“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.”

Thomas Merton

Here is a taste of the books, poems and images that have inspired and sustained me in my own journey:

  • Braving the Wilderness (Brené Brown)

    Atlas of the Heart (Brené Brown)

    Is Human Forgiveness Possible? (John Patton)

    Race Matters (Cornell West)

    Where We Stand: Class Matters (bell hooks)

    Teaching to Transgress (bell hooks)

    The Book of Secrets (Deepak Chopra)

    Everything Belongs (Richard Rohr)

    The Universal Christ (Richard Rohr)

    Grace and Grit (Ken Wilber)

    When Nietzsche Wept (Irvin Yalom)

    The Gift of Therapy (Irvin Yalom)

    When Things Fall Apart (Pema Chodron)

    The Places that Scare You (Pema Chodron)

    Caravan of No Despair (Mirabai Starr)

    Broken Open (Elizabeth Lesser)

    Cassandra Speaks (Elizabeth Lesser)

    The Book of Longings (Sue Monk Kidd)

    When the Heart Waits (Sue Monk Kidd)

    God’s Joyful Surprises (Sue Monk Kidd)

    Leaving Church (Barbara Brown Taylor)

    Walking in the Dark (Barbara Brown Taylor)

    Holy Envy: Finding God in Other Faiths (Barbara Brown Taylor)

    Nature and the Human Soul (Bill Plotkin)

    Living Buddha, Living Christ (Thich Nhat Hanh)

    Fear: Essential Wisdom for Getting Through the Storm (Thich Nhat Hanh)

    Why Good People Do Bad things (James Hollis)

    Swamplands of the Soul (James Hollis)

    The Alchemist (Paulo Cohelo)

    We’ve Had a Hundred Years of Psychotherapy—and the World’s Getting Worse (James Hillman)

    Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)

    Let Your Life Speak (Parker Palmer)

    The Courage to Teach (Parker Palmer)

    Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Paulo Freire)

    Chomsky on Mis-Education (Noam Chomsky)

    Nickeled and Dimed (Barbara Herenrich)

    Escape from Freedom (Erich Fromm)

    Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Carl G. Jung)

    Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life (Karen Armstrong)

    The Pilgrim’s Progress (John Bunyan)

    White Fragility (Robin DiAngelo)

    Malcolm X and Martin Luther King (Mark Black)

    If This Is a Man (Primo Levi)

    Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale (Rachel Lloyd)

    Not for Sale (David Batstone)

    Sold (Patricia McCormick)

    Infidel (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)