Book recommendations
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
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WITNESS & MORAL SURVIVAL
Themes: testimony against erasure - voices that refuse silence and meaning carved from extremes, survival, moral injury, existential freedom, meaning under extreme suffering
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If This Is a Man — Primo Levi
The Truce — Primo Levi
Night — Elie Wiesel
Dawn — Elie Wiesel
Day — Elie Wiesel
Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
The Will to Meaning — Viktor E. Frankl
THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND THE BODY
The nervous system remembers what the mind cannot - healing begins when the body is finally heard
​Themes: embodiment, attachment, neurobiology, grief, sleep, trauma integration, neurodiversity
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The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk
Waking the Tiger — Peter Levine
In an Unspoken Voice — Peter Levine
The Myth of Normal — Gabor Maté
The Grieving Brain — Mary-Frances O’Connor
Why We Sleep — Matthew Walker
COGNITIVE CLARITY
​Themes: cognitive biases, mental traps, rational decision-making, understanding neurodivergence
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The Art of Thinking Clearly — Rolf Dobelli
The Developing Brain — Daniel J. Siegel
Autistic Masking — Amy Pearson & Kieran Rose
The Chimp Paradox - The Mind Management Programme for Confidence, Success and Happiness - Prof Steve Peters
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INDIGENOUS VOICES, CULTURAL SURVIVAL AND IDENTITY
Themes: cultural endurance, spaces, colonialism, language, belonging, survival across generations
I, Rigoberta Menchu — Rigoberta Menchú
The Last Quarter of the Moon — Chi Zijian
Stolen — Ann-Helen Laestadius
The Whale Rider — Witi Ihimaera
The Latehomecomer — Kao Kalia Yang
An African in Greenland — Tété-Michel Kpomassie
CONSCIOUSNESS AND INNER WORK
Themes: presence as practice; awareness as refuge, the quiet unfolding and acceptance of self against the noice of ego
The Power of Now — Eckhart Tolle
A New Earth — Eckhart Tolle
The Untethered Soul — Michael A. Singer
The Diamond Heart Series (Vol. 1) — A.H. Almaas
