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Books
Self Help
- The Diet Survivor’s Handbook: 60 Lessons in Eating, Acceptance, and Self-Care, Judith Matz & Ellen Frankel
- Beyond a Shadow of a Diet: The Comprehensive Guide to Treating Binge Eating Disorder, Compulsive Eating and Emotional Overeating, Judith Matz & Ellen Frankel
- Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating, Christy Harrison
- Radical Belonging: How to Survive and Thrive in an Unjust World (While Transforming It For The Better), Lindo Bacon & Ijeoma Oluo
- The Illustrated Happiness Trap, Russ Harris
- The Empath’s Survival Guide, Judith Orloff
- Meditation for the Fidgety Skeptic, Dan Harris
- The Dance of Connection, Harriet Lerner
- Wired for Love, Stan Tatkin
- Dare to Lead, Brené Brown
- The Dance of Anger, Harriet Lerner
- The Science of Mindfulness & Self Compassion, Kristin Neff & Shauna Shapiro
- Pussy: A Reclamation, Regena Thomashauer
- Living Nonviolent Communication, Marshall Rosenberg
- Eating in the Light of the Moon, Anita Johnston
- The Whole Brain Child, Daniel Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson
- It’s OK Not to Share & Other Renegade Rules for Raising Competent and Compassionate Kids, Heather Shumaker
- The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich, Tim Ferriss
- Why aren’t you writing, Sharon Zumbrunn
- The Self Love Experiment, Shannon Kaiser
- Health At Every Size, Linda Bacon
- Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program That Works, Elyse Resch and Evelyn Tribole
- Eat What You Love, Love What You Eat, Michelle May
AntiRacism
- How to Be an Antiracist, Ibram X. Kendi
- Waking Up White, Debby Irving
- White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism, Robin DiAngelo
Memoirs
- Becoming, Michelle Obama
- Educated, Tara Westover
- Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, HER Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed, Lori Gottlieb
- Let’s pretend that never happened, Jenny Lawson
- Untamed, Glennon Doyle
Psychobabble
- Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know, Malcolm Gladwell
- Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell
- The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
- Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell
- David and Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell
- Big Friendship, Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman
- Man’s Search for Meaning, Victor Frankl
Just for Fun
- Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, Gail Honeyman
- A Woman is No Man, Etaf Rum
- Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens
Podcasts
Unlocking Us with Brené Brown
Where Should We Begin with Esther Perel
Dare to Lead with Brené Brown
Brave + Well with Dr. Alysondra Duke
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard & Monica Padman
The Life Coach School with Brooke Castillo
Code Switch with Shereen Marisol Meraji & Gene Demby
Embedded with Kelly McEvers
Heavyweight with Jonathan Goldstein
Hidden Brain with Shankar Vedantam
Invisibilia with Lulu Miller, Alix Spiegel, Hanna Rosin
Nice White Parents with Chana Joffe-Walt
Oprah’s Super Soul Conversations with Oprah Winfrey
More Perfect with Jad Abumrad
Unruffled with Janet Lansbury
This American Life with Ira Glass
Throughline with Rund Abdelfatah, Ramtin Arablouei
White Lies, Andrew Beck Grace, Chip Brantley
Fearless Rebelle Radio with Summer Innanen
The Sam Skelly Show (formerly Hungry for Happiness) with Samantha Skelly
Beyond the Food Show with Stephanie Dodier
Dietitians Unplugged with Aaron Flores and Glenys Oyston
The Bodylove Project Podcast with Jessi Haggarty
Love, Food Podcast with Julie Dillon