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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

Dressed up the kids for a family Easter pic and ended up falling in love with my own fit… so of course I had to turn it ...
04/05/2026

Dressed up the kids for a family Easter pic and ended up falling in love with my own fit… so of course I had to turn it into a little photoshoot with my book baby 🐣🥰

Something about spring just does it for me. It’s the colors, the softness, the feeling of starting again. A vibrant thing 📚 Just like these kicks! Shout out to the BX!

And honestly, this book was born from that same place. From believing that even in heavy seasons, stories can hold us, shift us, and remind us who we are.

If you’ve been needing something grounding, something affirming, something that feels like being seen… Bibliotherapy in the Bronx is here for YOU!

🌸 Tap into a story this season
🌸 Gift a copy to someone you love
🌸 Or build your own little reading ritual this spring

Because healing can start with something as simple as turning a page.

04/05/2026

POV: you pressed play on an audiobook thinking it would just “pass the time” and now you’re emotionally spiraling mid-chapter 😭🎧

This one???
A grifter who literally steals people’s identities… picks the WRONG woman and suddenly it’s murder, mistaken identity, and enemies forced to go on the run together?

This story brings the term frenemy to a new level.

Audiobooks really be having us gasping out loud in public like you’re part of the plot.

Tell me I’m not the only one rewinding like:
“wait… run that back one more time” 😂

Grateful for Kalyn Wilson, LCSW, for holding such a thoughtful and affirming space on the Black Girl Seen Podcast. This ...
04/04/2026

Grateful for Kalyn Wilson, LCSW, for holding such a thoughtful and affirming space on the Black Girl Seen Podcast.

This morning we talked about visibility, storytelling, vulnerability, and what it means to be seen not just by others but by ourselves.

The episode drops later this month but I didn’t want to wait to share a little piece of what we built together.

So here’s a visibility book stack 📚 for any Black girl or woman who has ever felt overlooked, misunderstood, or asked to shrink:
• Nasty Work by Ericka Hart
• Bibliotherapy in the Bronx (yes, mine 🤎)
• Black Single Mother by Jamilah Lemieux
• The Wounds Are the Witness by Yolanda Pierce
• And a new collection honoring the cherished works of Nikki Giovanni who always reminded us that respectability was never the cost of our truth

These are books that don’t ask you to perform. They invite you to arrive fully, honestly, and on your own terms.

The Black Girl Seen Podcast is a cozy space to unpack vulnerability, authenticity, and the life you’re ready to claim… and I’m so honored to be part of that conversation.

Until the episode drops—tell me:
What book has helped you feel seen? 💬

In a week where the Chiles v. Salazar ruling is putting the safety of q***r and trans youth back into question, I keep t...
04/02/2026

In a week where the Chiles v. Salazar ruling is putting the safety of q***r and trans youth back into question, I keep thinking about what it actually means to survive spaces that try to “fix” you.

Conversion Therapy Dropout: A Q***r Story of Faith and Belonging by Timothy Schraeder Rodriguez (out May 5) is not abstract. It’s lived experience. It’s what happens when harmful ideas become practice. When belief systems override care. Thank you for the arc.

This book gutted me.

Rodriguez writes about trying to kill a part of himself he didn’t even have the chance to understand because he was told that’s what God required. The therapy rooms, the church spaces, the “support” systems… all promising belonging but demanding erasure.

And still he found his way back to himself.

As a therapist, I want to be clear: what is often framed as “conversation” or “belief” has real psychological consequences. Leading organizations like the American Psychological Association and American Medical Association have long warned that these practices are not evidence-based and are linked to increased depression, shame, and suicidality.

So when we talk about laws, we also have to talk about people.

This memoir is for anyone standing at the intersection of faith and identity. For anyone who has been told they are too much or not enough. For anyone trying to come home to themselves.

Sometimes the most faithful act is choosing wholeness.

I’m so grateful Rodriguez told this story. I know it will hold so many of us. I can’t wait to share this story with clients who need it 🧡


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04/02/2026

What if your writing voice didn’t start with you?

Our April pick for Readers Who Run with the Wolves is Writing, Creativity and Soul by Sue Monk Kidd and this one goes deeper than craft.

It’s about voice, lineage, and the quiet influences that shape how we express ourselves… especially between mothers and daughters.

If you’ve been feeling called to write, reflect, or reconnect with your creativity then this is your book.

Join us on Fable + StoryGraph and read with the wolves 🐺✨





April is National Poetry Month and in my work, poetry is not extra, it’s essential.Right now I’m incorporating How to Lo...
04/01/2026

April is National Poetry Month and in my work, poetry is not extra, it’s essential.

Right now I’m incorporating How to Love the World: Poems of Gratitude and Hope.

This is a collection I return to again and again because of how accessible it is. The poems are short, vivid, rooted in nature and they guide young readers back to something steady when the world feels overwhelming.

Here’s how I use poetry therapy with young people:

•We read short poems out loud (sometimes twice) letting the words land
•We pair poems with drawing or collage so expression isn’t limited to language
•I invite them to write one line in response. Not a whole poem, just a beginning
•We pause and notice: What did this poem help you feel in your body?

Because poetry, when introduced with care, becomes a regulation tool.

A way to slow down the nervous system and remember that beauty and pain often coexist.

I’m sharing stanzas/excerpts paired with visual art to show how small moments of language and image to help us all practice noticing what’s still here, still good, still possible.

When the world feels heavy, poetry reminds us:
there is still something here to love. 📖✨

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April is one of those months where everything feels like it’s stretching open. We get new growth, new ways of showing up...
04/01/2026

April is one of those months where everything feels like it’s stretching open. We get new growth, new ways of showing up, new invitations to return to ourselves. 🌱

This month, I’m holding space for creativity and reflection. In our Readers Who Run with the Wolves book club (on Fable + StoryGraph), we’re reading Writing Creativity and Soul by Sue Monk Kidd. This is a book that gently reminds us that creativity isn’t something we earn, it’s something we remember. If you’ve been feeling the pull to write, to slow down, to listen inward come read with us.

And in honor of National Poetry Month, I’m leaning into language as a form of care. Poems, passages, sentences that find us when we don’t quite have the words ourselves. If the world feels heavy this month, let a story hold some of it with you. That’s the practice. That’s the work. 📚

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Started Arsenio: A Memoir by Arsenio Hall last night and I’m already locked in. Thank you for the arc. There’s someth...
03/31/2026

Started Arsenio: A Memoir by Arsenio Hall last night and I’m already locked in. Thank you for the arc.

There’s something about an origin story that pulls me all the way in. I am enjoying how the book starts with the image of a young boy teaching himself magic, hosting his own “show” in his building, experimenting with what it means to hold an audience… you can already see the seeds of the brilliance we came to know.

As a bibliotherapist, I’m always listening for those early moments including those small, initiatory beginnings that become a person’s legacy. This memoir reads like an invitation to witness that becoming in real time.

And I love how it reminds me: our gifts don’t just appear. They’re practiced. Played with. Protected. Sometimes long before anyone else is watching.

If you love a story about craft, courage, and carving your own lane, this one is already promising.

Happy book birthday to a story that feels like it’s about more than fame. This memoir is about formation. 🎤📖

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