RESOURCES

Should you find you want to dig deeper into a certain topic or theory, Amy invites you to utilize any of the resources below to help you in your journey to better understanding of yourself and the world around you.

RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Untamed
Glennon Doyle

In her most revealing and powerful memoir yet, the activist, speaker, bestselling author, and “patron saint of female empowerment,” explores the joy and peace we discover when we stop striving to meet others’ expectations and start trusting the voice deep within us.

Atomic Habits
James Clear

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving – every day. James Clear, one of the world’s leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

Grief is Love
Marisa Renee Lee

Author Marisa Renee Lee reveals that healing does not mean moving on after losing a loved onehealing means learning to acknowledge and create space for your grief. It is about learning to love the one you lost with the same depth, passion, joy, and commitment you did when they were alive, perhaps even more. She guides you through the pain of grief, shows you what it looks like to honor your loss on your unique terms, debunking the idea of a grief stages or timelines. Grief is Love is about making space for the transformation that a significant loss requires.

Braving the Wilderness
Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW

“True belonging doesn’t require us to change who we are. It requires us to be who we are.” Social scientist Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW, has sparked a global conversation about the experiences that bring meaning to our lives – experiences of courage, vulnerability, love, belonging, shame, and empathy. In Braving the Wilderness, Brown redefines what it means to truly belong in an age of increased polarization.

You Can Heal Yourself
Louise Hay

Louise L. Hay, bestselling author, is an internationally known leader in the self-help field. Her key message is: “If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.” The author has a great deal of experience and firsthand information to share about healing, including how she cured herself after being diagnosed with cancer.

Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Anti-Dieting Approach
Evelyn Trribole and Eylse Resch

The authors, both prominent health professionals in the field of nutrition and eating disorders, urge listeners to embrace the goal of developing body positivity and reconnecting with one’s internal wisdom about eating – to unlearn everything they were taught about calorie-counting and other aspects of diet culture and to learn about the harm of weight stigma.

Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Energy, Money Well-being and Happiness through Intuitive Eating
Christy Harrison

In Anti-Diet, Christy Harrison takes on diet culture and the multi-billion-dollar industries that profit from it, exposing all the ways it robs people of their time, money, health, and happiness. It will turn what you think you know about health and wellness upside down, as Harrison explores the history of diet culture, how it’s infiltrated the health and wellness world, how to recognize it in all its sneaky forms, and how letting go of efforts to lose weight or eat “perfectly” actually helps to improve people’s health – no matter their size.

Think Like a Monk
Jay Shetty

In this inspiring, empowering book, Shetty draws on his time as a monk to show us how we can clear the roadblocks to our potential and power. Combining ancient wisdom and his own rich experiences in the ashram, Think Like a Monk reveals how to overcome negative thoughts and habits and access the calm and purpose that lie within all of us. He transforms abstract lessons into advice and exercises we can all apply to reduce stress, improve relationships, and give the gifts we find in ourselves to the world.

The Four Agreements
don Miguel Ruiz

In The Four Agreements, don Miguel Ruiz reveals the source of self-limiting beliefs that rob us of joy and create needless suffering. Based on ancient Toltec wisdom, the The Four Agreements offer a powerful code of conduct that can rapidly transform our lives to a new experience of freedom, true happiness, and love.

The Way of the Peaceful Warrior
Dan Millman

A book that could change your life: When Dan Millman was a young man, he expected that hard work would eventually bring a life of comfort, wisdom, and happiness. Yet, despite his many successes, he was haunted by the feeling that something was missing. Awakened by dark dreams one night, Dan found himself at a gas station with an old man named Socrates, and his world was changed forever. Guided by this eccentric old warrior, and inspired by a young woman named Joy, Dan began a spiritual odyssey into realms of light and shadow, romance and mystery, toward a final confrontation that would deliver or destroy him.

Atlas of the Heart
Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW

In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through 87 of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances – a universe where we can share and steward the stories of our bravest and most heartbreaking moments with one another in a way that builds connection.

Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts.
Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW

Brown uses research, stories, and examples to answer these questions in the no-BS style that millions have come to expect and love. Brown writes, “One of the most important findings of my career is that daring leadership is a collection of four skill sets that are 100 percent teachable, observable, and measurable. It’s learning and unlearning that requires brave work, tough conversations, and showing up with your whole heart. Easy? No. Because choosing courage over comfort is not always our default. Worth it? Always. We want to be brave with our lives and our work. It’s why we’re here.”

PODCAST RECOMMENDATIONS

The Happiness Lab
Dr. Laurie Santos

You might think you know what it takes to lead a happier life… more money, a better job, or Instagram-worthy vacations. You’re dead wrong. Yale professor Dr. Laurie Santos has studied the science of happiness and found that many of us do the exact opposite of what will truly make our lives better. Based on the psychology course she teaches at Yale — the most popular class in the university’s 300-year history — Laurie will take you through the latest scientific research and share some surprising and inspiring stories that will change the way you think about happiness.

Unlocking Us
Brené Brown, PhD, LMSW

on Spotify

Brown spent over 20 years studying the emotions and experiences that bring meaning and purpose to our lives, and if there’s one thing she’s learned it’s this: We are hardwired for connection, and connecting requires courage, vulnerability, and conversation. This podcast is real, unpolished, honest, and reflects both the magic and the messiness of what it means to be human. We don’t have to do life alone. We were never meant to. Unlocking Us is a Spotify Original from Parcast.

We Can Do Hard Things
Glennon Doyle

On Amazon

Glennon Doyle is the author of Untamed. “Life is freaking hard. We are all doing hard things every day – we love and lose; we forge and end friendships; battle addiction, illness, and loneliness; care for children and parents; struggle in our jobs, our marriages, our divorces; we try to set and hold boundaries – and we fight for equality, purpose, joy, and peace right in the midst of all the hard. On We Can Do Hard Things, my wife Abby Wambach, my sister Amanda Doyle, and I do the only thing that has ever made life easier: We talk honestly about the hard. We laugh and cry and help each other carry the hard so we can all live a little bit lighter and braver, free-er, less alone.”

Radical Candor
Kim Scott and Russ Laraway

on Sounder

Moving from command-and-control to successful collaboration isn’t easy. But telling people what to do doesn’t work. Learn how to kick ass at work without losing your humanity by practicing the principles of Radical Candor. Host Amy Sandler leads discussions with Radical Candor co-founders Kim Scott and Jason Rosoff about what it means to be Radically Candid, why it’s simple but not easy to Care Personally and Challenge Directly on the daily, and why it’s worth it. Get actionable tips for doing the best work of your life and building the best relationships of your career.

How to Be a Better Human
Chris Duffy

on Spotify

Join How to Be a Better Human as we take a look within and beyond ourselves.

How to Be a Better Human isn’t your average self improvement podcast. Each week join comedian Chris Duffy in conversation with guests and past speakers as they uncover sharp insights and give clear takeaways on how YOU can be a better human.

Food Psych 
Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS

on Amazon

Registered dietitian nutritionist, certified intuitive eating counselor, and journalist Christy Harrison, MPH, RD, CEDS talks with guests and answers listener questions about making peace with food, healing from disordered eating, learning body acceptance, practicing intuitive eating, escaping harmful wellness culture, and more–all from a body-positive, anti-diet perspective. This podcast challenges diet culture in all its forms–including the restrictive behaviors that often masquerade as wellness and fitness. Food Psych® is designed to offer safe and non-triggering support for listeners in recovery from eating disorders, weight stigma, and body shame.

Where Should We Begin?
Ester Perel

Listen to the incomparable therapist Esther Perel counsel real couples as they reveal the most intimate, personal, and complicated details of the conflicts that have brought them to her door. This season Esther speaks to a constellation of new relationships: A couple wrestling with the guilt they feel over the happiness their infidelity created. Another trying to make space for their queerness in an outwardly appearing hetero relationship. A set of friends trying to sort out if their childhood friendship needs to continue into adulthood. And Esther checks back in with couples from seasons past to see where they are now as she creates a space for us to hear our own lives and struggles articulated in the stories of others. So….where should we begin?

Exactly
Florence Gibbon

on Spotify

Exactly. with Florence Given is your bubble-busting guide to modern-day feminism.
Join Floss, the boundary-breaking author of best-selling books Women Don’t Owe You Pretty and Girlcrush to explore topics like sex, envy, queer history and body image in a nuanced and enlightening way, all while having lots of laughs along the way.

DayLuna Human Design
Shayna Cornelius and Dana Stiles

Join us as we discuss everything Human Design.

We dive deep into authorities and strategies and the New Paradigm as well as host live readings for special guests and get into the intricacies of parenting with Human Design.

Dear Gabby
Gabby Bernstein

Do you want to become the happiest person you know? You’ve come to the right place! Dear Gabby is a weekly show where I offer up real-time coaching, straight talk and BIG LOVE. Episodes include unscripted Q&A sessions where I coach listeners through life-changing transformations, plus free-flowing conversations about personal growth and spirituality with unique and inspiring guests.

APP RECOMMENDATION

Insight Timer

Join us as we discuss everything Human Design.

We dive deep into authorities and strategies and the New Paradigm as well as host live readings for special guests and get into the intricacies of parenting with Human Design.