Recommended Reading

Sometimes the right words can shift something.

This collection includes books and materials that offer insight, validation, and perspective on the experiences many people carry but don’t always have language for. Some are educational. Some are deeply personal. All are chosen with intention.

Read at your own pace. Come back when you need to.

Bipolar Disorder, Psychosis, Anosognosia, & Related Topics

Taking Charge of Bipolar Disorder

by Julie Fast

Loving Someone with Bipolar Disorder

by Julie Fast

The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar Disorder

by Sheri Van Dijk, MSW

Madness: A Bipolar Life

by Marya Hornbacher

I Am Not Sick I Don't Need Help!

by Xavier Amador, PhD

PTSD and Trauma

The Body Keeps the Score

by Bessel van der Kolk

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

by Pete Walker

Complex PTSD Workbook

by Arielle Schwartz

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors

by Janina Fisher

Loving Someone With PTSD

by Aphrodite T. Matsakis

Anxiety

Don't Sweat the Small Stuff

by Richard Carlson

Justice System: Lived Experiences, Mass Incarceration, Abolition, & Related Topics

Life on the Outside: The prison odyssey of Elaine Bartlett

by Jennifer Gonnerman

Prisoners I Once Loved

by Nandi Sojourner Crosby

Right Here, Right Now: Life Stories from America's Death Row

by Lynden Harris

I Woke Up Before I Died

by Paul Brown

Beneath Our Numbers: A Collaborative Memoir From Inside Mass Incarceration

by Walk In Those Shoes 501(c)(3)

Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition

by Leigh Goodmark

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

by Michelle Alexander

Are Prisons Obsolete?

by Angela Davis

by Bryan Stevenson

Restorative Justice

The Little Book of Circle Processes

by Kay Pranis

The Little Book of Restorative Justice

by Howard Zehr

The Little Book of Restorative Justice for Sexual Abuse

by Judah Oudshoorn, Lorraine Stutzman Amstutz, & Michelle Jackett

Restorative Justice and Responsive Regulation

by John Braithwaite

The Psychology of Restorative Justice

by Theo Gavrielides

Substance Use and Addiction

Loving Someone in Recovery

by Beverly Berg

Grief, Loss, Death & Dying

It's OK that you're not OK: Meeting grief and loss in a culture that doesn't understand

by Megan Devine

How to carry what can't be fixed: A Journal for Grief

by Megan Devine

Influencing Death: Reframing dying for better living

by Penny Hawkins Smith

Navigating Grief: A guided journal

by Mia Roldan, LCSW, LCDC

Chronic Illness and Disabilities (coming soon!)

Sociopolitical

On Disobedience

by Eric Fromm

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

by Isabel Wilkerson

Poverty, By America

by Matthew Desmond

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