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Books I Couldn’t Put Down — From Page-Turners to Life-Changing Reads 📚
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items If I’m recommending a book, it left an impression. From Zane and Sister Souljah classics to books about power, human behavior and personal growth, these are the reads that kept me turning pages, made me think, or had me completely invested. Whether y...
If I had to name this chapter of my life, it would probably be my pivot year. I’m changing physically, emotionally, spiritually, professionally—everything. I’m losing weight and falling in love with fitness. I’m letting go of habits that don’t fit me...
The Pivot Year
This one connects with the part of me that’s realizing how many identities a woman can carry. I’m Caleb’s mom. I’m a therapist. I’m a daughter who lost her mother. I’m a sister and caregiver. I’m an entrepreneur. But somewhere underneath all of those...
Untamed: Reese's Book Club
There comes a point when you have to stop looking at your past only through the lens of what hurt you and start recognizing what it took for you to make it through. I’ve experienced loss, spent years in a relationship that made me question my value, ...
Finding Me by Viola Davis
Being a therapist, I spend so much time helping other people understand how their experiences shaped them, but this book reminds me to extend that same curiosity to myself. I can look back at relationships, grief, motherhood, and different versions o...
What Happened to You?: Trauma & Healing
This is one of those books I could never forget. I love how raw and unapologetic the story is—it pulls you completely into Winter’s world while showing how money, power, relationships, and the choices we make can change everything. Winter is the kind...
The Coldest Winter Ever - Souljah, Sister: Books
What stayed with me most about Little Fires Everywhere was the pressure to build a life that looks perfect from the outside. Elena’s need for order, control, and doing everything the “right” way made me think about how easy it is to follow expectatio...
Little Fires Everywhere: A Novel
I love Little Fires Everywhere because it’s one of those shows that really makes you think. It explores motherhood, race, privilege, family dynamics, secrets, and how two people can experience the same situation completely differently. I especially l...
Watch Little Fires Everywhere Streaming Online
I love how this book makes you look at people, power, and relationships differently. It helped me become more observant, recognize people’s intentions, and understand when to speak, when to move quietly, and when to protect my energy. I don’t agree w...
List of Books by Robert Greene
I’m living this one right now. For years, so much of my energy went toward relationships, motherhood, work, responsibilities, and making sure everyone else was okay. This season is different. I’m working out, taking care of my body, building business...
Good Vibes, Good Life: Self-Love Key
I love Addicted because it’s intense, emotional, and messy in a way that keeps you completely invested. It explores desire, relationships, secrets, and the consequences of trying to fill emotional voids in unhealthy ways. Zane does a great job making...
Addicted by Zane
I love Afterburn because it has that mix of passion, drama, and complicated relationships that Zane does so well. The story pulls you in with strong chemistry and emotional tension, but it also explores trust, vulnerability, and what happens when fee...
Afterburn: A Novel - Zane: Books
I love Nervous because it’s much deeper than just romance or intimacy. The story is emotional, unpredictable, and really gets into identity, trauma, relationships, and the parts of ourselves we may try to hide. It kept me curious the entire time, and...
Nervous by Zane
My NIV Women’s Study Bible 🤍📖✨ This has become more than just a Bible for me—it’s part of a season where I’m intentionally working on my relationship with God, my discipline, my healing, and becoming the woman I’m called to be. I love having the NI...
NIV Woman's Study Bible Hardcover Red Letter
After losing my mom, I learned that grief doesn’t follow the timeline people expect it to. You can go back to work, take care of your child, handle responsibilities, laugh, accomplish things—and still have moments where you can’t believe that person ...
The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner
As an overthinker, I can replay something somebody said, analyze why they said it, remember something that happened years ago, and suddenly I’ve created an entire mental documentary 😂. I’ve especially had to work on this while healing from a relatio...
Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Thinking Causes Suffering
I spent a lot of years pouring into other people and putting myself somewhere toward the bottom of the list. Motherhood made that even easier to do because there’s always something or someone who needs you. Now I’m intentionally learning what it mean...
Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies: Rituals to Fix
One thing I’ve learned about healing is that you can genuinely be doing better and still have a hard day. I’ve had moments where I feel incredibly strong and know without a doubt that leaving the past behind is the best thing for me—and then somethin...
After the Rain: Healing, Courage & Self-Love
This one speaks to me because I’ve often been the person who handles things. I’m a mother, I work in a helping profession, and I’ve taken on major family responsibilities. When you’re naturally the person who steps up, it can become very easy for oth...
Drama Free 2 Books Set by Nedra Glover Tawwab
This book made me think differently about the way I’ve shown up in relationships and why certain dynamics can feel so hard to let go of, even when you know they aren’t healthy for you. Learning about anxious, avoidant, and secure attachment helped me...
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment
As a therapist, I understood trauma intellectually long before I understood how much the body can hold onto it. Losing my mom, carrying the emotional weight of a long relationship that wasn’t always healthy for me, becoming a mother, and being the pe...
The Body Keeps the Score: Healing Trauma