Trauma Healing

Recommended Reading on Trauma

  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D.

  • ​Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine

  • Mindsight by Dan Siegel, M.D. 

  • Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory by Deb Dana

  • Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Kristin Neff

  • ​The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting by Alice Miller

  • The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment by Babette Rothschild

  • Getting Past your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy byFrancine Shapiro

  • The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris 

  • The Heart of Trauma by Bonnie Badenoch and Stephen Porges

  • Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker

  • ‍Healing Trauma by Peter Levine

  • ​​Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice by Judith Herman

  • The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color by Natalie Gutierrez 

  • My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem 

  • The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice by Staci K. Haines

  • Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence- From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Herman

  • Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft

  • Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life: Life-Changing Tools for Healthy Relationships by Marshall Rosenberg

  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal From Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

  • It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn

  • Coping with Trauma Related Dissociation by Suzette Boon, Kathy Steele, and Onno van der Hart 

  • Dissociation made simple by Jamie Marich