Reading List
BOLD: Highly recommended
- Atomic Habits by James Clear — This book provides very practical and useful information regarding learning and maintaining healthy habits and unlearning and staying away from bad ones.
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk — This is my favorite book on trauma. This book is incredibly important for general understanding on trauma—especially for psychologists and counselors.
- How to Solve Your People Problems: Dealing with Your Difficult Relationships by Alan Godwin — We all have to deal with difficult people and relationships. This book delineates cleanly between dealing with reasonable people vs. unreasonable people and gives some practical tools on dealing with people—both reasonable and unreasonable people— but focuses mostly on dealing with unreasonable people in difficult situations.
- The Holy Bible—The Bible is the most sold and known book on earth. We’ve structured entire societies and religions based on the precepts of this book, and there are countless references to Biblical material all around us. Regardless of your religious affiliation or ideas, you should read the Bible at the very least to gain historical context.
- The Untethered Soul by Michael A. Singer — I don’t agree with everything in this book, but the way it establishes the “Self” in relation to your “Inner Roommate” is a useful framing of personal consciousness.