Resources
Welcome! We encourage you to explore and download the Ample + Rooted resources you'll find here — and feel free to share them! As always, if you'd like further support with what you discover, we're here for you! Just reach out.
Ample + Rooted
Mindfulness Guide
Here at Ample + Rooted, we believe mindfulness and meditation are key to embodying your whole self, building resilience for moving through discomfort, and developing unconditional radical compassion. We created the Ample + Rooted mindfulness guide to introduce you to the power of mindfulness and to provide guidance on where to start.
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guided meditations
Breathwork for Anxiety and Loving Kindness Meditation
Navigating Stress Through Progressive Muscle Relaxation
Sleepy Time Meditation to Help Fall Asleep
Books
We’ve curated a list for those looking for deeper dives on topics we might explore in therapy. This is a non-exhaustive list of our top picks and we will continue to update this list. Most links will take you to our book list on BookShop. They give 10% of each sale to support an independent bookstore and a 10% match to Ample + Rooted which allows us to continue to curate these resources for you.
Body Liberation
The Body is Not an Apology Book
The Body is Not an Apology Workbook
By: Sonya Renee Taylor
By: Roxane Gay
Heavy
By: Kiese Laymon
By: Dalia Kinsey
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia
By: Sabrina Strings
Disability Visibility
By: Alice Wong
Sexuality and Gender
Queer Attachment: An Anti-Oppression Toolkit for Relational Healing
By: Leah Jo Carnine and Fizz Perkal
Sex Positive Talks to Have with Kids
By: Melissa Carnegy
The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook
By: Anneliese Singh
A Clinician's Guide to Gender-Affirming Care: Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients
By: Sand Chang, Anneliese Singh, and lore dickey
The Transgender Child
By: Stephanie Brill and Rachel Pepper
The Transgender Teen
By: Stephanie Brill and Lisa Kenney
Food Peace
Anti-Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating
By: Christy Harrison
Intuitive Eating Workbook for Teens
By: Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
Eating Disorder Activism
Fighting Eating Disorders in Underrepresented Populations
Pleasure
Come As You Are Workbook
By: Emily Nagoski
Pleasure Activism
By: adrienne maree brown
Appetite: Sex, Touch, and Desire in Women with Anorexia
By: Melissa Fabello
Relationships
Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma, and Consensual Nonmonogamy
By: Jessica Fern
Wired for Love
By: Stan Tatkin
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
By: Sue Johnson
Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence
The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity
By: Esther Perel
Attached
By: Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
We Do
By: Stan Tatkin
Your Brain on Love
By: Stan Tatkin
Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
By: Julie and John Gottman
Big Friendship: How We Keep Eachother Close
By: Aminatou Shaw and Ann Friedman
Mindfulness and Meditation
Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence
By: Daniel Siegel
When Things Fall Apart
By: Pema Chodron
Don’t Tell Me to Relax: Emotional Resilience in the Age of Rage, Feels, and Freakouts
By: Ralph de la Rosa
Radical Acceptance
By: Tara Brach
Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love, and Liberation
By: Rev. angel Kyodo Williams, Lama Rod Owens, and Jasmine Syedullah
Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger
By: Lama Rod Owens
Teens and Families
Brainstorm: The Power and Purpose of the Teenage Brain
Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive
By: Daniel Siegel
How to Talk So Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk
By: Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Trauma Healing
The Heart of the Trauma
By: Bonnie Badenoch and Stephen Porges
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
By: Pete Walker
The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice
By: Staci K. Hines
Healing Trauma
By: Peter Levine
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal From Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
By: Lindsay C. Gibson
It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
By: Mark Wolynn
Substance Use
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
By: Gabor Mate and Peter Levine
Over the Influence: The Harm Reduction Guide to Controlling Your Drug and Alcohol Use
By: Patt Denning and Jeannie Little
Power Over Addiction: A Harm Reduction Workbook for Changing Your Relationship with Drugs
By: Jennifer Fernandez
This Naked Mind: Control Alcohol and Find Freedom, Discover Happiness, and Change Your Life
By: Annie Grace
Self-Development
Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself
By: Kristin Neff
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
By: Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski
Gather
By: Octavia Raheem
Start Where You Are: A Journal for Self-Exploration
By: Meera Lee Patel
Transformative Justice
Emergent Strategy
By: adrienne maree brown
We Will Not Cancel Us
By: adrienne maree brown
Beyond Survival: Strategies and Stories from the Transformative Justice Movement
By: Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha and Ejeris Dixon
Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators
By: Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan
Anti-Racism
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
By: Resmaa Menakem
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fatphobia
By: Sabrina Strings
How to be an Antiracist
By: Ibram X. Kendi
So You Want to Talk About Race
By: Ijeoma Oluo
Between the World and Me
By: Ta-Nehisi Coates
Hood Feminism
By: Mikki Kendall
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness
By: Michelle Alexander
Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing
By: Anneliese Singh