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Subtitle: Making Room For What Really Matters Sarah Susanka is a renowned architect, author of the “Not So Big House” series. This book is beautifully architected with parallels between life remodeling and house remodeling. For the target audience of people with plenty of money and a shortage of time, the book offers substantial, detailed advice [...] Subtitle: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are Addtional subtitle: Your guide to a wholehearted life Recommended by: Brene Brown’s Ted talk on vulnerability Brene Brown studies shame resilience and wholehearted living by collecting people’s stories and searching for patterns of what works and what doesn’t. It turns out [...] A thought-provoking book, more profound than I expected. Refreshingly, both same-gender and opposite-gender couples are used for the examples. The authors warn several times to be sure a relationship is not abusive before using it as a crucible for personal work. This is a warning that’s missing from most relationship books I’ve read, which instead [...] Subtitle: How to stop being hurt by them without becoming one of them Re-read while writing my double bind article. The first half of this book talks about invalidators and how subtle and awful they can be. The tone is affirming and validating for those who have been invalidated in the past. The second half abruptly changes tone [...] Subtitle: How the relentless promotion of positive thinking has undermined America Barbara Ehrenreich starts with the personal – her surprise at the mandatory positivity around her breast cancer diagnosis – and veers to the political – how delusional positivity contributed to the sub-prime mortgage meltdown. In between, she gives a brief history of New Thought, Christian [...] Subtitle: Readings on the experiences of mental illness I found this book because I was curious about Caroline Knapp’s writing after reading Gail Caldwell’s memoir about their friendship, and I read it because I wanted to learn about mental illness without its stereotype of causing violence. In fact, [v]iolence is not a symptom of psychotic illnesses [...] Recommended by: Sanguinity in the 50books_poc community After several books put aside because I just couldn’t get through them, this book is a delight – both lyrical and informative, both personally detailed and globally applicable. Kenji Yoshino is a gay Japanese-American man, currently working as a professor of law at Yale Law School. In the first third [...] Subtitle: 150 Key Ideas for Raising Successful, Well-Adjusted And Confident Kids Recommended by: Patricia Anderson’s “I Need a Nudge” author coaching I have benefited from Patricia Anderson’s you-can-do-it-and-here’s-how author coaching for a year now. I’ve been curious about her own book, which she got written and out to readers in 5 months. The book starts out asking readers [...] Subtitle: Therapy for Child Abuse Survivors in Family and Social Context Recommended by: Dr. Kathleen Young This is an academic book, written in precise psychological language, containing enough material for a semester course. Startlingly compassionate insights into complex trauma and prolonged childhood abuse (abbreviated PCA) are built into a treatment model that focuses on the family context [...] Subtitle: And Other Conversations About Race Recommended by: Kate Nepveu’s article How to Discuss Race and Racism Without Acting Like a Complete Jerk Dr. Tatum, a research psychologist and current President of Spellman College, answers the title question compassionately and thoroughly, creating a framework to think and talk constructively about race. She alternates between explanations of academic [...] |
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