There are some incredible books to share. I hope you find them supportive.
Grief and Loss
The Grieving Brain (2024)
Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor
The Grieving Body (2025)
Dr. Mary-Frances O’Connor
Pain Remixed (2024)
Joe Lyons-Rising
It’s Ok That You’re Not Okay: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand
Megan Devine and Mark Nepo
Grief is Love: Living with Loss
Marisa Renee Lee
Real Self-Care
Pooja Lakshmin, MD
The Year of Magical Thinking
Joan Didion
Still Life
Dr. Jeff Sutherland
Caregiving with Strength: Raising Self-Care to New Heights by Acknowledging the Losses
Eleanor Silverberg, SW
Making it to Monday
Jennifer Nunes
Disenfranchised Grief in Contemporary Society Gabriela Casellato
A Grief Observed
C.S Lewis
Wild Edge of Sorrow
Frances Weller
Love Notes to Grievers
Angela E. Norris
Good Mourning: Honest conversations about grief and loss
Sally Douglas
The Grief Recovery Handbook
John W. James and Russell Friedman
Grief Map
Sarah Hahn Campbell (LGBTQ2+)
Grief Works: Stories of Love, Death & Surviving
Julia Samuel
A Widow’s Guide to Healing: Gentle Support & Advice for the First 5 Years
Kristin Meekof & Windell
Modern Loss
Gabrielle Birkner and Rebecca Soffer
A Hole in the World: Finding Hope in Rituals of Grief & Healing
Amanda Held Opelt
Attached
Amir Levine M.D and Rachel F.F Heller, M.A
Attachment-Informed Grief Therapy
Phyllis S. Kosminsky and John R. Jordan
The Crafting of Grief
Lorraine Hedtke and John Winslade
Trauma
It Didn’t Start With You
Mark Wolynn
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Peter Levine
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel Van Der Kolk M.D
Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve
Stanley Rosenberg
Pain Remixed (2024)
Joe Lyons-Rising
Neurodiversity and Disability Community
How to ADHD: An Insiders Guide to Working with Your Brain
Jessica McCabe
Far from the Tree: Parents, children and the search for identity
Andrew Solomon
Living with PTSD on The Autism Spectrum
Lisa Morgan M.ED and Mary P. Donahue PhD
Untypical
Pete Wharmby
We’re Not Broken, Changing the Autism Conversation
Eric Garcia
Pathways to Inclusion: Building a New Story with People and Communities
John Lord and Peggy Hutchison
Divergent Mind
Jenara Nerenberg
DBT (Dialectical Behavior Therapy) for Neurodivergent
Rory Ferguson
The Autistic Burnout Workbook
Dr. Megan Anna Neff
General Help and Special Interest Topics
Dissociation Made Simple
Jamie Marich, PhD
Attachment Theory in Practice
Susan M. Johnson
Attached: the new science of adult attachment and how it can help you find and keep love
Amir Levine M.D and Rachel S.F Heller, M.A
Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood
Lisa Damour, PhD
Dream Symbols of the Individuation Process
C.G Jung
Codependent No More
Melody Beattie
The New Codependency
Melody Beattie
No Bad Parts (the internal family systems model)
Richard C. Schwartz, PhD
The Lightmaker’s Manifesto
Karen Walrond
Social Justice for the Sensitive Soul
Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
Gabor Mate
Children’s Books
Some children’s books include (suggested ages 0-12):
When Dinosaurs Die
by Laurie Krasny Brown and Marc Brown
ages 4-8
The Goodbye Book
by Todd Parr
ages 3-6
A Terrible Thing Happened
by Margaret M. Holmes
ages 4-8
Why Do Things Die? A life a flap book
by Katie Daynes
ages 4+
Ida Always
by Caron Levis and Charles Santoso
ages 4-8
The Memory Tree
by Britta Teckentrup
ages baby-5
The Purple Balloon
by Chris Raschka
ages 4-8
The Invisible String
by Patrice Karst
ages 3-7
The Invisible Leash (pet loss) by Patrice Karst
ages 4-8
The Memory Box
by Joanna Rowland
ages 4-8
Badgers Parting Gifts
by Susan Varley
ages 3-7
I have a question about: Death? A book for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder or Other Special Needs
by Arlen Grad Gaines and Meredith Englander Polsky
ages 5-11