Recs if you like The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color (The Social Justice Handbook Series)...

"self-help" books that situate themselves within both subjective experience and structural analysis - approaching healing and liberation as mutually informing individual and collective work.

This reading guide aims to be a beginner to advanced composition of books within the genre of women/gender (+ LGBTQ -/ basically anything that doesn’t center the experiences of cis-men).

Expect to find titles including but not limited to the scopes of mental health, wellness/psych, disability, & illness in the Global South too!

expanding the self-help genre - personal development - holistic health & growth - centering BIPOC self-help authors - reclaiming wellness as radical

please comment suggestions, this is a growing exploration :)

Books that help with trauma, mental health, and my autism & ADHD.

books that are well known in the therapy & mental health world - often read & recommended by therapists, social workers, and other professionals in the field 💕

Nonfiction focused on trauma, dissociation, and the neuroscience of how we survive. For survivors, clinicians, students, and the casually curious.