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Identity Reclamation Master Pack

Resources

 

Books

Spiritual in nature:

When Things Fall Apart, Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears, Pema Chodron

The Untethered Soul, Michael Singer

Find Your Truth, Lou Redmond

Experiments in Truth, Ram Dass

Heart Minded, Sarah Blondin

Personal Growth/Development:

The War of Art, Steven Pressfield

How To Do The Work, Dr. Nicole LePera

The Way of Integrity: Finding the Path to Your True Self, Martha Beck

Let Your Life Speak, Parker Palmer

ANYTHING by Brene Brown:

I Thought It Was Just Me (But it Isn’t)

The Gifts of Imperfection

Daring Greatly

Rising Strong

Braving the Wilderness

Dare to Lead

Atlas of the Heart

You are Your Best Thing

Strong Ground

Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More Than IQ, Daniel Golman

101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, Brianna Wiest

The Mountain is You: Transforming Self-Sabotage Into Self-Mastery, Brianna Wiest

The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control, Katherine Morgan Schafler

Loving What Is, Byron Katie

Awareness: The Perils and Opportunities of Reality, Anthony De Mello

The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg

Supercommunicators, Charles Duhigg

From Strength to Strength, The Meaning of Your Life, Arthur C. Brooks

Inner Excellence: Train Your Mind For Extraordinary Performance and The Best Possible Life, Jim Murphy

Get Better at Anything: 12 Maxims for Mastery, Scott H. Young

How To Be The Love You Seek: Break Cycles, Find Peace + Heal Your Relationships, Dr. Nicole LePera

Loving Bravely: 20 Lessons of Self-Discovery to Help You Get the Love You Want

Master of Change: How to Excel When Everything is Changing - Including You, Brad Stulberg

Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results, An Easy Way + Proven Way to Build Good Habits + Break Bad Ones, James Clear

The How: Notes on the Great Work of Meeting Yourself, Yrsa Daley-Ward

You Had Me at No: How Setting Healthy Boundaries Helps Banish Burnout, Repair Relationships, and Save Your Sanity, Sheryl Green (Link to Shery'l’s episode on the Widening Your Aperture Podcast )

Life is in The Transitions, Bruce Feiler

The Middle Passage, James Hollis

Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, James Hollis

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living, Dale Carnegie

The Let Them Theory, Mel Robbins

The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life, Steven Bartlett

Neuroscience/Psychology:

Rewire: Break the Cycle of Negative Thoughts and Reclaim Your Life, Nicole Vignola

Look Again: The Power of Noticing What was Always There, Tali Sharot and Cass R. Sunstein

The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life

Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change, Olga Khazan

Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, James Nestor

Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things, Adam Grant

Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Body, Mind, Brain and Body, Daniel Golman + Richard J. Davidson

Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn’t Designed for You, Jenna Nerenberg

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D.

Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman

The Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness

Grit: The POWER of PASSION and PERSERVERANCE, Angela Duckworth

Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How it Can Help You Find Love, Amir Levine + Rachel Heller

Secure Love: Create a Relationship That Lasts a Lifetime

The Psychology of Money, Morgan Housel

Trauma/Nervous System Regulation/Healing:

Waking the Tiger, Peter A. Levine, PhD

Beyond Anxiety, Martha Beck

When You’re Ready, This is How You Heal, Brianna Wiest

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model, Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D.

The Origins of You, Vienna Pharon, LMFT

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

Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic: How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal From It, Paul Conti, MD

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture, Dr. Gabor Mate

When the Body Says NO: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection, Dr. Gabor Mate

Somatic Therapy Workbook, Yevhenii Lozovyi

The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van den Kolk, M.D.

Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous system Using Polyvagal Theory, Deb Dana

Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection, Deb Dana

The Pocket Guide to The Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe, Stephen W. Porges Ph.D.

Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy, Francine Shapiro, Ph.D.

What’s Going Right: A Powerful Method for Optimizing Your Mental Health, Paul Conti, MD

Win the Inside Game: How to Move From Surviving to Thriving and FREE YOURSELF UP to PERFORM, Steve Magness

How We Heal, Alexandra Elle

Stitches: A Handbook on Meaning, Hope and Repair, Anne Lamott

Anxious Attachment Recovery for Neurodivergent Minds, Brenda Emerson

Radical Acceptance, Tara Brach

Memoirs with insightful learning:

A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller

Man’s Search For Meaning, Viktor Frankl

Untamed, Glennon Doyle

Everything All at Once, Steph Catudal

Permission To Feel: Unlocking the Power of Emotions to Help Our Kids, Ourselves, and Our Society Thrive, Marc Brackett, Ph.D.

The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin

Creative Calling: Establish a Daily Practice, Infuse Your World with Meaning, and Succeed in Work + Life, Chase Jarvis

Never Play it Safe: A Practical Guide to Freedom, Creativity, and a Life You Love, Chase Jarvis

The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness, Ichiro Kishimi + Fumitake Koga

Finding Ultra, Rich Roll

Society + Culture:

The Comfort Crisis, Michael Easter

Scarcity Brain, Michael Easter

Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman

Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Make Time for What Counts, Oliver Burkeman

Effortless, Greg McKeowan

Slow Productivity, Cal Newport

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World, Cal Newport

Big Magic: Creativity Beyond Fear, Elizabeth Gilbert

Lighter, Yung Pueblo

Stumbling on Happiness, Daniel Gilbert

The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters, Priya Parker

The Connected Community: Discovering the Health, Wealth, and Power of Neighborhoods, Cormac Russell + John McKnight

The Anxious Generation, Jonathan Haight

How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, David Brooks

Heady, make you really think:

Outwitting The Devil, Napoleon Hill

Free Will, Sam Harris

Lying, Sam Harris

Lights On, Annaka Harris

Study The Greats:

Rumi: The Essentials, Coleman Barks

The Bhagavad Gita, Eknath Easwaran

The Gift: Poems by Hafiz

Aristotle’s Way, Edith Hall

The Obstacle is the Way, Ryan Holiday

Ego is the Enemy, Ryan Holiday

Stillness is the Key, Ryan Holiday

The Stoic Series:

Courage Is Calling, Ryan Holiday

Discipline is Destiny, Ryan Holiday

Right Thing, Right Now, Ryan Holiday

Wisdom Takes Work, Ryan Holiday

Poetry/Affirmations/Quick Reads:

Care Package, Sylvester McNutt III

Milk and Honey, Rupi Kaur

Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart, Gordon Livingston

Inward, Clarity + Connection, The Way Forward, Yung Pueblo

Why I wake Early, Mary Oliver

A Thousand Mornings, Dog Songs, Blue Horses, Felicity, Mary Oliver

Devotions, Mary Oliver

Radical, or When the World Lived Inside Us, Steph Catudal

The Human Element, Brianna Wiest

The Truth About Everything, Brianna Wiest

Salt Water, Ceremony, Brianna Wiest

The Life That’s Waiting, Brianna Wiest

Food/Wellness/Holistic lifestyle:

The Four Season Solution, Dallas Hartwig

The Pegan Diet, Mark Hyman, MD

This is Your Brain on Food: An Indispensable Guide to the Surprising Foods That Fight Depression, PTSD, ADHD, Anxiety, OCD, and More, Uma Naidoo, MD

Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, Matthew Walker, Ph.D.

Glucose Revolution: The Life-changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar, Jessie Inchauspe

The Connection Cure: The Prescriptive Power of Movement, Nature, Art, Service and Belonging, Julia Hotz

Non-Fiction:

IInto The Wild, Jon Krakauer

Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole, Susan Cain

Fiction:

The Overstory, Richard Powers

The Heart’s Invisible Furies, John Boyne

Textbook Reads :

Polyvagal Safety: Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation, Stephen Porges Ph.D.

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures, Francine Shapiro Ph.D.

Workbooks:

How To Meet Yourself: The Workbook for Self-Discovery, Dr. Nicole LePera

Currently reading:

Empire of AI, Karen Hao

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, Robert B. Cialdini, Ph.D.

Up Next:

Happy, Sexy Millionaire: Unexpected Truths About Fulfillment, Love, and Success, Steven Bartlett

Get Better at Anything:12 Maxims for Mastery, Scott H. Young

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Podcasts

The Rich Roll Podcast - Personal Growth/Lifestyle

The Doctor’s Farmacy - Holistic Wellness/Integrative Medicine

Solved with Mark Manson - Personal Growth

Making Sense - Sam Harris (Politics, Neuroscience, Study of Consciousness)

The Diary of a CEO with Steven Bartlett - Raw, human, conversations with the world’s most fascinating experts, storytellers, thinkers and business leaders (This is my current FAVE!)

Modern Wisdom with Chris Willamson - Society + Culture (My second FAVE!)

Know Thyself with Andre Duqum - Self Improvement/Spirituality

The Huberman Lab Podcast - Neuroscience and science based tools

The Tim Ferris Show - Entrepreneurship and a wild array of other topics

 

Apps

Insight Timer - Meditation, Yoga, Sound healing ($59.99/year)

Waking Up by Sam Harris - Meditations, Talks, Consciousness ($129.99/year or $19.99/mo - Scholarships ARE available, Sam does not want finances to be the barrier from people learning more about consciousness and meditation)

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Audio Series

The Alchemy of Initiation - Francis Weller

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Meditation Teachers

David Gandelman - Insight Timer, Grounded Sleep Podcast

Sarah Blondin - Insight Timer, Live Awake Podcast, Heart Minded (Audio Book with meditations)

Lou Redmond - Insight Timer

Ben Holt - Insight Timer

Hillary Jackendoff (Yoga Nidra) - Insight Timer

Tara Brach - Insight Timer

Sam Harris - Waking Up

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Music

‘Into The Wlld’ Soundtrack

Elephant Revival

Nessi Gomez - Live in Toronto

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Healing Modalities

Grounding - https://www.healthline.com/health/grounding

Primordial Sound Meditation

Yoga - Classes can be found on Insight Timer and Gaia Tv on Amazon Prime

Plant Medicine - Ben Holt: Ben offers plant medicine through sacred ceremonies as well as powerful deep dive retreats. I followed his Integration Guide after my plant medicine ceremony and it helped immensely in making my experience more impactful as well as helping me to incorporate more of the practices into my everyday life. Additional offerings include breathwork, meditation, sound healing, coaching/mentoring and private healing sessions. www.connectandevolve.com

Crystals

Aromatherapy - Some of my favorites are Palo Santo, bergamot, frankincense, Gratitude (Young Living), Calm (Thistle Farms)

Hypnotherapy

Meditation - David Gandelman: David offers monthly membership options for his Meditation School. Monthly offerings are a live Zoom class where he teaches about a topic and then leads a live meditation and a monthly live Q&A. Meditation School has been a total game changer for me. It was instrumental in my practice when I first started meditating and has helped me to create a deeper practice, integrate meditation as a part of my daily routine and to laugh and not take life so seriously all the time! Additional offerings include classes/events by other teachers, monthly group coaching and a resource library that will keep you busy (but zen) for a long, long time. So rich. www.meditationschool.us

Breathwork - Ben Holt: You can find Ben’s work on Insight Timer and YouTube. For more information and additional offerings www.connectandevolve.com

Somatic Bodywork - Nicole Lohse: Nicole’s practice is a blend of Feldenkrais, yoga, Somatic Experiencing, Somatic Practice and The Crystalline Consciousness Technique. She focuses on patterns that stem from trauma and nervous system regulation. Nicole offers workshops and a deep dive program called Discover. There are also several resources on her site to help you on your journey. www.nicolelohse.com

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Online Courses + Communities

Dr. Nicole LePera - Dr. Nicole offers several free videos on her YouTube channel as well as a membership only, self paced, courses and online community called The SelfHealers Circle www.theholisticpsychologist.com

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Products & Companies I Love

Thistle Farms ‘Calm’Essential Oil - www.thistlefarms.org Non-profit social enterprise, proceeds go to helping women survivors recover and heal from prostitution, trafficking, and addiction by providing a safe place to live, a meaningful job, and a lifelong sisterhood of support.

Shift necklace - 5 2 7 breathing for stress/anxiety www.komusodesign.com

Guided daily journal www.yourjoyologist.com

Thrive Market - www.thrivemarket.com $60/year membership. Your membership sponsors a free one for a family, student, veteran, or first responder in need. All products are brands that support fair trade, ban GMO’s and prioritize sustainability.

Imperfect Foods - Imperfect was founded to fight food waste by finding a home for the imperfect or “ugly” fruits and vegetables that farms couldn’t sell to grocery stores. '“The more we learned, the more we realized that it wasn’t the food that was really imperfect after all; it was the food system. So, as the number of products we offer and cities we serve increases, we keep finding new ways to make a positive impact on our world.”