Book Recommendations

This collection includes books spanning psychology, memoir, mythology, and lived experience.

Each title is linked for easy access. Clicking on any book title will take you to Bookshop.org or ThriftBooks, where you can explore or purchase the book directly.

• If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie

• The Comfort Book by Matt Haig

• The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker

• Journey to the Heart by Melody Beattie 

• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

• Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan

• Anchored by Deb Dana

• The Soul of Grief by Robert Romanyshyn

• Heart Talk by Cleo Wade

• Scattered Minds by Gabor Mate

• Group by Christie Tate

• Strangers to Ourselves by Rachel Aviv

• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl

• Rules for a Knight by Ethan Hawke

• Scar Tissue by Anthony Kiedis

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

• The Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner, PhD

• Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

• 52 Weeks of Esteemable Acts by Francine Ward

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

• All the Right Pieces by Nakeia Homer

• Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard

• Women Who Run With The Wolves by Carisa Pinkola Estes, PhD

• Life by Keith Richards

• Blink by Malcom Gladwell

• The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom

• The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck

• The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller

• Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar by Cheryl Strayed

• In an Unspoken Voice by Peter A. Levine, PhD