Resources

Resources

Emergency Services:

If you are having thoughts of harming yourself or others, please call 911.

National Suicide Hotline 1.800.273.8255

King county crisis line 206.361.2222,

LGBTQ+ issues at Trevor Lifeline 1-866-488-7386.

If you need support in challenging psychedelic experiences please call or text the Fireside Project at 623-473-7433

Books:

Trauma:

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk

My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts by Resmaa Menakem

It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn

Trauma & Recovery The Aftermath of Violence from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Lewis Herman

Grief:

It’s Ok that You’re not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture that doesn’t Understand by Megan Devine

Spirituality:

The Power of Now by Elkhart Tolle

The World Could be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path by Norman Fischer

Your Symphony of Selves: Discover and Understand more of Who We Are by James Fadiman PhD

Path with Heart: Guide through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life by Jack Kornfield

Women Who Run with Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The Nature of Consciousness by Rupert Spira

Be Here Now by Ram Dass

Fruitful Darkness A Journey through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom by Joan Halifax

Psychedelics:

How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollen

Autism on Acid: How LSD Helped Me Understand, Navigate, Alter & Appreciate My Autistic Perceptions by Aaron Paul Orsini

Trip: Psychedelics, Alienation and Change by Tao Lin

The Psychedelic Handbook: A Practical Guide to Psilocybin, LSD, Ketamine, MDMA, and Ayahuasca by Rick Strassman

Psychedelic Experience: A Manual Based on the Tibetan Book of the Dead by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert and Ralph Metzer

Ketamine Papers: Science, Therapy and Transformation by Phil Wolfson

The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name by Brain C. Muraresku

Neurodiversity:

Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder by Dr. Gabor Maté

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity by Devon Price PhD

Sincerely, Your Autistic Child: What People on the Autism Spectrum Wish Their Parents Knew About Growing Up, Acceptance, and Identity Emily Paige Ballou

Sex:

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown

Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Esther Perel

Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science that will Transform your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski

The Erotic Mind: Unlocking the Inner Sources of Passion and Fulfillment by Jack Morin

Slow Sex the Art and Craft of the Female Orgasm by Nicole Daedone

Perv: The Sexual Deviant in us All by Jesse Bering

Intimacy and Relationships:

Wired for Love by Stan Tatkin

ulture:

Different Mirror A History of Multicultural America by Ronald Takaki, Clint Smith

The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté and Daniel Maté

The Body is not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

Poetry:

Cultivating the Empty Fields The Silent Illumination of Zen Master Hongzhi by Taigen Leighton

Dream Work by Mary Oliver

Consolations by David Whyte

Pansy by Andrea Gibson

LGBTQIA+:

A Queer History of the United States by Michael Bronski

Beyond the Gender Binary by Alok Vaid-Menon

Yes, You are Trans Enough by Mia Violet

Pansy by Andrea Gibson

Death and Dying:

Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death by Joan Halifax