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Subtitle: The Missing Ingredient for a Healthy and Lasting Relationship Recommended by: my sister There are some good ideas in this book, delivered in a patronizing, lecturing tone with a lot of repetition. Yes, people choose each other for a reason, and it’s useful to remember that when times get hard. No, staying with someone when [...] Transition and Beyond Subtitle: Observations on Gender Identity Recommended by: Reid Vanderburgh, MA, LMFT Speaking as both a trans man and a psychotherapist, Vanderburgh provides a compassionate, detailed tour through all the aspects of gender transition, from contemplation to completion. Client vignettes provide real-world examples. The book candidly addresses every question I had about gender transition as well as [...] Subtitle: Biodynamic Cranial Practice and the Evolution of Consciousness Recommended by: Keelin Anderson, LMT After 35 discouraging pages of philosophical pseudo-science, Ridley subsides into surprisingly practical advice about providing non-judgmental bodywork. Stay present. Check your perceptions with your client to make sure you’re not straying into fantasy. Do your own work first. Don’t interfere [...] Subtitle: Essays on Characteristics, Performance, and Teaching I jumped at the chance to learn more about my favorite hobby, and learned more than I bargained for. This book of essays directly addresses the myth that modern Balkan folk dances are innocent indigenous creations, exposing the complex conscious manipulations underlying them. Communist regimes created folk dance [...] 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: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness This book is billed as a “culmination of his life’s work” on the back cover. It recapitulates material from Peter Levine’s earlier book “Waking the Tiger” about trauma and the nervous system, and uses many of the same case studies covered in the Somatic Experiencing curriculum. Somatic Experiencing [...] 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: A Scientist’s Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions Recommended by: jesse-the-k This book was a revelation for me. At last, a book for which I am the perfect target audience! Susan R. Barry writes about the experience of having crossed eyes since infancy, and thus lacking stereoscopic (3-D) vision. After practicing a series of [...] Subtitle: Telling the Trust About Perfectionism, Inadequacy, and Power Recommended by: Pam Lyons Brene Brown researches shame by listening to people’s stories. This book focuses on women for the most part, although she mentions how men’s experience of shame differs at the end of the book. The content overlaps with The Gifts of Imperfection quite a bit. She [...] |
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