RESOURCES
A small library for the work.
Books, writing, and recordings that have shaped how I practice and live — and that clients return to often. Updated as I read.
READING LIST
Books I return to and recommend.
Grouped loosely by what they're for. If you feel inspired —not required.
01
On Shadow Work & the Creative Life
For meeting the disowned, unblocking the creative pull, and learning to follow what is actually calling.
Owning Your Shadow
A short, foundational text on Jungian shadow work — what we cast off, why, and what it takes to bring it back.
Robert Johnson
No Bad Parts
The founder of Internal Family Systems on approaching inner voices with curiosity rather than conflict. A doorway to parts work.
Richard Schwartz
The Alchemist
A fable about heeding the inner pull — the same pull that draws people toward their own Personal Legend.
Paulo Coelho
The Artist's Way
A classic. Morning pages and artist dates as a practice for unblocking and remembering yourself.
Julia Cameron
02
On Mindfulness & Buddhist Wisdom
Texts that build the capacity to be present with experience — including the parts of it that are difficult.
When Things Fall Apart
For the seasons when nothing is working. A book to return to, written by someone who has been there.
Pema Chödrön
The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching
A clear, accessible map of foundational Buddhist teachings — useful even for those uninterested in religion as such.
Thich Nhat Hanh
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
A deep, generous companion on impermanence and the practice of preparing for what comes — and what is already here.
Sogyal Rinpoche
03
On Love, Relationships & Communication
Love as a practice — with self, with others, and across the structures we inherit.
All About Love
A reframing of love as practice rather than feeling. Direct, lucid, and politically alive.
bell hooks
The Will to Change
On men, masculinity, and the cost of being cut off from emotional life. Essential reading on patriarchy from within love.
bell hooks
Communion
The third in the love trilogy — on women loving and being loved, particularly Black women.
bell hooks
Be Not Afraid of Love
A tender, lyrical reflection on fear, intimacy, and connection — written in conversation with bell hooks and from inside the work of healing.
Mimi Zhu
The Four Agreements
Four practical guidelines for relating — to self, to others, and to the agreements we already live inside.
Don Miguel Ruiz
The Art of Communicating
On listening and speaking as spiritual practice — and as the foundation of every honest relationship.
Thich Nhat Hanh
04
On Spirit, Soul & Energy
Psycho-spiritual texts on the soul, the subtle body, and the dimensions of experience that exceed the personal.
A Return to Love
A reading of A Course in Miracles for everyday life — love as the work, fear as the obstacle.
Marianne Williamson
The Seat of the Soul
On the soul as the larger context for human experience, and the choices that align personality with that larger self.
Gary Zukav
Advanced Energy Anatomy
An audiobook on how to interpret the energetics of your life. Learning to recognize the four survival archetypes and how to move beyond stuckness. Listened to at the pace of a practice.
Caroline Myss
05
On Indigenous Wisdom & Ritual
Texts to decolonize. Readings that locate healing inside relationship — to land, ancestor, and community. A necessary corrective to a culture that places the self at the center.
Braiding Sweetgrass
A botanist and member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation weaves indigenous wisdom with the scientific knowledge of plants and place.
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Ritual: Power, Healing, and Community
On the necessity of ritual — what it does, how it heals, and what is lost when a culture forgets how to perform it.
Malidoma Patrice Somé
Spirits of the Earth
A guide to Native American nature symbols, stories, and ceremonies — drawn from the author's lineage and practice.
Bobby Lake-Thom
Principles of Native American Spirituality
An accessible introduction to the principles underlying many Native American spiritual traditions. Part of the Thorsons series.
Dennis Renault & Timothy Freke
Think Indigenous
A Lakota elder on bringing indigenous wisdom into modern daily life. Practical, generous, and culturally rooted.
Doug Good Feather
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