Anna’s Reading List
Now reading:
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard Schwartz
Reading next:
Indigenous Economics: Sustaining Peoples and their Lands by Ronald L. Trosper
Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows
The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing and Social Justice by Staci Haines
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
The Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of the Soul by Michael Meade
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts by Resmaa Menakem
Recommendations
Psychology, Trauma and Health
Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth / Healing the Mind, edited by James Hillman, Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes and Allen D. Kanner
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are by Daniel J. Siegel
The Globalization of Addiction: A Study in Poverty of the Spirit by Bruce K. Alexander
Ecology
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Social Forestry: Tending the Land as People of Place by Tomi Hazel Vaarde
Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability, edited by Melissa K. Nelson & Dan Shilling
Spirituality
A Course in Miracles, scribed by Helen Schucman
Tao Te Ching by Laozi
Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth, edited by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Philosophy
The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-than-Human World by David Abram
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Sociology & Politics
The Ecology of Freedom: The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy by Murray Bookchin
Justice as Healing: Indigenous Ways, edited by Wanda D. McCaslin
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
Economics
Less Is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World by Jason Hickel
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi by Kali Akuno & Ajamu Nangwaya
Sacred Economics: Money, Gift and Society in the Age of Transition by Charles Eisenstein
History & Anthropology
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber & David Wengrow
From the Ashes of History: Collective Trauma and the Making of International Politics by Adam B. Lerner
Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution by Pyotr Kropotkin
Favorite Fiction
The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende
The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut
The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
The Overstory by Richard Powers
Lullaby by Chuck Palahniuk
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
Podcasts