Radical Mental Health

Birdgirl

Looking to the Skies in Search of a Better Future

By: Mya-Rose Craig
Narrated by: Mya-Rose Craig
Length: 9 hours 30 minutes

"Craig narrates, imbuing her book with genuine pathos."- The New York Times

"Mya-Rose Craig's narration of her debut memoir is full of youthful exuberance, wisdom, and wit."- AudioFile

“Craig narrates her own work, transmitting her enthusiasm and knowledge in her engaging British-Bangladeshi accent.”- Library Journal

Birder, environmentalist and... Read more

Fighting for Recovery

An Activists' History of Mental Health Reform

By: Phyllis Vine
Narrated by: Sara Sheckells
Length: 15 hours 7 minutes

An essential history of the recovery movement for people with mental illness, and an inspiring account of how former patients and advocates challenged a flawed system and encouraged mental health activism

This definitive people’s history of the recovery movement spans the 1970s to the present day and proves to readers just how essential mental... Read more

Who Is Wellness For?

An Examination of Wellness Culture and Who It Leaves Behind

By: Fariha Roisin
Narrated by: Fariha Roisin
Length: 10 hours 24 minutes

The multi-disciplinary artist and author of Like a Bird and How to Cure a Ghost explores the commodification and appropriation of wellness through the lens of social justice, providing resources to help anyone participate in self-care, regardless of race, identity, socioeconomic status or able-bodiedness.Growing up in Australia, Fariha Róisín, a... Read more

Truth and Repair

How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice

By: Judith Lewis Herman
Narrated by: Stacey Glemboski
Length: 7 hours 7 minutes

From one of America’s most influential psychiatrists, a powerful manifesto for reimagining justice, based on the testimony of trauma survivors
 
The #MeToo movement brought worldwide attention to sexual violence, but while the media focused on the fates of a few notorious predators who were put on trial, we heard far less about the outcomes of... Read more

You Are Your Best Thing

Vulnerability, Shame Resilience, and the Black Experience

By: Tarana Burke & Brené Brown
Narrated by: Tarana Burke, Brené Brown, the Contributors, Mirron Willis, Bahni Turpin, JD Jackson & L Morgan Lee
Length: 6 hours 36 minutes

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Tarana Burke and Dr. Brené Brown bring together a dynamic group of Black writers, organizers, artists, academics, and cultural figures to discuss the topics the two have dedicated their lives to understanding and teaching: vulnerability and shame resilience.

Contributions by Kiese Laymon, Imani Perry, Laverne Cox,... Read more

(Mis)Diagnosed

How Bias Distorts Our Perception of Mental Health

By: Jonathan Foiles
Narrated by: Noah Michael Levine
Length: 3 hours 19 minutes

Why are women more likely to be labeled borderline personalities? Is transphobia being treated as was homosexuality in the past? Has "protest psychosis," a term used to diagnose Black men during the civil rights era, simply been renamed schizoaffective disorder? How different is our current label of "intellectual disability" from the history of... Read more

Healing Justice Lineages

Dreaming at the Crossroads of Liberation, Collective Care, and Safety

By: Cara Page & Erica Woodland
Narrated by: Sanya Simmons
Length: 9 hours 47 minutes

A profound offering and call to action—collective stories, testimonials, and incantations for renewing political and spiritual liberation grounded in Black, Indigenous, People of Color, and Queer and Trans healing justice lineages

We reclaim the power, resilience, and innovation of our ancestors through this book. To embody their wisdom across... Read more

The Pain We Carry

Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color

By: Natalie Y. Gutiérrez, LMFT
Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
Length: 7 hours 30 minutes

If you are a person of color who has experienced repeated trauma—such as discrimination, race-related verbal assault, racial stigmatization, poverty, sexual trauma, or interpersonal violence—you may struggle with intense feelings of anger, mistrust, or shame. You may feel unsafe or uncomfortable in your own body, or struggle with building and... Read more

Wintering

The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

By: Katherine May
Narrated by: Rebecca Lee
Length: 6 hours 53 minutes

“Listening to Wintering during these COVID-19 times was a balm to this reader's soul. A beautiful meditation on the benefit of rest and healing during the inevitable and necessary barren times of our lives. I loved how Katherine May wove literature, mythology, and science together with personal memoir. This is one that I know I will return to again. Read more

The Myth of Normal

Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté, MD & Daniel Maté
Narrated by: Daniel Maté
Length: 18 hours 12 minutes

“A must read for fans of The Body Keeps the Scoreand anyone interested in the science and literature of trauma (should be us all!), The Myth of Normal is a moving, groundbreaking, and holistic exploration of just how sick 'normal' is, the connection between the mind, personality, experiences, culture and the body, and ways to move forward and... Read more

How to Do Nothing

Resisting the Attention Economy

By: Jenny Odell
Narrated by: Rebecca Gibel
Length: 8 hours 10 minutes

“This book is not a social media detox - it's way weirder than that! Through examples of cool ass performance art, bioregionalism, radical utopian and labor history, and more, artist Jenny Odell busts up the narrow confines of what we value as worth our attention when our attention is for sale and blazes a way back toward repossessing one of our... Read more

Recovery Allies

How to Support Addiction Recovery and Build Recovery-Friendly Communities

By: Alison Jones Webb, MA, MPH
Narrated by: Dana Green
Length: 9 hours 7 minutes

For readers of The Least of Us and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts--a practical, hopeful, and research-based guide for supporting loved ones through addiction and recovery.

    This isn’t a book about addiction--it’s a book about recovery. Written for every loved one, community member, and recovery professional who wants to know “how do I help?,”... Read more

My Grandmother's Hands

Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

By: Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW & SEP
Narrated by: Cary Hite
Length: 10 hours 18 minutes

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER

"My Grandmother's Hands will change the direction of the movement for racial justice."— Robin DiAngelo, New York Times bestselling author of White Fragility

In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.

The body... Read more

The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition

The Power of Radical Self-Love

By: Sonya Renee Taylor
Narrated by: Sonya Renee Taylor
Length: 5 hours 11 minutes

New York Times bestseller! "To build a world that works for everyone, we must first make the radical decision to love every facet of ourselves. . . . 'The body is not an apology' is the mantra we should all embrace."
—Kimberlé Crenshaw, legal scholar and founder and Executive Director, African American Policy Forum

Humans are a varied and... Read more