Session 1: The 100 Coins of Energy (Feb. 20th)
Books:
- Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
- Better Boundaries: Owning and Treasuring Your Life
Website: Association of Professional Chaplains
Session 2: The Hurricane of Grief: In the Storm (Feb. 27th)
Books:
- The Book of Delights: Essays
- Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude (Pitt Poetry Series)
- An Exact Replica of a Figment of My Imagination
- Salvage the Bones
- Sing, Unburied, Sing (View in BCPL Staff Picks)
- Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America’s Stolen Land
- The Things They Carried
- The Time Traveler’s Wife
- Traveling with Pomegranates
- Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart
- What We Lose
- When My Brother Was an Aztec
- The Year of Magical Thinking
Session 3: The Hurricane of Grief: After the Initial Storm (Mar. 6th)
Books:
- Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home
- Let Your Life Speak: Listening for the Voice of Vocation
- My Grandmother’s Hands
- Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
- Walking the Medicine Wheel: Healing PTSD
Session 4: Our Bodies, Our Healing (Mar. 13th)
Books:
- The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love (2nd edition e-audiobook; currently we have the 2018 first edition only for print and e-book copies)
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
- Food Isn’t Medicine
- Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body (View in BCPL Staff Picks)
- Just Eat It: How Intuitive Eating Can Help You Get Your Shit Together around Food
Website: Decolonizing Fitness
Authors/activists/humans whose work invites is to listen to our body’s wisdom and honor the wisdom of others. Read their books and look for them on Instagram:
- Dr. Kira Banks
- Dr. Shamell Bell
- Diane Bondy
- Austin Channing BCPL Catalog
- Christena Cleveland BCPL Catalog
- Rev. Dr. Monica Coleman
- Marci Evans
- Ginny Jones
- Christy Harrison
- Trista Hendren
- Blair Imani
- Rev. Dr. Jacki Lewis
- Jeffery Marsh
- Alisha McCullough
- Matt McGorry
- Alok V. Menon aka Alok Vaid-Menon aka ALOK
- Dr. Jennifer Mulian
- Anna OBrian
- Sonalee Rashatwar
- Shishi Rose
- Linda Sarsour
- Jessamyn Stanley
- Sonya Renee Taylor BCPL Catalog
- Dr. Laura Thomas
- Rozella Haydee White
- Dr. Joshua Wolrich
Session 5: Using Active, Curious Love to Heal (Mar. 20th)
Books:
- Blessing the Boats: New and Selected Poems 1988–2000
- Bright Dead Things
- Change Me Prayers: The Hidden Power of Spiritual Surrender
- The Dance of the Dissident Daughter
- Fieldnotes on the Compassionate Life: A Search for the Soul of Kindness
- The Gifts of Imperfection
- Liam Labradoodle Learns Whole Body Listening
- Life on Mars: Poems
- Milk and Honey
- A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean
- The Reenactments
- Salt
- Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe
- Stalking God: My Unorthodox Search for Something to Believe In
- Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
- Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail