Trauma Resources
Understanding Trauma
Overview
What is Trauma: An Interview with Bessel van der Kolk, MD by Big Think
What is Trauma from Therapist Aid, LLC
Common Responses to Trauma from Therapist Aid, LLC
Types of Abuse from Therapist Aid, LLC
Neuroscience
How Trauma and PTSD Change the Brain by Therapy in a Nutshell
Trauma and the Brain by Dovetail Qld
Treatment
Bibliotherapy
Self-Help
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk, MD
The Stress Proof Brain by Melanie Greenberg, PhD (mindfulness & neuroplasticity)
The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor (racial/minoritized/system trauma)
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine, PhD (somatic experiencing)
8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery by Babette Rothschild, MSW
It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn
When the Body Says No by Gabor Maté, MD
Decolonizing Trauma Work by Renee Linklater, PhD (indigenous community)
The Pain We Carry by Natalie Y. Gutiérrez, LMFT (BIPOC community)
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris, MD (ACEs)
Healing Racial Trauma by Sheila Wise Rowe, LPC (Christian themes)
Something’s Not Right by Wade Mullen (Christian themes)
Memoirs
What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
Disfigured: A Saudi Woman’s Story of Triumph Over Violence by Rania al-Baz
What Doesn’t Kill Us Makes Us by Mike Mariani
The Strength in Our Scars by Rachel L. Jacobs (audiobook of poetry & prose)
What Happened to You by Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD and Oprah Winfrey
Emotional Inheritance by Galit Atlas, PhD
Apocalypse Child by Flor Edwards (post-cult healing)
“It’s Not About The Sex” My Ass by Joanne Hanks & Steve Cuno (post-cult healing)
Searching for Sunday by Rachel Held Evans (healing after church abuse, from a protestant Chrisitian perspective)
Novels
We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride & Jo Piazza (Black experience)
Silence Broken by Rivcka Edelstein, PhD (childhood trauma)
The Way I Used to Be by Amber Smith (sexual assault)
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens (neglect, substance abuse, sexual assault)
The Girl Who Survived by Ellie Midwood (Jewish, WWI, Shoah)
After We Were Stolen by Brooke Beyfuss (escaping a cult)
Cracked Pots by Heather Tucker