Some of my favourite Reads, Podcasts and Website References.
Relationships and Sexuality
Aprhrodite’s Daughter by Jalaja Bonheim
Come as you are by Emily Nagowski
Womens Anatomy of Arousal by Sheri Winston
Wired for Love by Stan Tatkin
Getting the Love that you Want by Harville Hendrix
The Heart of Tantric Sex by Diana Richardson
The Science of Trust by John Gottman
Dark Side of the Light Chasers by Debbie Ford
The Power of Attachment by Dianne Poole Heller
The Smart Couple Podcast by Jayson Gaddis
The Rhythms of Women’s Desire, how female sexuality unfolds at every stage of life by Elizabeth Davis
Female Empowerment
Women Who Run with the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Pussy: A Reclamation by Regena Thomashauer
Vagina by Naomi Wolf
Shakti Woman by Vicki Noble
The Four Fold Way by Angeles Arrien
Existential Kink by Carolyn Elliott
Burning Woman by Luch Pearce
Belonging by Toko-pa Turner
On our best behaviour: the price women pay to be good by Elise Loehnens
Trauma
Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, disassociation and disease by Robert Scaer
Complex PTSD from Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
Nurturing Resilience: Helping clients move forward from developmental trauma by Kathy Kain and Stephen Terrell
The Tao of Trauma: A Practitioners Guide for Integrating Five Element Theory and Trauma Treatment by Alaine Duncan and Kathy Kain
The Heart of Trauma by Bonnie Badenoch
My Grandmothers Hands by Resmaa Menakem
When the Body says No by Gabor Mate
Call of the Wild by Kimberly Ann Johnson
Life Transitions - Midlife and Menopause, Motherhood
The Wisdom of Menopause by Christiane Northrup
Menopause the Wise Woman Way by Susan Weed
Tantric Sex and Menopause practices for Spiritual and Sexual Renewal by Dianna Richardson
The Fourth Trimester: A postpartum guide to healing your body, balancing your emotions and restoring your vitality by Kimberly Ann Johnson
The Womens Wheel of Life by Elizabeth Davis and Carol Leonard
The Heroine’s Journey by Maureen Murdock
Crones Don’t Whine by Jean Shinona Bolen
If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie
Goddesses in Everywoman by Jean Shinona Bolen
Journey through Menopause - a personal rite of passage by Christine Downing
Superfeast Podcast #77 with Jane Hardwicke Collings, The Power of Menopause
Magamama Podcast by Kimberley Ann Johnson
The Middle Passage, from Misery to Meaning in Midlife by James Hollis
Transformed by Birth by Britta Bushnell
Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, How to finally grow up by James Hollis
Making Sense of Menopause by Susan Willson
Second Spring by Kate Codrington
Wise Power - Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Wurlitzer
Demystifying HRT - ‘Talkin about midlife’ podcast, with Kellie Stirling and Fatima Khan
The Menopause Brain - Lisa Mosconi PhD
Female Health and Wellbeing
Wisdom Bodies, Womens Wisdom by Christiane Northrup
Wild Feminine by Tami Lynn Kent
Wild Creative by Tami Lynn Kent
Wild Power by Alexandra Pope and Shanie Hugo Wurlitzer
Body of Wisdom by Hilary Hart
About Bloody Time: the Menstrual Revolution we have to have by Jane Bennett and Karen Pickering
Hormone Repair Manual by Lara Briden
Hormone intelligence by Dr Aviva Romm
Balance your hormones, Balance your life by Dr Claudia Welch
Brain Changer by Felice Jacka
Next Level by Stacey Sims PhD
Grief and Elderhood
The Smell of Rain on Dust by Martin Prechtel
Die Wise by Stephen Jenkinson
The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Frances Weller
Come of Age by Stephen Jenkinson
The Inner Work of Age: Shifting from Role to Soul by Connie Zweig
Jade Egg
Tao Tantric Arts for Women by Minke de Vos and Mantak Chia
My colleague and friend Dianne Shepherd works with women through menopause and is a trained Jade Egg specialist coach. Her website www.shakticore.com has many resources and she will soon be launching an online Jade Egg Course. You can also listen to our podcast we did together ‘Menopause the Passion Portal’.
My Colleague and friend Sasha Cueto is a female sexuality and empowerment coach who is a trained Jade Egg specialist coach. You can find her at www.sasha-cueto.com She offers a Jade Egg and Womens Empowerment group program called Unbroken.
Breathwork
Feel to Heal by Giten Tonkov
Breath: the new science of a lost art by James Nestor