Words to Live by
This section of the website will be dedicated to writing & other media by myself, as well as other counselors, educators, healers, activists & artists engaged in anti-oppression & anti-racism work.
For now, I will be compiling a short book list of things I highly recommend & have found to be incredibly beneficial in my work, understanding & healing. This area will soon be updated to include articles, organizations, documentaries/movies, shows & interviews.
- Post-Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury & Healing by Dr. Joy DeGruy (U.S. history, racism)
- Loving What Is by Byron Katie (self-awareness)
- Noviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg (self-awareness, interpersonal communication)
- The New Jim Crow by Michele Alexander (institutional racism, prison industrial complex)
- The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson (U.S. history, mechanics of social/racial oppression)
- All Is Well by Julius Lester (self-discovery & acceptance)
- The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller (understanding childhood)
- Waking the Tiger by Peter A. Levine (healing trauma)
- Slavery By Another Name by Randall Blackmonn (insitutional racism, prison industrial complex)
If you have any book, article, movie or other informational media suggestions, please shoot me a message or give me a call.
I live to learn!