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NUTRITION

Welcoming Food Book One: Energetics of Food and Healing, Diet as Medicine for Home Cooks and Other Healers by Andrew Sterman

This is my newest favorite book on nutrition. Beautifully incorporating modern research and detailed dietary teachings of classical Chinese medicine, Welcoming Food explains how foods work within the body and how to incorporate them into healthy delicious meals.

The Energetics of Food

A classic that does a great job of simplifying the complex relationships of food and its effects on our lives. It provides wisdom passed down through ancient systems of medicine such as Chinese medicine and Ayurveda and describes how the energetic qualities of plants and animals influence our physical, mental, and emotional health.

Recipes for Self-Healing by Daverick Leggett

This book articulately explains Eastern medicine and dietetic concepts with clear and easy-to-understand descriptions of the relationships between foods and the body. It provides instructions for preparing delicious nourishing foods that delight the tastebuds and harmonize the bodymind.

COOKBOOKS

Nutritional Healing With Chinese Medicine

“In an easy-to-understand and straightforward manner, Ellen explains how and which combination of foods and flavors act upon the body to move qi (energy) and how they act on the body to warm or cool. Many of the modern day chronic health problems caused by lifestyle, genetics and stress can be helped by distinctive and long lasting changes in the way we eat.”

Welcoming Food, Book Two: Recipes and Kitchen Practice- Diet as Medicine for Home Cooks and Other Healers

Every recipe I have made from this book has been absolutely delicious. This is a great companion to Book 1.

The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen

This is an enlightening cookbook of savory recipes, beautiful photos, and interesting stories of indigenous American cuisine. It educates us on what has long been understood by indigenous people throughout the world. Locally sourced and seasonal foods provide the most vibrant and healthy meals.

BODYMIND NOURISHMENT

Mindful Eating: A guide to rediscovering a healthful and joyful relationship with food.

This is a clear and concise resource to help food and eating become a source of joy–instead of an angst-ridden activity haunted by nutritionally based guilt.

Nourishing Wisdom: A New Understanding of Eating

Combining the principles of nutritional awareness, personal growth, and body psychology and addressing the emotional and spiritual aspects of nourishment, Nourishing Wisdom provides practical methods for redefining the role food plays in our lives.

FOCUSING

Let Your Body Interpret Your Dreams by Eugene Gendlin, PhD

Bodily responses can open up and lead to small steps of a new experience. These bodily responses can indicate the steps for interpreting a dream. Eugene Gendlin invites you and your unique felt sensing in the process of interpretation.

The Radical Acceptance of Everything by Ann Weiser Cornell

This book shows how we become more whole, how the most despised places in us contain our greatest treasure, how the body’s felt sense, held in a compassionate state of Presence, is the key to change.

ADDICTIONS

Chasing the Scream

Personal story and inquisitive journey into the medical understanding of addiction that invites us all to question our perspective and rethink what we know about its causes.

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts

I was recommended this book by a man I met at a conference who said, “Every person who has been touched by addiction needs to read this book.” I agree. The author and physician, Gabor Mate MD, opens our eyes to the humanity and complexity of addiction.

The Biology of Desire

Cognitive neuroscientist and former addict Marc Lewis makes a convincing case that addiction is not a disease, and shows why the disease model has become an obstacle to healing.

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence

Dr. Anna Lembke, psychiatrist and author, explores new scientific discoveries that explain why the relentless pursuit of pleasure in our modern culture leads to pain…and what to do about it.

TRAUMA

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

Author, Gabor Maté has come to recognize the prevailing understanding of “normal” as false, neglecting the roles that trauma and stress, and the pressures of modern-day living, exert on our bodies and our minds at the expense of good health.

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity.

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

Peter Levine, PhD takes the reader on a guided tour of the subtle, yet powerful impulses that govern our responses to overwhelming life events. To do this, he offers a series of exercises that help bring awareness to bodily sensations and begin the healing process. A classic book that emphasizes the importance of the bodily felt sense in working with trauma.

Mental Health

Chinese Medicine for the Mind

A science-backed guide to using traditional Chinese medicine practices to improve mental health and mental wellbeing.

LINKS

Guided WholeBody Focusing Intunements with Kevin McEvenue

These free interactive somatic exercises invite awareness to awaken the inner wisdom of the living body. Beneath our mental, analytical, and conditioned thinking lies an inner wellspring of intelligence and vitality that knows how to unwind our stress and traumas and move forward in our life situation.

Anti-Depressant Risks

While antidepressants provide support to many people, they do have risks. This site brings valuable information to those who are making choices about using and discontinuing antidepressants.