What I am learning about
Being a learner is important to me because learning is a practice. Learning strengthens my muscles of curiosity, active listening, taking in different perspectives, integrating information, changing my mind, and connecting thinking to feeling to doing.
The content I seek to learn about is informed by the needs of the people I work with and the needs of environment we live in. I often bring what I am learning about back into the therapeutic space.
So, I want to let you in on what has been taking up my head and heart space.
What follows is a collection of the resources that I have learned from and whose content continues to marinate within me. While they are categorized by theme, I understand all of this content to be interconnected. Content medium ranges from workshops, trainings, book, and podcasts.
Grief and Death
Rumble Strip podcast series on Finn and the Bell, Tara
Grief is the Medicine with Malkia Devich Cyril on Becoming the People Podcast
Grief Affirming Practice on Clearly Clinical Podcast
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chodron
The Smell of Rain on Dust: Grief and Praise by Martin Prechtel
How to human
X Forgiveness: JJ’88, Incarcerated Advocate on Abolition X Podcast
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem
Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World by Tyson Yunkaporta
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by adrienne maree brown
Climate change, political collapse and stories of adaptation
H is for Hope: Climate Change from A to Z by Elizabeth Kolbert
The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton
Wyrd: Against the Modern World by Ramon Elani
Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Marya & Raj Patel
Capitalism, The State, and How We Got Here with Christian Parenti on the Upstream Podcast
Grievers Trilogy by adrienne maree brown
Neurodiversity
The Autistic Trans Guide to Life by Yenn Purkis and Wenn Lawson
Attention-Deficit Neuropsychology (ADHD) Part 1 with Dr. Russell Barkley on ologies with alie ward
Hannah Gatsby on comedy, free speech, and living with Autism on The Grey Area with Sean Illing podcast