Recommended Books
The following is a selection of books that helped shape Lifted Being. We hope the wisdom contained in these pages will also support your own personal development.
Anthropology
In Search of Respect: Selling Crack in El Barrio
by Philippe Bourgois
The Power of Myth
by Joseph Campbell
Light at the Edge of the World
by Wade Davis
Black Elk Speaks
by Black Elk and John G. Neihardt
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by Anne Fadiman
Original Wisdom: Stories of an Ancient Way of Knowing
by Robert Wolff
Art & Creativity
The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images
by Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS)
Evening in the Palace of Reason
by James R. Gaines
Leonardo Da Vinci
by Walter Isaacson
New Developments in Expressive Arts Therapy
Edited by Ellen and Stephen Levine
The Zen of Creativity: Cultivating Your Artistic Life
by John Daido Loori
A Book Of Luminous Things
by Czesław Miłosz
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
by William Zinsser
Business
Brief Coaching for Lasting Solutions
by Insoo Kim Berg, Peter Szabo
Consulting Essentials: The Art and Science of People, Facts, and Frameworks
by Jeff Kavanaugh
Book Yourself Solid Illustrated
by Michael Port
The Human Workplace
by Andy Swann
F**k Work Let’s Play
by John Williams
Design
The Elements of Typographic Style
by Robert Bringhurst
Engaged
by Amy Bucher
Ruined by Design
by Mike Monteiro
Orchestrating Experiences: Collaborative Design for Complexity
by Chris Risdon and Patrick Quattlebaum
Embodiment
Trauma and the Unbound Body
by Judith Blackstone
Your Body is Your Brain
by Amanda Blake
Becoming Yourself
by Avi Grinberg
In an Unspoken Voice
by Peter A. Levine
My Grandmother's Hands
by Resmaa Menakem
Radical Wholeness: The Embodied Present and the Ordinary Grace of Being
by Philip Shepherd
Sharing Breath: Embodied Learning and Decolonization
edited by Sheila Batacharya and Yuk-Lin Renita Wong
Gender & Sexuality
Iron John: A Book About Men
by Robert Bly
I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't)
by Brené Brown
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex
by Angela Chen
Homosexuality and Civilization
by Louis Crompton
The Highly Sensitive Man
by Tom Falkenstein
Amateur: A Reckoning with Gender, Identity, and Masculinity
by Thomas Page McBee
Human Relations
Talk2MorePeople: Change Your Life by Meeting People
by Tony Esteves
Global Dexterity
by Andy Molinsky
Coaching A to Z
by Haesun Moon
So You Want to Talk About Race
by Ijeoma Oluo
Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life
by Marshall B. Rosenberg
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself
by Nedra Glover Tawwab
Learning & Development
Make It Stick
by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, et al.
Design for How People Learn
by Julie Dirksen
The Overweight Brain
by Lois Holzman
The Courage to Teach
by Parker J. Palmer
How People Learn
by Nick Shackleton-Jones and Dr. Roger Schank
Meaning & Purpose
The Purpose Factor
by Brian Bosché & Gabrielle Bosché
Man's Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
At Home in the World
by John Hill
Living an Examined Life: Wisdom for the Second Half of the Journey
by James Hollis
Mindfulness & Meditation
The Fullness of the Ground
by Judith Blackstone
The Power of Focusing
by Ann Weiser Cornell
Shift into Freedom
by Loch Kelly
Silent Illumination
by Guo Gu
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
by David A. Treleaven
Awakening The Luminous Mind
by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
Nature
The Spell of the Sensuous
by David Abram
Braiding Sweetgrass
by Robin Wall Kimmerer
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
by Naomi Klein
The Hidden Life of Trees
by Peter Wohlleben
Neuroscience
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
by Lisa Feldman Barrett
The Brain That Changes Itself
by Norman Doidge
The Divided Brain and the Search for Meaning
by Iain McGilchrist
The Embodied Mind
by Thomas R. Verny
Philosophy
Psychology
The Highly Sensitive Person
by Elaine N. Aron
Power in the Helping Professions
by Adolf Guggenbühl-Craig
It’s Not Always Depression
by Hilary Jacobs Hendel
Man and His Symbols
by C.G. Jung, et al.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
by Daniel Kahneman
Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans
by Jenny T. Wang
History & Society
The Discoverers: A History of Man's Search to Know His World and Himself
by Daniel J. Boorstin
This Place: 150 Years Retold
by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm, Chelsea Vowel, Katherena Vermette , et al.
Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
by Yuval Noah Harari
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
by Gabor Maté, Daniel Maté
A Short History of Progress
by Ronald Wright
Spirituality
The Unfolding Now
by A.H. Almaas
Belonging Here
by Judith Blackstone
Balancing Heaven and Earth: A Memoir
by Robert A. Johnson
The Recognition Sūtras
by Rājānaka Kṣemarāja and Christopher Wallis
Pilgrims to Openness
by Shambhavi Sarasvati
The Marriage of Spirit
by Leslie Temple-Thurston
Embers: One Ojibway’s Meditations
by Richard Wagamese
Wellbeing
A Simpler Life
by The School of Life, Ryan Bartaby
The Sedona Method
by Hale Dwoskin
Tiny Habits
by BJ Fogg
Start Here: Master the Lifelong Habit of Wellbeing
by Eric Langshur, Nate Klemp
Just One Thing: How simple changes can transform your life
by Michael Mosley
Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements
by Tom Rath and Jim Harter
“Today a reader, tomorrow a leader.”
— Margaret Fuller