A note about contacting me

Hello. Thank you for your interest in sending me a letter. I’ve set up a special email for readers, at: tarajanewestover@gmail.com.

I’ve had a wonderful time these last few years meeting readers and hearing their stories. Currently, I am trying to pull back a little and create a healthy space for myself. For that reason, and because of the quantity of emails that I receive, I am not able to respond to individual letters, but I am always grateful to receive them.

I wrote the book hoping that my experiences might be of some use to other people, living other lives in other places. Thank you for taking the time to read it, and to write to me, if you do. 

Wishing you a peaceful path,

Tara

 

PS - If you read Educated and found it helpful in thinking through difficult personal situations, below are a list of books, poems and lectures that helped me. Perhaps they will be helpful to you, too.

With these kinds of books I always recommend starting with just a few pages. If it speaks to you, keep reading. If not, move on to the next one until you find something that does. Something will.

  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk (also, listen to conversation with Bessel Van der Kolk and Ezra Klein that took place on The Ezra Klein Show, 8/24/21)

  • Playing with Reality, by Donald Winnicott

  • Trauma and Recovery and Truth and Repair by Judith Herman

  • An Examined Life, by Stephen Grosz

  • Codependent No More, Melody Beattie

  • The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller (the title always makes me wince but it’s worth pushing through it)

  • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine with Ann Frederick

  • Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors by Janina Fisher

  • Internal Family Systems Therapy by Richard C. Schwartz and Martha Sweezy

  • Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel S.F. Heller

  • Three Essays on Religion by John Stuart Mill

  • The Poetry of Self Compassion, a lecture by David Whyte, available here

  • Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal by Jeanette Winterson

  • The Journey and Wild Geese by Mary Oliver

  • Youtube lectures on narcissistic family roles by Dr. Ramani. Available here.

  • And these songs: On the Nature of Daylight by Max Richter and Song from a Secret Garden


 
 
 

Other contact info

 
 

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