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Resources

  including sources of my own study, my personal teachers, professionals I trust, and more

Therapists:

​San Francisco & Bay Area:

Jen Poole, MA, MFT

Ivy Tiegel, MA, AMFT

Santa Cruz County:

Ellen Garfield, MA, MFT

Holistic Nutritionists:

Tarah Venn, NRD

 

Health and Well-Being:

The Osher Center for Integrative Medicine at UCSF offers a variety of Mindfulness-Based programs to include courses for stress reduction, childbirth & parenting.

San Francisco Insight Meditation Community offers meditation instruction, classes and retreats… a great resource for beginners to meditation as well as people looking to deepen their practice in a community-based environment.

Books & Writings

The Ultimate Journey by Stanislav Grof

 

The Smell of Rain on Dust by Martín Prechtel ​

 

The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller and Michael Lerner

 

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

 

Die Wise by Stephen Jenkinson

 

The Odyssey

Homer

 

Women Who Run With the Wolves

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

 

The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Joseph Campbell

 

Ithaka & any other poem written by

Constantine P. Cavafy

 

Stepping Out of Self-Deception:  The Buddha’s Liberating Teaching of No Self 

Rodney Smith

 

Beyond Codependency

Melody Beattie

 

Conscious Loving:  The Journey to Co-Commitment

Gay Hendricks & Kathlyn Hendricks

 

The Four Agreements:  A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom

Miguel Ruiz

 

Medicine Cards

Jamie Sams & David Carson

 

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

 

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Hannah Arendt

 

Mindful Universe

Henry P. Stapp

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