I often get requests for resources. I’ve included some below.
Set Boundaries, Find Peace A Guide to reclaiming yourself
Author: Nedra Glover Tawwab
Atlas of the Heart
Author: Brené Brown
About: An exploration of different types of emotions/states and when they can show up. This can help those who are not always able to recognize or find words for their feelings.
Forms of Feeling The Heart of Psychotherapy
Author: Robert E. Hobson
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
Author: Pete Walker
Approaches: Trauma informed, inner parts work, emotional regulation
It’s Not Always Depression
Author: Hilary Jacobs Hendel. LCSW
Approach: AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Therapy)
Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma - A Workbook for Survivors and Therapists
Author: Janina Fisher, PhD
Approaches: Trauma informed, body focused, neuroscience informed
Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in Search for a Living Past
Author: Peter A Levine, PhD
Getting Past Your Past
Author: Francine Shapiro
Approach: EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing)
Truth and Repair - How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice
Author: Judith L. Herman, MD
Approaches: Trauma informed, relational repair, restorative justice
Man’s Search for Himself
Author: Rollo May
Approach: Existential Psychotherapy
Man’s Search for Meaning
Author: Victor E. Frankl
Approach: Logotherapy (meaning based psychotherapy)
Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
Author: Garbor Maté, MD
About: Dr. Maté offers an alternative framing of ADHD origins versus a genetic focus.
Thinking in Pictures My Life with Autism
Author: Temple Grandin
About: Autobiography
The Ketamine Breakthrough
Authors: Dr. Mike Dow & Ronan Levy
Understanding others and interpersonal dynamics can help one understand the context of their own emotions, reactions, and blindspots.
It’s Not You - Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People
Author: Ramani Durvasula, PhD
About: Explores the lived experience of being controlled, manipulated, exploited, and psychologically/emotionally invalidated. Explains how this abusive behaviour harms people, and offers guidance for healing and recovery.
The Myth of Normal
Author: Gabor Maté, MD with Daniel Maté
About: “Trauma, illness & healing in a toxic culture"
Why Does He Do that? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men
Author: Lundy Bancroft
About: Free PDF version available online. Please download from a trusted source only.
Listen to the song “The Rose” (Artist: Bette Midler)
What does love feel like to you?
What If the hopeful seed is you—waiting and wanting to receive love? To give love? The love that did not come or did not feel safe to receive. How do you feel about this part of you? Do you love it?
Coming Soon. Thank you for your patience.
Coming soon. Thank you for your patience.
Coming soon. Thank you for your patience.
Listen to the song “Wind Beneath My Wings” (Artist: Bette Midler)
Imagine the wind beneath your wing is an unseen or unappreciated part of you that protects you and supports you.
Or, maybe you are this part for yourself—one that is met with internal criticism.
Whichever part this is, take a moment to honour it. Can you feel and appreciate its strength and resilience?
Coming soon. Thank you for your patience.
Coming soon. Thank you for your patience.