Below are just a few of many, many books that have informed my work, and two poems that have deeply inspired me.
Our Deepest Fear
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate,
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us.
We ask ourselves:
Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
You’re playing small doesn’t serve the world.
There’s nothing Enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won’t feel insecure around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God within us.
It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fears,
Our presence automatically liberates others.
— Marianne Williamson
Book list:
Body-Centered Psychotherapy
- A General Theory of Love. Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon
- Body-Centered Psychotherapy: The Hakomi Method. Ron Kurtz
- Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma. Peter Levine
- Grace Unfolding: Psychotherapy in the Spirit of the Tao-Te-Ching. Greg Johansen and Ron Kurtz
Spirituality
- Illusions. Richard Bach
- The Artist’s Way. Julia Cameron
- When Things Fall Apart. Pema Chodron
- The Way of the Peaceful Warrior. Dan Millman
- Turning Your Mind into an Ally. Sakyong Mipham
- Women Who Run with the Wolves. Clarissa Pinkola Estes
- Ordinary Magic: Everyday Life as Spiritual Path. John Welwood
- Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity. David Whyte
The Natural World
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Annie Dillard
- The Solace of Open Spaces. Gretel Ehrlich
- Coming Back to Life: Practices to Reconnect our Lives, our World. Joanna Macy
- Ecopsychology. Edited by Theodore Roszak, Mary Gomes, and Allen Kanner
- The Earth Speaks. Edited by Steve Van Matre and Bill Weiler