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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

Day 3: The legacy 📚🗽 One year of Bibliotherapy in the Bronx.This book is no longer mine.What I carried through classroom...
04/29/2026

Day 3: The legacy 📚🗽

One year of Bibliotherapy in the Bronx.

This book is no longer mine.

What I carried through classrooms, counseling sessions, and late nights now lives in reader’s hands, in therapy rooms, libraries, book clubs, and nourishing moments of self-care where a page meets you right on time.

This past year, I’ve watched this work travel. Readers finding themselves in the text. Clinicians and educators bringing stories into their practice. Communities gathering to make meaning together.

That’s the legacy.

Not just that I wrote a book but that it’s being used, shared, and lived within.

This has always been bigger than me. And I’m still in awe of what stories can do when we let them.

Thank you for reading with me. For trusting me. For carrying this work forward.

Congratulations for winning the healing book stack giveaway!

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Day 2 of counting down to one year of Bibliotherapy in the Bronx! The practice 📚Bibliotherapy isn’t just reading a book....
04/28/2026

Day 2 of counting down to one year of Bibliotherapy in the Bronx!

The practice 📚

Bibliotherapy isn’t just reading a book. It’s the alchemy of what happens when a story meets you exactly where you are.

In my work as a therapist specializing in biblio | poetry therapy, books become bridges.

A poem helps someone name a feeling they’ve been carrying in their body.

A character offers language for something that’s felt too big or too shameful to say out loud.

A single line can shift how someone understands their past or imagines their future.

This is the practice:
reading with intention
pausing where it hurts
returning to what speaks and then
letting the story speak back

In therapy rooms, classrooms, and quiet moments alone, I’ve seen how literature can hold complexity without rushing to resolve it.

Especially for those of us navigating identity, grief, displacement, or becoming. These stories remind us we are not alone and we are not without language.

That’s the work I wrote Bibliotherapy in the Bronx from. And it’s the work I’m still doing every day and will continue to master for the rest of my days.

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Happy Book Birthday to Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About by Isabel Klee 🐾This is the kind of memoir that rem...
04/28/2026

Happy Book Birthday to Dogs, Boys, and Other Things I’ve Cried About by Isabel Klee 🐾

This is the kind of memoir that reminds us how our twenties can be a mix of chasing dreams, loving the wrong people, finding your footing, and holding onto the things that keep you grounded.

Isabel’s journey as a Jersey girl who moves to NYC to build a life around rescuing and rehabilitating dogs is chaotic and makes for a charming read. The friendships, the heartbreak, the figuring-it-out-in-real-time… it’s real. And at the center of it all is her dog baby Simon providing her with the kind of love that steadies you when everything else feels uncertain.

This one is for the dog lovers, those who want to reminisce on your 20s and those currently trying to build a life that feels like yours!

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Countdown to one year since Bibliotherapy has released 🙌🏾🥹Before this was a book, it was a question I kept returning to…...
04/27/2026

Countdown to one year since Bibliotherapy has released 🙌🏾🥹

Before this was a book, it was a question I kept returning to…

What happens when someone finally sees themselves in a story?

I kept witnessing something in my therapy room and school counseling office: students, clients, even myself changing, softening, opening, finding language for things that once felt impossible to name.

A poem would land and suddenly there were tears. A novel would mirror a life and suddenly there was clarity, permission, breath.

I wrote this book because I couldn’t ignore that kind of impact. Especially in a hood where we are praised for being strong as a performance of wellness.

Because in the Bronx, in classrooms and counseling spaces, I saw how stories could reach places that traditional interventions sometimes couldn’t. I saw how literature could hold complexity, grief, identity, rage, joy all at once, without rushing to fix it.

This book began as a quiet knowing I developed in my work as I matured as a therapist:

that reading is not passive
stories are not neutral
& healing can begin with a single page that hits an emotional chord when we need it most

One year later, I’m still returning to that question.

And I’m still in awe of the answers.

Big thank you to .audio for the ALC 🎧We Burned So Bright by T.J. Klune (out April 28) was a gorgeous read that broke m...
04/26/2026

Big thank you to .audio for the ALC 🎧

We Burned So Bright by T.J. Klune (out April 28) was a gorgeous read that broke my heart.

This is an end-of-the-world story but not in the way you might expect.

A rogue black hole is coming for Earth and instead of chaos, we follow Don and Rodney. They are an elder gay couple whose love is real, steady, and lived-in.

They’re not rushing toward the end, if anything, they’re moving with purpose. Tending to what still matters. Finishing what needs to be finished.

Along the way, we meet different people, different ways of coping with some folks giving up, others holding tight to life. And through Don and Rodney’s journey, especially with threads of foster care and child welfare woven in, you really see how their past shapes how they face what’s coming.

What got me is how this book makes you pause and think: what would actually matter to me if time was running out? Who would I be? What would I hold onto?

It’s tender, reflective, and emotionally powerful. One of those reads that lingers long after you finish. I loved this story and enjoy seeing elder q***r love represented on the page.

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Countdown to one year of Bibliotherapy in the Bronx on April 29th ya’ll! Thank you for journeying with me🫶🏽🎉To celebrate...
04/26/2026

Countdown to one year of Bibliotherapy in the Bronx on April 29th ya’ll! Thank you for journeying with me🫶🏽🎉

To celebrate this book anniversary I’m giving away a stack of healing literature including books that have held me, shaped my practice, and reminded me what’s possible when we turn to story.

This feels like the most honest way I know how to celebrate: by putting more therapeutic books into your hands.

✨ HOW TO ENTER:

✅ Follow me

✅ Like this post

✅ Comment: a book that has healed you (or one you’re longing to read)

BONUS: Tag 1–2 people who would love this kind of reading community

DOUBLE BONUS: Share this post to your stories + tag me

Giveaway closes April 28 at 11:59 PM
Winner announced April 29th and you must be willing to share your mailing address. USA only.

Thank you for reading with me, growing with me, and believing in the power of stories to help us make sense of our lives.

Lately I’ve been in some really meaningful conversations about bibliotherapy, healing, and the stories that shape us 📚 🎧...
04/25/2026

Lately I’ve been in some really meaningful conversations about bibliotherapy, healing, and the stories that shape us 📚 🎧

Grateful to be in dialogue with:

Raymond Williams on the New Books Network

Kalyn Wilson on Black Girl Seen

Shirl on Shades of Strong

Each one holds something different and equally special including practice, memory, and my own personal healing journey.

If you’ve been wanting to go deeper into this work or just need something thoughtful to listen to, these are beautiful places to start.

Let me know if you tune in 💜

Just finished To Be a Problem: A Black Woman’s Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement by Dara Baldwin and I l...
04/25/2026

Just finished To Be a Problem: A Black Woman’s Survival in the Racist Disability Rights Movement by Dara Baldwin and I learned so much.

This book really pulls back the curtain on what it means to work in disability rights on the policy side while naming the racism, classism, and ableism that show up in those spaces. Baldwin’s concept of being “multi-marginalized” gives language to the layered realities BIPOC disabled communities navigate every day.

I also appreciated how she calls out the harm of white progressive spaces centering themselves while missing true intersectionality. And while she critiques, she offers a path toward real solidarity.

If you’re doing social justice work (or want to), this is a reminder: know your history, speak up, and don’t be afraid to disrupt. 📚✊🏽 you are a force and I’m inspired!

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Thank you to for the ALC and my girl Wale for putting this on my radar.Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead by Mai Nguyen ...
04/24/2026

Thank you to for the ALC and my girl Wale for putting this on my radar.

Cleo Dang Would Rather Be Dead by Mai Nguyen is one of the most honest portrayals of grief I’ve read especially after the loss of a baby.

Told in first person, often speaking directly to her child, we sit inside Cleo’s rage, numbness, envy, and dissociation. As a therapist, I really felt how accurate it is showing how life keeps moving even when your body is still recovering and your mind is trying to catch up.

There are moments that linger… watching a child at the playground and wondering is this what mine would have looked like? or realizing your partner’s grief exists too, even when you can’t access it yet. The isolation is real, but so is the slow, complicated return to meaning through work, through love, through small moments of connection.

This book holds devastation and possibility at the same time. Cleo doesn’t move on from what happened. she carries her baby. A tender, powerful reminder that love doesn’t end with loss, and hope can feel just as scary as grief. The best part about the book is the honest ending that offers something beautiful to Cleo and something to reflect on about life after loss for the reader.

I will be heading to my local indie for tomorrow looking for this one!

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Some moments stay with you and this whole weekend in South Carolina is one of them for me 🙏🏾Meeting Jennifer Bartell Boy...
04/23/2026

Some moments stay with you and this whole weekend in South Carolina is one of them for me 🙏🏾

Meeting Jennifer Bartell Boykin (Columbia, SC Poet Laureate) felt like alignment. Her light, her presence, her love for poetry and community… it’s deep. Being in the room with her and with so many of you who showed up for the Augusta Baker Lecture meant everything to me. Keep sending me your photos y’all!

These photos are just a glimpse of that joy, that energy, that shared belief in the power of stories to hold us, heal us, and bring us together.

If you weren’t able to be there, the replay of my lecture is linked in my profile. I’d love for you to watch, sit with it, and be part of what we built together that night.

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