The shelf that raised me
What Changed My Thinking
Books, shows, voices, and ideas that cracked my thinking wide open — and might do the same for you.
Books
Ellen Hopkins
All of them. Yes, the YA novels in verse about addiction and trauma and girls surviving impossible things. Unconventional, I know — but nobody writes the truth about pain like she does.
Beqoming: Everything You Didn’t Know You Wanted
By Azrya + Benjamin Bequer. The title says it all.
Atomic Habits
By James Clear. Tiny changes, remarkable results — the book that taught me growth doesn’t have to be dramatic to be real.
Untamed
By Glennon Doyle. Stop the pleasing, start the living — and trust the knowing inside you.
Daring Greatly
By Brené Brown. On vulnerability, shame, and showing up anyway.
The Body Keeps the Score
By Bessel van der Kolk. How trauma lives in the body — and how it can finally leave.
The Four Agreements
By Don Miguel Ruiz. Four simple agreements that quietly rewired how I move through the world.
Watch
Bluey
Shocker, it’s good. A kids’ cartoon that quietly teaches you how to be a better parent and a softer human. Watch it with your kids. Watch it without them.
This Is Us
Generational trauma, family love, and healing — in the most beautifully devastating packaging.
Ted Lasso
Believe. Kindness as a strategy, softness as strength.
Insecure
Issa Rae’s love letter to Black women figuring it out — awkward, brilliant, and real.
Teachers
Tony Robbins
The big energy, the uncomfortable questions, the refusal to let you stay small.
Dave Ramsey
The financial guru. Debt is dumb, cash is king — the money mindset reset I didn’t know I needed.
Listen
For the parenting journey…
Good Inside with Dr. Becky
Practical scripts for the hardest parenting moments — from clinical psychologist Dr. Becky Kennedy.
No Guilt Mom
Parenting without the shame spiral. Practical advice for parents, minus the guilt trip.
Peace and Parenting
How to parent without punishments, yelling, or shame — and actually enjoy your kids.
Authentic Parenting
Trauma-informed parenting: break generational cycles by doing your own healing work first.
Respectful Parenting: Janet Lansbury Unruffled
The classic. Calm, respectful approaches to the chaos of raising small humans.
For becoming her…
The Mel Robbins Podcast
No-nonsense mindset shifts and the push you need to stop waiting and start moving.
Girl Just Heal
A soft place to land — healing at your own pace, feeling your feelings, becoming whole.
Brown Girl Self-Care
Self-care without guilt, from Bre Mitchell — for anyone learning to choose themselves.
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