The Body Keeps The Score & MORE

The Body Keeps The Score is a -if not the- seminal book on how trauma affects the body and how to heal from such trauma. Here we suggest some similar books for those who want to learn even more.
Updated October 2, 2022
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The Body Keeps The Score: Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestseller "Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society." --Alexander McFarlane, Director of the Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies A pioneering researcher...
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stephanie Foo
Ebook
Every cell in my body is filled with the code of generations of trauma, of death, of birth, of migration, of history that I cannot understand. . . . I want to have words for what my bones know. By the age of thirty, Stephanie Foo was successful on paper: she had...
Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
Emily Nagoski
Paper Book
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Richard Schwartz Ph.D.
Ebook
Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind--and healing the many parts that make you who you are.   Is there just one "you"? We've been taught to believe we have a single identity, and to feel fear or shame when we can't control the inner voices...
In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
Peter A. Levine
Ebook
Unraveling trauma in the body, brain and mind--a revolution in treatment. Now in 17 languages. In this culmination of his life's work, Peter A. Levine draws on his broad experience as a clinician, a student of comparative brain research, a stress scientist and a keen...
What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Oprah Winfrey
Paper Book
Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain development and trauma expert, Dr Bruce Perry, discuss the impact of trauma and adverse experiences and how healing must begin with a shift to asking 'What happened to you?' rather than 'What's wrong with you?'. Through wide-ranging and often...
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma
Pete Walker
Audiobook
The causes of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder range from severe neglect to monstrous abuse. Many survivors grew up in houses that were not homes-in families that were as loveless as orphanages and sometimes as dangerous.If you felt unwanted, unliked, rejected, hated, and/or despised for a...
When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
Gabor Maté
Ebook
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From renowned mental health expert and speaker Dr. Gabor Maté, this acclaimed, bestselling guide provides insight into the mind-body link between illness and health, and the critical role that stress and our emotional makeup play in an array of common...
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
Bruce D. Perry
Ebook
A renowned psychiatrist reveals how trauma affects children--and outlines the path to recovery "Fascinating and upbeat.... Dr. Perry is both a world-class creative scientist and a compassionate therapist." --Mary Pipher, PhD, author of Reviving...
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
Megan Devine
Audiobook
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson
Ebook
A New York Times bestseller--with more than one million copies sold! If you grew up with an emotionally immature, unavailable, or selfish parent, you may have lingering feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment. You may recall your...

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