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Workbooks & Guides:
Reclaiming Joy and Being Fully Alive: A 7-Step Nervous System Reset — Hannah Rockel
Your Body is Not an Apology Workbook — Sonya Renee Taylor
The Intuitive Eating Workbook: Ten Principles for Nourishing a Healthy Relationship with Food — Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch
The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity — Julia Cameron
Becoming Rooted: One Hundred Days of Reconnecting with Sacred Earth — Randy Woodley
The Quaking of America: An Embodied Guide to Navigating Our Nation’s Upheaval and Racial Reckoning — Resmaa Menakem
Books
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants — Robin Wall Kimmerer
All About Love: New Visions — bell hooks
On Becoming a Person: A Therapist’s View of Psychotherapy — Carl R. Rogers
Toward Psychologies of Liberation — Mary Watkins and Helene Shulman
Shalom and the Community of Creation: An Indigenous Vision — Randy Woodley
Crisis Contemplation: Healing the Wounded Village — Barbara A. Holmes
Constructing the Self, Constructing America: A Cultural History of Psychotherapy — Philip Cushman
My Grandmother’s Hands — Resmaa Menakem
Unsettling Truths: The Ongoing Dehumanizing Legacy of the Doctrine of Discovery — Mark Charles and Soong-Chan Rah
Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto — Tricia Hersey
The Liberating Philosophy of Ignacio Ellacuría: Historical Reality, Humanism, and Praxis — Luis Arturo Martínez Vásquez, Randall Carrera Umaña, and Luis Rubén Díaz Cepeda
Blogs
paper careplanes — Roy Mong
The Audacity — Roxane Gay
Liberation Toolbox — YK Hong
Wireless Hogan —Mark Charles
Articles
Your Self-Care is Made of Capitalism: A Decolonial Approach to Self and Community Care — Arianne E. Miller and Nellie Tran
Unraveling Whiteness — Melanie Suchet
Nature Connectedness in the Climate Change Context: Implications for Climate Action and Mental Health — Sonia L. Curll, Samantha K. Stanley, Patricia M. Brown, and Léan V. O’Brien
Films
I am Not your Negro (2016)
13th (2017)
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