Resources

Parenting/Transition to Parenthood

• Pregnancy/Postpartum

• The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality by Kimberly Ann Johnson

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

• Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression by Brooke Shields 

• The Mindful Mom-to-Be: A Modern Doula's Guide to Building a Healthy Foundation from Pregnancy Through Birth by Lori Bregman

• Postpartum Support International book recommendations

• Parent Relationship

• Baby Bomb: A Relationship Survival Guide for New Parents by Kara Hoppe and Stan Tatkin

• And Baby Makes Three: The Six-Step Plan for Preserving Marital Intimacy and Rekindling Romance After Baby Arrives by John and Julie Gottman

• What About Us?: A New Parents Guide to Safeguarding Your Over-Anxious, Over-Extended, Sleep-Deprived Relationship by Karen Kleiman and Molly 

• Parenting 

• Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be by Dr. Becky Kennedy 

• The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bronson

• No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
  by Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bronson

• Don’t Carpe Diem by Glennon Doyle (blog post)

• How to Talk So Little Kids Will Listen by Julie Fable and Joanna King

• Motherwhelmed: Challenging Norms, Untangling Truths, and Restoring Our Worth to the World by Beth Berry

Relationships

• Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship by Terry Real 

• Fierce Intimacy by Terry Real

• Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship by Stan Tatkin

• In Each Other's Care: A Guide to the Most Common Relationship Conflicts and How to Work Through Them by Stan Tatkin and Lin Chen

• State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel

• You Are the One You've Been Waiting For: Applying Internal Family Systems to Intimate Relationships by Richard Schwartz

• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find—and Keep—Love by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller

• Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love by Dr. Sue Johnson

• Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattle

• Ethically/Consensually Nonmonogamous Relationships

• Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern

• The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, & Other Adventures by Janet Hardy and Dossie Eaton

• A Polyamory Devotional: 365 Daily Reflections for the Consensually Nonmonogamous by Evita Lavitaloca Sawyers

• Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha 

• Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships by Tristan Taormino 

Women and Female-Identifying 

• On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to Be Good by Elise Loehnen

Self-Growth

• Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown

• The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown

• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard Schwartz, PhD

• Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski, PhD

• Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach

Trauma

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD

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

• It Wasn't Your Fault: Freeing Yourself from the Shame of Childhood Abuse with the Power of Self-Compassion by Beverly Engel, LMFT

Sexuality

• Penis Owners 

• Ethical Porn for Dicks by David Ley 

• Coping with Erectile Dysfunction: How to Regain Confidence and Enjoy Great Sex by Barry McCarthy and Michael Metz

• Coping With Premature Ejaculation: How to Overcome PE, Please Your Partner & Have Great Sex by Barry McCarthy and Michael Metz 

• Vulva Owners

•  Come As You Are: Revised and Updated: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski

• Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters - and How to Get It by Dr. Laurie Mintz

• The Clitoral Truth by Rebecca Chalker

• Kink/BDSM

• When Someone You Love is Kinky by Dossie Easton and Catherine Liszt

• With Sprinkles on Top: Everything Vanilla People and Their Kinky Partners Need to Know to Communicate, Explore, and Connect by Stefani Goerlich

• Sexual Outsiders: Understanding BDSM Sexualities and Communities by David Ortmann and Richard Sprott

• Desire, Pleasure, and Eroticism

• Passionate Marriage: Keeping Love and Intimacy Alive in Committed Relationships by David Schnarch, PhD

• Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Esther Perel

• Desire: An Inclusive Guide to Navigating Libido Differences in Relationships by Lauren Fogel Mersy, PsyD and Jennifer A. Vencill, PhD, ABPP

• Come Together: The Science (And Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections by Emily Nagoski, PhD

• Tell Me What You Want: The Science of Sexual Desire and How It Can Help You Improve Your Sex Life by Justin Lehmiller

• She Comes First by Ian Kerner