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: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk
Paper Book
A pioneering researcher and one of the world's foremost experts on traumatic stress offers a bold new paradigm for healing   Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four...
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma
Stephanie Foo
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life "Achingly exquisite . . . providing real hope for those who long to heal....
My grandmother's hands : racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies
Menakem, Resmaa
Paper Book
A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "My Grandmother's Hands will change the direction of the movement for racial justice."-- Robin DiAngelo, New York Times bestselling author of White Fragility In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the...
Healing Racial Trauma: The Road to Resilience
Sheila Wise Rowe
Paper Book
Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award - Multicultural Christianity Today Book Award - Christian Living/Discipleship Award Publishers Weekly starred review "People of color have endured traumatic histories and almost daily...
Burnout : the secret to unlocking the stress cycle
Nagoski, Emily
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * "This book is a gift! I've been practicing their strategies, and it's a total game changer."--Brené Brown, PhD, author of Dare to Lead "A primer on how to stop letting the world dictate how you live and what we think of ourselves,...
Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others
Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky
Paper Book
This beloved bestseller-over 180,000 copies sold-has helped caregivers worldwide keep themselves emotionally, psychologically, spiritually, and physically healthy in the face of the sometimes overwhelmingtraumas they confront every day. A longtime trauma worker, Laura van Dernoot...
The Courage to Heal
Ellen Bass
Paper Book
Come to terms with your past while moving powerfully into the future The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and a map of the healing journey to every woman who was sexually abused as a child--and to those who care about her. Although the effects of child...
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
Richard Schwartz Ph.D.
Audiobook
In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
Peter A. Levine
Ebook
Discover the body's innate power to heal from trauma--the classic, life-changing guide to trauma recovery from the creator of Somatic Experiencing® (SE) Unraveling trauma in body, brain, and spirit--a revolution in treatment and beloved global bestseller In In an...
What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
Oprah Winfrey
Paper Book
ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Our earliest experiences shape our lives far down the road, and What Happened to You? provides powerful scientific and emotional insights into the behavioral patterns so many of us struggle to understand....
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
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...
Everyday trauma : remapping the brain's response to stress, anxiety, and painful memories for a better life /
Shors, Tracey,
Paper Book
A neuroscientist explores how trauma impacts the brain, especially for women--and how we can learn to heal ourselves Everyone experiences trauma. Whether a specific harrowing event or a series of stressful moments that culminate over time, trauma can echo and etch itself into...
When the body says no : exploring the stress-disease connection
Mat,̌ Gabor.
Paper Book
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "This is a most important book, both for patient and physician. It could save your life." --Peter Levine, PhD, bestselling author of In an Unspoken Voice Now in paperback, the bestselling exploration of the effects of the mind-body...
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
Paper Book
In this classic work of developmental psychology, renowned psychiatrist and the coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestseller What Happened to You? reveals how trauma affects children-and outlines the path to recovery How does trauma affect a child's mind-and how...
It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand
Megan Devine
Paper Book
As seen in THE NEW YORK TIMES * READER'S DIGEST * SPIRITUALITY & HEALTH * HUFFPOST   Featured on NPR's RADIO TIMES and WISCONSIN PUBLIC RADIO When a painful loss or life-shattering event upends your...
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
Lindsay C. Gibson
Paper Book
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...
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
Nadine Burke Harris
Paper Book
"An extraordinary, eye-opening book." --People "A rousing wake-up call . . . this highly engaging, provocative book prove[s] beyond a reasonable doubt that millions of lives depend on us finally coming to terms with the long-term consequences of...
The body never lies : the lingering effects of hurtful parenting
Miller, Alice.
Paper Book
An examination of childhood trauma and its surreptitious, debilitating effects by one of the world\'s leading psychoanalysts. Never before has world-renowned psychoanalyst Alice Miller examined so persuasively the long-range consequences of childhood abuse on the body. Using the...

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