inspiration

Fiction

  • The Once and Future Witches by Alix Harrow

  • The Name of the Wind & The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss

  • Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman

  • The Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley

  • The Fifth Sacred Thing by Starhawk

  • The Overstory by Richard Powers

memoir

  • Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert

  • Untamed by Glennon Doyle

  • Autobiography of a Yogi by Yogananda

  • The Surrender Experiment by Michael Singer

Difficult to Categorize

  • Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer

  • Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Books

Therapeutic nonfiction

  • anything by Brene Brown

  • Bouncing Back by Linda Graham

  • My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

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

spirituality

  • The Secret Power of Yoga by Nischala Devi (an accessible overview of yoga through the Sutras)

  • The Mind Illuminated by John Yates (an excellent meditation guide)

  • The Bowl of Light: Ancestral Wisdom from a Hawaiian Shaman by Hank Wesselman (you have to overlook the author’s, ahem, tone and receive the medicine of the Kahuna’s words)

  • Soul Retrieval: Mending the Fragmented Self by Sandra Ingerman

  • Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing by Daniel Foor

  • The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer (one of my favorite overviews of spirituality)

  • anything by Seren Bertrand

Screen

Television

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency

documentary

Fantastic Fungi

Film

Soul
The Matrix
Moana

worth a follow

Matt Licata (depth psychology, trauma & shadow work)
Asia Suler (womb shamanism, plant medicine)
Eliza Maora (womb shamanism, plant medicine)
Jeff Foster (shadow work, spiritual non-bypassing)

Music

Ajeet Kaur
Ayla Nereo
Elephant Revival
Fia
Marya Stark
Nahko and Medicine for the People
Peia
Rising Appalachia
Samara Jade
Trevor Hall
Xavier Rudd
Yaima