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📚Biblio | Poetry Therapist ✍️ Author ‘Bibliotherapy in The Bronx’ 📖 🛋️ Diverse, Therapeutic Book Recommendations

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · Aug 29

five months today.🥹

it’s labor day weekend & my little one starts kindergarten on Tuesday!

Bibliotherapy in the Bronx was born from my therapy room, community rooms, and library stacks.

thank you for cheering me on while I support other authors and try to consistently champion my own work, too.

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 3h

This one goes out to all the tired parents open.substack.com/pub/literapy...

Buy the Suit: A Love Letter to Tired Moms Who Still Show Up (When We’d Rather be Napping)

Lately, I’ve been thinking about how often we prepare for everyone but ourselves.

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 3h

Buy the suit.
Invest in what makes you feel confident.

We spend so much time preparing for workshops, classes, and presentations so why not show up feeling as powerful as the work we do?

Here’s your reminder: you deserve to look as good as your purpose feels.

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 7h

Happy book birthday to two I’ve been waiting for all year: Writing, Creativity, and Soul by Sue Monk Kidd & Letter from Japan by Marie Kondo.

Sue reminds us, “Writing has a private function that serves our personal wholeness, and a public function that serves the wholeness of others.”

I agree🥰🙌🏾

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 2d

Heyyy boo!

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Frederick Smith, Ed.D. @fsmith827.bsky.social · 2d

The Black Romance podcast is essential listening for readers, writers, & fans of Black Romance novels.

Many of our favorites have been featured on it, which is building a research archive of the Black Romance genre. ✍🏾📚💕

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#Romancelandia #RomanceBookSky #BlackBookSky

Black Romance Podcast

The Black Romance Podcast features weekly conversations with Black writers, editors, and scholars of historical and contemporary popular romance fiction. Julie Moody-Freeman and guests talk about a ra...

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 2d

Hate when this happens to me 🫠😅

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 2d

My Mom just reminded me of the little red wagon I used to take on our library trips when I was little 🥹

This is so special because she was a teen Mom, my abuela raised me while she went to school, and now beautiful memories are flooding back of the time we’d spend together in the stacks. Good times

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 3d

Cuando me enteré que mi próxima entrevista sería completamente en español, I needed a little confidence boost so I listened to Terapia Literaria by Valentina Trava and Maura Gómez.

This book reminded me that reading heals.

As Guillermo Arriaga says, “Este libro es para ti, para mí, para todos.”

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 5d

🫶🏽🫶🏽🫶🏽

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 6d

Grateful to be recognized as one of the Influential Women featured on influentialwomen.com.

Their mission is to create a platform where women from all walks of life can connect, share, and inspire through storytelling and creative expression resonating deeply with my purpose and work.

Thank you!☺️

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 7d

I was 15 when Voodoo dropped and D’Angelo changed everything I thought music could be. Today, I’m holding both grief and gratitude for the artist who gave us sound as ceremony.

I’m revisiting D’Angelo’s Voodoo (33⅓, 144) by Faith A. Pennick ( bloomsburypublishing )

Rest in sound, D’Angelo. 🎙️🖤

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 10d

Rest in peace, Diane Keaton. Thank you for the art, the laughter, and the lessons. 🤍

📖 Let’s Just Say It Wasn’t Pretty remains one of my favorite reads — a love letter to imperfection, aging, and grace.

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 12d

RiseUp Springfield today 💛📚

Came in the night before to set up and left with my heart so full. I sold books, gave away free ones (thank you Penguin Young Readers!), and met the most inspiring educators, readers, and healers.

Grateful for every conversation, every hug, every “I needed this.” 💜

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 13d

If you’re a therapist licensed in the state of New York and you’ve authored a book on social work you can get 5 CEUs. You’re welcome ☺️📚🙌🏾

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 13d

Nah. The Scammer by Tiffany D. Jackson is a masterclass in psychological control for young readers! I’m hooked and I’m shook!

#booksky

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 17d

forgot to post on Poetry Day! I was busy reading Rickey Laurentiis’s Death of the First Idea (a lush, shape-shifting meditation on what it costs—and gives—to remake a life)!

poems that reinvent the lyric to tell the truth of a trans, Black self—ferocious, vulnerable, and lit with New Orleans light.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 17d

Two people let me know that they can no longer join our walking tour this Sunday. If you are in NYC and would like to come along, feel free to email me at [email protected] - www.eventbrite.com/e/1629102462... - they are generously offering their slots.

Black Abolitionists in NYC: A Walking Tour

Join Mariame Kaba on a walking tour about Black Abolitionists in New York City

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Martha Hickson @sassylibrarian.bsky.social · 18d

“Kim A. Snyder's powerful film exposes coordinated movements to fuel book bans, the criminalization of librarians and just how it affects youths nationwide.”

Black Student Says Having More Diverse Books Would've Made Her Feel 'More Comfortable' in Predominately White School

The new documentary 'The Librarians' exposes coordinated movements to fuel book bans, the criminalization of librarians and just how it affects youths nationwide.

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 18d

Excerpt from Bibliotherapy in the Bronx:

In the same vein of self-humanizing, artist Cardi B is known for reminding fans that she’d rather not be placed on anyone’s pedestal: “I’m just a regular, degular, shmegular girl from the Bronx.”

Cardi has sociologists and scholars archiving her impact💜📚

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 18d

Feeling so grateful to the National Library of Medicine’s Network of the National Library of Medicine for recommending Bibliotherapy in the Bronx in honor of #HealthLiteracy Month

Literature has the power to heal and transform and I’m thrilled that bibliotherapy is part of this conversation!

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 21d

✨ Last call, friends ✨

Today’s the last day to grab Bibliotherapy in the Bronx for 20% off on Bookshop!

Use code LHM25 at checkout!

It’s part of their Latine Heritage Month picks, which feels like such beautiful timing. Snag a copy, support your local indie bookstore, and celebrate w/me! #booksky

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 21d

Preparing for my workshop on Bibliotherapy for caregivers with RiseUp Springfield and stumbled upon some fascinating history about Martha’s Vineyard and its origins in the Deaf Community. Excited to learn more!

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 22d

Thank you Grace🥰🫶🏽

Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 22d

✨ Half a year in the wild — Bibliotherapy in the Bronx turns 6 months old today! 📚💛

AND the book is 20% off on Bookshop through Sept 30 for Latine Heritage Month — supporting indie bookstores!

Here’s to the first six months and all the chapters still to come. #booksky

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Em Rumble, LICSW @literapynyc.bsky.social · 23d

Join us today at 12:30pm for a FREE Sobremesa to discuss Bibliotherapy in the Bronx and The Pain We Carry | The Pain We Carry Workbook by Natalie Gutierrez hosted by chicana therapists Cyn and Sofia!

This conversation is going to be soul nourishing and we’d love you there!

RSVP Here: rb.gy/0jk0o8