Recommended Reads

+ Chinese Medicine

  • Health and Long Life The Chinese Way, Livia Kohn

  • The Tao of Trauma, Alaine D. Duncan with Kathy L. Kain

  • The Spark in the Machine, Dr. Daniel Keown

  • The Web that Has No Weaver, Ted Kaptchuk

  • Wood Becomes Water: Chinese Medicine in Everyday Life, Gail Reichstein

  • Receiving Spirit, The Practice of Five Element Acupuncture, Debra Kaatz

+ Cook Books

  • Kemetic Diet: Ancient African Wisdom for Health of Mind, Body and Spirit, Muata Ashby

  • African Holistic Health, Llaila Afrika

  • Nourishing Traditions, Sally Fallon

  • Recipes for Self-Healing Daverick Leggett

  • Ancient Wisdom, Modern Kitchen, Yuan Wang

  • A Tradition of Soup, Teresa M. Chen

  • Veganomicon The Ultimate Vegan Cookbook, Isa Chandra Moskowitz & Terry Hope Romero

  • Vegan Soul Kitchen, Bryant Terry

+ Digestive Health

  • Healing with Whole Foods, Paul Pitchford (Chinese medical principles used, recipes)

  • Grain Brain: The Surprising Truth about Wheat, Carbs, and Sugar--Your Brain's Silent Killers, David Perlmutter

  • The Second Brain: A Groundbreaking New Understanding of Nervous Disorders of the Stomach and Intestine, Michael Gershon

  • Medical Nutrition from Marz, 2nd edition, Russell B. Marz

+ Earthworks’ Library

  • The Next American Revolution, Grace Lee Boggs

  • Black & Blue, The Origins and Consequences of Medical Racism, John Hoberman

  • Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury & Healing, Dr. Joy DeGruy

  • The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind & Body in the Healing of Trauma, Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk

  • Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky

  • All About Love, bell hooks

  • The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness, Pema Chodron

  • Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire

  • Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde

  • Integrating Mindfulness Into Anti-Oppression Pedagogy, Beth Berila

+ Medicine Making

  • Herbal Recipes for Vibrant Health, Rosemary Gladstar

  • The Herbal Medicine-Maker's Handbook: A Home Manual, James Green

+ Traditional Healing

  • Aromatherapy for Healing the Spirit, Gabriel Mojay

  • The Book of Stones, Robert Simmons & Naisha Ahsian

  • Sacred Woman, Queen Afua

  • WInd in The Blood: Mayan Healing and Chinese Medicine, Hernan Garcia, Antonio Sierra, Gilberto Balam