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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

This week I wrote about something that felt surprisingly vulnerable: asking another woman, “Do you want to be friends?”T...
06/04/2026

This week I wrote about something that felt surprisingly vulnerable: asking another woman, “Do you want to be friends?”

The experience reminded me how few of us are ever taught how to make, nurture, and recognize true friendship as adults.

That’s exactly why Wale and I created Prose in Process, our six-week bibliotherapy experience centered on Love by the Book by Jessica George.

Together, we’ll explore friendship, vulnerability, connection, and how to know when you’ve found a genuine friend.

✨ June 6–July 18
✨ Guided workbook included
✨ Weekly discussion prompts
✨ Private discussion community
✨ One live virtual bibliotherapy session

Only 4 seats remain.

Read the full essay at the LiterapyNYC.substack.com and if you’re ready for deeper reflection and meaningful connection, we’d love to have you join us!

Link to join us in profile 🤗

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How do you know when you’ve made a true friend?Not an acquaintance.Not someone you’ve known forever.Not someone who occa...
06/03/2026

How do you know when you’ve made a true friend?

Not an acquaintance.
Not someone you’ve known forever.
Not someone who occasionally checks in.

A real friend.

Most of us were never taught how to recognize healthy friendship, nurture it, or repair it when it changes. We learn how to date, how to work, and how to achieve—but friendship is often left to chance.

That’s why we created Prose in Process, a six-week bibliotherapy experience centered on Love by the Book by Jessica George.

Together, we’ll use the evolving friendship between Remy and Simone as a mirror to explore our own relationships and ask important questions:

💛 What makes someone trustworthy?

💛 What does reciprocity actually look like?

💛 What’s the difference between history and friendship?

💛 How do we know when a relationship is nourishing us?

💛 How do we become the kind of friend we hope to find?

This is more than a book club.

It’s a guided literary experience by two Black, Licensed therapists specializing in Bibliotherapy that combines reading, reflection, expressive writing, and community discussion to help you better understand yourself and your relationships.

✨ June 6 – July 18

✨ $180 investment

✨ Guided bibliotherapy workbook included

✨ Weekly discussion prompts and reflection activities

✨ Private discussion community

✨ One live virtual bibliotherapy session with Emely & Wale (date selected by participant vote)

📚 Participants are responsible for obtaining their own copy of Love by the Book by Jessica George.

Only 5 seats remain.

If you’ve been craving deeper conversations, meaningful reflection, and a clearer understanding of what friendship feels like when it’s healthy and real, we’d love to have you join us.

Because sometimes the most important thing a book teaches us isn’t how to understand a character.

It’s how to understand ourselves.

🔗 Sign up at the link in bio.





Thank you to .audio for the gifted ALC of Long Island Girls by Gabrielle Korn. Pub date: June 23This novel follows Susan...
05/31/2026

Thank you to .audio for the gifted ALC of Long Island Girls by Gabrielle Korn. Pub date: June 23

This novel follows Susan and Eliza, two women whose lives remain tethered to a high school friendship and a past they never fully got over.

After years apart, their reunion brings long-buried secrets to the surface and reveals just how much gets lost when silence, loyalty, and unresolved pain shape the stories we tell ourselves.

I like how this story explores the way we can become so focused on a person who represents our unfinished business that we neglect our own healing. Susan spends so much time looking backward toward Eliza, (toward high school, toward the questions she never got answers to) that she struggles to imagine a life beyond the confines of her past.

I found myself rooting for her growth, especially as she began expanding her world beyond New York and creating space to discover who she was outside of this relationship.

If you’ve ever wondered what happens when the person who haunts your memories walks back into your life, Long Island Girls explores it - heartbreak, loyalty, and the work of returning to the places where we were once hurt to stop repeating harmful patterns.

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💭: What is a book teaching you to practice in your real life right now?Today looked like seeing therapy clients, running...
05/30/2026

💭: What is a book teaching you to practice in your real life right now?

Today looked like seeing therapy clients, running errands, and making time for a little reading in between.

I stopped by Olive Tree Books-N-Voices to pick up a copy of Score because the one I ordered was delayed and I just couldn’t wait any longer!

On the way home, I bought my husband roses.

One of the things I learned from Monk’s character is that men need to be *actively* loved on, too.

Not just appreciated.
Not just relied upon.
Not just expected to show up.

Loved on. (The real ones)!

Throughout the novel, Monk shows his love through action, consistency, and care. As Verity becomes vulnerable enough to share her mental health challenges with him, he doesn’t pull away.

He leans in. He listens. He pays attention.
He loves her in ways both big and small.

Reading his character reminded me that love isn’t something we only receive. It’s something we practice.

So today, I bought the flowers.

Because the best books don’t just entertain us. They invite us to reflect on our own lives and ask: What do I want to do differently because I read this?

That’s why I created the READ Framework for bibliotherapy:

📖 Reflect
📖 Engage
📖 Apply
📖 Do

Because the goal isn’t simply to finish the book.

The goal is to let the book change the way you move through the world.

You can download the READ Framework at the link in my bio. Let me know how it supports your reading practice!

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Have you read any books lately that made you feel seen in your current season of life?One of my favorite things to do as...
05/30/2026

Have you read any books lately that made you feel seen in your current season of life?

One of my favorite things to do as a bibliotherapist is gift books to people I love.

For a close friend’s birthday, I gifted In My Remaining Years by Jean Grae because it feels like sitting across from your funniest, smartest, most brutally honest friend while talking about what it actually means to be 40+ and still figuring things out.

I appreciated how Jean Grae challenges the idea that coming-of-age stories belong only to the young. This collection reminds us that growth doesn’t end at 18, 25, or even 40. We are constantly becoming.

With humor, vulnerability, and sharp cultural observations, she writes about aging, identity, family, community, and the strange realization that some of the questions we thought we’d answer by now are still unfolding.

As someone who recently turned 40 and still struggles to strike an internal balance, I found so much freedom in that truth.

Maybe wisdom isn’t having it all figured out.
Maybe wisdom is learning to laugh, reflect, and keep becoming anyway.

Save & share this book recommendation with someone who would love it!

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Bookclub 📣: As we close the book on The Seven Daughters of Dupree and step into June’s selection, Kin by Tayari Jones, I...
05/30/2026

Bookclub 📣: As we close the book on The Seven Daughters of Dupree and step into June’s selection, Kin by Tayari Jones, I’ve been thinking about inheritance.

Not the kind measured in money or property.

The kind carried in our bodies.

The stories we were told.
The stories we weren’t.
The grief that never got named.
The survival strategies that became family traditions.
The love that protected us.
The wounds that followed us.

One of the gifts of reading is that books often help us recognize something we’ve been carrying long before we had language for it.

That’s why I created the READ Framework.

Because sometimes the most important question isn’t “Did I enjoy this book?”

It’s:

💭: What did this book help me understand about myself?

As we begin Kin in June, I invite you to read with curiosity.

Reflect on what has been handed to you.
Engage with what the story stirs up.
Apply what resonates.
Do something with what you’ve discovered.

Reading can be entertainment.

But it can also be a form of witnessing.
A form of remembering.
A form of healing.

If you’d like a companion for that journey, download my free READ Framework at the link in my bio.

I’d love to know: What is something you inherited from your family that you’re choosing to keep or choosing to release?

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“All I’d ever have of him is what we already had. It wasn’t enough, but it was so much.”That line from Waiting on a Frie...
05/29/2026

“All I’d ever have of him is what we already had. It wasn’t enough, but it was so much.”

That line from Waiting on a Friend by Natalie Adler stopped me in my tracks because it captures something so true about grief: sometimes the deepest heartbreak is realizing there will never be more time, more conversations, more memories added to what already exists. And yet, what did exist still changed your life forever.

This novel holds the grief of losing a once-in-a-lifetime friendship with such tenderness and honesty. Renata and Mark’s bond feels sacred in the way the most meaningful friendships often do: the people who become home to us, witnesses to our becoming, the ones we assume will always be there beside us.

Set against the AIDS crisis and a disappearing q***r New York, this story also becomes an act of remembrance. A refusal to let people, communities, and histories be erased. As a bibliotherapist, I kept thinking about how grief is not only about mourning a person, but mourning a version of the world that existed when they were alive in it.

Heartbreaking, magical, angry, loving, and deeply human. This is a book about ghosts in every sense of the word and about what it means to keep loving people after they’re gone.


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If you’re someone who reads for mental health, relational healing, and self-understanding, I really think this is a book...
05/27/2026

If you’re someone who reads for mental health, relational healing, and self-understanding, I really think this is a book worth picking up this summer.

Attuned and Attached by Yolanda Renteria feels like the kind of book you underline heavily because it keeps putting language to things you’ve felt but maybe never fully knew how to explain.

I always tell my clients relationships are one of the biggest challenges for personal growth in life. Why? Because they require self-honesty, self-reflection, courage and growth. Our relationships with others are born from our relationship with ourselves.

And our relationship with ourselves is formed by early childhood attachments and experiences. This book is one of the best out there for reflecting on your own journey and how your childhood has shaped how you show up in relationships.

“The problem isn’t feeling sad; the problem is not experiencing enough happiness.”

As a therapist, I really appreciated that reminder and others in the text like it. So many people think healing means never feeling difficult emotions again when really the goal is learning how to create more internal balance. More joy. More connection. More safety. More room for yourself to exist fully.

I also appreciated how approachable this book feels. You do not have to be a therapist to follow it. Renteria talks about attachment wounds, hyper-independence, perfectionism, people-pleasing, emotional distance all in a way that feels compassionate instead of shaming.

She keeps reminding the reader that these patterns are often survival strategies, not personal failures.

And I deeply appreciated her inclusion of neurodiversity and the ways different nervous systems experience connection and relationships.

If you’re someone craving more internal balance and craving having enough safety, joy, connection, rest, accountability, and self-understanding to hold the full complexity of being human, this one is for you!

Congratulations - happy book birthday comadre! 🎉

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