Emily P.G. Erickson

Emily P.G. Erickson is a freelance writer who specializes in mental health and parenting. She has written for major digital publications, including Everyday Health, Health, The New York Times, Romper, WIRED, and more. A former mental health researcher, she holds a master's degree in psychology and is a professional member of the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) and the Association of Health Care Journalists. You can find Emily online at emilypgerickson.com and in Minnesota, where she lives with her husband and three children. 

 

This is a curated collection of books Emily loves and loves to recommend. 

Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
Strangers to Ourselves: Unsettled Minds and the Stories That Make Us
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Nasty, Brutish, and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with My Kids
The Mind and the Moon: My Brother's Story, the Science of Our Brains, and the Search for Our Psyches
Life Is in the Transitions: Mastering Change at Any Age
Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory
Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to Break the Cycles of Worry and Fear to Heal Your Mind
How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention, Invest 12 Minutes a Day
How to Be a Philosopher: Or How to Be Almost Certain That Almost Nothing Is Certain
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Dedicated: The Case for Commitment in an Age of Infinite Browsing
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Trusting the Gold: Uncovering Your Natural Goodness
Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
When Bad Things Happen to Good People
Man's Search for Meaning
True Refuge: Finding Peace and Freedom in Your Own Awakened Heart
Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of Rain
Living a Life That Matters
Real Change: Mindfulness to Heal Ourselves and the World
Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: The Buddhist Path of Kindness
Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
How to Relax
Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad
Yes to Life: In Spite of Everything
Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System as a Path to the Self
Diary of a Void
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
To Have and to Hold: Motherhood, Marriage, and the Modern Dilemma
Beyond Behaviors: Using Brain Science and Compassion to Understand and Solve Children's Behavioral Challenges
No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind
Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive: 10th Anniversary Edition
Raising Your Spirited Child: A Guide for Parents Whose Child Is More Intense, Sensitive, Perceptive, Persistent, and Energetic
Whip Smart: The True Story of a Secret Life
Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
Foreverland: On the Divine Tedium of Marriage
300 Arguments
Recollections of My Nonexistence: A Memoir
Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
On Immunity: An Inoculation
Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays
Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities (Updated)
Men Explain Things to Me
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments
What If This Were Enough?
Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays
Big Swiss
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Behold the Dreamers
All This Could Be Different
Blame
Writers & Lovers
The Glass Hotel
Diary of a Void
Fellowship Point
Dept. of Speculation
Sea of Tranquility
Weather
The Sentence
French Braid
Exit West
Gender Queer: A Memoir
The Science Writers' Handbook: Everything You Need to Know to Pitch, Publish, and Prosper in the Digital Age
Writing That Gets Noticed: Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, Get Published
Body Work: The Radical Power of Personal Narrative
How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from the Moth
On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft (Reissue)
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
The Book Bible: How to Sell Your Manuscript--No Matter What Genre--Without Going Broke or Insane
The Business of Being a Writer
Writing Science in Plain English
The Renunciations: Poems
Letdown
These Trees, Those Leaves, This Flower, That Fruit: Poems
The Dark Honey: New & Used Poems
The Hurting Kind
Now Do You Know Where You Are
Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude
Worldly Things
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver
What Kind of Woman: Poems
The Life
All in a Day
I'll See You in the Morning
Dream Animals: A Bedtime Journey
Time for Bed Board Book
Polar Bear Night
Cool Beans: The Ultimate Guide to Cooking with the World's Most Versatile Plant-Based Protein, with 125 Recipes [A Cookbook]
Tartine Bread
Animal, Vegetable, Junk: A History of Food, from Sustainable to Suicidal: A Food Science Nutrition History Book
The Vegan Family Cookbook: Simple, Balanced Cooking for Real Life
Power Plates: 100 Nutritionally Balanced, One-Dish Vegan Meals [A Cookbook]
The No Meat Athlete Cookbook: Whole Food, Plant-Based Recipes to Fuel Your Workouts--And the Rest of Your Life
Fast Easy Cheap Vegan: 101 Recipes You Can Make in 30 Minutes or Less, for $10 or Less, and with 10 Ingredients or Less!
Whole Bowls: Complete Gluten-Free and Vegetarian Meals to Power Your Day
Salad Samurai: 100 Cutting-Edge, Ultra-Hearty, Easy-To-Make Salads You Don't Have to Be Vegan to Love
Living Lively: 80 Plant-Based Recipes to Activate Your Power and Feed Your Potential
The Complete Plant-Based Cookbook: 500 Inspired, Flexible Recipes for Eating Well Without Meat
Another
The Wonderful Things You Will Be
It Fell from the Sky
The Night Walk