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Resources

The following are several resources that I either personally recommend or that have been recommended to me by others. This page will be added to periodically.

Resources for couples/relationships

  • Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How it Can Help You Find--and Keep--Love by Amir Levine & Rachel Heller (2012)
  • Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson (2008)
  • Love Sense by Sue Johnson (2013)
  • Passionate Marriage by David Schnarch (1997)
  • The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman (2015)
  • The Relationship Cure by John Gottman (2002)
  • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman (2015)
  • Why Marriages Succeed or Fail by John Gottman (1995)

Books on trauma/PTSD

  • Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation by Janina Fisher (2017)
  • It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn (2016)
  • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine (1997)
  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk (2014)
  • Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Herman (2015)
  • Trauma Treatment Toolbox: 165 Brain-Changing Tips, Tools & Handouts to Move Therapy Forward by Jennifer Sweeton (2019)

Books on social anxiety/shyness

  • Shyness; What It Is, What to Do About It by Philip G. Zimbardo (1990)
  • Living Fully With Shyness and Social Anxiety by Erika Hilliard & Paul Foxman (2005)
  • The Shyness & Social Anxiety Workbook (3rd ed.) by Martin Antony & Richard Swinson (2017)
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (1998)

Books to help understand racism and become anti-racist

Books:
  • So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo (2019)
  • Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi (2016)
  • A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn (2017)
  • White Fragility: Why It's So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelo (2018)
  • How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi (2019)
  • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge (2019)
  • 21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act: Helping Canadians Make Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples a Reality by Bob Joseph (2018)
  • Indigenous Relations: Insights, Tips & Suggestions to Make Reconciliation a Reality by Bob Joseph & Cynthia F. Joseph (2019)
  • The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America by Thomas King (2013)
  • A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki (1993)
  • Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen (2018)
  • The Burning House: Jim Crow and the Making of Modern America by Anders Walker (2018)
  • The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander (2020)
  • The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America by Khalil Gibran Muhammad (2011)
  • Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland by Jonathan M. Metzl (2019)
  • White Rage: The Unspoken Truth of Our Racial Divide by Carol Anderson (2017)
  • Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race by Beverly Tatum (2017)

Videos/Documentaries:
  • First Contact. A series about Indigenous people in Canada. https://www.tvo.org/video/documentaries/first-contact-ep-1
  • Malcolm X: Make It Plain by PBS. https://youtu.be/csWByunwVI8
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