Book Nook is a live book list of all the books we end up discussing or sharing with clients. Browse and click on the titles below to be directed to their bookshop links.

Pregnancy & Perinatal Mental Health

Preparing for Birth: Your Guide for Wellness in Birth and Beyond by Maggie Saltiel, LCSW and Cali Machen, CD

This Isn’t What I Expected by Karen Kleiman and Valerie Davis Raskin

Dropping the Baby and Other Scary Thoughts: Breaking the Cycle of Unwanted Thoughts in Parenthood by Karen Kleiman and Amy Wenzel

Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts: A Healing Guide to Secret Fears of New Mothers by Karen Kleiman

When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women by Penny Simkin, PT and Phyllis Klaus, MFT

Reinventing Supermom: Support, Encouragement, and Strategies for New Mothers Who Feel Lost by Kate Kripke, LCSW, PMHC

And Baby Makes Three: The 6 step plan for preserving intimacy and rekindling romance after baby arrives by John Gottham and Julie Schwartz Gottham

The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother by Amely Greeven, Heng Ou, and Marisa Belger

Pregnancy and Power by Rickie Solinger (pregnancy, race, and politics)

Queering Reproduction: Achieving Pregnancy in the Age of Technoscience by Laura Mamo

Trauma Healing

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine

My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem, LCSW, SEP

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Body, and Mind in the Healing of Trauma

When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women by Penny Simkin, PT and Phyllis Klaus, MFT

It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn

Women’s Health & Sexuality

Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski, PhD

Period Repair Manual: Natural Treatment for Better Hormones and Better Periods by Lara Briden

Wild Power: Discover the Magic of Your Menstrual Cycle and Awaken the Feminine Path to Power by Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer and Alexandra Pope

The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles and Optimize your Fertility by Lisa Hendrickson Jack and Lara Briden

Relationships

Monsters in Love: Why Your Partner Sometimes Drives You Crazy and What You Can Do About It by Resmaa Menakem