Resources
I’ve included here a collection of books you may find helpful, a lot of which are on my own bookshelf. Many of them inform my work, and I often recommend them to both clients and loved ones alike.
I encourage you to get any you’re interested in from your favourite local bookseller or public library.
Please note: I do not receive any compensation or commission for recommending them.
Infertility & Pregnancy/Infant Loss
Through Not Around: Stories of infertility and pregnancy loss, By Allison McDonald Ace, Ariel Ng Bourbonnais, and Caroline Starr (Eds.)
Interrogating Pregnancy Loss: Feminist writings on abortion, miscarriage, and stillbirth
By Emily R. M. Lind & Angie Deveau (Eds.)
The Worst Girl Gang Ever
By Bex Gunn and Laura Buckingham
Bearing the Unbearable
By Dr. Joanne Cacciatore, PhD
The Miscarriage Map: What to Expect When You Are No Longer Expecting
By Dr. Sunita Osborn
Not Broken: An Approachable Guide to Miscarriage and Recurrent Pregnancy Loss
By Lora Shahine MD
Life, Almost: Miscarriage, misconceptions and a search for answers from the brink of motherhood
By Jennie Agg
It's Ok That You’re Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
By Megan Devine
Unexpecting
By Rachel Lewis
I Had a Miscarriage: A Memoir, a Movement
By Jessica Zucker
Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby
By Deborah L. Davis
The Brink of Being
By Julia Bueno
A Heart That Works
By Rob Delaney
Welcome To The Grief Club: Because You Don't Have To Go Through It Alone
By Janine Kwoh
My Little Jellybean:
A poem collection on pregnancy loss
By Brandylynn Snyder
At a Loss: Finding Your Way After Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Infant Death
By Donna Rothbert
Pregnancy & Parenting
Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts
By Karen Kleiman
Why Did No One Tell Me This
By Natalia Hailes & Ash Spivak
The Fourth Trimester
By Kimberly Ann Johnson
Love Your Kids Without Losing Yourself
By Morgan Cutlip
· Raising Securely Attached Kids
By Eli Harwood
Feminist Parenting
By Lynn Comerford, Healther Jackson, & Dandee Kosior (Eds).
Good Inside
By Dr. Becky Kennedy
Parenting from the Inside Out
By Dan Siegel
The Origins Of You
By Vienna Pharaon
How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk
By Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
Parenting a Child Who Has Intense Emotions
By Pat Harvey & Jeanne Penzo
Elevating Child Care
By Janet Lansbury
Siblings Without Rivalry
By Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
Anxious Kids Anxious Parents
By Lyons & Wilson
The Whole-Brain Child
By Dan Siegel MD & Tina Payne Bryson PhD
The Attachment Connection
By Ruth Newton, PhD
The Birth Partner
By Penny Simkin
The Rebel Mama’s
Handbook for (Cool) Moms
By Aleks Jassem & Nikita Stanley
Matrescence
By Lucy Jones
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Relationships
And Baby Makes Three
by John Gottman PhD & Julie Gottman PhD
Til Stress Do Us Part
By Elizabeth Earnshaw, LMFT
Fair Play
By Eve Rodsky
Fight Right
By Julie Gottman PhD & John Gottman PhD
Wired for Love
By Stan Tatkin, PsyD
Attached
By Amir Levine, MD & Rachel Heller, MA
Hold Me Tight
By Dr. Sue Johnson
Mating in Captivity
By Esther Perel
In Each Other’s Care
By Stan Tatkin, PsyD
Nonviolent Communication
By Marshall Rosenberg, PhD
What Makes Love Last
By John Gottman, PhD and Nan Silver
The Balancing Act
By Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW
Adult Children of Emotional Immature Parents
By Lindsay Gibson, PhD
Drama Free
By Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW
Anxiety, Perfectionism & People-Pleasing
Stop People Pleasing & Find Your Power
by Hailey Magee
The Set Boundaries Workbook
By Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW
The Gifts of Imperfection
By Brene Brown, PhD, LMSW
I Thought It was Just Me (But It Isn’t)
By Brene Brown, PhD, LMSW
The Perfection Trap
by Thomas Curran
How to be Enough
By Ellen Hendriksen, PhD
End Emotional Outsourcing
By Beatriz Victoria Albina, NP, MPH
Set Boundaries, Find Peace
By Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW
Unwinding Anxiety
by Judson Brewer, MD, PhD
The Mindfulness & Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety
By John Forsyth, PhD & George Eifert, PhD
Rewire Your Anxious Brain
By Catherine Pittman, PhD &
Elizabeth Karle, MLIS
Self- Compassion
By Kristin Neff, PhD
Trauma, Grief & Healing
The Body Keeps the Score
by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD
Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto
By Tricia Hersey
My Grandmother’s Hands:
Racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts
By Resmaa Menakem
When You’re Ready, This Is How You Heal
By Brianna Wiest
Burnout:
The secret to unlocking the stress cycle
by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
Hell Yeah! Self-Care:
A trauma-informed workbook
By Meg John-Barker and Alex Iantaffi
Truth and Repair:
How trauma survivor envision justice
By Judith L. Herman, MD
The Complex PTSD Workbook
By Arielle Schwartz, PhD
Therapeutic Art & Creativity
The Artful Parent: Simple ways to fill your family’s life with art and creativity
By Jean Van’t Hul
Your Brain on Art: How art transforms up
By Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross
Zentangled Untangled: Inspiration and prompts for meditative drawing
By Kass Hall
Art is a Way of Knowing: A guide to self-knowledge and spiritual fulfillment through creativity
By Pat B. Allen
Therapeutic Arts in Pregnancy, Birth and New Parenthood
By Susan Hogan (Ed.)
Essential Art Therapy Exercises: Effective Techniques to Manage Anxiety, Depression, and PTSD
By Leah Guzman, ATR-BC
The Artist’s Way for Parents: Raising Creative Children
By Julia Cameron
Find Your Unicorn Space:
Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World
By Eve Rodsky