Welcome to my 'Books I Love' page! As someone deeply passionate about learning, books have been my gateway to new perspectives and insights that have inspired me along the way. This collection represents the books that have shaped both my personal journey and my professional practice. Through reading, I find inspiration and knowledge that enriches many aspects of my life, and I hope to share some of that inspiration here with you.
Hersey weaves together history, spirituality, and activism to show how rest disrupts systems of oppression and reconnects us to our humanity.
A refreshing reminder that liberation is not just about struggle, it’s also about reclaiming pleasure as our birthright.
Centres relational, land-based, and culturally responsive approaches that honour lived experience, community, and collective healing beyond Western clinical models.
A powerful and compassionate book that challenges readers to unlearn body shame and embrace radical self-love
Honours women’s cyclical wisdom, connection to land, and the remembering of ancestral stories as pathways to healing and belonging.
The Language of Emotions views emotions as meaningful messengers that offer insight, guidance, and opportunities for healing rather than symptoms to be fixed.
Book cover titled 'The Autistic Survival Guide to Therapy' by Steph Jones with a yellow background and colorful text, featuring a small illustration of a therapist's couch with a dog lying on it.
Explores the lasting effects of unmet maternal care, showing how early emotional neglect shapes identity, relationships, and inner wellbeing, and offers pathways toward healing and self-nurturing.
Explores how trauma is stored in the body and offers a somatic approach to healing, showing how reconnecting with bodily sensations can release trauma and restore natural resilience.
Examines how growing up with emotionally unavailable or self-absorbed parents affects adult relationships, self-esteem, and emotional wellbeing, offering guidance for healing and establishing healthy boundaries.
Presents Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy, showing how all aspects of the self—even those we see as “bad”—hold value and can be healed through compassion and understanding.
Explores how the body stores trauma and how somatic experiencing can help release it, emphasizing the body’s natural capacity to heal from overwhelming experiences.
Guides couples in understanding relationship patterns, healing past wounds, and building deeper intimacy through conscious communication and emotional connection.
Explores how chronic pain is influenced by the mind and nervous system, offering practical strategies to retrain the brain, reduce suffering, and restore a sense of control and wellbeing.
Teaches how mindfulness and meditation can help reduce stress, manage pain, and cultivate greater awareness, balance, and resilience in everyday life.
Explores mindfulness practice as a way to cultivate presence, awareness, and acceptance in everyday life, helping readers live more fully in the moment.
Offers clear, practical guidance on mindfulness and meditation, showing how to cultivate awareness, and clarity in daily life
Guides readers in cultivating kindness and understanding toward themselves, using mindfulness practices to heal self-criticism and foster emotional resilience.
Explores how treating ourselves with kindness, understanding, and acceptance can improve emotional wellbeing, resilience, and overall life satisfaction.
offers practical guidance and meditative practices to help cultivate lasting joy, and mindfulness in everyday life.
Explores how to heal from personal and collective trauma, reconnect with the natural world, and awaken a sense of purpose, vitality, and ecological awareness.
Offers compassionate guidance for facing life’s difficulties, embracing uncertainty, and cultivating courage, mindfulness, and self-acceptance in the midst of suffering.
Explores how embracing life’s suffering and uncertainty can lead to spiritual growth, wisdom, and a deeper understanding of compassion and resilience.
Shares lessons on embracing mortality, living fully, and finding meaning by facing death with openness, curiosity, and presence.
Explores how mindful speech and deep listening can strengthen relationships, foster understanding, and promote compassion in everyday interactions.
Explores grief as a vital and transformative process, showing how fully engaging with loss can deepen connection, resilience, and the capacity for empathy.
Explores how suppressed grief and unexpressed loss shape our culture and inner lives, drawing on indigenous wisdom to show grief as a form of praise and a path toward healing and connection.
Integrates Eastern wisdom and Western psychology, offering insights into how the body, emotions, and energy systems influence mental and physical health.
Explores how embracing love, forgiveness, and spiritual principles can transform fear, relationships, and everyday life, inspired by the teachings of A Course in Miracles.
Introduces meditation and mindful awareness as a gentle, experiential path toward deeper self‑understanding, compassion, and personal growth, blending practical guidance with reflective insights on living with presence and openness.
Explores how to integrate spiritual awakening and mystical experiences into everyday life, showing how ordinary responsibilities and relationships are part of the path to lasting growth and wisdom.

