Recommended Reading

Mental Health

Attachment

  • Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment- Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

Boundaries

  • Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life - Henry Cloud

  • Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You - Susan Forward

Co-Dependency

  • Facing Co-dependence - Pia Mellody

  • Co-dependent No More - Melody Beattie

Family of Origin Issues

  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents - Lindsey Gibson

  • It Didn’t Start with You - Mark Wolynn

General Mental Health

  • Man’s Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl

  • The Deepest Well - Nadine Burke Harris

  • The Gift of Therapy - Irvin Yalom

  • On Becoming a Person - Carl Rogers

  • Modern Man in Search of a Soul - Carl Jung

Grief and Loss

  • On Death and Dying - Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

  • Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber - Ken Wilber

High-Sensitivity

  • The Highly Sensitive Person - Elaine Aron

  • The Highly Sensitive Person in Love - Elaine Aron

Mindfulness and Neuroscience

  • Mindsight - Dr. Daniel Siegel

  • Principles of Neurotheology - Andrew Newberg

  • Neuroexistentialism: Meaning, Morals, and Purpose in the Age of Neuroscience - Gregg D. Caruso, Owen J. Flanagan (Editors)

Multicultural and Diversity

  • The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health - Rheeda Walker

  • Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome - Joy DeGruy

  • White Fragility - Robin DiAngelo

  • How to be an Antiracist - Ibram X. Kendi

Parenting

  • The Whole-Brained Child - Daniel Siegel

  • How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk - Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

Relationships

  • Dancing in the Dark: The Shadow Side of Intimate Relationships - Douglas Moseley

  • Undefended Love - Jett Psaris and Marlena S. Lyons

  • Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic and the Domestic - Esther Perel

  • Transformation Through Intimacy: The Journey Toward Awakened Monogamy - Robert Augustus Masters

  • Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma, and Consensual Non-Monogamy - Jessica Fern

Spirituality in Mental Health

  • The Enneagram of Liberation - Eli Jaxon Bear

  • Free Your True Self: Releasing your Unconscious Defense Patterns - Annie Marquier

Trauma

  • The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk

  • Getting Past Your Past - Francine Shapiro

  • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma - Peter Levine

  • No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness - Richard Schwartz

Spirituality/Philosophy

Advaita Vedanta

  • I Am That - Nisargadatta Maharaj (Advaita Vedanta/Jnana Yoga)

  • The Nectar of Immortality - Nisargadatta Maharaj (Advaita/ Jnana Yoga)

  • Be Who You Are - Ramana Maharshi (Advaita Vedanta/Jnana Yoga)

  • Who Am I? The Teachings of Ramana Maharshi (Advaita Vedanta/Jnana Yoga)

  • Facets of Unity - A. H. Aalmas (Advaita Vedanta/Mysticism)

  • Spiritual Bypassing - Robert August Masters (Advaita/Mysticism)

  • The Play of Consciousness - Swami Muktananda (Advaita Vedanta)

Buddhism

  • The End of Your World - Adyashanti (Zen/Mysticism)

  • Emptiness Dancing - Adyashanti (Zen/Mysticism)

  • Falling into Grace - Adyashanti (Zen/Mysticism)

  • The Zen Teachings of Huang Po (Zen)

  • The Dhammapadda (Buddhist)

  • The Heart Sutra (Buddhist)

  • The Lotus Sutra (Buddhist)

  • Pointing out the Great Way - Daniel P. Brown (Tibetan Meditation)

  • Tantra: The Path of Ecstasy - Georg Feuerstein (Buddhist/Tantra/Mysticism)

Christian Mysticism

  • The Cloud of Unknowing - Anonymous 14th Century Catholic Monk

  • The Silence of the Heart - Paul Ferrini (Christian Mysticism)

  • The Experience of No-Self - Bernadette Roberts (Christian Mysticism)

  • Falling Upward - Richard Rohr (Catholic Mysticism)

Hinduism

  • The Bhagavad Gita (Hindu)

Mysticism

  • The Transcendent Function - Jeffrey C. Miller (Mysticism)

  • Mysticism - Evelyn Underhill (Mysticism, academic, contemporary)

  • I: Reality and Subjectivity - Dr. David Hawkins (Mysticism, Contemporary)

  • The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle (Mysticism, Contemporary)

  • The Farthest Reaches of Human Nature - Abraham Maslow (Mysticism, Contemporary, Transpersonal Psychology)

  • Eastern Body Western Mind - William Reich (Mysticism, Eastern)

  • Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever’s Search for the Truth - Barbara Ehrenreich (Mysticism, Contemporary)

  • Mysticism, Mind, and Consciousness - Robert Foreman (Mysticism, Contemporary, Neuroscience)

Sufism

  • The Gift - Hafiz (Sufism)

  • The Essential Rumi - Rumi (Sufism)

  • Sufi Heirs of the Prophet - Arthur J. Buehler (Sufism)

Transpersonal

  • Eastern Body Western Mind - Judith Anodea (Transpersonal/Eastern)

  • Living with Kundalini: The Autobiography of Gopi Krishna (Kundalini, Hinduism, Transpersonal)

  • Embraced by the Light - Betty J. Eadie (Transpersonal, Near-Death Experience)

  • Echoes of the Soul: The Soul’s Journey Beyond the Light - Echo Bodine (Transpersonal)

  • Between Death and Life - Dolores Cannon (Transpersonal, Hypnosis, Out of Body)

  • The Atman Project - Ken Wilber (Integral)

  • Integral Spirituality - Ken Wilber (Integral)

Yoga/Vedic

  • Yoga and the Quest for the True Self - Stephen Cope (Yoga)

  • The Upanishads (Vedic)

  • Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda (Bhakti Yoga/Kriya Yoga)

  • The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Yoga)