Em Rumble, LICSW
@literapynyc.bsky.social
📚Biblio | Poetry Therapist
✍️ Author ‘Bibliotherapy in The Bronx’
📖 🛋️ Diverse, Therapeutic Book Recommendations
✍️ Author ‘Bibliotherapy in The Bronx’
📖 🛋️ Diverse, Therapeutic Book Recommendations
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Six months of Bibliotherapy in the Bronx 🙏🏽
Thank you for reading, sharing, and believing in the healing power of story with me!
Here’s to community, culture, and gratitude as we head into Puerto Rican Heritage Month 🇵🇷💛
Grab your copy today:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Biblio...
Thank you for reading, sharing, and believing in the healing power of story with me!
Here’s to community, culture, and gratitude as we head into Puerto Rican Heritage Month 🇵🇷💛
Grab your copy today:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Biblio...
Sometimes you have to let people know: “I know you’re grieving but I’m not your punching bag.”
Currently reading 🎧: The Unwritten Rules of Magic by Harper Ross pub date Jan 27 ‘26
Thank you Macmillan Audio for the gifted ALC 💙 #booksky
Currently reading 🎧: The Unwritten Rules of Magic by Harper Ross pub date Jan 27 ‘26
Thank you Macmillan Audio for the gifted ALC 💙 #booksky
November 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Sometimes you have to let people know: “I know you’re grieving but I’m not your punching bag.”
Currently reading 🎧: The Unwritten Rules of Magic by Harper Ross pub date Jan 27 ‘26
Thank you Macmillan Audio for the gifted ALC 💙 #booksky
Currently reading 🎧: The Unwritten Rules of Magic by Harper Ross pub date Jan 27 ‘26
Thank you Macmillan Audio for the gifted ALC 💙 #booksky
Had the honor of blurbing Exit Tickets by Kenneth Chanko, and y’all…this story took me right back into the heart of school social worker life in the BX🙌🏾
It’s messy, real, emotional, and so true to what it means to care for vulnerable kids in systems that don’t always know how to care for them back.
It’s messy, real, emotional, and so true to what it means to care for vulnerable kids in systems that don’t always know how to care for them back.
November 23, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Had the honor of blurbing Exit Tickets by Kenneth Chanko, and y’all…this story took me right back into the heart of school social worker life in the BX🙌🏾
It’s messy, real, emotional, and so true to what it means to care for vulnerable kids in systems that don’t always know how to care for them back.
It’s messy, real, emotional, and so true to what it means to care for vulnerable kids in systems that don’t always know how to care for them back.
With Love From Harlem by ReShonda Tate brings Hazel Scott to life.
As a therapist using narrative, Hazel’s brilliance, her resolve to not lose herself in Adam Clayton Powell’s shadow, her friendships, her art 😮💨every page is a reminder that reclaiming yourself is its own revolution. Coming Jan 27!
As a therapist using narrative, Hazel’s brilliance, her resolve to not lose herself in Adam Clayton Powell’s shadow, her friendships, her art 😮💨every page is a reminder that reclaiming yourself is its own revolution. Coming Jan 27!
November 22, 2025 at 5:23 PM
With Love From Harlem by ReShonda Tate brings Hazel Scott to life.
As a therapist using narrative, Hazel’s brilliance, her resolve to not lose herself in Adam Clayton Powell’s shadow, her friendships, her art 😮💨every page is a reminder that reclaiming yourself is its own revolution. Coming Jan 27!
As a therapist using narrative, Hazel’s brilliance, her resolve to not lose herself in Adam Clayton Powell’s shadow, her friendships, her art 😮💨every page is a reminder that reclaiming yourself is its own revolution. Coming Jan 27!
Cynthia Erivo’s Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much is the kind of memoir that reminds you why self-belief is 🔑
She shares her backstory as a Black British queer woman from South London and the tenacity it took for her to follow her dreams despite the haters.
She shares her backstory as a Black British queer woman from South London and the tenacity it took for her to follow her dreams despite the haters.
November 20, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Cynthia Erivo’s Simply More: A Book for Anyone Who Has Been Told They’re Too Much is the kind of memoir that reminds you why self-belief is 🔑
She shares her backstory as a Black British queer woman from South London and the tenacity it took for her to follow her dreams despite the haters.
She shares her backstory as a Black British queer woman from South London and the tenacity it took for her to follow her dreams despite the haters.
Meet Medusa before the myth fixes her in place. Young Meddy shines as a curious, brave, protagonist whose feminist lens sharpens with every betrayal, revelation, and act of courage.
This is Medusa reimagined with tenderness and power. She’s a girl becoming her own story and I love that for her 🐍
This is Medusa reimagined with tenderness and power. She’s a girl becoming her own story and I love that for her 🐍
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Meet Medusa before the myth fixes her in place. Young Meddy shines as a curious, brave, protagonist whose feminist lens sharpens with every betrayal, revelation, and act of courage.
This is Medusa reimagined with tenderness and power. She’s a girl becoming her own story and I love that for her 🐍
This is Medusa reimagined with tenderness and power. She’s a girl becoming her own story and I love that for her 🐍
Curtice invites us to become “story doulas,” tending to one another’s truths with care, witnessing, and kinship. She reminds us that some stories nourish connection… and some keep us stuck.
Reflection for you:
Which stories in your life feel ready to grow… and which might you be ready to release?
Reflection for you:
Which stories in your life feel ready to grow… and which might you be ready to release?
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Curtice invites us to become “story doulas,” tending to one another’s truths with care, witnessing, and kinship. She reminds us that some stories nourish connection… and some keep us stuck.
Reflection for you:
Which stories in your life feel ready to grow… and which might you be ready to release?
Reflection for you:
Which stories in your life feel ready to grow… and which might you be ready to release?
just finished The Seven Daughters of Dupree by Nikesha Williams (pub date: Jan 27) and I don’t think I’ve ever read a multigenerational story with intersecting timelines that I didn’t have to create a family tree for not once. This book shows why the bonds between Black women are so deeply spiritual
November 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
just finished The Seven Daughters of Dupree by Nikesha Williams (pub date: Jan 27) and I don’t think I’ve ever read a multigenerational story with intersecting timelines that I didn’t have to create a family tree for not once. This book shows why the bonds between Black women are so deeply spiritual
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It’s my stop on the #PRHeritageMonthBookstaTour and I’m highlighting Lily Anderson, a queer YA author of Afro-Puerto Rican descent! Anderson has 8 books & contributed to 3 anthologies, all w/ diverse characters.
#PRHeritageMonth #Booksky #LatineBooksky #LatinxBooksky
#PRHeritageMonth #Booksky #LatineBooksky #LatinxBooksky
November 15, 2025 at 5:56 PM
It’s my stop on the #PRHeritageMonthBookstaTour and I’m highlighting Lily Anderson, a queer YA author of Afro-Puerto Rican descent! Anderson has 8 books & contributed to 3 anthologies, all w/ diverse characters.
#PRHeritageMonth #Booksky #LatineBooksky #LatinxBooksky
#PRHeritageMonth #Booksky #LatineBooksky #LatinxBooksky
Rest in power, Alice Wong. 🕊️
The writer and visionary founder of the Disability Visibility Project has transitioned.
A communicator and a warrior who carved out space where none existed and insisted on a world where disabled people could tell their own stories, unapologetically and unfiltered.
The writer and visionary founder of the Disability Visibility Project has transitioned.
A communicator and a warrior who carved out space where none existed and insisted on a world where disabled people could tell their own stories, unapologetically and unfiltered.
November 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Rest in power, Alice Wong. 🕊️
The writer and visionary founder of the Disability Visibility Project has transitioned.
A communicator and a warrior who carved out space where none existed and insisted on a world where disabled people could tell their own stories, unapologetically and unfiltered.
The writer and visionary founder of the Disability Visibility Project has transitioned.
A communicator and a warrior who carved out space where none existed and insisted on a world where disabled people could tell their own stories, unapologetically and unfiltered.
Rumspringa Books is run by a fellow Smith SSW alum (and fellow Springfield transplant!) and getting to know Kate today was such a gift.
Sandwiched next to the delicious Nosh Café & Restaurant, the vibes are immaculate, warm, welcoming, and full of bookish magic.
Of course I left with a book!🥰
Sandwiched next to the delicious Nosh Café & Restaurant, the vibes are immaculate, warm, welcoming, and full of bookish magic.
Of course I left with a book!🥰
November 14, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Rumspringa Books is run by a fellow Smith SSW alum (and fellow Springfield transplant!) and getting to know Kate today was such a gift.
Sandwiched next to the delicious Nosh Café & Restaurant, the vibes are immaculate, warm, welcoming, and full of bookish magic.
Of course I left with a book!🥰
Sandwiched next to the delicious Nosh Café & Restaurant, the vibes are immaculate, warm, welcoming, and full of bookish magic.
Of course I left with a book!🥰
📖 Rec: Flesh & Spirit by Felipe Luciano, former Chairman of the Young Lords Party, poet, activist, and one of the key voices who helped transform El Barrio in the late 60s and 70s.
YL were a revolutionary Puerto Rican organization that was modeled after the Black Panther Party. Happy PR Heritage Mo
YL were a revolutionary Puerto Rican organization that was modeled after the Black Panther Party. Happy PR Heritage Mo
November 14, 2025 at 2:34 PM
📖 Rec: Flesh & Spirit by Felipe Luciano, former Chairman of the Young Lords Party, poet, activist, and one of the key voices who helped transform El Barrio in the late 60s and 70s.
YL were a revolutionary Puerto Rican organization that was modeled after the Black Panther Party. Happy PR Heritage Mo
YL were a revolutionary Puerto Rican organization that was modeled after the Black Panther Party. Happy PR Heritage Mo
Today on World Kindness Day, my heart is full.
I want to extend my deepest gratitude to Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani, founder of the Mindvalley Book Club, for such a thoughtful and generous conversation this morning.
Here’s to kindness: in our stories, in our communities, and life!
I want to extend my deepest gratitude to Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani, founder of the Mindvalley Book Club, for such a thoughtful and generous conversation this morning.
Here’s to kindness: in our stories, in our communities, and life!
November 13, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Today on World Kindness Day, my heart is full.
I want to extend my deepest gratitude to Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani, founder of the Mindvalley Book Club, for such a thoughtful and generous conversation this morning.
Here’s to kindness: in our stories, in our communities, and life!
I want to extend my deepest gratitude to Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani, founder of the Mindvalley Book Club, for such a thoughtful and generous conversation this morning.
Here’s to kindness: in our stories, in our communities, and life!
I’m happy to share that Bibliotherapy in the Bronx has been selected as Book of the Week by MindValley Bookclub 🥰🙌🏾 Thank you!
Join me this Thursday, November 13th at 10 AM EST for a live book talk with the incredible Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani!
🔗 Tune in live: riverside.fm/studio/krist...
Join me this Thursday, November 13th at 10 AM EST for a live book talk with the incredible Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani!
🔗 Tune in live: riverside.fm/studio/krist...
November 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I’m happy to share that Bibliotherapy in the Bronx has been selected as Book of the Week by MindValley Bookclub 🥰🙌🏾 Thank you!
Join me this Thursday, November 13th at 10 AM EST for a live book talk with the incredible Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani!
🔗 Tune in live: riverside.fm/studio/krist...
Join me this Thursday, November 13th at 10 AM EST for a live book talk with the incredible Kristina Mänd-Lakhiani!
🔗 Tune in live: riverside.fm/studio/krist...
Through memoir, social science, and storytelling, KIN invites us to see friendship, caregiving, and collective living as revolutionary acts of love.
✨ One of my favorite quotes:
“It is possible to create a community where we reflexively turn to our closest people, not away from them.”
#booksky
✨ One of my favorite quotes:
“It is possible to create a community where we reflexively turn to our closest people, not away from them.”
#booksky
November 11, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Through memoir, social science, and storytelling, KIN invites us to see friendship, caregiving, and collective living as revolutionary acts of love.
✨ One of my favorite quotes:
“It is possible to create a community where we reflexively turn to our closest people, not away from them.”
#booksky
✨ One of my favorite quotes:
“It is possible to create a community where we reflexively turn to our closest people, not away from them.”
#booksky
“It’s within the broader erasure of women’s complex lives that economic anxiety tied to masculinity is treated as a serious, rational political issue, while the material conditions that shape women’s lives—access to abortion, SNAP, Medicare, Medicaid—are relegated to the category of ‘social issues’”
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
“It’s within the broader erasure of women’s complex lives that economic anxiety tied to masculinity is treated as a serious, rational political issue, while the material conditions that shape women’s lives—access to abortion, SNAP, Medicare, Medicaid—are relegated to the category of ‘social issues’”
Congratulations to my sis on Root Warriors and Hoodoo Saints.
This work is an act of remembrance and resistance. Mawiyah honors the resilience, and ancestral wisdom that sustained Black and Brown communities for generations while bringing to life the stories of Hoodoo Saints with deep reverence.
This work is an act of remembrance and resistance. Mawiyah honors the resilience, and ancestral wisdom that sustained Black and Brown communities for generations while bringing to life the stories of Hoodoo Saints with deep reverence.
November 9, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Congratulations to my sis on Root Warriors and Hoodoo Saints.
This work is an act of remembrance and resistance. Mawiyah honors the resilience, and ancestral wisdom that sustained Black and Brown communities for generations while bringing to life the stories of Hoodoo Saints with deep reverence.
This work is an act of remembrance and resistance. Mawiyah honors the resilience, and ancestral wisdom that sustained Black and Brown communities for generations while bringing to life the stories of Hoodoo Saints with deep reverence.
Had the best friend date yesterday at Hardwick Vineyard and Winery 🥰 🍷
Nothing rejuvenates me more than time with my girls!
Nothing rejuvenates me more than time with my girls!
November 9, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Had the best friend date yesterday at Hardwick Vineyard and Winery 🥰 🍷
Nothing rejuvenates me more than time with my girls!
Nothing rejuvenates me more than time with my girls!
Two sisters navigating their fathers advancing Alzheimer’s and the novel is written so beautifully 🥹😮💨
Shoutout to Macmillan Audio for the ALC (pub date 12/2). This is fiction written to help us cope with real life hurdles and I’m loving this one.
Shoutout to Macmillan Audio for the ALC (pub date 12/2). This is fiction written to help us cope with real life hurdles and I’m loving this one.
November 7, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Two sisters navigating their fathers advancing Alzheimer’s and the novel is written so beautifully 🥹😮💨
Shoutout to Macmillan Audio for the ALC (pub date 12/2). This is fiction written to help us cope with real life hurdles and I’m loving this one.
Shoutout to Macmillan Audio for the ALC (pub date 12/2). This is fiction written to help us cope with real life hurdles and I’m loving this one.
Our community of professionals using Bibliotherapy in practice is so dope! You should join us!
Gain access to years’ worth of content, insights, interventions and book lists for your practice.
CR: The Fantasies of Future Things by Doug Jones 🥹
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Gain access to years’ worth of content, insights, interventions and book lists for your practice.
CR: The Fantasies of Future Things by Doug Jones 🥹
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November 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Our community of professionals using Bibliotherapy in practice is so dope! You should join us!
Gain access to years’ worth of content, insights, interventions and book lists for your practice.
CR: The Fantasies of Future Things by Doug Jones 🥹
Subscribe: literapynyc.podia.com/literapy-nyc...
Gain access to years’ worth of content, insights, interventions and book lists for your practice.
CR: The Fantasies of Future Things by Doug Jones 🥹
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There’s something special about a story with a detour that ends with belonging. In The Forget-Me-Not Library Juliet’s road trip lands her in a small Alabama town where books hold memories and healing comes through unexpected connections.
Juliet is running from her grief until she’s can’t anymore🥹
Juliet is running from her grief until she’s can’t anymore🥹
November 5, 2025 at 1:58 PM
There’s something special about a story with a detour that ends with belonging. In The Forget-Me-Not Library Juliet’s road trip lands her in a small Alabama town where books hold memories and healing comes through unexpected connections.
Juliet is running from her grief until she’s can’t anymore🥹
Juliet is running from her grief until she’s can’t anymore🥹
This powerful and necessary biography restores the legacy of Audley Moore: an influential yet too often overlooked figure in the Black radical tradition.
As someone who identifies as both African American and Puerto Rican, I especially loved reading about Moore’s solidarity with Puerto Rico!
As someone who identifies as both African American and Puerto Rican, I especially loved reading about Moore’s solidarity with Puerto Rico!
November 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
This powerful and necessary biography restores the legacy of Audley Moore: an influential yet too often overlooked figure in the Black radical tradition.
As someone who identifies as both African American and Puerto Rican, I especially loved reading about Moore’s solidarity with Puerto Rico!
As someone who identifies as both African American and Puerto Rican, I especially loved reading about Moore’s solidarity with Puerto Rico!
Happy Book Birthday to Black-Owned by Char Adams!
As someone who finds home in bookstores, I love seeing this history continue to get its flowers.
Black-Owned reminds us that Black bookstores have always been more than places to buy books. Black bookstores are sacred community hubs.
As someone who finds home in bookstores, I love seeing this history continue to get its flowers.
Black-Owned reminds us that Black bookstores have always been more than places to buy books. Black bookstores are sacred community hubs.
November 4, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Happy Book Birthday to Black-Owned by Char Adams!
As someone who finds home in bookstores, I love seeing this history continue to get its flowers.
Black-Owned reminds us that Black bookstores have always been more than places to buy books. Black bookstores are sacred community hubs.
As someone who finds home in bookstores, I love seeing this history continue to get its flowers.
Black-Owned reminds us that Black bookstores have always been more than places to buy books. Black bookstores are sacred community hubs.
This month in our free book club, Readers Who Run with the Wolves, we’re reading The Fantasies of Future Things by Doug Jones.
This novel is a tender, evocative story about love, grief, and the courage it takes to reimagine your own narrative.
Join us on fable:
fable.co/club/readers...
This novel is a tender, evocative story about love, grief, and the courage it takes to reimagine your own narrative.
Join us on fable:
fable.co/club/readers...
November 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
This month in our free book club, Readers Who Run with the Wolves, we’re reading The Fantasies of Future Things by Doug Jones.
This novel is a tender, evocative story about love, grief, and the courage it takes to reimagine your own narrative.
Join us on fable:
fable.co/club/readers...
This novel is a tender, evocative story about love, grief, and the courage it takes to reimagine your own narrative.
Join us on fable:
fable.co/club/readers...
Sisters, this is your reminder to schedule your annual Pap smear and mammogram. It took me 5 years since the medical trauma of birthing a baby during 2020 but I’m back to taking my own care seriously 💪🏽
Go book those appointments, ya’ll! We need you WELL. 🫶🏽
Go book those appointments, ya’ll! We need you WELL. 🫶🏽
October 29, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Sisters, this is your reminder to schedule your annual Pap smear and mammogram. It took me 5 years since the medical trauma of birthing a baby during 2020 but I’m back to taking my own care seriously 💪🏽
Go book those appointments, ya’ll! We need you WELL. 🫶🏽
Go book those appointments, ya’ll! We need you WELL. 🫶🏽
Six months of Bibliotherapy in the Bronx 🙏🏽
Thank you for reading, sharing, and believing in the healing power of story with me!
Here’s to community, culture, and gratitude as we head into Puerto Rican Heritage Month 🇵🇷💛
Grab your copy today:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Biblio...
Thank you for reading, sharing, and believing in the healing power of story with me!
Here’s to community, culture, and gratitude as we head into Puerto Rican Heritage Month 🇵🇷💛
Grab your copy today:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Biblio...
October 29, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Six months of Bibliotherapy in the Bronx 🙏🏽
Thank you for reading, sharing, and believing in the healing power of story with me!
Here’s to community, culture, and gratitude as we head into Puerto Rican Heritage Month 🇵🇷💛
Grab your copy today:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Biblio...
Thank you for reading, sharing, and believing in the healing power of story with me!
Here’s to community, culture, and gratitude as we head into Puerto Rican Heritage Month 🇵🇷💛
Grab your copy today:
www.simonandschuster.com/books/Biblio...