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