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

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

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 Courage to Heal – Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
The Survivor’s Guide to Sex – Staci Haines
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
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
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
The Kite Runner – Khaled Hossein
Liar’s Moon – Philip Kimball
Little Altars Everywhere – Rebecca Wells
Love Medicine – Louise Erdrich
The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five – Doris Lessing
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
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Painted Drum - Louise Erdrich
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