Books and Inspirations

  • The Abstract Wild (1996) by Jack Turner
  • The Spell of the Sensuous (1996) by David Abram
  • Elephantoms (2002) by Lyall Watson
  • The Earth Has a Soul: C.G.Jung’s Writings on Nature, Technology and Modern Life (2002) by C. G. Jung (Author), Meredith Sabini (Editor)
  • Animal-Speak: The Spiritual & Magical Powers of Creatures Great & Small (2002) by Ted Andrews
  • Animate Earth: Science, Intuition and Gaia (2006) by Stephan Harding
  • The Four Directions (2008) by Daan van Kampenhout
  • Becoming Animal (2011) by David Abram
  • Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants (2014) by Robin Wall Kimmerer
  • H is for Hawk (2015) by Helen McDonald
  • The Hidden Life of Trees (2016) by Peter Wohlleben
  • Rewild Yourself: 23 Spellbinding Ways to Make Nature More Visible (2018) by Simon Barnes
  • The Wisdom of Wolves: How Wolves Can Teach Us To Be More Human (2019) by Elli H. Radinger
  • Walking with Trees (2019) by Glennie Kindred
  • World as Lover, World as Self (2021) by Joanna Macy
  • Mirrors in the Earth: Reflections on Self-Healing from the Living World (2022) by Asia Super

In Italiano

  • Camminare (2009) di Henry David Thoreau, traduzione Maria Antonietta Prina
  • Verde brillante: Sensibilità e intelligenza del mondo vegetale (2015) di Stefano Mancuso & Alessandra Viola
  • Clorofillati (2019) di Marcella Danon
  • Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind (1995) by Allen D Kanner
  • Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind (2009) by Linda Buzzell & Craig Chalquist
  • Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-deficit Disorder (2010) by Richard Louv
  • Hermes, Ecopsychology and Complexity Theory (2012) by Dennis, L. Merritt
  • Nature in Mind: Systemic Thinking and Imagination in Ecopsychology and Mental Health (2018) by Roger Duncan
  • Wild Therapy (second ed.): Rewilding our inner and outer worlds (2021) by Nick Totton
  • The Shaman’s doorway (1998) by Stephen Larsen
  • Eastern Body, Western Mind (2004) by Anodea Judith
  • Happiness: Essential Mindfulness Practices (2005) by Thich Nhat Hanh
  • The Art of Living (2017) Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Shamanism Made Easy: Awaken and Develop the Shamanic Force Within (2018) by Christa Mackinnon
  • Walking with the Tiger: Shamanism (2022) by Nicholas Breeze Wood
  • Astrology, Psychology and the Four Elements (1975) by S. Arroyo
  • The Astrology of Fate (1984) by L. Greene
  • Saturn: A New Look at an Old Devil (1988) by L. Green
  • The Luminaries (1992) by L. Greene & H. Sasportas
  • The Inner Planets (1993) by L. Greene & H. Sasportas
  • Pluto: The Evolutionary Journey of the Soul (1996) by J. Green
  • Asteroid Goddesses: The Mythology, Psychology and Astrology of the Re-emerging Feminine (2003) by D. George & D. Bloch
  • Cosmos and Psyche (2006) by R. Tarnas
  • The Gods of Change (2007) by H. Sasportas
  • Chiron and the Healing Journey (2021) by M. Reinhart 
  • Saturn: Time, Heritage and Substance (2021) by M. Reinhart 
  • Why the World Doesn’t End: Tales of Renewal in Times of Loss (2012) by M. Meade 
  • Astrology: Using the Wisdom of the Stars in your Everyday Life (2018) by C. Taylor
  • The Mare and the Mouse: Stories of My Horses (2021) by M. Prechtel

Podcasts

  • Living Myth – a podcast by Michael Meade
    Exploring mythic stories to find insight and wise ways to understand current dilemmas of the world. To unlock solutions through imagination and transformative narratives.
  • The Sacred Prostitute: Eternal Aspect of the Feminine (1988) by Nancy Qualls-Corbett
  • Women And Desire: Beyond Wanting to be Wanted (2001) by Polly Young-Eisendrath
  • Women Who Run With The Wolves (2008) by Clarissa Pinkola Estes
  • Red Moon: Understanding and Using the Creative, Sexual and Spiritual Gifts of the Menstrual Cycle (2009) by Miranda Eve Gray
  • Vagina: A New Biography (2013) by Naomi Wolf
  • The Wounded Woman: Healing the Father-Daugther Relationship (2014) by Linda Schierse Leonard
  • Goddesses in Everywoman: Powerful Archetypes in Women’s Lives (2014) by Jean Shinoda Bolen
  • Woman and Nature: The Roaring Inside Her (2016) by Susan Griffin
  • If Women Rose Rooted (2020) by Sharon Blackie
  • The Wisdom of Menopause (4th Edition): Creating Physical and Emotional Health During the Change (2021) by Christiane Northrup M.D.
  • Hagitude: Reimagining the Second Half of Life (2022) by Sharon Blackie

In Italiano

  • La donna ferita. Modelli e Archetipi del Rapporto Padre-Figlia (1985) di Linda S. Leonard
  • La rinascita di Afrodite (1997) di Ginette Paris, traduzione Patrizia Lorenzi
  • Luna Rossa: capire e usare i doni del ciclo mestruale di Miranda Gray

Postcasts

  • The Menstruality Podcast – a podcast by Red School, hosted by Sophie Jane Hardy
    Discussing how menstrual cycle’s awareness and conscious menopause can enhance health, creativity and leadership.
  • Middling Along – a podcast by Emma Thomas
    On midlife changes, considering the body and the mind. Covering women’s creativity, the perimenopause, the menopause and ageing well
  • Absent Fathers, Lost Sons: The Search for Masculine Identity (1991) by Guy Corneau
  • King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine (1992) by Robert Moore & Douglas Gillette
  • Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man (1992) by Sam Keen
  • Men and the Water of Life: Initiation and the Tempering of Men (1993) by Michael Meade
  • Man Enough: Fathers, Sons and the Search for Masculinity (1993) by Frank Pittman
  • The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love (2004) by Bell Hooks
  • Gods in Everyman: Archetypes That Shape Men’s Lives (2014) by M.D. Bolen & Jean Shinoda
  • The Descent of Man (2017) by Grayson Perry
  • Warrior, Magician, Lover, King: A Guide To The Male Archetypes Updated For The 21st Century: A Guide to Men’s Archetypes, Emotions, and the Development of the Mature Masculine in the World Today (2018) by Rod Boothroyd
  • He: Understanding Masculine Psychology (2020) by Robert A. Johnson
  • You Are Not the Man You Are Supposed to Be: Into the Chaos of Modern Masculinity (2021) by Martin Robinson
  • On the Way to the Wedding (1986) by Linda Schierse Leonard
  • We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love (2009) by Robert A. Johnson
  • Divine Madness: Archetypes of Romantic Love (2010) by John R. Haule
  • The Power of Divine Eros (2013) by A. H. Almaas & K. Johnson
  • The Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work (2018) by John Gottman
  • Love Phobia: How to Overcome your Fear of Commitment and Abandonment (2021) by Hannah Cuppen

En Français

  • Je me laisse aimer (2022) by Daan van Kampenhout, trad. Céline Baron
  • Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body (1996) by Riane Eisler
  • Mating in Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence (2007) by Esther Perel
  • Pornland: How Porn Has Hijacked Our Sexuality (2011) by Gail Dines
  • Sexuality: Existential Perspectives (2014) edited by Martin Milton
  • Toxic Parents: Overcoming Their Hurtful Legacy and Reclaiming Your Life (2002) by Susan Forward
  • The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child (2003) by Nancy Verrier
  • The Birth Of A Mother: How The Motherhood Experience Changes You Forever (1998) by Alison Freeland, Daniel Stern, Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern
  • Birth without Violence (2011) by Frederick Leboyer
  • Third Culture Kids: Growing Up Among Worlds (2017) by David C. Pollock & Ruth E. Van Reken
  • Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood (2017) by Lisa Damour
  • Hold on to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers (2019) by Gabor Maté & Gordon Neufeld
  • Get Out of My Life: The bestselling guide to the twenty-first-century teenager (2020) by Suzanne Franks e Tony Wolf

En Français

  • Mères-filles: Une relation à trois (2003) by Caroline Eliacheff & Nathalie Heinich

In Italiano

  • Il Gesto di Ettore: Preistoria, Storia, Attualità e Scomparsa del Padre (2000) di Luigi Zoja
  • Nascita di una madre: come l’esperienza della maternità cambia una donna (2021) di Daniel N. Stern, Nadia Bruschweiler-Stern & Alison Freeland
  • The Middle Passage: From Misery to Meaning in Midlife (1993) by James Hollis
  • The Soul’s Code (1997) by James Hillman
  • The Disobedience of the Daughter of the Sun. A Mayan Tale of Ecstasy, Time and Finding One’s True Form (2001) by Martin Prechtel
  • Once Upon a Midlife (2003) by Allan B. Chinen
  • Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche (2009) by Robert A. Johnson
  • Fate and Destiny: the Two Agreements of the Soul (2012) by Michael Maede
  • Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home (2017) by Toko-pa Turner
  • Hidden Blessings: Midlife Crisis As a Spiritual Awakening (2017) by Jett Psaris
  • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma. The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences (1997) by Peter A. Levine
  • The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma (2015) by Bessel van der Kolk
  • The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture (2022) by Gabor Maté MD & Daniel Maté
  • Presence of the Past: Morphic Resonance and the Habits of Nature (2011) by Rupert Sheldrake
  • Family and Other Constellations Revealed (2015) by Indra Torsten Preiss
  • It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle (2017) by Mark Wolynn
  • Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing (2017) by D. Foor, Daniel
  • The Nature Constellations Handbook: An Invitation to Connection. Remembering Nature in Systems (2022) by Francesca Mason Boring

In Italiano

  • Immagini dell’anima. Le dinamiche dell’anima nei rituali sciamanici e nelle costellazioni familiari (2001) by Daan van Kampenhout, trad. di Elena Ganelli
  • Ordini dell’amore. Un manuale per la riuscita delle relazioni (2019) by Bert Hellinger, trad. di Silvia Miclavez
  • On Children and Death: How Children and Their Parents Can and Do Cope With Death (1997) by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
  • The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death (1998) by Jean-Dominique Bauby
  • Ambiguous Loss: Learning to Live With Unresolved Grief (2000) by Pauline Boss
  • Staring At The Sun: Being at Peace with your own Mortality (2011) by Irvin Yalom
  • On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss (2014) by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross & David Kessler
  • The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief (2015) by Francis Weller
  • Winter Memories: Grief Journal. Grief Work Series (2016) by JC Grace
  • Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief (2017) by Joanne Cacciatore
  • Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times (2020) by Katherine May

In Italiano

  • Impara a vivere, impara a morire. Riflessioni sul senso della vita e sull’importanza della morte (2022) di Elisabeth Kübler-Ross e Daniela Ferrari

To support children:

Age: 4 to 8 years old

  • The Fall of Freddie the Leaf (1982) by L. Buscaglia
  • Badger’s Parting Gifts (2013) by S. Varley
  • The Memory Tree (2014) by B, Teckentrup
  • Why Do Things Die? (2020) by K. Daynes & C. Pym
  • The Day the Sky Went Away  (2022) by Dr E. Paton and S. R. Olivier

Age: 8 to 11 years old

  • When Someone Very Special Dies: Children Can Learn to Cope with Grief  (1996) by M. Heegaard 
  • A Monster Calls (2005) by P. Ness
  • You will be OK: Find Strength, Stay Hopeful and Get to Grips With Grief (2021) by J. Stokes
  • The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology (1960) by James Hillman
  • If You Meet the Buddha on the Road, Kill Him: The Pilgrimage Of Psychotherapy Patients (1982) by Sheldon Kopp
  • Shamanism and Spirituality in Therapeutic Practice: An Introduction (2012) by Christa Mackinnon
  • Love’s Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy (2012) by Irving Yalom
  • Celebrating the Wounded Healer Psychotherapist: Pain, Post-Traumatic Growth and Self-Disclosure (2016) by Sharon Farber
  • Transformation in Troubled Times (2018). Compiled and edited by Chris Robertson & Sarah Van Gogh
  • How to Be a Bad Therapist (2021) by Nick Totton and Allison Priestman
  • Turtle Island (1969) by Gary Snyder
  • The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart. Poems for men (1992) by Robert Bly, James Hillman and Michael Meade (editors)
  • New and Selected Poems (1992) by Mary Oliver
  • The Soul is Here for its Own Joy: Sacred Poems from Many Cultures (1995) edited by Robert Bly
  • The Subject Tonight is Love. 60 Wild and Sweet Poems of Hafiz (1996). Translated by Daniel Ladinsky
  • Rilke’s Book of Hours: Love Poems to God (1996). Translated by Anita Barrows and Joanna Macy
  • Anam Cara (1997) by John O’Donohue
  • Sea Change (2008) by Joris Graham
  • The Poetry Pharmacy: Tried-and-True Prescriptions for the Heart, Mind and Soul (2017) by William Sieghart
  • A Nature Poem for Every Day of the Year (2018) by Jane McMorland Hunter
  • Beast of Joy. Selected Poems (Italian original version on the side) (2018) by Mariangela Gualtieri, translated by Anthony Molino & Cristina Viti
  • A History of Kindness (2020) by Linda Hogan

In Italiano

  • Fiore di poesia (1998) di Alda Merini
  • Il Profeta (2005) di Kahlil Gibran (English version on the side)

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