“In a gentle way, you can shake the world”
- Mahatma Gandhi
Suggested readings
Nature-based
Plotkin, B. (2013). Wild Mind: A field guide to the human psyche.
Roszak, T. (1990). The Voice of the Earth: An exploration of ecopsychology.
Thompson, C. (2013). Mindfulness and the Natural World: Bringing our awareness back to nature.
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Therapy
Yalom, I. D. (2012). Love's executioner.
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Relationships
Tatkin, S. (2013). Your brain on love: The neurobiology of healthy relationships.
Buss, D. M. (2016). The evolution of desire.
Perel, E. (2007). Mating in captivity
Levine, A., & Levine, H. (2021). Attached: Are you Anxious, Avoidant or Secure? How the science of adult attachment can help you find and keep love
For more information and to take a quiz on your attachment style - https://quiz.attachmentproject.com/
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Trauma
van der Kolk, B. (2015). The body keeps the score.
Levine, P. (2011). Waking the tiger.
Maté, G. (2011). When the body says no.
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Spirituality and Psychology
Wilber, K., Engler, J. & Brown, D.P. (1986). Transformations of Consciousness.
Brown, P. (2006). Pointing out the great way
Halifax, J. (2018) Standing at the edge
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Poetry
Whyte, D. (2019). Consolations.
Rilke, R.M. (2020). On Love.
O'Donohue, J. (2008). To Bless the Space Between Us
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Suggested videos and listening
Lifestyle
Nagoski, E. (2021). The cure for burnout.
Perel, E. & Schwartz, D. (2018). Understanding Our Inner Critic
Brown, R. (2021). Listening to shame
Brown, R. (2011). The power of vulnerability
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Philosophy and poetry
O'Donohue, J. (2008). The Inner Landscape of Beauty.
Whyte, D. (2016). The Conversational Nature of Reality.
Relationships
Tatkin, S. (2016). Relationships Are Hard, But Why?
Perel, E. (2019). Love lexicon.
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Attachment style and love
Psych2go. (2018). The Four Attachment Styles of Love
The School of life. (2019). What is your attachment style?
Mindful mama Mentor. (2022). The 5 primary conditions needed for secure attachment
Sprouts. (2018). The Attachment Theory: How Childhood Affects Life
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Trauma
Schore, A. (2014). Dr. Allan Schore on attachment trauma and the effects of neglect and abuse on the brain
Maté, G. (2021). How Childhood Trauma Leads to Addiction.
van der Kolk, B. (2021). Healing Trauma & How the Body Keeps the Score.
Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University. (2013) InBrief: the science of neglect
TED | Nadine Burke Harris (2015). How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
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