Additional Resources

Included are resources for ongoing education, healing, advocacy and social change. As with the author’s note in the beginning of  In The House Of Me, please care for yourself with anything you read, watch and listen to. Pause and honor your vulnerabilities and limit if your body becomes activated.

Recommended Reading

In solidarity with small businesses and the dedicated, loving humans who create them, we recommend purchasing In The House Of Me at your local bookstore or online at Indie Bound. If your local bookstore isn’t accessible or carrying a copy, In The House of Me will also be available on Amazon.

Reading List By Topics 

Anti-Racism/Social Justice 

  • All the White Friends I Couldn’t Keep by Andre Henry

  • An Indigenous History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  • Anti-Diet by Christy Harrison

  • Ejaculate Responsibly by Gabrielle Stanley Blair

  • Good & Mad by Rebecca Traister

  • How To Be An Anti-Racist by Ibram X. Kendi

  • I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown

  • Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

  • My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem

  • On Tyranny by Timothy D. Snyder

  • Patriarchy Blues by Frederick Joseph

  • Raising White Kids by Jennifer Harvey

  • Raising Anti-Racist Children by Britt Hawthrone 

  • Rest as Resistance by Tricia Hersey

  • She Said by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey

  • The Quaking of America by Resmaa Menace

  • UnBound by Tarana Burke

  • White Supremacy & Me by Layla Saad


Trauma Recovery 

  • Know My Name by Chanel Miller

  • No Bad Parts by Richard C Schwartz

  • Run Towards the Danger by Sarah Polley

  • The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel van der Kolk

  • The Wisdom of Your Body by Hillary L. McBride

  • What Happened to You by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey

Consent 

  • Consent (for Kids!) by Rachel Brian

  • Girlhood by Melissa Febos

  • The Wheel Of Consent by Betty Martin and Robyn Dalzen

  • Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again by Katherine Angel

  • Yes Means Yes by Jaclyn Friedman

General Wellness/Self-Help

  • Burnout by Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA

  • Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski, PhD

  • Push Off From Here by Laura McKowen

  • Quit Like A Woman by Holly Whitaker

  • Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff

  • When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön

  • Your Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

Recommended Listening

This list of podcast episodes is not an endorsement of any particular person/podcast but rather highlights the importance of the specific conversation that’s had in these episodes.