BIPOC Focused Reading List for Healers

1. My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

2. You Are Your Best Thing by Tarana Burke & Brené Brown

3. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

4. The Four Sacred Gifts: Indigenous Wisdom for Modern Times by Dr. Anita Sánchez

5. Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies by Renee Linklater

6. Sacred Instructions: Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit-Strong by Sherri Mitchell

7. Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger by Lama Rod Owens

8. The Way of Tenderness: Awakening through Race, Sexuality & Gender by Zenju Earthlyn Manuel

9. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown

10. All About Love: New Visions by Bell Hooks

11. The Healing Wisdom of Africa by Malidoma Patrice Somé

12. Sana, Sana: Latinx Pain and Radical Visions for Healing and Justice by David Luis Glisch-Sánchez and Nic Rodriguez-Villafañe