My Top 20 Books for 365 Days of Holistic Healing - Inner Work Library [42/500]

This special episode of Inner Work Library Q&A features my Top 20 Books for Healing Trauma, Integrating your Shadow and Expanding your Consciousness. Cliche phrases, but these books are solid - check them out.

I've pinned all recommendations in the comments section and below.

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00:00 Read The Pinned Comment
02:11 Heal Your Trauma
04:15 Repair Your Relationships
06:21 Integrate Your Shadow
09:31 Discover Your Depth
13:03 Study Tips & Reading Habits

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[jordanthornton]

*RECOMMENDED READING (20 BOOKS)*

Please purchase and research at least twelve of these recommended books: they are some of the best resources out there, and they will help you reclaim the clarity and sanctity you deserve.

TRAUMA & WOUNDING:
1) The Thirst For Wholeness, Christina Grof.
2) The Voice Of The Body, Alexander Lowen.
3) The Betrayal Of The Body, Alexander Lowen.
4) Healing The Shame That Binds You, John Bradshaw.
5) Swamplands Of The Soul, James Hollis.
6) In An Unspoken Voice, Peter Levine.

RELATIONSHIPS & ROMANCE:
7) We, Robert Johnson.
8) The Eden Project, James Hollis.
9) Facing Love Addiction, Pia Mellody.
10) Cupid's Poisoned Arrow, Marnia Robinson.

SHADOWS & SUBPERSONALITIES:
11) Subpersonalities, John Rowan.
12) Embracing Our Selves, Hal Stone & Sidra Stone.
13) Embracing Your Inner Critic, Hal Stone & Sidra Stone.
14) Meeting The Shadow (65 Essays).
15) Homecoming, John Bradshaw.

CONSCIOUSNESS STUDIES:
16) Transcending The Levels Of Consciousness, David Hawkins.
17) Transpersonal Development, Roberto Assagioli.
18) The Stormy Search For The Self, Christina Grof & Stanislav Grof.
19) Jung's Map Of The Soul, Murray Stein.
20) A Brief History Of Everything, Ken Wilber.

NOTE: I've shared over two-hundred books on this channel so far... check out my other videos for more intermediate and advanced resources.

Jordan

[rachaellouise]

Thank you for laying out this curriculum for us - can't believe we are getting it for free. I am excited to start reading.

[karencord]

Just found your postings and finding everything fascinating and helpful thank you

[abelsamperiz]

Thanks so much Jordan. I have turned 50 few months ago and I have jusr recently discovered you channel. It is absolutly fantastic and the book recommendation is top class !!! Congratulation and thanks for your generosity I am recommending your channel to those few friends here in Barcelona (Catalonia) that could be useful

[MelissaBozinovski]

Thanks Jordan for sharing your incredible gift ❤ Thanks to you I am reading these type of books.

[jordanthornton]

*1-1 Mentorship Information: Price & Structure (Maximum Capacity = 20 Clients Per Year)*

It's an absolute pleasure to film these YouTube videos, and I feel fortunate to receive an abundance of meaningful messages every week, but I am unfortunately faced with the disappointing reality of turning away the vast majority of people who want to work together.

I have significantly limited availability and can only support twenty people per year because I do not offer one-off calls or drop-in consulting sessions.

Twenty individuals might not sound like maximum capacity, but the last few years of teaching have taught me the importance of maintaining tight energetic boundaries if I want to keep uploading these free videos in addition to serving my current clients to the best of my ability in 2024.

To minimise confusion and enhance transparency, I've spent several hours writing this ridiculously long comment to help you decide if my Inner Work Mentorship is the right choice for your development & what you could reasonably expect from working closely together.

Please take the time to read this service description before contacting me on Instagram… or feel free to stop reading right now if you’re not interested in my fees, session structure, client expectations, etc.

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*READ BEFORE SCROLLING FURTHER:*

I'm interested in long-term change and structural transformation, which is why I've never offered one-off sessions.

Complex issues cannot be resolved in a few hours, but we likewise need to define an upper limit for containment and collaboration.

I've learned that deep and enduring self-integration requires at least four months of immersive effort. Why four months? It's enough weekly contact for us to work through multiple complex issues and developmental possibilities, but short enough to mitigate against unconscious co-dependency and motivational stagnation.

I'm currently accepting a maximum of two new clients per month - message me after reading the following section to check my availability.

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*HOW I WORK & WHO I WORK WITH*

Unlike other coaches and teachers who take an understandably more relaxed approach to healing and integration, my mentorships are characteristically intense.

This is a highly-demanding, high-investment process which requires our consistent combined effort over a period of four months.

If we were to start working together, I would reasonably expect you to be excited to show up for a minimum of 10+ hours of self-motivated transformative practice per week (daily reading, fitness routine, creative exercises, spiritual reflection, etc.) while also maintaining full-sobriety (no drink, no drugs, no cigarettes, no vapes).

These strict standards of discipline and sobriety are plainly unsuitable for most people in most situations - even genuinely motivated individuals who resonate with my YouTube videos may not be the right match for four months of structured mentorship.

If you want to get deeper, I've noticed that there's a certain type of ‘temperament' & 'timing’ to get the most out of me.

I'm interested in alert, creative and purpose-driven individuals who aspire to exceptional standards of self-maturation and would enjoy the feeling of going through week-on-week of progressively stacked transformative experiences for a third of a year: my ideal client is somebody who is willing to bring forward their internal complexity with a sense of courage and transparency with the intention of nothing less than full-spectrum transformation & rapid acceleration on their personal path.

I am yet to discover another supportive figure who offers something comparable to this mentorship: a four-month, structured yet flexible 1-1 container which is simultaneously therapeutic, academic and action-oriented; with primary focus placed on tangible improvements in your felt sense of self-knowledge and self-integration; in addition to making consistent and meaningful progress towards your unique goals and mentorship aspirations.

I prioritise contact, compassion and accountability, which means that your work never really 'ends' at the end of your session. You can reasonably expect to be fed dozens of customised reading suggestions and follow-on perspectives outside of the formal sessions via friendly and informal messenger contact, where I am active and available four days per week to cultivate an intimate personal connection while likewise enhancing your positive momentum via accountability check-ins and additional support as required.

By way of conclusion for what feels like an extraordinarily long comment and service description, I feel compelled to once more emphasise that working directly with me is unrealistic for most people in most situations.

I often support people who are accustomed to wrestling with the emotional challenges associated with working through complex wounds in previous therapeutic relationships before we begin our coaching work together. Even individuals without 'hard trauma' can expect moments of pressurised darkness and heaviness during periods of shadow contact as you begin to restructure your personal unconscious. We will be exploring your psyche and soma at scale and depth, and it will be your responsibility to keep me informed about the emotional texture of your internal reality, especially if you encounter negatively charged experiences, and I will of course do everything in my power to support you through the hard times as we integrate the darkness and move forwards together.

YouTube is a wonderful place for me to share free research resources and offer accessible inner work invitations; my private mentorships, however, are the place for collaborative partnership and emotional security as we identify, navigate and restructure oftentimes confronting and challenging conscious and unconscious physical, emotional and mental material.

Ultimately, this is a highly-demanding but highly-rewarding process which requires the best of our shared intentions.

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*SESSION STRUCTURE & FEES:*

The total fee for an Inner Work Mentorship (including 12 x 2 hr sessions) is £7, 400 GBP or approximately $9, 400 USD. This is my only coaching programme, and my mentorship pricing is liable to adjustment over time.

Each private session lasts two hours, and is facilitated via Telegram video call at an ideal time for both of us. Your mentorship extends over a linear four-month period, with a total of twenty-four hours of structured session time, in addition to four days per week of unlimited messenger availability for accountability updates, voice note exchanges and informal calls upon occasion. I do not work on Mondays, Tuesdays or Wednesdays, but I am fully-available across all timezones for regular calls and messenger contact on Thursday - Sunday.

If you’ve scrolled this far, and resonate with what I’m offering, I invite you to message me on Instagram. It would be my pleasure to start exploring your goals and intentions in real-time.

IMPORTANT: I am an intentionally independent coach, and not a licensed therapist or associated with any professional bodies or coaching institutions, and therefore enjoy the freedom to collaborate with my clients across all areas of life in an intimate, direct and highly involved coaching style. I work with no more than twenty people per year, and am currently accepting a maximum of two new clients per month. I also manage my own inbox and do not use automated systems or employ people to pretend to be me on Instagram, which means that it usually takes four to six weeks for me to respond to new messages and begin the interview process. Although my approach takes time, I hope you ultimately appreciate my personal emphasis on authentic and confidential communication from the very beginning of our relationship. I once again encourage you to message me immediately if you want to start working together within the next two months - bump yourself to the top of my inbox, and I’ll send you some voice notes to get our conversation started.

[bluejay]

Hi Jordan, I keep navigating through your wonderful videos, in order to create my own curriculum to follow and then get back to watching your videos with a more structured order, but I am still in the wondrous phase of first exploration. I think the next videos I will be watching are around how to read/focus/learn at best, I have spotted a few. In the meantime I have been ordering A LOT of books. Some of the books you mention I already have, I will be rereading them. I am writing here because although I am not a beginner, I am taking on a beginner mindset in creating a new path hopefully. So from this list I will first focus on the areas of trauma and subpersonalities. I have a few of the books and have ordered most of the others from these specific stacks. I also already have two books from Peter Walker, which I have yet to read though, and will start from there, I do not have "In an unspoken voice", but will first read the others I have from him. I am glad you seem to appreciate psychosynthesis (have yet to watch the videos but I am still exploring) as I have studied it in depth and it is so underrated. It's a pity because it contains so much. thanks for all the work you are sharing on this channel. Your passion is contagious and it is so inspiring to connect with someone who has your love for enquiry and for reading!

[rainyy]

Love you jordan, you changed my life.

[ayumelove]

Thanks so much mate. I remember commenting some weeks back how a video like this would be great, so appreciate you made it! Helps a lot.

[gailaltschwager]

Thank you, Jordan. As always, useful material.

[buddleiabee]

Any books by Pete Walker, especially 'CPTSD - from surviving the thriving', is an absolute must read for everyone who's experienced abuse.

[charliehobson]

Thanks for this :-) will definitely read some of those and see where that takes me.

[void]

Hi Jordan, thank you very much for all the value and hope you bring into my life. Everytime im feeling inadequacy, spirituell emptiness im coming back to your videos. I have seen a few other books in which you always talk so fondly about Primal Wound, where does that Book fit into your category?

[FlorinGN]

I am proud to report that I have already read some of them and I am curious about the others.
All from your recommendations, which I am so grateful for.
Thank you!

[consciousgain]

Marvellous video, thank you Jordan. Very interesting and very useful.

[TheBrotherhood]

thanks, will make a list to buy these books💪

[amy-lyne]

So, I bought "In an Unspoken Voice" awhile ago.. and it went missing! I was searching my house forever for it. Anyway, turns out my mom stole it from me and read the whole thing. She loved it and says thank you 👌. Hahaha I'm laughing right now. So funny. Thanks for the recommends as always! 🙏 (From the generations above and below)

[maciejsiedziako]

Trauma and the Soul not in a stack? It is a REMARKABLE read. Man, thanks for videos like these, that’ the best you could do for me. Will be buying many of those. Right now getting through John Bradshaw work.

[LaserrSharp]

What stack should we start with? Also have you read any Shinzen Young? Thoughts?

[jabstep]

Hello again Jordan, what’s your thoughts on “subconscious reprogramming”? Do you actually think we can change the subconscious by affirmations or listening to them while we sleep? Or is this another form of bypassing the hard work?