Emely Rumble, LCSW Literapy NYC

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Welcome to LITERAPY: “Where literature and therapy meet to provide the everyday bibliophile with mental health support and diverse, therapeutic reading recommendations."

📚 Biblio | Poetry Therapist | Educator
✍️ Author of Bibliotherapy in The Bronx

Quiet Saturday at home with my kids while I add the finishing touches to my lecture and start building my slides for the...
03/14/2026

Quiet Saturday at home with my kids while I add the finishing touches to my lecture and start building my slides for the 2026 Augusta Baker Lecture.

This morning I spent some time with Storytelling: Art and Technique by Augusta Baker and was struck by how deeply she respected the minds of children. She writes about ending storytime without overdramatics: no forced lesson, no corny flourish, just letting the moment end and allowing children to go home and sit with the story.

Her belief was simple and profound: trust children to think and feel for themselves. Be available if they want to talk afterward but respect the way their minds process stories.

As a school social worker and bibliotherapist, that idea speaks deeply to me.

I’m so honored to celebrate Augusta Baker’s legacy in this way and grateful to Dr. Nicole A. Cooke, Team Baker, and Richland Library for the invitation.

📚 2026 Augusta Baker Lecture
🗓 Friday, April 17
⏰ 6:30–9 PM
📍 Richland Library

The event is open to the public and I can’t wait to see everyone there. Also very excited and emotional that my children and family will be in the audience for the first time since launching Bibliotherapy in the Bronx. Timing is everything and I am grateful 🥹🙏🏾

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Lately I’ve been reading books that remind me why I believe so deeply in bibliotherapy: healing starts with a story.Thes...
03/13/2026

Lately I’ve been reading books that remind me why I believe so deeply in bibliotherapy: healing starts with a story.

These upcoming releases explore legacy, connection, and caring for ourselves in uncertain times: the kinds of stories that help us make meaning of our lives.

✨ Today is the last day to order “Healing Starts With a Story” merch if you want it to arrive during Women’s History Month.

Thank you to everyone who has supported this message and worn it out into the world.

🔗 Link in bio (under profile pic) to order.

Keep tagging me using ya’ll look damn GWOOD!🥰🤗

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Thank you for sending over the Self-Care for Autistic People Card Deck by Dr. Megan Anna Neff 🧩♾️ If you’ve been follo...
03/13/2026

Thank you for sending over the Self-Care for Autistic People Card Deck by Dr. Megan Anna Neff 🧩♾️

If you’ve been following my page, you know how much I appreciated Dr. Neff’s book Self-Care for Autistic People so I was really excited to see these practices brought to life in a card deck. I especially love the sensory part of the deck.

As a therapist who integrates bibliotherapy into my work, I love resources that make mental health support more accessible and flexible. These cards offer simple, practical prompts you can return to whenever you need a moment to regulate, reset, or reconnect with yourself. Sometimes the smallest practices can make the biggest difference.

As the mother of an autistic Black son and a clinician who works with many neurodivergent clients and families, I’m always looking for tools that honor different sensory needs, communication styles, and ways of moving through the world. I appreciate how approachable this deck is. No pressure, no complicated steps, just supportive ideas you can explore at your own pace.

I’m excited to keep this deck nearby in my office and share some of these practices with the clients and families I have the privilege to work with.

If you’re curious about Dr. Neff’s work, definitely check out for more neurodiversity-affirming resources.

And thank you again to for the thoughtful gift 💙

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There’s something special about finally holding a book in your hands after first reading it digitally.My physical copy o...
03/13/2026

There’s something special about finally holding a book in your hands after first reading it digitally.

My physical copy of The Cost of Healing in Silence: Navigating Racial Trauma and the Call for Culturally Responsive Care by Ashley McGirt-Adair just arrived and I’m feeling so grateful to have this important work on my shelf.

I had the privilege of reading an early e-book ARC, and even then I knew this was a text I would return to again and again in my work as a therapist and bibliotherapist. Ashley writes with such care while sharing her personal story with powerful clinical insight. She names what so many of us in the field know to be true: that racial trauma is real, lived, and ongoing, and that healing requires culturally responsive care that refuses silence.

As someone who works with stories as tools for healing, I’m especially grateful for how this book honors the Black scholars and communities who have helped us understand racial trauma while also offering tangible tools for clinicians and helpers doing this work.

Congratulations, Ashley. This book is going to support so many people, clients, clinicians, and communities alike. I’m proud to have it in my library.

📚 Releases March 31: add this one to your list!







If you’d like, I can also give you  3 short text options for the reel/photo overlay (the kind that performs well on Instagram when you show the book in your hands). 📚

Casualties of truth Reading Casualties of Truth had me reflecting on the complicated ways memory works: how certain peop...
03/12/2026

Casualties of truth

Reading Casualties of Truth had me reflecting on the complicated ways memory works: how certain people carry entire chapters of our lives with them whether we want them to or not.

Sharma explores the uncomfortable reality that harm doesn’t always move in a clean, predictable direction. Someone can be deeply wounded by history and still turn around and exploit another person’s vulnerability. That tension made parts of this story difficult to read because the person causing harm is also someone shaped by deep suffering. The book refuses the easy narrative of heroes and villains and instead shows how pain, power, and survival twist together in ways that leave everyone implicated.

This quote is so real: “There were people from one’s past who were present at the worst time in one’s life… casualties of memory, casualties of too-hard truths.”

That idea feels so psychologically true. Some people become permanently attached to a season of our lives we worked hard to survive. Seeing them again means reopening a door we thought was closed. Casualties of Truth reminds us that the past isn’t just something we remember but it’s something that can return at a moment’s notice and us to face what we thought we had already buried.

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If you’re someone who loves Frida Kahlo, Frida’s Cook is such a satisfying read. It’s a historical fiction that blends i...
03/11/2026

If you’re someone who loves Frida Kahlo, Frida’s Cook is such a satisfying read. It’s a historical fiction that blends in art, food, family memory, and women’s stories in a way that feels rich and alive.

The story moves between 1930s Mexico City and the present day, bringing us into the passionate, chaotic world of Frida and Diego Rivera inside their famous home, Casa Azul.

But the real heart of the novel is Nayeli, the cook. Her wit, growth, and quiet strength carry the story. Through her, we see the intimacy of Frida’s world while also following her granddaughter years later as she discovers a hidden painting and long-buried family secrets revealing the layers of Frida’s relationship to her grandmother.

From a bibliotherapy lens, this book reminded me how stories move through generations the same way recipes do. They carry memory, grief, love, and hidden meaning. The kitchen becomes a sort of archive. The body remembers things history tries to erase. And the women feeding everyone else are often the ones holding the deepest stories.

If you enjoy novels about art, family legacy, and the quiet power of women whose stories almost disappear from history, this one you’d enjoy reading.

A gentle reminder that healing, like cooking, often begins with what we have and how we choose to make magic with it.





Happy book birthday 🎉 Jamilah Lemieux is giving us the truth and nothing but the truth.In Black. Single. Mother., she wr...
03/10/2026

Happy book birthday 🎉 Jamilah Lemieux is giving us the truth and nothing but the truth.

In Black. Single. Mother., she writes with sharp honesty and compassion about how our cultural ideas of “good mothering” are too often tied to the presence or absence of a man.

Reading this book felt both grounding and validating of experiences that women often navigate in silence.

There’s no romanticizing motherhood here. Lemieux writes about the emotional upheaval of becoming a mom after heartbreak and the weight of doing so while internalizing and healing from the stereotypes placed on Black women. And yet, within that truth, she reveals something powerful: motherhood can also be an invitation to become more whole, more well, and more free. I respect 🫡 the coparenting conversation this book invites so much as well!

The closing testimonies from single mothers especially meant a lot to me as a reader. Each one reads like a declaration of worth, personal strength, and love for the unique journey.

This book honors Black women not as symbols or stereotypes but as full human beings. I’m deeply grateful for the way Lemieux reminds us who we are and who we’ve always been to our families and our communities.

On this International Women’s Day I want to reintroduce myself. Thank you for being a part of this community 💜Hi, I’m Em...
03/08/2026

On this International Women’s Day I want to reintroduce myself. Thank you for being a part of this community 💜

Hi, I’m Emely Rumble, a bibliotherapist, social worker, and lifelong reader who believes healing starts with a story. 📚

I created this space because I’ve spent over a decade sitting with people in therapy rooms, classrooms, and libraries watching what happens when someone encounters the right book at the right time.

Sometimes a story gives us language for grief. Sometimes it helps us understand our families. Sometimes it reminds us that we are not alone.

I’m also the author of Bibliotherapy in the Bronx, where I share how literature can become a tool for healing, reflection, and connection in our everyday lives.

Around here you’ll find:
• book recommendations for the heart and mind
• reflections on stories that help us grow
• my free book club Readers Who Run With the Wolves
• resources for therapists, teachers, and librarians who use books to support others

Whether you’re here because you love books, believe in the healing power of stories, or want to explore bibliotherapy in your own life or work, I’m glad you found my little corner of the internet.

Tell me in the comments: what’s a book written by a woman that has stayed with you? 📖

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03/07/2026

There is nothing like opening a box of books. 📚

Today’s bookmail came from Beverly on and the care she put into packaging this order honestly made the whole experience feel special.

Every book was hand-wrapped in cardboard for protection and placed in a beautiful box with my name on it.

Thoughtful touches like that remind me why I love buying books from other readers.

And the best part? I paid $20 for four hardcovers and one paperback.

If you’re trying to build your home library without spending a fortune, Pango is one of my favorite places to shop. It’s a community of readers selling books directly to other readers so you can find incredible deals while also supporting fellow book lovers.

I also have my own Pango bookstore, where I list books from my overflowing shelves and new/lightly used copies that deserve a new home.

📚 If you’re looking for your next read, you can browse my shop at the link in my bio.

Because the truth is… books deserve to keep traveling. And the right story always finds the right reader.

Two of the most stylish people I know: my husband and his momma🖤📚My husband is an educator, raised by a storyteller. And...
03/06/2026

Two of the most stylish people I know: my husband and his momma🖤📚

My husband is an educator, raised by a storyteller. And if you ask me, mothers are the original keepers of stories. They hold the family lore, the lessons, the warnings, the laughter, and the quiet wisdom that gets passed down in moments big and small.

Seeing them both wearing Healing Starts With a Story merch reminds me that storytelling moves through generations. It shapes how we understand ourselves, how we care for one another, and how we make meaning of the lives we’re living.

Today I’m also sharing a stack of books celebrating all the ways we mother and have been mothered through love, through guidance, through the stories that help us find our way back to ourselves.

If you’d like to wear the reminder that stories heal, the Healing Starts With a Story merch campaign is still open.

✨ Link in bio to purchase.

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