📚 Recommended Reading

Explore books that inspire growth, healing, and insight.

Linked below are books that therapists or patients have found helpful in their healing journeys. This is a gentle reminder that while literature can be helpful, recovery is about both learning and action; do your best to balance these on your journey. It doesn’t have to be done all at once or even at all; you have the autonomy to set the pace. This list represents work we can engage with, grow, and change throughout our lifetimes. It is neither complete nor comprehensive; to be so is an impossibility in the face of the vibrancy and complexity of life in recovery.

Please remember to check in with yourself while reading, and above all else, try to be kind and gentle to yourself.

🌱 Personal Growth & Emotional Health

• A Liberated Mind by Steven Hayes
• In This Moment by Kirk Strosahl
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz
• Our Polyvagal World by Seth Porges & Stephen Porges
• Unattended Sorrow by Stephen Levine

🏳️‍🌈 Identity, Inclusion & Belonging

• The Velvet Rage by Alan Downs
• All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson
• You Are Your Own by Jamie Lee Finch
• Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa
• White Like Me by Tim Wise
• Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
• Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon
• Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon
• Gender Outlaws: The Next Generation by Kate Bornstein & S. Bear Bergman

🧠 Neurodivergence

• Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price, PhD
• NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman
• Unmasking Autism by Devon Price, PhD
• Your Brain is A Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time by Dean Buonomano
• Visual Thinking: The Hidden Gifts of People Who Think in Pictures, Patterns, and Abstractions by Temple Grandin, PhD
• Driven to Distraction by Edward Hallowell & John Ratey

💞 Relationships & Attachment

• ACT with Love by Russ Harris
• How to Be an Adult in Relationships by David Richo
• Attached by Amir Levine & Rachel Heller
• Prodependence by Robert Weiss
• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman & Nan Silver
• What Makes Love Last? by John Gottman & Nan Silver
• Wired for Love by Stan Tatkin
• Erotic Intelligence by Alexandra Katehakis
• Polysecure by Jessica Fern
• Your Kid’s Gonna Be Okay by Michael Delman M.Ed
• No More Mr. Nice Guy by Dr. Robert Glover
• Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski

🪞 Narcissistic Trauma & Recovery

• It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People by Ramani S. Durvasula, PhD
• “Don’t You Know Who I Am?” How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility by Ramani S. Durvasula, PhD
• I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy
• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

💬 Recovery & Addiction

For The Person in Recovery

• The Wisdom to Know the Difference by Kelly Wilson
• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Maté
• Healing the Shame that Binds You by John Bradshaw
• Narrative Means to Sober Ends by Johnathan Diamond

Addiction (for your support system)

• Understanding and Helping an Addict (and keeping your sanity) by Andrew Proulx, M.D.
• It Will Never Happen to Me by Claudia Black
• How Al-Anon Works for Family and Friends of Alcoholics by Anonymous
• Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change by Jeffrey Foote, PhD; Carrie Wilkens, PhD; Nicole Kosanke, PhD

12-Step Specific

• The Proactive Twelve Steps by Serge Prengel
• Modern 12 Step Recovery by Glenn Rader
• Beyond Belief: Agnostic Musings for 12 Step Life by Joe C.
• A Gentle Path through the Twelve Steps by Patrick Carnes
• Mastering Recovery by Barry A. Lehman

🌿 Self-Growth & Spirituality

• Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
• The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown
• The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
• Full Catastrophe Living by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Mindsight by Daniel Siegel
• The Antidote: Happiness for People Who Can’t Stand Positive Thinking by Oliver Burkeman
• The Upside of Your Dark Side by Todd Kashdan & Robert Biswas-Diener
• Reaching Out by Henri Nouwen
• How to Live a Good Life by Massimo Pigliucci, Skye Cleary, & Daniel Kaufman
• Waking Up by Sam Harris
• Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• You Are Medicine by Asha Frost
• The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition by Sonya Renee Taylor
• How to Know a Person by David Brooks
• Swimming in the Sacred by Rachel Harris, PhD
• Privilege a Reader by Michael S. Kimmel & Abby L. Ferber
• How to Hold a Cockroach by Matthew Maxwell

🌟 General Enrichment

• Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• All About Love by bell hooks
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
• In a Different Voice by Carol Gilligan
• Unbearable Weight: Feminism, Western Culture, and the Body by Susan Bordo & Leslie Heywood
• Nothing Was the Same by Kay Redfield Jamison
• I and Thou by Martin Buber
• The Ethical Slut by Janet Hardy & Dossie Easton
• The Psychology of Pokemon by Anthony M Bean, PhD
• What If? by Randall Munroe

📘 Workbooks

• The Gender Quest Workbook: A Guide for Teens and Young Adults Exploring Gender Identity by Rylan Jay Testa PhD & Deborah Coolhart PhD LMFT
• The Neurodivergent Friendly Workbook of DBT Skills by Sonny Jane Wise
• Facing the Shadow Workbook by Patrick Carnes
• The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
• The Nervous System Workbook by Deb Dana

💡 How to Use This List

These books are suggestions, not prescriptions.
Take what resonates and leave what doesn’t.
If you’d like to discuss how one of these books connects to your therapeutic goals, we’re happy to integrate that work in session.

Want Personalized Recommendations?

Your therapist can suggest readings that align with your specific goals — from trauma recovery to relationship repair and identity development.

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