Reading.

Here you’ll find books on the following:

A Basic Toolkit for Healing

A General Theory of Love - Lewis, Amini and Lannon (a clear, poetic and engaging explanation of transformation and healing)

Emotional Intelligence – Daniel Goleman  (recognizing the “heartful” intelligence in being human

Facing Codependency – Pia Mellody

Passionate Marriage – David Schnarch   (help for couples)

Soul Without Shame – Byron Brown   (dealing with shame critic)

The Four Insights - Alberto Villoldo (indigenous perspective on healing)

Unwinding the Belly, Healing with Gentle Touch – Allison Post   (learning to have a body in a delicious way)

Waking the Tiger – Peter Levine   (recognizing and dealing with trauma)

When Things Fall Apart — Pema Chodran   (when the rug gets pulled from under you how to find meaning and love yourself

Psychology-Self Help Reading

Befriending the Body

Unwinding the Belly, Healing with Gentle Touch – Allison Post

Biodynamic Cranial Sacral Touch

Stillness Touch – Charles Ridley  www.dynamicstillness.com/main.swf and go to E-Books, scroll down to find Stillness Touch  and other offerings

Wisdom in the Body – Michael Kern

Codependence

Codependent No More – Melody Beattie

Facing Codependency – Pia Mellody

The Critic Within – Healing Shame and The Critic

Embracing your Inner Critic – Hal & Sidra Stone

Healing the Shame that Binds You – John Bradshaw

Shame, The Power of Caring – Gershen Kaufman

Soul Without Shame – Byron Brown

Couples

How Can I Get Through to You? – Terrence Real

Passionate Marriage – David Schnarch

Cranial-Sacral

Wisdom in the Body –  Michael Kern

Eating

Meal by Meal: 365 Daily Meditations for Finding Balance Through Mindful Eating – Donald Altman

When Food is Love – Geneen Roth

Hakomi

Body-Centered Psychotherapy: The Hakomi Method – Ron Kurtz

Experiential Psychotherapy with Couples - Rob Fisher

A Jungian Perspective:  Robert A. Johnson’s books are delightful, insightful, accessible and incredibly well-written explorations of our archetypal energies. 

He – Robert A. Johnson (exploring masculine and feminine components in a man’s psychology through the myth of Parsifal)

She – Robert A. Johnson (exploring feminine and masculine components in a woman’s psychology through the myth of Psyche)

We – Robert A. Johnson (exploring the psychology of romantic love through the myth of Tristan and Iseult – a great perspective on what we are really searching for in romantic love, and how to claim our own spiritual search and let our partner be human)

Ecstasy – Robert A. Johnson (exploring the ecstatic quality of our human spirit and finding a healthy expression of our true inner selves)

Transformation: Understanding The Three Levels of Masculine Consciousness – Robert A. Johnson (the masculine is present in both men and woman – this is an exploration of the evolving stages of masculine energy) 

Femininity Lost and Regained – Robert A. Johnson (the feminine is present in both women and men – this is an exploration of reclaiming the deep healing of our feminine qualities)

Owning Your Own Shadow – Robert A. Johnson (the shadow is the dark, unlit part of the ego – this book is a guide and exploration of what it is, how it originates, and how we can accept and honor it so that we can be balanced and whole) 

Inner Work – Robert A. Johnson (this is Johnson’s practical four-step approach to using dreams and active imagination for a journey of inner transformation)

Balancing Heaven and Earth – Robert A. Johnson (this is his wonderful autobiography, written in his 70s, speaking of his own very unique and inspiring life, with a Jungian perspective)

Men’s Issues

How Can I Get Through to You? – Terrence Real

I Don’t Want to Talk About It – Terrence Real

Learning to Live Without Violence, A Handbook For Men – Daniel Jay Sonkin and Michael Durphy

Real Boys – William Pollack

Parenting

Parenting from the Inside Out – Daniel J. Siegel and Mary Hartzell

Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child – John Gottman

Real Boys – William Pollack

Reviving Ophelia – Mary Pipher

The Shamanic Perspective

Black Elk Speaks – chronicled by John G. Neihardt

Black Elk, The Sacred Ways of the Lakota - Wallace Black Elk and William S. Lyon

Buffalo Woman Comes Singing – Brooke Medicine Eagle

Coyote Medicine – Lewis Mehl-Madrona

Coyote Wisdom – Lewis Mehl-Madrona

The Education of Little Tree – Forrest Carter

The Hero with a Thousand Faces – Joseph Campbell

Long Life, Honey in the Heart – Martin Prechtel

Prayers and Meditations of the Quero Apache – Maria Yraceburu

Secrets of the Talking Jaguar – Martin Prechtel

Shaman, The Wounded Healer – Joan Halifax

Shamanic Voices – Joan Halifax

Stealing Benefacio's Roses - Martin Prechtel

Walking in the Sacred Manner – Mark St. Pierre and Tilda Long Soldier

Shamanism – Guides to Shamanic Practices

The Book of Shamanic Healing – Kristen Madden

The Four-Fold Way – Angeles Arrien

The Four Insights - Alberto Villoldo

Mending the Past and Healing the Future with Soul Retrieval – Alberto Villoldo

Shaman, Healer, Sage – Alberto Villoldo

Soul Retrieval – Sandra Ingerman

Your Aura & Your Chakras, The Owner’s Manual – Karla McLaren

The Way of the Shaman – Michael Harner

Trauma

The Body Remembers – Babetter Rothschild

The Courage to Heal – Ellen Bass and Laura Davis

The Healing Power of Emotion – Fosha et al

The Survivor’s Guide to Sex – Staci Haines

Trauma and the Body – Ogden, Minton, Pain

Trauma and Recovery – Judith Lewis Herman

Waking the Tiger – Peter Levine

Women’s Issues

The Dance of Anger: A Guide to Changing The Pattern of Intimate Relationships – Harriet Lerner

Women Who Love Too Much – Robin Norwood

Women Who Run with the Wolves – Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Poetry

The Book of Hours – Rainer Maria Rilke

Collected Poems – Dylan Thomas

House Of Belonging – David Whyte

Letters to a Young Poet – Rainer Maria Rilke

The Lives of the Soul – Jane Hirshfield

New and Selected Poems – Mary Oliver

Nine Horses – Billy Collins

Open Secret – Rumi

Poem of the Deep Song – Federico Garcia Lorca

Risking  Everything, 110 Poems of Love and Revelation – Edited by Roger Housden

The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke – Rilke translated by Stephen Mitchell

The Tao Te Ching – Lao Tzu, Translated by Stephen Mitchell

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair – Pablo Neruda

The Way It Is – William Stafford

An Inspiring Read – Novels for the Heart and Soul

Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt

Animal Dreams – Barbara Kingsolver

Away – Amy Bloom

Bastard Out of Carolina – Dorothy Allison

The Bean Trees – Barbara Kingsolver

Blue Calhoun – Reynolds Price

Coyote Blue – Christopher Moore

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood – Rebecca Wells

Empire Falls – Richard Russo

The Fifth Sacred Thing – Starhawk

Four Souls - Louise Erdrich

The Golden Compass – Philip Pullman

The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood

The House of the Spirits – Isabelle Allende

The Hummingbird’s Daughter – Luis Alberto Urrea

Into The Beautiful North – Luis Albeto Urrea

The Kite Runner – Khaled Hossein

Liar’s Moon – Philip Kimball

Little Altars Everywhere – Rebecca Wells

The Little Book – Selden Edwards

Love Medicine – Louise Erdrich

The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five – Doris Lessing

Mennonite in a Little Black Dress – Rhoda Janzen

The Miracle of Edgar Mint – Brady Udall

The Mists of Avalon – Marion Zimmer Bradley

The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency (All Volumes!) – Alexander McCall Smith

Nobody’s Fool – Richard Russo

That Old Cape Magic – Richard Russo

One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Painted Drum - Louise Erdrich

People of the Book – Geraldine Brooks

Pigs in Heaven – Barbara Kingsolver

Plainsong – Kent Haruf

The Poisonwood Bible –  Barbara Kingsolver

The Secret Life of Bees – Sue Monk Kidd

Swan Lake – Mark Helprin

Their Eyes Were Watching God – Zora Neale Hurston

Till We Have Faces – C.S. Lewis

A Wizard of Earthsea – Ursula K. LeGuin