currently reading
These are the books I am in the middle of, recently finished, or returning to. They touch on the territory my coaching practide draws from and a few things I am simply curious about.
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The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron – A twelve-week practice for reconnecting with your creative life. Some find the spiritual framing a reach, but the practices hold regardless.
The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates – A journalist travels to three places where stories are contested and finds that the act of writing itself is a moral question. Urgent and unsettling.
What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo – A memoir about living with and recovering from complex PTSD, written with precision and honesty.
All About Love by bell hooks – Love as a practice rather than a feeling. The book that quietly reframes everything about how we relate to each other.
Immunity to Change by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey - The clearest explanation of why intelligent, motivated people stay stuck, and a practical framework for understanding the hidden commitments that compete with growth.
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer - Indigenous wisdom and Western science braided together. A book about what it means to belong to the living world rather than own it.
Coming Back to Life by Joanna Macy and Molly Brown – A guide for reconnecting with the living world through practices drawn from systems theory, deep ecology, and Buddhist philosophy.
Opening to Darkness by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel – A Zen teacher explores what becomes possible when we stop avoiding the dark and learn to inhabit it. Short, quiet, and genuinely brave.
When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté – The connection between chronic stress and disease, told through case studies and research. Sobering and clarifying.
True Perception by Chögyam Trungpa – The relationship between perception, creativity, and wakefulness. A primary influence on how this practice thinks about seeing.
The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller – Grief as a communal practice rather than a private burden. Weller names five gates of grief and makes a case for why our culture's avoidance of sorrow costs us so much.
It Didn't Start with You by Mark Wolynn – How inherited family trauma shapes who we are and how to begin working with it. Accessible and practical.
