Discover Your Next Great Read in the CIH Bookshelf
Browse Our Curated Collection
Explore health and wellness with our handpicked selection of books from our practitioners and staff.
Welcome to our bookshelf!
As part of our mission to help you thrive in mind, body, and spirit, we recognize that a good book can inspire, educate, and create momentum on your healing journey.
We asked our practitioners for their favorite health/wellness books and collected all the answers here for you. Each book recommendation includes a short blurb from the practitioner who recommended it and a link to the book on Amazon (not affiliate links, we get no kickback). Many of these titles may also be available for free at your local library!
We hope you enjoy these reads as much as we did! 🙂
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“Spiritual book about energy medicine, intuition, empowerment, and healing.”
Recommended by: Patty Mcmanamee MS, CNS, LDN, INHC
“What does it mean to live a life bigger than ourselves? This book gets to the heart of what we are all searching for in life and how it is found through connection. A great read that reminds us of the “why” behind achieving optimal health and wellness!”
Recommended by: Jenessa Mayer PA-C
“An excellent primer on what Zero Balancing is and its wide applications in healthcare – especially in the arena of mental and spiritual health and transformation. Working with the body and mind through touch can lead to a richer sense of self and a more satisfying life as well as assisting with numerous health issues.”
Recommended by: Jared Urchek, L.Ac, CZB
“An explanation of the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water), and their use in the treatment room. Includes many case examples. Requires no technical knowledge; fine for the general reader interested in acupuncture and health”
Recommended by: Jared Urchek, L.Ac, CZB
“Louv offers a new lens for approaching the epidemic of childhood ADD, ADHD, and other psychiatric illnesses, with nature at its forefront. If you have children, this is a must-read!”
Recommended by: Silvia Hazel, FNP and Ayla Heppding (Neal), MS, CNS, LDN
“Looks at a comprehensive approach to addressing 36 different factors that contribute to Alzheimer’s disease and cognitive decline. When these are addressed, he has found that people are able to improve their cognitive function, especially when started early.”
Recommended by: Dr. Anna Sattah
“Regenerative agriculture will get to the root cause of a lot of health and global issues.”
Recommended by: Dr. Andrew Wong
“A potentially difficult, but necessary read for everyone. Gawande discusses the intimate topic of death and dying through the stories of his patients and his own family members. This book reshapes the way we think about the morality of death and poses the thought provoking question, “what makes life worth living?”.”
Recommended by: Moli Eddins, NP
“Practical, evidence-based strategies to help make life-style changes become daily habits.”
Recommended by: Dr. Natalie Scheeler
“Trauma rewires the brain and can flip a switch to keep a danger signal always on, leading to a cascade of physical and mental health challenges. We need to retrain the brain to turn off that danger signal in order to achieve and maintain health.”
Recommended by: Dr. Jillian Casey
“An empathetic and somatic approach to analyze our traumas, life experiences, and manifestations and their subsequent manifestations in our body. Practical tools to heal trauma, rewire our nervous systems, and experience embodiment, not by overriding our bodies’ protective mechanisms, but by allowing the natural sequence of events to transpire in a safe and thoughtful way.”
Recommended by: Silvia Hazel, FNP
“It’s a great explanation of the functional medicine approach to healthcare. Rather than focus on diagnosing specific diseases, it addresses identifying the underlying routes to support your health. The side effect then becomes your body healing from various diseases on it’s own.”
Recommended by: Dr. Anna Sattah
“This book will inspire you and your patients to optimize fiber intake for improving health. It is a plant-based gut health book that discusses the fantastic role fiber has in our bodies.”
Recommended by: Patty Mcmanamee, MS, CNS, LDN, INHC
“A wonderful book about how food can alter your genes. Archibald uses the acronym MISE to help utilize food as medicine- Master ingredients, Influencers, Superfoods, and Enablers. She shares recipes and cooking tips to optimize the potential of these foods for healing and overall health and wellness..”
Recommended by: Patty Mcmanamee, MS, CNS, LDN, INHC
“Health benefits of red light therapy, and specifics; helpful to learn about and try the JOOVV in our clinic (Red Light Therapy)”
Recommended by: Dr. Andrew Wong
“This is a must-read in understanding why we need to have stomach acid for proper digestion and absorption of foods. I hope it inspires others to find natural ways to heal from heartburn, GERD, and digestive issues.”
Recommended by: Patty Mcmanamee, MS, CNS, LDN, INHC
“Essentially this is a glossary of terms for human emotional experiences. I feel this book gave me a deeper understanding of common human emotional experiences that has helped me become better at identifying and improving on my own experience. I particularly liked the section on healthcare burnout and empathy which helped me greatly though Covid. I definitely recommend the audiobook, it’s a great presentation by the author. ”
Recommended by: Cory Jecmen, L.AC., M.AC.
“Not necessarily in the health arena but a good book for personal growth. This book is a guide book to help you define and orient your actions towards your own life’s purpose. If you’re inspired by this read you may also like The One Thing by Gary Keeler. This book will inspire you to stop spinning your wheels on inconsequential things and refine the actions you take towards only doing what matters most in your life. Enjoy.”
Recommended by: Cory Jecmen, L.AC., M.AC.
“Practical tips to cultivate healthy relationships with yourself and others.”
Recommended by: Toni St. Clair-Fish, FMCHC
“Practical, holistic guide to easy and accessible dental care.”
Recommended by: Christine Gordon, Practice Administrator
“A soulful journey into nature therapy.”
Recommended by: Christine Gordon, Practice Administrator
“Informative and helpful guide to estrogen dominance. Such a great resource for women struggling with fibroids, estrogen dominant cancers like breast or ovarian, PCOS and endometriosis. Also includes delicious recipes with beautiful photography.”
Recommended by: Arlene Johnson, PA-C, IFMCP
“This is a wise and practical guide for self compassion and to cultivate love within.”
Recommended by: Kari Williford, LMT
“I just started this book and it is a sweet journey into the author’s childhood and family recipes for self-care. Based on Ayurvedic principles. Vasant Lad states that Soma in plants is the nectar of immortality. In our bodies, it is the innermost sap, an invigorating fluid that provides longevity to the tissues. Indu Arora calls Soma the nectar of the moon. Magic! :-)”
Recommended by: Colleen Zuntag, Clinical Herbalist
“A look at neuroplasticity, or the brain’s way of recovering from injury, including damage that is often assumed to be permanent in traditional medical teaching.”
Recommended by: Dr. Anna Sattah
“Limiting beliefs that stem from judgment of self, others, or circumstances, rob you of joy and create needless suffering.”
Recommended by: Toni St. Clair-Fish, FMCHC
“Excellent book on the science and physiology behind why sleep is such a foundational part of your health. The book goes into sleep’s role in memory and learning, immune system function, cancer risk, neurotoxin clearance, obesity, appetite, mood and more.”
Recommended by: Dr. Anna Sattah
“Packed with totally practical/natural treatments and lifestyle advice for women’s hormonal imbalances.”
Recommended by: Ayla Heppding (Neal), MS, CNS, LDN
“This is full of the most recent research on the best foods for pregnant women and their unborn babies. ”
Recommended by: Ayla Heppding (Neal), MS, CNS, LDN
“This book saves marriages and prevents stress-induced health problems! It explains a systematic, step by step approach for families to make visible the all-too-common invisible labor of women, especially after children become a part of their lives. It’s a guide for the readers to equitably manage the household tasks that are otherwise defaulted to the woman’s responsibility. The result is happier partners, less stress, less frustration, less fighting, and more equity, joy, and happiness for *everyone* involved.”
Recommended by: Dr. Yangyi Chen, L.Ac, D.O.M.