Suggested Books and Websites


Embodiment and mindfulness

Eastern Body Western Mind by Anodea Judith

Trauma Sensitive Yoga by David Emmerson

My grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa menakem

The body: a guide for Occupants by Bill Bryson

How God Changes Your Brain - Newberg and Waldman

Healing Trauma Through Yoga by David Emmerson

Mindsight by Daniel Siegel 

Daniel Siegel's website

Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine

The Psoas Book by Liz Koch

Stalking the Wild Psoas by Liz Koch


Trauma REcovery                                                                          

Healing Trauma by Peter Levine

The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

Trauma and Memory by Peter Levine

From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker

What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo

Somatic Experiencing Website


Racial trauma recovery

My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem

Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad

Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Selected Works of Audre Lorde edited by Roxane Gay

Undrowned by Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Pleasure Activism by Adrienne Maree Brown

Between The World And Me By Ta-Nehisi Coates

Resmaa Menakem’s Website

Inclusive Therapists’s Website


Religious Sexual Shame and Sexual health resources

The Purity Myth by Jessica Valenti

Pure by Linda kay Klein

Sex, God and the conservative church by Tina Schermer sellers

Beyond Shame by Matthias Roberts

Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski

Black Sexual Politics by Patricia Hill Collins

Virgin Nation by Sara Moslener

Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex by Angela Chen

Shameless by Nadia Bolz-Weber

Outlove by Julie Rodgers

#churchtoo by Emily Joy Allison

Girls and Sex by Peggy Orenstein

Passionate and Pious by Monique Moultrie

Jezebel Unhinged by Tamura Lomax

A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis

Post Purity Healing Website

Purity Culture Research Collective Website


Family of origin Material  

Understanding the Borderline Mother by Christine Ann Lawson

It Didn't Start With You by Mark Wolynn

Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers by Robert M. Sapolsky

Feeling buried Alive Never Die by Karol K. Truman 


Spiritual Abuse and religious deconstruction

Living Buddha Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh

Leaving the Fold by Marlene Winell

Post Purity Healing Website