Healing Trauma 101

• What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van der Kolk

• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Ann Frederick & Peter A Levine

Healing childhood trauma

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

• Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance by Kelly McDaniel

• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook -- What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry & Maia Szalavitz

• The Interpersonal World Of The Infant: A View from Psychoanalysis and Developmental Psychology by Daniel N Stern

libido, intimacy & sexual trauma

• Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski

• Healing Sex: A Mind-Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma by Staci Haines

Spirituality

• The Te of Piglet by Benjamin Hoff

• Prayer Is Good Medicine: How to Reap the Healing Benefits of Prayer by Larry Dossey

• The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer

• Going to Pieces without Falling Apart: A Buddhist Perspective on Wholeness by Mark Epstein

• A Mind at Home with Itself: Finding Freedom in a World of Suffering by Byron Katie and Stephen Mitchell

• The Diamond Sutra by Red Pine

• A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose by Eckhart Tolle

• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz

How To slow down & rest

• Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May

• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker

Death, grief & existential crisis

• A Matter of Death and Life by Irvin Yalom & Marilyn Yalom

• Miracles Happen: The Transformational Healing Power of Past-Life Memories by Brian Weiss

• Signs: The Secret Language of the Universe by Laura Lynne Jackson

• Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back by Todd Burpo and Lynn Vincent

children’s books

• Unstoppable Me by Adam Dirks & Bethany Hamilton

• I've Loved You Since Forever by Hoda Kotb and Suzie Mason

• An Awesome Book of Thanks! by Dallas Clayton

• We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins

• Farts: A Spotter's Guide: (Fart Books, Fart Jokes, Fart Games Book) by Crai S. Bower and Travis Millard

for fellow healers

• The Hospital By the River: A Story of Hope by Catherine Hamlin

• A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher by Sue Halpern

• Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande

• Letters to a Young Therapist by Mary Pipher

• Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America by Robert Whitaker

• Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife by Peggy Vincent

• Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries by Lisa Sanders

• Cannabis Revealed: How the world's most misunderstood plant is healing everything from chronic pain to epilepsy by Bonni S. Goldstein

• Marva Collins' Way by Marva Collins

• The Gift of Therapy: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients by Irvin Yalom

• The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves by Stephen Grosz

• Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity by Andrew Solomon

acupuncture & Chinese medicine

• A Patient's Guide to Acupuncture: Everything You Need to Know by Sarah Swanberg

• The Web That Has No Weaver : Understanding Chinese Medicine by Ted Kaptchuk

• Treating Emotional Trauma with Chinese Medicine: Integrated Diagnostic and Treatment Strategies by C. T. Holman

• Chinese Medicine Psychology: A Clinical Guide to Mental and Emotional Wellness by Qu Lifang & Mary Garvey

• Lyme Disease and Modern Chinese Medicine by QingCai Zhang