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Subtitle: How the Science of Acupuncture Explains the Mysteries of Western Medicine Recommended to me by:Tracy Andrews, LAc This is a fascinating look at how acupuncture channels correspond with fascial planes and embryonic development. The author is a medical doctor as well as an acupuncturist, and includes vignettes of using acupuncture in the ER. […] Subtitle: A Recipe for Healing After Loss Grandy, a “somewhat wise” grandmother with a long silver braid, has suffered a big loss. In gorgeous detailed illustrations we see her making tear soup with her tears, memories, and time. She grieves alone and with friends. She gives it all the time it needs, far longer […] Recommended to me by: my cousin Bedridden with a severe neurological illness, Elisabeth Tova Bailey finds companionship and entertainment in watching a woodland snail go about its life on her bedstand. The snail is housed first with a potted violet plant, and then in an elaborate terrarium. The book describes the snail’s life in […] Subtitle: Professional Guidelines for Massage Therapists, Bodyworkers, and Movement Teachers Recommended to me by: Ethics and Boundaries class in massage school I re-read this book because I’m planning to write about dual relationships. Nina McIntosh writes lucidly about the need for clear boundaries as a bodyworker. The book is filled with guidelines and anecdotes […] Subtitle: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom Recommended to me by: My friend Linda K. Helen Thorpe spent a year and a half observing and helping in an ELA (English Language Acquisition) class at South High School in Denver Colorado. Her journalist’s eye is both clear and compassionate as she watches a […] Subtitle: Helping Clients Move Forward from Developmental Trauma, An Integrative Somatic Approach Recommended to me by: Taking a class from Kathy Kain I took a 3 day class from Kathy Kain last year and learned techniques that I use every day in my practice, so I was excited about this book. It turned out […] Subtitle: Remembering Ourselves Home The gorgeous, inclusive cover and introduction/dedication to this book grabbed me. For the rebels and the misfits, the black sheep and the outsiders. For the refugees, the orphans, the scapegoats, and the weirdos. For the uprooted, the abandoned, the shunned and invisible ones. May you recognize with increasing vividness that […] Subtitle: Opening Our Hearts to All the Ways We Feel and Are in Every Moment Recommended to me by: reading Robyn Posin’s website for the last 15+ years. Also I was an advance reviewer for this book. This is a collection of line drawings and wise words that have appeared on Robyn Posin’s website […] Subtitle: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief Recommended to me by: Kristin This is a wise, kind, perceptive, affirming, healing book about grief. It warmly includes childhood triggering, shame, and shared grief for the planet among the burdens that we all carry. It emphasizes the importance of both a village […] Subtitle: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past. A Practical Guide for Understanding & Working with Traumatic Memory The first part of this book is a thorough introduction to different kinds of memories. There are explicit and implicit memories. Explicit (conscious) memories include declarative (like the times table) and episodic […] |