Some Books That Have Been Helpful On My Journey
1. Burke-Harris, N. The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity.
2. Campbell, J. The Hero With a Thousand Faces
3. Chödrön, P. When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times
4. Davis, Laura. The Burning Light of Two Stars: A Mother-Daughter Story. Girl Friday Books, 2021.
5. Delgado, J.L. Andean Awakening
6. Duran, E. Healing the Soul Wound: Trauma-Informed Counseling for Indigenous Communities
7. Frankl, V., Man’s Search For Meaning
8. Fraser, S., My Father’s House: A Memoir of Incest and of Healing
9. Herman, J., Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence—From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror.
10. Hübl, T. Healing Collective Trauma: a process for integrating our intergenerational and cultural wounds.
11. Hyman, J.W., I Am More Than One: How Women with Dissociative Identity Disorder Have Found Success in Life and Work.
12. Kimmerer, R. W., Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants.
13. Lesser, E., Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow.
14. Levine, P. Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma and In An Unspoken Voice, How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness.
15. Marks, J., The Search For The Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control, The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences.
16. Menakem, R., My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies.
17. Miller, A., The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting.
18. Nakasawa, D.J., Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology and How You Can Heal and The Angel and the Assassin: The Tiny Brain Cell That Changed the Course of Medicine.
19. Neihardt, J.G., Black Elk Speaks.
20. Nemeth, M., Mastering Life’s Energies, Simple Steps to a Luminous Life at Work and Play.
21. Perry, B. The Boy Who Was Raised As A Dog and Born For Love
22. Porges, S. A Pocket Guide to Polyvagal Theory
23. Poulson S. Looking Through the Eyes of Trauma and Dissociation
24. Ross, C., The CIA Doctors: Human Rights Violations by American Psychiatrists
25. Ruhl, L., Breaking the Ruhls
26. Seigel, D. The Developing Mind: Toward a Neurobiology of Interpersonal Experience.
27. Trujillo, O., the sum of my parts: a survivor’s story of dissociative identity disorder.
28. Tolle, E. Stillness Speaks
29. Van der Kolk, B. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma.
30. Yunkaporta, T., Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World.