Whole Therapies Collective Bookshelf

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personal

Untamed
Crying in H Mart
Crying in the Bathroom
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
Tweak: Growing Up On Methamphetamines
What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World
Self-Love Workbook for Women: Release Self-Doubt, Build Self-Compassion, and Embrace Who You Are
Who Is Wellness For?: An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind
The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness

relational

The Myth of Monogamy: Fidelity and Infidelity in Animals and People
More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience
Polywise: A Deeper Dive into Navigating Open Relationships
Good Inside: A Practical Guide to Resilient Parenting Prioritizing Connection Over Correction
The Rosie Project
Olga Dies Dreaming
This Boy We Made: A Memoir of Motherhood, Genetics, and Facing the Unknown
Fiona and Jane
All the Colors Came Out: A Father, a Daughter, and a Lifetime of Lessons

societal

The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle
Martyr!
On Palestine
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice
Feminist Freedom Warriors: Genealogies, Justice, Politics, and Hope
The Philosophy of Social Ecology: Essays on Dialectical Naturalism
Post-Scarcity Anarchism
Pedagogy of the Oppressed
Remaking Society
The Next Revolution: Popular Assemblies and the Promise of Direct Democracy
Toward an Ecological Society
Civilized to Death: What Was Lost on the Way to Modernity
The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917–2017
The Undocumented Americans
Brown Girls
Dear Martin
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
Towards a Gay Communism: Elements of a Homosexual Critique
Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America

gender + sexuality

None of the Above: Reflections on Life Beyond the Binary
Pageboy
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life
Felix Ever After
Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays
Kink: Stories

body

Wisdom of Your Body
Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia
Belly of the Beast: The Politics of Anti-Fatness as Anti-Blackness
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century

grief

The Fall of Freddie the Leaf: A Story of Life for All Ages
Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief
The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise
It's OK That You're Not OK
Anxiety: The Missing Stage of Grief: A Revolutionary Approach to Understanding and Healing the Impact of Loss
Permission to Mourn: A New Way to Do Grief