Resources

It’s a book.
It’s a different way to see yourself.

Sometimes a book, a conversation, or a new piece of information gives language to something you’ve felt for years.

Here are resources to explore work, relationships, emotions, identity, and change. Take what resonates. You don’t need to turn understanding yourself into another assignment.

Mental Health & Workplace Resources

State of Workforce Mental Health Report — Lyra Health
Research and perspectives for leaders and HR teams thinking about mental health at work.

The Mental Health Coalition
A resource library for exploring mental health and finding support, with attention to different experiences and communities.

Books & Audiobooks

Work, Worth & Leadership

For when what you do has become tangled with who you are.

  • The Good Enough Job — Simon Stolzoff

  • Work Won’t Love You Back — Sarah Jaffe

  • Do Nothing — Celeste Headlee

  • No Hard Feelings: The Secret Power of Embracing Emotions at Work — Liz Fosslien & Mollie West Duffy

  • Measure What Matters — John Doerr

Emotions, Experiences & Coping

For finding language for what you’re carrying.

  • Big Feelings: How to Be Okay When Things Are Not Okay — Liz Fosslien & Mollie West Duffy

  • What Happened to You? — Bruce D. Perry & Oprah Winfrey

  • The Tools — Phil Stutz & Barry Michels

  • The Light We Carry — Michelle Obama

Identity, Transitions & Becoming

For the chapters that don’t come with instructions.

  • Life Is in the Transitions — Bruce Feiler

  • The Search — Bruce Feiler

  • On Our Best Behavior — Elise Loehnen

  • More Myself — Alicia Keys with Michelle Burford

Habits, Joy & Everyday Life

For small shifts—and making room for more than productivity.

  • Atomic Habits — James Clear

  • Joyful — Ingrid Fetell Lee

  • The High 5 Habit — Mel Robbins

Articles

Designing Work That People Love — Marcus Buckingham, Harvard Business Review

For my own writing on leadership, mental health, relationships, and becoming, visit Articles, including Friday Reflections, Sunday Scaries, and Monday, Already?

Podcasts & Conversations

The Myth of the Dream Job — A conversation with Simon Stolzoff

Understanding Your Patterns

Explore the concepts I bring into therapy, including:

  • Attachment and relationships

  • Stress responses

  • Emotional regulation

  • The window of tolerance

  • Coping strategies and defenses

  • Adaptive and maladaptive patterns

  • Human development across the lifespan

These resources offer information and perspectives to consider. They can complement therapy, but they don’t replace care tailored to your needs.

It’s something to explore.
It doesn’t have to become homework.