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 my work as a counsellor. 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 every aspect 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.
Book cover titled 'Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice' by Jennifer Mullan, PsyD, with images of a person and a hog in the background.
A powerful and compassionate book that challenges readers to unlearn body shame and embrace radical self-love
Book cover titled 'If Women Rose Rooted' by Sharon Black. Features a dark background with vibrant, colorful flowers intertwined.
Book cover titled 'The Language of Emotions' by Karla McLaren, with a subtitle 'What your feelings are trying to tell you'. The background features a gradient with splash of colorful water.
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.
Book cover titled 'Mother Hunger' by Kelly McDaniel, with subtitle 'How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance,' featuring a white background and purple text.
Book cover titled 'The Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma' by Peter A. Levine, featuring an illustration of two tigers in a forest.
Book cover titled 'Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents' by Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, with a subtitle 'How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents'. The cover features paper-cutout style figures of a parent and children on a wooden surface, with a dark background and an orange circle indicating over a million copies sold.
Book cover titled 'No Bad Parts' by Richard C. Schwartz, PhD, with a foreword by Alanis Morissette. The cover features abstract line art of a face intertwined with colorful shapes and the subtitle 'Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with The Internal Family Systems Model'.
Book cover titled 'In An Unspoken Voice' by Peter A. Levine, PhD, featuring a portrait of a person's face with a blue background and abstract artistic elements.
Book cover of 'Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples' by Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., celebrating 20th anniversary edition, with a pink background and white text.
A promotional image with a blue watercolor background displaying the quote about mindfulness and self-compassion to overcome chronic pain, highlighting the book title 'Outsmart Your Pain' by Christiane Wolfe, MD, PhD.
Book cover titled 'Full Catastrophe Living' by Jon Kabat-Zinn, Ph.D., about using the wisdom of body and mind to face stress, pain, and illness, published by the Stress Reduction Clinic at UMass Medical Center.
Book cover of 'Wherever You Go There You Are' by Jon Kabat-Zinn, 10th Anniversary Edition, with a desert landscape background.
Cover of the book titled 'Mindfulness in Plain English' by Bhante G.converted with a soft pastel-themed background featuring leaves.
Book cover titled 'The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion' by Christopher K. Germer, PhD, featuring a grassy field at the bottom.
Book cover for 'Self-Compassion' by Kristin Neff, Ph.D. with a quote from Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi at the top, featuring a sandy desert background with a yellow flower and a bee at the bottom.
Book cover titled "Awakening Joy: 10 Steps to Happiness" by James Baraz, featuring illustrations of three different flowers at the top.
The cover of a book titled 'Coming Back to Life' by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown, with a green background and a circular, mandala-inspired design.
Book cover titled 'When Things Fall Apart' by Pema Chödrön with heart advice for difficult times.
Book cover titled 'The Power of Darkness' by Joan Halifax, featuring a black background with a large yellow and black circular design.
Book cover titled 'The Five Invitations' by Frank Ostaseski, with subtitle 'Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully'. Cover features horizontal colored lines in shades of orange and green and a red circle indicating 'Reading Group Guide Edition'.
Book cover titled 'The Art of Communicating' by Thich Nhat Hanh, with a plain light-colored background and black text.
Book cover titled "The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief" by Francis Weller, featuring an impressionistic painting of a sunset over water with silhouetted plants in the foreground.
Book cover titled 'The Smell of Rain on Dust' by Martin Prechtel, featuring illustrations of hands, raindrops, and soil in warm colors.
Book cover titled 'Eastern Body Western Mind' by Anodea Judith, featuring a pink lotus flower and green leaves.
Cover of the book titled 'A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles' by Marianne Williamson, with a red background and yellow lettering.