“Kim A. Snyder's powerful film exposes coordinated movements to fuel book bans, the criminalization of librarians and just how it affects youths nationwide.”

Excerpt from Bibliotherapy in the Bronx: In the same vein of self-humanizing, artist Cardi B is known for reminding fans that she’d rather not be placed on anyone’s pedestal: “I’m just a regular, degular, shmegular girl from the Bronx.” Cardi has sociologists and scholars archiving her impact💜📚

Feeling so grateful to the National Library of Medicine’s Network of the National Library of Medicine for recommending Bibliotherapy in the Bronx in honor of #HealthLiteracy Month Literature has the power to heal and transform and I’m thrilled that bibliotherapy is part of this conversation!

✨ Last call, friends ✨ Today’s the last day to grab Bibliotherapy in the Bronx for 20% off on Bookshop! Use code LHM25 at checkout! It’s part of their Latine Heritage Month picks, which feels like such beautiful timing. Snag a copy, support your local indie bookstore, and celebrate w/me! #booksky

Preparing for my workshop on Bibliotherapy for caregivers with RiseUp Springfield and stumbled upon some fascinating history about Martha’s Vineyard and its origins in the Deaf Community. Excited to learn more! www.dhhsc.org/wp-content/u...

✨ Half a year in the wild — Bibliotherapy in the Bronx turns 6 months old today! 📚💛 AND the book is 20% off on Bookshop through Sept 30 for Latine Heritage Month — supporting indie bookstores! Here’s to the first six months and all the chapters still to come. #booksky

Join us today at 12:30pm for a FREE Sobremesa to discuss Bibliotherapy in the Bronx and The Pain We Carry | The Pain We Carry Workbook by Natalie Gutierrez hosted by chicana therapists Cyn and Sofia! This conversation is going to be soul nourishing and we’d love you there! RSVP Here: rb.gy/0jk0o8

“Despite my best efforts, I am loved.” I read this line with a client today and we just sat in it. Sometimes books give us the words we don’t know how to say out loud. Cesar’s story teaches us so much about the will to live despite how hard it feel to go on. Sonora captured that truth beautifully.

Bernice McFadden is giving us romance under her real name for the first time 😍✨ Groove + Fever drop Oct 7—NYC summers, steamy love, & a friend group you’ll never forget. Who else is ready? 📚🔥 Thank you Dutton Books and Bernice McFadden for blessing me with gifted copies! Weekend reading is the best

Today I’m holding grief and gratitude in the same breath. We learned that Assata Shakur has died at 78. I first read her autobiography when I was sixteen, and it lit something in me. One stanza from her poetry that has always been medicine for me is this one. Rest in power, Assata. #Assata

statements being made lately about autism are reckless and harmful. Recently, Trump linked Tylenol to autism and he’s dead wrong. I’m sharing this video to keep the conversation rooted where it belongs: in the lived experiences of autistic people and their families, not in fear or misinformation.

Grateful beyond words 💛✨ The Five of Pentacles reminds me: we don’t walk alone. My sis Wale stays showing love—sharing my book with the freshest nails 💅🏾📖. As a mama of two littles, the overwhelm is real, but community keeps me lifted. Thank you for holding me up. 🌿 #FiveOfPentacles #booksky

🎉📚 Happy Book Birthday to Truth Is by Hannah V. Sawyerr ! This YA novel-in-verse follows 17-year-old Truth as she navigates pregnancy, abandonment, and the courage it takes to tell your story out loud. It’s raw, timely, and full of heart. So excited for readers to meet Truth and her journey!

Many thanks to Janel and Latinx Project NYU for the beautiful feature! The Bronx keeps creating it 💜📚 www.latinxproject.nyu.edu/intervenxion...

40% off my Pango Bookshop this week to celebrate the New Moon and make sure we are all stocking our libraries up with physical books - IYKYK! #booksky pangobooks.com/bookstore/em...

Notes on my 40th chapter. 🎉 open.substack.com/pub/literapy...

Happy Book Bday to Without Fear powerfully centering everyday Black women who turned lived oppression into catalysts for global justice movements. Celebrating unsung heroines, Blain shows how their courage continues to guide the fight for freedom today both here in the States and abroad📚✊🏾 #booksky

“As hard as it was for us to be different, I have never in my life wished to be white.” Rereading Uzo Aduba’s memoir ‘The Road is Good’ for inspiration everytime the motherhood journey gets overwhelming. It always delivers 🥹👌🏾

Sept is NICU Awareness Month 💜 The NICU journey is one of love, uncertainty & courage we don’t know we have. Your NICU Story (9/15) offers reflections & prompts to help families process, grieve, & heal. Language can be a bridge to meaning. You are not alone. #NICUAwarenessMonth #YourNICUStory

🦷First tooth alert! My girl just lost her first tooth and we finally got to pull out Tallulah the Tooth Fairy CEO! 💼🧚🏾‍♀️ A stylish, smart, and powerful Black tooth fairy running things her way—exactly the kind of magic I want her to see. I’ve been waiting for today since 2021 when I got the book 😀

As a therapist working via telehealth, stepping outside for even a short walk is grounding. Nature and the Mind beautifully affirms what I’ve felt in my own body and witnessed in my clients—that nature is not just a backdrop but it’s necessary medicine particularly in today’s attention economy.

I’m so excited to be presenting at RiseUp: A Pathway to Resilience on Oct 9, 2025 in Springfield, MA! I’ll be leading a workshop on bibliotherapy + signing copies of my book Bibliotherapy in the Bronx. 📚✨ CEUs are available - see you soon! Grab your tix: helixhumanservices.org/rise-up-a-pa...

With honesty about love, parenting, grief, and the daily practice of cultivating joy, Senghor shows us that freedom begins in the mind and heart. His stories and exercises are accessible tools for anyone ready to step into their worth and create a life filled with abundance, connection, and purpose.

A Thousand Ways to Die by Trymaine Lee is not easy to read but it is most definitely a must read. It reminds us all that the fight against violence is not just about policy. This fight is spiritual warfare about lives, bodies, families, and sustaining the love that keeps us moving forward. #books

Reading EbonyJanice this morning reminded me that there will always be people who think they can “little sis” us as she describes (because word!), gatekeep our dreams, or hold something over our heads. But sovereignty breaks that spell. I needed that reminder this morning 🙌🏾👌🏾 maybe you do, too!

Everyday is National Read a Book Day when you read as a form of care 🥰📚 What ya’ll reading today? Here’s are a couple of reads I’m excited about!

New release 9/9 from RH Pub: Raising Trans Kids by Rebecca Minor, LICSW 🌈 As a therapist, I see the overwhelm faced. What I love most here is the Trans Supportive Parent Self-Assessment the author designed as a compassionate tool that meets caregivers where they are & provides actual education!

The People’s Project anthology has so many of my favorite writers contributing! As a therapist, I know how much we need language + art to help us move through fear, grief & loss. This anthology—curated by Maggie Smith & Saeed Jones—offers hope + strategies for what comes next. Out Sept 9. 🖤📚

What I love most about Connell and Marianne is how their relationship reflects the tension between who we think we are and how others see us. Our bookclub is free and open to all: Join on Fable: fable.co/club/readers... Join on Storygraph: app.thestorygraph.com/book_clubs/1...

CR: The Book of Lost Hours ✨ it follows Lisavet Levy, who as a child is forced into a hidden library of memories after her father’s death at the hands of the Nazis. She grows up among books while learning that preserving stories is an act of survival and resistance. Weekend reading ✅ #booksky

five months today.🥹 it’s labor day weekend & my little one starts kindergarten on Tuesday! Bibliotherapy in the Bronx was born from my therapy room, community rooms, and library stacks. thank you for cheering me on while I support other authors and try to consistently champion my own work, too.

I found a Black therapist! It’s been a year since moving to MA and ya girl has been going through it. Some think the finding the right fit is easier when you’re a therapist yourself but I guarantee you, it’s not. Also, love that she started off building rapport with: “Let’s call a spade, a spade.”

A line that stopped me from “Locker Room Talk with Satan”: “Every part of a woman is the apple—once you take a bite, you’ll learn all there is to know.” Dr. Taylor Byas wields “resting bitch face” in poetry as discernment, boundary, and survival strategy. Rigorous, inventive, and so real 👌🏾😮‍💨

Children of the Book: A Memoir of Reading Together by Ilana Kurshan is such a brilliant exploration of motherhood through the lens of voracious reading. I’ve always been a voracious reader but motherhood shifted the way I read and what I want to read in a major way! That’s what this book explores✨

Wishing all our loved ones a beautiful first day of school today! May the transition be easeful. May the learning be accessible and may the teachers get the salary increases and renewed contracts and union protections they more than deserve! 🥰🙌🏾📚

This weekend’s bookmail has been amazing! Shout out to Broadleaf Books for sending me these stunning forthcoming titles. Each one releases in September : 📚 Bad Indians Book Club: Reading at the Edge of a Thousand Worlds (Sept 1) 🙏 We Pray Freedom (Sept 9) 🌿 Give Me a Word (Sept 16)

In a world where hustle culture, social comparison and the grind are constants that drive the voice of our inner critic, Walrond has given readers a gift. In Defense of Dabbling helps us return to the medicine of living, being, and engaging with life for arts sake and the act of creating alone 🙌🏾📚

I love this book so much, here’s more about why: open.substack.com/pub/literapy...

This debut thriller had me 👀 Al’s world at Prism Capital is all cutthroat deals and ultimatums. Beneath the high-stakes chaos is a son who, at the height of his fortune, thinks first about his mom and paying off her mortgage. That made me root for him even as he spirals through a work nightmare.

Susana M. Morris gives us a deeply contextualized, moving portrait of Butler’s life by interlacing her personal story with the Civil Rights Movement, women’s rights, disability justice, and LGBTQ+ activism. “positive obsession”: the drive to keep writing despite fear, doubt, and systemic barriers.”

Shout out to the Springfield Public Library for carrying Bibliotherapy in the Bronx 🥹🙌🏾 went to pick up my holds this weekend and saw my book baby right with the new releases!

Christine beautifully guides readers through what she calls “worthy work” w/ rituals, reflections and practices that help us embody our inherent worth, decolonize our spirituality, and cultivate joy, rest, and abundance. A reminder to lead with love, care, and the wisdom already alive in the body.

Love letter to (especially debut) authors: Keep talking about & sharing your book. A reader has to see it at least 7x before they remember it. We want to support you. In this attention economy one of the main ways you can attract that support it to unapologetically share your book baby with us.

After years of collaborating, I finally got to meet my dear friend Dr. Loren Cahill—known as Dr. Lo—in person💛 Dr. Lo contributed a stunning reflection to my book Bibliotherapy in the Bronx on using Long Division as an altar practice, and it has become a favorite meditation for so many readers.

Spent 2 hours reading outdoors today while the kids ran around. Instant mood lift! 10/10 recommend ☀️ #booksky

STORYWORK releases on November 4th and is available for preorder. I could not put this one down as a therapist who specializes in narrative approaches. This book teaches reauthoring. It’s a creative, tender, and empowering invitation to become the most reliable narrator in your own story-Chef’s 💋

🗣️ STORIES HEAL: My Speaker Media Kit is ready to download! While most events are fee-based, I hold space each year for a few sliding scale & free events for grassroots orgs and community initiatives. Let’s bring the power of bibliotherapy to your people. literapynyc.podia.com/speaker-medi...

There’s no denying our teens are growing up in a world shaped by political divides and constant grief. Dr. Wu’s The Self-Regulation Handbook for Teens and YA doesn’t shy away from that & offers a compassionate, evidence-based toolkit for Gen Z and Gen Alpha’s reality while holding space for joy.👌🏾

Nic Stone’s Boom Town (out Oct 14) is a sharp, trauma-informed thriller about two missing dancers and the friend determined to find them. As a therapist who’s counseled sex workers, I deeply admire how Stone managed to make this a psychological thriller, a mystery, and women’s fiction at once.