Reading List
A quiet shelf of what has shaped us. Books on women's health, motherhood, the body, the nervous system, and the deeper questions worth sitting with. Organized into five categories. Recommended slowly, returned to often.
01—The Body
Understanding what lives inside you
Covers: hydration, genetics and methylation, gut health and microbiome, hormones and fertility, the nervous system and physical healing.
01—The Body
Understanding what lives inside you
Covers: hydration, genetics and methylation, gut health and microbiome, hormones and fertility, the nervous system and physical healing.
- The Autoimmune Solution: Prevent and Reverse the Full Spectrum of Inflammatory Symptoms and Diseases - In The Autoimmune Solution, Dr. Amy Myers, a renowned leader in functional medicine, offers her medically proven approach to prevent a wide range of inflammatory-related symptoms and diseases, including allergies, obesity, asthma, cardiovascular disease, fibromyalgia, lupus, IBS, chronic headaches, and Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
- The Hormone Cure - A research-backed guide to understanding and correcting hormone imbalance at every stage of a woman's life. Covers perimenopause, menopause, and everything in between through the lens of natural, targeted therapies.
- WomanCode: Perfect Your Cycle, Amplify Your Fertility, Supercharge Your Sex Drive, and Become a Power Source - A practical framework for syncing food, movement, and daily rhythms to your hormonal patterns. Essential reading for any woman ready to stop working against her body and start working with it.
- Hormone Heresy: What Women Must Know About Their Hormones - An unflinching look at what conventional hormone replacement therapy has done to women's bodies, and what they were never fully told. Points clearly toward safer, more aligned alternatives.
- Count Down: How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male and Female Reproductive Development, and Imperiling the Future of the Human Race - Documents the dramatic decline in reproductive health over four decades and connects it directly to the synthetic chemicals woven into modern life. Rigorous, deeply researched, and impossible to set aside.
- The Microbiome Solution: A Radical New Way to Heal Your Body from the Inside Out - A clear explanation of how the standard Western diet and over-sanitized modern lifestyle have quietly depleted the bacterial ecosystem our bodies depend on. Practical guidance on rebuilding it from the inside out.
- Your Body's Many Cries for Water - Twenty years of clinical research into dehydration as a root cause of chronic pain, stress, and degenerative disease. One of the foundational texts behind SacredLee's hydration framework.
- Dirty Genes: A Breakthrough Program to Treat the Root Cause of Illness and Optimize Your Health - A practical guide to understanding how lifestyle, environment, and nutrition influence gene expression, with particular depth on methylation and the MTHFR variant. For any woman who wants to support her body at the cellular level.
02—The Home & Earth
What surrounds you and where it comes from
Covers: environmental toxins, clean living, home environment, air and water, and the bigger picture of how the earth shaped us.
02—The Home & Earth
What surrounds you and where it comes from
Covers: environmental toxins, clean living, home environment, air and water, and the bigger picture of how the earth shaped us.
- Origins: How Earth's History Shaped Human History - A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species.
- Sustain Me: A Handbook of Natural Remedies - A grounded guide to natural lifestyle practices and botanical knowledge that has always worked, long before wellness became a trend. A quiet, practical companion for building a home that supports rather than depletes.
- The Nontoxic Home - One of the foundational texts in clean living, written by the woman who first catalogued what conventional household products actually contain and what they do to the body. Still essential decades after it was written.
- Slow Death by Rubber Duck: The Secret Danger of Everyday Things - Two researchers deliberately exposed themselves to everyday household chemicals and measured what happened to their bodies. Makes the invisible visible and reframes where the most significant pollution in your life is actually coming from.
- Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story - The scientific investigation that changed how researchers understand endocrine disruption and its effects on fetal development, fertility, and long-term health. A cornerstone text for understanding why what surrounds us during pregnancy matters far beyond what we have been told.
- To Dye For: How Toxic Fashion Is Making Us Sick--and How We Can Fight Back - Traces the direct connection between synthetic fashion, fossil fuel-derived dyes, and the rise of autoimmune disease, asthma, eczema, and infertility. Rigorous and specific, and directly relevant to every fabric decision SacredLee makes.
03—Nourishment & Ancestral Wisdom
How we were meant to eat and live
Covers: real food, traditional diets, ancestral nutrition, herbalism and nature-based healing.
03—Nourishment & Ancestral Wisdom
How we were meant to eat and live
Covers: real food, traditional diets, ancestral nutrition, herbalism and nature-based healing.
- Nutrition and Physical Degeneration - An epic study demonstrating the importance of whole food nutrition, and the degeneration and destruction that comes from a diet of processed foods.
- Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook That Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats - A landmark work that challenges the nutritional consensus most of us were raised on, drawing on generations of traditional food preparation to reframe what a truly nourishing diet looks like. Dense with research, recipes, and a perspective that reorients how you read any food label.
04—The Inner Life
Healing the emotional, spiritual, and relational self
Covers: trauma, nervous system healing, relationships, creativity, spirituality, feminine wisdom, meaning.
04—The Inner Life
Healing the emotional, spiritual, and relational self
Covers: trauma, nervous system healing, relationships, creativity, spirituality, feminine wisdom, meaning.
- Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype - In Women Who Run with the Wolves, Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés unfolds rich intercultural myths, fairy tales, folk tales, and stories, many from her own traditions, in order to help women reconnect with the fierce, healthy, visionary attributes of this instinctual nature.
- Untamed - An intimate memoir about the moment a woman stops performing the life she was assigned and begins building the one she actually wants. Many women describe it as the book they needed before they knew they needed it.
- Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live - A practical guide to recovering the internal compass your body and mind have been signaling toward all along. For any woman who has spent years learning to override her own instincts.
- A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles" - A guide to love as a practical choice rather than a feeling, and to what becomes possible when fear is no longer the organizing principle of your decisions. A classic that rewards returning to.
- The Artist's Way - Twelve weeks of structured practice designed to clear the blocks standing between a woman and her own creative life. Used and returned to by generations of women rebuilding something they set aside.
- Changing Relationships: Strategies for Therapists and Coaches - A deep and practical resource for understanding the dynamics that keep people locked in patterns they did not consciously choose. Written with the authority of a master therapist and the generosity of a mentor.
- Man's Search for Meaning - One of the few books that asks the hardest questions and answers them with both honesty and hope. It belongs on this shelf because suffering, when honored, can become the soil from which something true begins to grow.
- When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection - Examines how stress, emotional suppression, and the inability to set limits manifest as physical disease over time. Compassionate and well-researched, directly connected to the nervous system work at the heart of SacredLee's mission.
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - The definitive work on how traumatic experience is stored in the body, not only the mind, and what it actually takes to heal. Required reading for any woman doing real work on her nervous system and her history.
05—Motherhood & Legacy
What we pass forward
Covers: conscious parenting, children's health, fertility, intergenerational healing, spirit and soul of becoming a mother.
05—Motherhood & Legacy
What we pass forward
Covers: conscious parenting, children's health, fertility, intergenerational healing, spirit and soul of becoming a mother.
- The Red Tent - In this modern classic interpretation of the biblical story of Dinah, Anita Diamant imagines the traditions and turmoils of ancient womanhood--the world of The Red Tent, a New York Times bestseller and the basis of the A&E/Lifetime mini-series.
- Spirit Babies: How to Communicate with the Child You're Meant to Have - Holds space for the spiritual dimension of conception, loss, and becoming a parent in a way that mainstream conversation rarely does. Read with an open hand.
- The Continuum Concept - A quiet, reorienting argument for what human infants actually need and what modern parenting has quietly moved away from. One of the foundational texts behind attachment parenting, written without shame and without agenda.
- Healthy Child Healthy World: Creating a Cleaner, Greener, Safer Home - A room-by-room, category-by-category guide for parents who want to reduce their child's toxic burden without overwhelm. Research-grounded and written in the spirit that information should empower, not frighten.