Got my first book recommendation from a new student today so naturally I added the book to our bookshelf ☺️ 📚 #booksky

Yesterday was an amazing day and perfect way to kick off my birthday weekend. I had the honor of being in conversation with Professor Pryor and giving her much deserved flowers in a room full of beautiful souls. It’s moments like this, in community, that I’m reminded of the true healing power of 📚

I cannot wait to speak with Dr. Stordeur Pryor at Rumspringa Books in Springfield, MA tomorrow night at 6pm ET. Grab your tix and meet us there! Springfield MA come through and show some love. If you’re in the surrounding areas come hang with us 📚 #booksky www.rumspringabooks.com/events

We be saying yes to so much we oughta say NO to. This book does a great job of exploring why! Pub Date: Sept 15 #booksky

Today is the final day to get 20% off StoryHeal. I created StoryHeal for readers who know that books do more than entertain us. They help us recognize ourselves & make sense of experiences. You’ll learn how to notice why stories stayed with you and connect the story to life. studio.com/literapy

Every Story Changes Us. Learn to Notice How. | A guided reading, writing, and reflection practice to improve your life

An App By Emely Rumble — Licensed therapist specializing in biblio poetry therapy, guiding readers to self-understanding and emotional healing through literature.

studio.com

This novel keeps it so real about what happens when women in the Black church are expected to sanctify their own suffering. Schar is one of the most honest narrators I’ve read in a long time. She is done shrinking herself to fit the suffocating role of First Lady. Done betraying herself 🙌🏾 #booksky

Reading is only the beginning. Every reader brings an entire life to the story. In my latest Substack, I’m sharing more about what happens when a passage stays with us and we pause long enough to ask: Why this? Why now? What might this be showing me about my own life? literapynyc.substack.com

Loving the feedback we are hearing about StoryHeal and how chic it feels to read for well-being while feeling supported. There are 6 more days to take advantage of 20% off the app! Tell a friend to tell a book loving friend 🥰 📚 #booksky studio.com/literapy

StoryHeal is the first ever Bibliotherapy app created by a licensed therapist. This isn’t therapy, and you don’t need to know anything about bibliotherapy to begin. You just need a story and a willingness to get curious about what happens when it meets you. 🔗 under my profile pic. #booksky

Officially made it through my first week ack to full time work and launched the first ever Bibliotherapy app while I was at it. Never let anyone diminish your dreams. StoryHeal is out now and Studio is running a 20% off promotional discount now through Sept 13. #booksky studio.com/literapy

StoryHeal is the first ever Bibliotherapy app created by a licensed therapist. This isn’t therapy, and you don’t need to know anything about bibliotherapy to begin. You just need a story and a willingness to get curious about what happens when it meets you. 🔗 under my profile pic. #booksky

I’ve spent years thinking about what happens between a reader and a story. And I’ve been building something to help you do exactly that. StoryHeal. A way to explore the connection between the stories you read and the story you’re living. Every story changes us. Tomorrow. 9.1.26. #booksky

Sometimes a book helps us see something or name it. Maybe a story helps you imagine another way of being. This is where reflection becomes connection. Not just: What did this story make me think about? But: What does what I noticed mean for the way I want to live? Story → Self → Life #books

I love when social workers write books about all the creative ways we help people heal. Can’t wait to get into this one. Shout out to Springfield Ma Public Library! #booksky

Reading can become a conversation between the story on the page and the story you’re living. A character’s choices can make us think about our own. A fictional family can remind us of what we inherited. Reflection is the moment we ask: What am I learning about me? 3 more days until the reveal 🤗

I don’t believe every answer is waiting for us inside a book. I do believe books can help us ask better questions. Why feels familiar? What does this story make me reconsider? Sometimes the question we carry away from a book matters just as much as the book itself. Keep asking. 9.1.26 #booksky

Sometimes the most important part of reading isn’t what happened in the story but what happened inside of you while reading. The character you couldn’t stand. The relationship you found yourself defending. Before we try to explain it we can simply notice. What did this story bring up? 9.1.26

You know the sentence that makes you stop reading. You underline it. Maybe you take a picture or send to a friend. But what happens after you underline it? What if, instead of only asking What does this passage mean? we also asked: Why did this mean something to me? Something is coming 9.1.26.

One of Dolly’s greatest legacies will always be the Imagination Library. When I worked in NYC schools, I used to sign my students up to receive free books through the program. I saw firsthand what it meant for children to have books of their very own arriving at home. Love this book about her life

The main thing I’m learning in The Brand as Craft course I’m taking with Yahdon Israel is that it’s not just about sharing my work as a (biblio)therapist but sharing the how behind the technique. I created a framework anyone can use for reading to heal. literapynyc.podia.com/the-r-e-a-d-...

The R.E.A.D. Framework

literapynyc.podia.com

Happy book bday to Take What You Can 🎉 Some books ask you to slow down and this def was one of them. I kept putting sticky notes in the margins because the questions this novel raises about friendship, motherhood, grief, were evocative. Stories like this one are why I created the READ framework.

As a full grown adult, I highly recommend a trip to the arcade. A trip to anywhere that reminds you to honor and play with your inner child does the spirit good 🙃 #therapistlife

“The human toll on our profession has been devastating. Librarians are being stalked, harassed, fired, and driven from their careers.” publishingperspectives.com/2026/07/cens...

Censorship and the Role of Librarians in the Fight for Democracy - Publishing Perspectives

Last month, U.S. librarian Amanda Jones delivered a keynote to the Libraries Connected annual symposium in the U.K., where she spoke about the importance of defending the freedom to read.

publishingperspectives.com

I read Ghalen by Walter Mosley twice and it still gave me something new the second time around with the audiobook narration. A beautiful meditation on Black family, Black love, and what it means to move through the world at the intersection of Blackness, manhood, and neurodivergence. #booksky

I cannot recommend this book enough. Made me a bit teary reading it because I realized the friendships that have endured through the motherhood season practice so many of the principles and bids for connection outlined. Sometimes we just need to widen our lens and this book helps us show up better🤌🏽

Traci Saulsberry wrote a love letter to the overthinking Black girl and it comes out Aug 4. If that’s you and/or if you are in recovery you’re truly going to enjoy This Is How You Love Her. And by Her- she means you! Took my time with this one. Now naturally I need a new journal 🤌🏽🥰 📚 #booksky

March 2 2027 Percival drops another one! Black musician? Harlem vibes? Count us in🤗 #booksky

Colson effortlessly makes NYC feel like a character with a pulse. The city breathes, reinvents itself, wears people down, and somehow keeps calling them home. Carney is older now but Whitehead never lets us believe the past is something we leave behind. This story is about how we carry our history.

I’m in tears before I make it to ch 3. “There’s no one in there,” doctors told his family, a sentence that too many parents of autistic children have heard. Reminded that our job isn’t to decide what’s possible for our children but to give them every chance to become who they are. Pub date: 8/11

Today my 6 year old got her very first library card 🔖 🥹 Libraries are one of the few places that ask nothing of us except our curiosity. Here’s to the beginning of a lifelong relationship with stories! #librarysky