A Few Things Worth Your Time

This is not a reading list or a bibliography. They are things that have found their way into how I think, how I practice, and live. For those of you who like burrowing a bit deeper.

On Knowing Yourself

What is Narrative Therapy?

Alice Morgan | Dulwich Centre Publications

A clear and accessible introduction to narrative therapy. If you want to understand a foundational part of the work I do, what it means to separate a person from their problem, and to look for the richer stories that are always there, this is a good place to start.

On the Body and Healing

Peter Levine on Somatic Experiencing

Peter Levine | Psychotherapy.net

A conversation with the founder of Somatic Experiencing on how everything is always in the body and why working with sensation and movement is often an essential part of being well. Essential for understanding why GROAT uses clay, movement and creative practice alongside conversation.

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The Healing Force Within

Dr. Gabor Maté | drgabormate.com

On the profound connection between emotional life and physical health. Maté writes about how the suppression of anger, the inability to say no, and how the compulsive care of others can unravel us.

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On Difference, Belonging and the World We Live In

Feminism is for Everybody

bell hooks

bell hooks writing about feminism not as an ideology but as a practice of love — accessible, direct, and important. Genuinely helpful for anyone who is open and looking to understand what this way of thinking and doing is all about.

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The Master’s Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master’s House

Audre Lorde

One of the most important moments of my unlearning. On why the tools of oppression cannot be used to dismantle oppression and why being different is not a problem to be solved or fixed but a source of incredible creative power.

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