Resources | Books
Books have been pivotal for my own personal and academic growth. Below I share some of the most impactful ones with the hope that they can support you.
Sustainable Activism and Healing Justice
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
Author: Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
Author: Adrienne Maree Brown
The Lightmaker's Manifesto: How to Work for Change without Losing Your Joy
Author: Karen Walrond
Healing Justice: Holistic Self-Care for Change Makers
Author: Loretta Pyles
The Hope: A Guide to Sacred Activism
Author: Andrew Harvey
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good (Emergent Strategy)
Author: Adrienne Maree Brown
The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice
Author: Staci Haines
Meditation and Social Justice
The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities Through Mindfulness
Author: Rhonda V. Magee
Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation
Author: Rev. angel Kyodo Williams
Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger
Author: Lama Rod Owens
Racial Justice
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
Author: Layla F. Saad
Psychology of Spirituality
The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life
Author: Lisa Miller
The Oxford Handbook of Psychology and Spirituality
Author: Lisa J. Miller
Toward a Psychology of Awakening: Buddhism, Psychotherapy, and the Path of Personal and Spiritual Transformation
Author: John Wellwood
Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World
Author: Mark Williams, Danny Penman, et al.
Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening
Author: Joseph Goldstein
Genuine Happiness: Meditation as the Path to Fulfillment
Author: B. Alan Wallace and The Dalai Lama
Mindfulness in Positive Psychology: The Science of Meditation and Wellbeing
Author: Itai Ivtzan and Tim Lomas
Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation
Author: Alan Watts and New World Library
Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body
Author: Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson,
Mindfulness Within Organizations
Presence: Human Purpose and the Field of the Future
Author: Peter M. Senge, C. Otto Scharmer, and Joseph Jaworski
Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage in Human Consciousness
Author: Frederic Laloux and Ken Wilber
Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
Author: Joseph Jaworski
Community Mental Health
Where There is No Psychiatrist: A Mental Health Care Manual
Author: Vikram Patel
Climate Crisis and Community Psychology
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster
Author: Rebecca Solnit
All We Can Save: Truth, Courage, and Solutions for the Climate Crisis
Author: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. Wilkinson
Standing on the Edge: Finding Freedom Where Fear and Courage Meet
Author: Joan Halifax and Rebecca Solnit
Decolonial Approaches to Psychology
Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
Author: Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Author: Paulo Freire and Donaldo Macedo
The Wretched of the Earth
Author: Frantz Fanon
Toward Psychologies of LIberation: Critical Theory and Practice in Psychology and the Human Sciences
Author: M. Watkins and H. Shulman
Liberation Psychology: Theory, Method, Practice, and Social Justice
Author: Lillian Comas-Díaz and Edil Torres Rivera
Buddhism and Spirituality
Cutting through Spiritual Materialism
Author: Chögyam Trungpa
Radical Acceptance
Author: Tara Brach, Cassandra Campbell, et al.
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
Author: Pema Chödrön, Cassandra Campbell, et al.
The Places that Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times
Author: Pema Chödrön, Joanna Rotte, et al.
Shifting into Freedom: The Science and Practice of Open-Hearted Awareness
Author: Loch Kelly and Sounds True
No time to lose: A Timely Guide to the Way of the Bodhisatva
Author: Pema Chödrön, Joanna Rotte, et al.
Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation
Author: Joseph Campbell, David Kudler, et al.
The Power of Flow: Practical Ways to Transform Your Life with Meaningful Coincidence
Author: Charlene Belitz and Meg Lundstrom
Glimpses of Abhidharma: From a Seminar on Buddhist Psychology
Author: Chogyam Trungpa
Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening
Author: Stephen Levine and Ondrea Levine
The Way of Zen
Author: Allan Watts
Trauma
The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice
Author: Staci Haines, Ai-Jen Poo - foreword, et al.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Author: Sean Pratt, Bessel A. van der Kolk, et al.
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Author: Peter A. Levine, Chris Sorensen, et al.
Jungian Psychology
Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Author: Carl Jung, James Cameron Stewart, et al.
Physics Books that Inform Psychology of Spirituality
Wholeness and the Implicate Order
Author: David Bohm
The Taboo of Subjectivity: Toward a New Science of Consciousness
Author: B. Alan Wallace
The User Illusion: Cutting Consciousness Down to Size
Author: Tor Norretranders
Psychedelic-Informed Therapy
Synchronicity
Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle
Author: C. G. Jung, R. F.C. Hull, et al.
Living in Flow: The Science of Synchronicity and How Your Choices Shape Your World
Author: Sky Nelson-Isaacs, Joseph Jaworski - foreword, et al.
Synchronicity: The Inner Path of Leadership
Author: Joseph Jaworski
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
Essential Psychodynamic Psychotherapy: An Acquired Art
Author: Teri Quatman
Time-Limited Psychotherapy
Author: James Mann
Brief Dynamic Therapy
Author: Dr. Hanna Levenson PhD
Global Mental Health
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
Author: Ethan Watters