.
The Body Keeps The Score
Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.
In An Unspoken Voice
Peter A. Levine, PhD
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
My Grandmother’s Hands
Resmaa Menakem
Rest Is Resistance
Tricia Hersey
Man’s Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
The Vibrant Life
Donna Thomson
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
Shunryu Suzuki
No Bad Parts
Richard Schwartz
Working Bibliography
This ever-expanding collection of sources has informed the vision of Tapestry and reflects an ongoing commitment to research and learning. Here you’ll find diverse and dynamic perspectives on consciousness, mental health, creativity, sexuality, and relationships.
Bowlby, John. A Secure Base: Parent-Child Attachment and Healthy Human Development. Basic Books, 1988.
Brown, Adrienne Maree. Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good. AK Press, 2019.
Chodrön, Pema. Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living. Shambhala Publications, 1994.
Frankl, Viktor E. Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press, 1959.
Harner, Michael. The Way of the Shaman: A Guide to Power and Healing. HarperCollins, 1990.
Hersey, Tricia. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto. Verso Books, 2019.
hooks, bell. All About Love: New Visions. William Morrow, 2000.
Levine, Peter A. In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness. North Atlantic Books, 1997.
Levine, Peter A. Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences. North Atlantic Books, 1997.
McKay, Matthew, Jeffrey C. Wood, and Jeffrey Brantley. The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation, and Distress Tolerance. New Harbinger Publications, 2015.
Perel, Esther. Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence. HarperCollins, 2006.
Pollan, Michael. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence. Penguin Press, 2018.
Menakem, Resmaa. My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. Central Recovery Press, 2017.
Nagoski, Emily. Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life. Simon & Schuster, 2015.
Peck, M. Scott The Road Less Traveled: A New Psychology of Love, Traditional Values and Spiritual Growth. Simon & Schuster, 1978.
Schwartz, Richard C. No Bad Parts: Integrating Psyche and Soma. Crown, 1995.
Suzuki, Shunryu. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind. Weatherhill, 1970.
Thomson, Donna. SourcePoint Therapy: A Body-Centered Approach to Healing and Transformation. North Atlantic Books, 2014.
Thomson, Donna. Vibrant Life: Simple Meditations to Use Your Energy Effectively. North Atlantic Books, 2018.
Tzu, Lao. Tao Te Ching. Translated by Stephen Mitchell, HarperCollins, 1988.
van der Kolk, Bessel A. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. Penguin Books, 2014.
Viorst, Judith. Necessary Losses: The Loves, Illusions, Dependencies, and Impossible Expectations That All of Us Have to Give Up to Grow. Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Wolynn, Mark. It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Influences Who We Are and How to End the Cycle. Viking, 2010.
Yalom, Irvin D. The Gift of Therapy: An Unauthorized Biography of the Talking Cure. HarperCollins, 2002.
Yunkaporta, Tyson. Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World. HarperOne, 2020.