Some of the books that have supported me on my journey

Books about Healing

• The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief by Francis Weller

• The Wakeful Body: Somatic Mindfulness As a Path to Freedom by Willa Blythe Baker

• Listening Below the Noise: The Transformative Power of Silence by Anne D. LeClaire

• The Wisdom of Your Body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied Living by Hillary L. McBride

• Quantum Touch: The Power to Heal by Richard Gordon

• Quantum Touch 2.0: The New Human by Richard Gordon

• Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field by Barbara Ann Brennan

• The Healer’s Manual: A Beginner’s Guide to Energy Healing for Yourself and Others by Ted Andrews

• How To Do Psychic Readings Through Touch by Ted Andrews

• The Bowl of Light: Ancestral Wisdom from a Hawaiian Shaman

• The Alchemy of Illness by Kat Duff

• Art is a Way of Knowing: A Guide to Self-Knowledge and Spiritual Fulfillment Through Creativity by Pat B. Allen

• The Art of Listening in a Healing Way by James E. Miller

• The Soul of Ethical Service by Kathy Ginn

• How Can I Help? Stories and Reflections on Service by Ram Dass and Paul Gorman

• Trust the Process: An Artist’s Guide to Letting Go by Shaun McNiff

• Rituals: Simple and Radical Practices for Enchantment in Times of Crisis by Yarrow Magdalena

• The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You by Dr. Elaine Aron

• Lightworker: Understand Your Sacred Role as Healer, Guide, and Being of Light by Sahvanna Arienta

• The Wisdom of the Shamans by Don Jose Ruiz

• Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self by Sandra Ingerman

• The Way of the Shaman by Michael Harner

• Thinking Like a Mountain: Towards a Council of All Beings by John Seed, Joanna Macy, Pat Fleming and Arne Naess

Books about Buddhist Practices:

• The World Could Be Otherwise: Imagination and the Bodhisattva Path by Norman Fischer

• Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach

• Deep Hope: Zen Guidance for Staying Steadfast When the World Seems Hopeless by Diane Eshin Rizzetto

• Recovery Dharma: How to Use Buddhist Practices and Principles to Heal the Suffering of Addiction

• Ordinary Wonder: Zen Life & Practice by Charlotte Joko Beck

• The Deepest Peace: Contemplations from a Season of Stillness by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

• Welcoming the Unwelcome: Whole Hearted Living in a Broken Hearted World by Pema Chödron

• Ensō; Zen Circles of Enlightenment by Audrey Yoshiko Seo

• Zen and the Art of Photography: A Guide to Mindfulness in Creativity by Douglas Beasley (applies beautifully to any art form, I believe)

• The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life by John Daido Loori

• Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets, & Philosophers by Leonard Koren

• Wabi Sabi: The Japanese Art of Impermanence by Andrew Juniper

  Books on Writing as a Healing Practice

• Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What is Sacred by Mark Nepo

• Drinking from the River of Light: The Life of Expression by Mark Nepo

• Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives by Louise DeSalvo

• Saved by a Poem: The Transformative Power of Words by Kim Rosen

• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke, translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy

• Sacred Sounds: Magic & Healing Through Words & Music by Ted Andrews

• Writing Poetry to Save Your Life: How to Find the Courage to Tell Your Stories by Maria Mazziotti Gillan

• These Fevered Days: Ten Pivotal Moments in the Making of Emily Dickinson by Martha Ackmann

• A Poetry Handbook: A Prose Guide to Understanding and Writing Poetry by Mary Oliver

• Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg

• How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice by Pat Schneider

• Writing Alone and With Others by Pat Scheider

• Finding What You Didn’t Lose: Expressing Your Truth and Creativity Through Poem-Making by John Fox

• poemcrazy: freeing your life with words by Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge

• Poetic Medicine: The Healing Art of Poem-Making by John Fox

• Wild Words: Rituals, Routines, Rhythms for Braving the Writer’s Path by Nicole Gulotta

• Catching the Light: Why I Write by Joy Harjo

• The Way of the Fearless Writer: Ancient Eastern Wisdom for a Flourishing Writing Life by Beth Kempton

Poetry Books:

-Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems by Phyllis Cole-Dai and Ruby R. Wilson

-Poetry of Presence II: More Mindfulness Poems by Phyllis Cole-Dai and Ruby R. Wilson

-The Path to Kindness: Poems of Connection and Joy, Edited by James Crews

-The Wonder of Small Things: Poems of Peace and Renewal, Edited by James Crews

-How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope, Edited by James Crews

-The First Free Women: Poems of the Early Buddhist Nuns by Matty Weingast

-Space Between Stones: Poetry and Practices for Connecting with Nature, Spirit, and Creativity by Kai Siedenburg

-A Thousand Mornings by Mary Oliver

-Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver

-To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings by John O’Donohue

-Words Under Words: Selected Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye

-The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry

Stitching and Textiles Books

• Resilient Stitch: Well Being and Connection in Textile Art by Claire Wellesley-Smith

• Poetic Cloth: Creating Meaning in Textile Art by Hannah Lamb

• Slow Stitch: Mindful and Contemplative Textile Art by Claire Wellesley-Smith

• Fragmentation and Repair for Mixed-Media and Textile Artists by Shelley Rhodes

• Natural Processes in Textile Art From Rust Dyeing to Found Objects by Alice Fox

• The Intentional Thread: A Guide to Drawing, Gesture, and Color in Stitch by Susan Brandeis

• Drawn to Stitch: Line, Drawing and Mark-Making in Textile Art by Gwen Hedley

• Creating Sketchbooks for Embroiderers and Textile Artists by Kay Greenlees

• The Hand Stitched Surface: Slow Stitching and Mixed Media Techniques for Fabric and Paper by Lynn Krawczyk

• True Colors: World Masters of Natural Dyes and Pigments by Keith Recker

• African Textiles: Color and Creativity Across a Continent by John Gillow

• Embroidering within Boundaries: Afghan Women Creating a Future by Rangina Hamidi & Mary Littrell

• Threads Around the World: From Arabian Weaving to Batik in Zimbabwe by Deb Brandon

• Women Artisans of Morocco: Their Stories, Their Lives by Susan Schaefer

• Joomchi & Beyond by Jiyoung Chung

• The Quilts of Gee’s Bend by Susan Goldman Rubin

• A Textile Traveler’s Guide to Peru & Bolivia by Cynthia LeCount Samake

• Oaxaca Stories in Cloth: A Book about People, Belonging, Identity and Adornment by Eric Sebastian Mindling

• Rug Money: How a Group of Maya Women Changed Their Lives through Art and Innovation by Mary Anne Wise and Cheryl Conway-Daly

• Hand Dyed: A Modern Guide to Dyeing in Brilliant Color for You and Your Home by Anna Joyce

You can see my favorite books about writing and poetry here.