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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

11/18/2025

Happy Book Birthday to I, Medusa by Ayana Gray! 🐍

A huge thank you to the LibroFM Educators Program for the advanced listening copy. I’m so grateful to be part of a community that uplifts educators and helps us access incredible stories/retellings like this one.

What’s captivating me most is getting to meet Medusa before the myth fixes her in place. Young Meddy (love the moniker) shines as a curious, brave, coming-of-age protagonis whose feminist lens sharpens with every betrayal, revelation, and act of courage.

From the bustling markets of Athens to Athena’s temple, her journey is emotional, fierce, and impossible to pause.

I’m about halfway through and truly cannot stop listening. This is Medusa reimagined with tenderness, rage, and power. She’s a girl becoming her own story and I love that she’s letting her locs down! 🐍🔥

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11/17/2025

“It’s scary to acknowledge the continual power that colonization has on so many of us. It’s why we fight for the lands, the waters, our creature kin. It’s why we go on walks and climbing trips to find ourselves. And if we get the chance, we turn our fears into the powerful work that keeps us going, writing books, following our dreams, and upsetting the status quo.”

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Everything Is a Story by Kaitlin B. Curtice reminded me that the stories we carry are living things. They act as seeds, beginnings, small truths that grow into the oak trees of our identity, relationships, and community.

Curtice invites us to become “story doulas,” tending to one another’s truths with care, witnessing, and kinship. She reminds us that some stories nourish connection… and some keep us stuck. And like acorns resting on the forest floor, our stories have seasons. Some stories are ready to sprout, some are resting, some are asking to be revised or released.

This book gave me language and courage to gently revise the scripts I’ve inherited and to walk only with what heals.

It’s one I’d recommend to therapists, book clubs, and anyone longing for storytelling that centers dignity, belonging, and community care.

🌱 Reflection for you:

Which stories in your life feel ready to grow… and which might you be ready to release?

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11/15/2025

Rest in power, Alice Wong. 🕊️✨

Alice Wong (a writer, educator, disability justice activist, and the visionary founder of the Disability Visibility Project) has transitioned 💔

A communicator and a warrior who lit the way, she carved out space where none existed and insisted on a world where disabled people could tell their own stories, unapologetically and unfiltered.

As a bibliotherapist, I return again and again to Disability Visibility: Adapted for Young Adults. Her words have held my clients, my students, and my own heart.

Alice and her voice and work remind us that storytelling is healing as reclamation, resistance, and liberation.

Today, I’m sharing excerpts from her work in gratitude for the path she paved for us and the community she poured into. Her legacy will continue to root us, teach us, and push us forward.

May she rest in deep peace and power.
May we honor her by continuing the work.

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11/15/2025

Today’s reminder: self-care isn’t optional for parents and caregivers — it’s survival. 💛♾️

After a long IEP meeting (and a powerful IEP Bootcamp session with Dr. Danette Taylor 🙏🏽), my nervous system was DONE. Advocating for our children requires so much clarity, composure, and emotional labor — even when you know what you’re doing, even when you come prepared.

And because my husband knows me well, he took me exactly where my soul resets:

📚➡️ a quiet walk through a bookstore to exhale, regroup, and refill myself.

This is what care looks like for me as an autism mom:
✨ learning all I can so I can advocate with confidence
✨ honoring the emotional weight these meetings take
✨ letting my community love me back
✨ choosing rest, softness, and joy wherever I can find it

If you’re an IEP parent too, I see you. Your advocacy is powerful, even when it’s exhausting. And you deserve a moment of grounding after the hard things.

Here’s to taking care of ourselves while we take care of our kids. 💛

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11/14/2025

After relocating to Springfield over a year ago, I finally found my local indie bookstore — right in the heart of downtown on Main Street. 📚

Rumspringa Books is run by a fellow Smith SSW alum (and fellow Springfield transplant!) and getting to know Kate today was such a gift. I felt that instant kinship you feel when you meet someone who truly loves books, community, and creating spaces that feel like home.

Sandwiched next to the delicious Nosh Café & Restaurant, the vibes are immaculate, warm, welcoming, and full of bookish magic. ✨

Of course I left with a copy of one of my favorite novels of the year, The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy. If you know, you know. 😍

Springfield folks — stay tuned! I’m hoping to collaborate with Kate soon for a future book event. Something slow, nourishing, and full of good conversation. 💛

Support your local bookstores. They keep our literary worlds alive.

Shout out to another Springfield creative whose recent EP I’ve had on rotation lately (and producer ) ! Grateful for community and new friends! 🥰

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11/14/2025

🇵🇷 Puerto Rican Heritage Month Book Tour Stop 🙌🏾💃🏽

Shout out to the amazing for bringing us together every year in community!

Today I’m celebrating Flesh & Spirit by Felipe Luciano, former Chairman of the Young Lords Party, poet, activist, and one of the key voices who helped transform El Barrio in the late 60s and 70s.

If you’re new to the Young Lords, they were a revolutionary Puerto Rican organization that was modeled after the Black Panther Party. They fought for healthcare, education, housing, and dignity in our barrios.

They led free breakfast programs, free clinics, the famous Garbage Offensive in NYC, and helped spark a movement for Puerto Rican self-determination across the U.S.

Felipe’s memoir traces his journey from incarceration to becoming a leader whose voice, discipline, and courage helped shape the Young Lords’ power and empowering history. Flesh & Spirit is raw, poetic, honest, and essential to understanding our history.

If you loved Johanna Fernández’s The Young Lords: A Radical History, this is its intimate companion.

📚 Flesh & Spirit by Felipe Luciano

📚 Pair with: Johanna Fernández’s groundbreaking history

Honoring our storytellers, our organizers, and the warriors who built the paths we walk today. 🇵🇷💜✊🏽

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11/13/2025

Today on World Kindness Day, my heart is full. 💛

I want to extend my deepest gratitude to Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani, founder of the Mindvalley Book Club, for such a thoughtful and generous conversation this morning. Her presence, curiosity, and kindness made the interview feel like a true exchange of ideas, not just a discussion.

Thank you as well to everyone who attended, asked questions, listened deeply, and held space for the heart of Bibliotherapy in the Bronx.

Your engagement reminded me why I do this work.

And a special note of appreciation to Olga, whose flexibility and behind-the-scenes support helped make today possible (I had to reschedule a ton of times 🫠 and she was so accommodating and kind!).

Here’s to kindness: in our stories, in our communities, and in the small gestures that make big moments feel even more meaningful. ✨

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11/12/2025

🕊️ “The story allowed Evelyn to introduce me to the memory of her brother in a way that allowed her defenses to lower and her grief to have a voice in the therapy room.”
—from Bibliotherapy in the Bronx

Stories can become portals to healing, helping us access parts of ourselves that words alone can’t reach. Tomorrow, I’ll be joining for a live conversation about inner-child healing, grief, and the transformative power of bibliotherapy.

📖✨ Join us live as we explore how reading and reflection can open new paths to self-understanding and community care.

🗓 Thursday, November 13 at 10 AM EST / 5 PM EET
🎙 Hosted by Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani
🔗 Watch live: https://riverside.fm/studio/kristina-mand-lakhianis-studio

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11/11/2025

✨ Exciting news! ✨

I’m happy to share that Bibliotherapy in the Bronx has been selected as Book of the Week by 🥰🙌🏾 Thank you!

Join me this Thursday, November 13th at 10 AM EST for a live book talk with the incredible Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani, where we’ll explore the healing power of stories, community care, and the transformative practice of bibliotherapy as care practice.

📚 Bring your questions, reflections, and curiosity. I can’t wait to connect with you all for this global conversation about reading as a path to wellness.

🔗 Tune in live: https://riverside.fm/studio/kristina-mand-lakhianis-studio

📅 Thursday, Nov 13 | 10 AM EST / 5 PM EET

See you there! Can’t wait!

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11/11/2025

Happy Book Birthday to Sophie Lucido Johnson!

Today we celebrate the release of KIN: The Future of Family. This book is a deeply human exploration of how we build community, share care, and reimagine what it means to belong.

In a world where busyness and burnout have become the norm, Sophie Lucido Johnson reminds us that we don’t have to do life alone. Through memoir, social science, and storytelling, KIN invites us to see friendship, caregiving, and collective living as revolutionary acts of love.

I love this reminder and instantly underlined it:

“It is possible to create a community where we reflexively turn to our closest people, not away from them.”

As someone who adores the found family trope in books, I love how Sophie brings this idea into real life while showing us that kinship is something that must be created, nurtured, and sustained.

Share this wise and heart-expanding new release with a friend who would love to read about how we understand care, connection, and belonging. 💛

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11/11/2025

Happy Book Birthday to Soraya Chemaly thank you for the arc ✨

Today is pub day forAll We Want Is Everything: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy” This is bold, necessary manifesto on how we confront one of the most enduring systems of power shaping our lives.

Soraya Chemaly breaks down how male supremacy operates and not just as a gender issue but as a structural force that harms everyone and upholds exploitation across race, class, gender, and sexuality.

This book invites us to imagine something radically better: a world where liberation isn’t limited by supremacy, and justice means everyone thrives.

One of my favorite book quotes:

“It’s within the broader erasure of women’s complex lives that economic anxiety tied to masculinity is treated as a serious, rational political issue, while the material conditions that shape women’s lives—access to abortion, SNAP, Medicare, Medicaid—are relegated to the category of ‘social issues’… Yet these programs are not peripheral; they are economic necessities.”

Congratulations, Soraya, on this powerful and timely contribution to feminist thought and collective liberation. 🌍💪🏽

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