Curated Reading
Reading List
A shelf for the days between sessions, gathered across the science and the habits that hold the work.
Every Book Here Earned Its Place
Every book here is optional. Each is offered for the woman who wants to keep learning after a session ends, and reading any of it stays her choice.
Each book listed here was selected for the woman who wants to read on her own, organized by how it connects to the coaching work, from understanding this season to the questions that belong with licensed healthcare professionals.
Every title here was chosen because it offers something worth carrying into the work.
The Foundational Territory
Where the Work Begins
Accessible entry points to perimenopause and menopause, sleep, and movement, written for general readers by clinicians and researchers. Each one informs the territory the coaching moves through.
Hormone Health
Period Repair Manual
Sleep Science
Why We Sleep
Perimenopause and Menopause
The New Menopause
Brain and Menopause
The Menopause Brain
Training in Midlife
Next Level
Going Further
Habits, Stress, and the Inner Work
Books that extend the work into adjacent ground: habit formation, the relationship with food, the stress cycle, and the practice of being kind to herself.
Habit Formation
Atomic Habits
Behavior Science
Tiny Habits
Food and the Self
Women Food and God
The Stress Cycle
Burnout
Worthiness and Belonging
The Gifts of Imperfection
Self-Kindness
Self-Compassion
For Personal Exploration
Past the Edges of Coaching
The books in this section explore territory beyond the scope of health coaching. They are listed for personal reading only and are not used as references within any coaching program. If your reading surfaces something that wants professional support, the Care and Support Resources page holds places to begin.
The Body and Experience
The Body Keeps the Score
Stress and Illness
When the Body Says No
Recovery Literature
Codependent No More
Boundaries
Set Boundaries, Find Peace
Next
Reading can deepen understanding. Living it is another thing.
When She Is Ready to Live It
When the time comes to turn what she has been learning into daily life, that conversation begins with a Root Session, a complimentary forty-five-minute health coaching conversation to talk through where she is, what she is looking for, and whether Support The Root is the right fit.
Begin With a Root Session