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Subtitle: A woman explores the transforming – and, paradoxically, healing – experience of being ill Recommended by: a client Alchemists strive to turn lead into gold by heating it alone in a sealed container, a crucible. In the crucible of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Kat Duff turned inward and found healing in the stillness and isolation forced by [...] Subtitle: Chronicles of the Worst Buddhist in the World Recommended by: Bay Area Spirituality Bookgroup Mary Pipher didn’t expect to become famous for writing “Reviving Ophelia” and she fell into despair after years of touring and speaking engagements. The book covers her despair, her parents, her childhood, and then her healing. She says she is the [...] Subtitle: And Other Tales for Childhood’s Survivors This is an anthology of fairy tales retold for adults, with the scary bits left in, and also the bits about resilience and survival. Yes, her father cut off her arms, but then the armless maiden rescues herself and her child through quick wits as well as magic. The stories vary [...] Subtitle: Strengthening Intimacy in Families I read this by coincidence, and it fits perfectly with themes I’ve been thinking about lately. Kathy Weingarten, a family therapist, addresses double binds that society creates for women around acceptable roles and definitions of success. She talks about dominating behaviors in men and how to address them. She [...] Subtitle: The Road from Estrangement to Reconciliation Recommended by: Laura Davis’s website Laura Davis is co-author of the classic book about healing from incest, “The Courage to Heal.” This book is written with compassionate awareness that not all stories have happy endings and not all estrangements can be reconciled. Nevertheless, I cried while reading it, for all the [...] Subtitle: Childhood and Other Misadventures in Bulgaria Recommended by: Ceil Wirth on the EEFC mailing list Kapka Kassabova’s chilling, yet engaging, personal memoir of growing up in communist Bulgaria, and then returning to visit shortly after Bulgaria joined the European Union. The characters are finely drawn, and each chapter covers a different aspect (home, school, summers) in [...] CROWHEART: becoming unwounded, a memoir of transformation Recommended by: Keelin Anderson To tell her story of healing from incest and emotional abuse, Keelin Anderson weaves together daily narrative, fiction, quotes, tarot readings, and dreams, all in present tense. As I read, I saw places where our paths have overlapped, and places where they have diverged. We have both struggled [...] Subtitle: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith Recommended by: Reading Martha Beck’s older books I first read this years ago and loved it. I came back to it while writing a (forthcoming) article about spiritual abuse and faith. Since I last read it, I read her newer book “Steering by Starlight” and saw [...] Subtitle: Some thoughts on faith I stumbled across this book while looking for a quote about forgiveness. I usually find Anne Lamott’s books laugh-out-loud funny, reassuringly insightful, or disturbingly insightful. This book, a series of autobiographical essays about faith and religion, left me cold. Maybe it was the large daily consumption of alcohol and other drugs [...] Recommended by: rushthatspeaks This is Margaux Fragoso’s matter-of-fact memoir of growing up in Union City, New Jersey with an angry father who is a jeweler, a mentally ill mother who is often hospitalized, and a very complicated relationship with a pedophile, Peter. I skipped whole chapters in the middle of this book, unable to read the detailed, oily [...] |
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