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Primers on pleasure & sex, non-monogamy & polyamory, and kink, including books on disability, race, size, and queer and trans experiences.

Books on/related to mental health topics that I recommend to clients most often. There's a little bit of everything here -- educational books, memoirs, novels, self-help books, and more.

All the books I've ever read and had recommended to me that are by and about LGBTQIA+ folx.

All of the books I've ever read and had recommended to me that are by and about folx with chronic illness.

TL;DR: Chronic illness is an umbrella term that covers chronic disease, or more common chronic illnesses like heart disease, and what I call mysterious illnesses, or less common chronic illnesses that we generally know less about, like hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS). Every person's experience with chronic illness is unique. Therapy may be helpful for people with chronic illness and the people who love them, as it is a major stressor to adjust to. Chronic illness is

TL;DR: Spoon Theory is a tool people use to notice how much energy they have and how much energy certain activities cost them. When someone is out of spoons, they need to rest. Fork Theory is about stressors: each stressor throughout the day is a fork. When you have too many forks, you need to remove them by processing or removing some stressors before doing anything else. Spoon and Fork Theories were created within the chronic illness and neurodivergent communities, respecti