Tracy’s Favorites

Books

  • Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb
  • How To Love by Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Music

  • Fleetwood Mac, Frank Sinatra, The Beatles

Hobbies

  • Writing, reading, cooking, baking, and painting

Places

  • Anywhere by the water

Svetlana’s Favorites

Books

  • Hold Me Tight / Seven Conversations for a LIFETIME of LOVE Dr. Sue Johnson
  • When breath becomes air by Paul Kalanithi
  • The Language of Emotions by Karla McLaren
  • The body keeps the score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD
  • What Makes Love Last by Dr. John Gottman, Ph.D. and Nan Silver

Music

  • Sade, Frank Sinatra, NF, Artik & Asti

Hobbies

  • Writing, traveling, baking, weight training, and gardening

Rainuka’s Favorites

Books

  • I Know This Much is True by Wally Lamb
  • East of Eden by John Steinbeck
  • Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyun
  • And any epic fantasy novel I can get my hands on!

Music

  • Bob Marley, Lauryn Hill, Bjork, David Bowie, Oasis, Beyonce, Tool

Hobbies

  • Bingeing on a good TV show, reading, camping with the family and painting when the mood is right.

Gabi’s Favorites

Books

  • Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
  • The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
  • Mindset by Carol Dweck

Music

  • Frank Ocean, Beyonce, John Legend, and Enrique Iglesias

Hobbies

  • Baking chocolate chip banana bread, going to Orangetheory, and trying fish tacos across different restaurants in San Diego

Kathy’s Favorites

Books

  • Tiny Beautiful Things by Cheryl Strayed
  • A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
  • We Ride Upon Sticks by Quan Barry
  • Mountains beyond Mountains by Tracy Kidder

Music

  • Bad Buny, Tom Waits, Beyonce, Florence and the Machine, Queen

Hobbies

  • Knitting, hiking, dancing, baking.

Rebecca’s Favorites

Books

  • This is the End of Something But It’s Not the End of You by Adam Gnade
  • How to Set Yourself on Fire by Julia Dixon Evans
  • Anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

Music

  • Dead Can Dance, The Cure, New Order, IDLES, Chelsea Wolfe

Hobbies

  • Hiking, traveling anywhere and everywhere, photography, tending to my plants, cuddling with and receiving “purr therapy” from my cats, and I can sometimes be seen/heard playing in weird goth and metal bands around town.