Nicole Perry Livres

Finding Gratitude is a visually stunning book filled with approximately 80 different ways to find gratitude in everyday life. Each spread features a beautiful full-color image, mirrored by the subject and reach of gratitude on the opposite page.

Set boundaries to sustain yourself and your counselling practice Setting healthy boundaries. It’s a central theme in many counselling sessions, yet something that therapists often struggle to do for themselves. In a profession that is motivated by a desire to help others and relieve suffering, the pressure is always there for therapists to put others’ needs before their own. For registered psychologist Nicole Perry, the conversation around therapists’ own needs is conspicuously missing. When these needs are not addressed, therapists are left vulnerable to potential career- and life-altering outcomes like burnout and vicarious trauma. It’s time to think about boundaries that contemplate the therapist in a wholistic way, addressing not only their professional responsibilities, but their limits, needs, and values. Taking a somatic and feminist approach, Nicole leads readers down a self-reflective path to practical boundaries that nurture them as people first, therapists second: boundaries that are essential for building and sustaining a long and vibrant career in counselling.

The book examines the historical enforcement of a Kansas law that allowed the state to detain over 5,000 women for having venereal diseases, primarily during the early 20th century. It highlights the gendered nature of the law's application, as women made up a significant majority of those incarcerated at the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women. The narrative reveals how these women were subjected to moral reform and public health strategies that reflected societal norms of respectability. Nicole Perry's research uncovers the voices of activists, professionals, and inmates, critiquing a public health policy rooted in gender, race, and class biases.