Resources
Healing and breaking cycles is a communal effort. Individual healing and empowerment leads to collective healing and empowerment.
United together, we can make a difference in the world we wish to co-create.
This is a lovingly curated resources list that's expanded from what I've mentioned in my book Enough to Rise.
I plan to regularly update this list and keep it fresh for you.
May we rise from our pasts and reclaim ourselves. ❤️
Here are some empowering resources from other wonderful humans:
Mental Health & Healing Trauma
- Nicole LePera. How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
- Mark Wolynn. It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
- Stephanie Foo. What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
- Sahaj Kaur Kohli. But What Will People Say?: Navigating Mental Health, Identity, Love, and Family Between Cultures
- Richard C. Schwartz. No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
- Dr. David Burns. Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
- Dr. Bessel van der Kolk. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
- Jenny Wang. Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans
- Daniel Foor. Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing
- Carl Jung. The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Living, Working, & Loving Better
- Bill Burnett and Dave Evans. Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
- Cheryl Strayed. Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice from Dear Sugar. And also: Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
- Gay Hendricks. The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level
- Brene Brown. Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
- James Clear. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
- Tim Ferriss. The Four-Hour Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
- Amir Levine and Rachel Heller. Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love
- Milan & Kay Yerkovich. How We Love: A Revolutionary Approach to Deeper Connections in Marriage
- Gary Chapman. The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
Spiritual Growth & Consciousness
- Micheal Newton. Journey of Souls: Case Studies of Life Between Lives
- Paulo Coelho. The Alchemist
- Michael Pollan. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
- Clarissa Pinkola Estes. Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
- Richard Rudd. Gene Keys: Embracing Your Higher Purpose
- Eckhart Tolle. The Power of Now
- Yasmin Boland. Astrology Made Easy: A Guide to Understanding Your Birth Chart
- Dr. Joe Dispenza. Becoming Supernatural: How Common People are Doing the Uncommon
Self-Awareness
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