Resources

Powerful tools designed to support your path toward healing and self-discovery. These resources will complement your journey of empowerment towards peace, presence, and personal transformation in your daily life.

No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz

Discover an empowering new way of understanding your multifaceted mind―and healing the many parts that make you who you are.

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors:
Overcoming Internal Self- Alienation by Janina Fisher

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors integrates a neurobiologically informed understanding of trauma, dissociation, and attachment with a practical approach to treatment, all communicated in straightforward language accessible to both client and therapist.

Trauma and the Body: Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy
by Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton, Clare Pain, Daniel Siegel, Bessel van der Kolk

Trauma and the Body is a detailed review of research in neuroscience, trauma,
dissociation, and attachment theory that points to the need for an integrative mind-body
approach to trauma. The premise of this book is that, by adding body-oriented
interventions to their repertoire, traditionally trained therapists can increase the depth
and efficacy of their clinical work.

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Herman MD

Trauma and Recovery brings a new level of understanding to a set of problems usually considered individually. Herman draws on her own cutting-edge research in domestic violence as well as on the vast literature of combat veterans and victims of political terror, to show the parallels between private terrors such as rape and public traumas such as terrorism.

Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine

Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal
as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an
intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely
traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune
to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed.

The Body Keeps The Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Mate

Over four decades of clinical experience, Gabor Maté has come to recognize the prevailing understanding of “normal” as false, neglecting the roles that trauma and stress, and the pressures of modern-day living, exert on our bodies and our minds at the expense of good health.

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson

In this breakthrough book, clinical psychologist Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect, and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood.

The Body Remembers by Babette Rothschild

For both clinicians and their clients there is tremendous value in understanding the psychophysiology of trauma and knowing what to do about its manifestations. This book illuminates that physiology, shining a bright light on the impact of trauma on the body and the phenomenon of somatic memory.

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

Many of us find ourselves stuck in unhealthy habits simply because we don't see a better way. With Mother Hunger, McDaniel helps women break the cycle of destructive behavior by taking a fresh look at childhood trauma and its lasting impact. In doing so, she destigmatizes the shame that comes with being under-mothered and misdiagnosed.

Nurturing Resilience by Stephen Terrell and Kathy Kaine

Kathy L. Kain and Stephen J. Terrell draw on fifty years of their combined clinical and teaching experience to provide this clear road map for understanding the complexities of early trauma and its related symptoms. Experts in the physiology of trauma, the authors present an introduction to their innovative somatic approach that has evolved to help thousands improve their lives.

Healing Rage: Women Making Inner Peace Possible by Ruth King

Outlines an empowering and spiritual approach to understanding and managing rage, counseling women on the subtle differences between rage and anger while identifying key sources of rage and explaining how to preserve important emotional wisdom while easing destructive tendencies.

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction by Gabor Mate

Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with people with addiction on Vancouver’s skid row, this #1 international bestseller radically re-envisions a much misunderstood condition by taking a compassionate approach to substance abuse and addiction recovery.

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing by Dr. Joy DeGruy

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome helps to lay the necessary foundation to ensure the well-being and sustained health of future generations and provides a rare glimpse into the evolution of society's beliefs, feelings, attitudes and behavior concerning race in America.

The Politics of Trauma: Somatics, Healing, and Social Justice by Staci Haines

The Politics of Trauma offers somatics with a social analysis. This book is for therapists and social activists who understand that trauma healing is not just for individuals—and that social change is not just for movement builders. Just as health practitioners need to consider the societal factors underlying trauma, so too must activists understand the physical and mental impacts of trauma on their own lives and the lives of the communities with whom they organize.

My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resma Menakem

In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.

Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice by Jennifer Mullan

A call to action for therapists to politicize their practice through an emotional decolonial lens. An essential work that centers colonial and historical trauma in a framework for healing, Decolonizing Therapy illuminates that all therapy is―and always has been― inherently political.

This Body Is Not An Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor

The Body Is Not an Apology offers radical self-love as the balm to heal the wounds inflicted by these violent systems. World-renowned activist and poet Sonya Renee Taylor invites us to reconnect with the radical origins of our minds and bodies and celebrate our collective, enduring strength.

Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach

In our current times of global crises and spiking collective anxiety, Tara Brach’s transformative practice of Radical Acceptance offers a pathway to inner freedom and a more compassionate world.

Divergent Mind: Thriving In A World That Wasn’t Designed For You by Jenara Nerenberg

A paradigm-shifting study of neurodivergent women—those with ADHD, autism, synesthesia, high sensitivity, and sensory processing disorder—exploring why these traits are overlooked in women and how society benefits from allowing their unique strengths to flourish.

The Mindfulness Solution For Intense Emotions by Cedar Koons MSW, LCSWby Cedar Koons MSW, LCSW

The Mindfulness Solution for Intense Emotions offers breakthrough, new mindfulness skills and exercises drawn from dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) to help you move past harmful emotions.

I Thought It Was Just Me (But It Isn’t): Making The Journey From ‘What Will People Think?’ To ‘I Am Enough’ by Brene Brown

Researcher, thought leader, and New York Times bestselling author Brené Brown offers a liberating study on the importance of our imperfections—both to our relationships and to our own sense of self.

Braving The Wilderness: The Quest For True Belonging And The Courage To Stand Alone by Brene Brown

A timely and important book that challenges everything we think we know about cultivating true belonging in our communities, organizations, and culture.

Atlas Of The Heart by Brene Brown

In Atlas of the Heart, Brown takes us on a journey through eighty-seven of the emotions and experiences that define what it means to be human. As she maps the necessary skills and an actionable framework for meaningful connection, she gives us the language and tools to access a universe of new choices and second chances

Daring Greatly: How The Courage To Be Vulnerable Transforms The Way We Live, Love, Parent And Lead by Brene Brown

Every day we experience the uncertainty, risks, and emotional exposure that define what it means to be vulnerable or to dare greatly. Based on twelve years of pioneering research, Brené Brown PhD, MSW, dispels the cultural myth that vulnerability is weakness and argues that it is, in truth, our most accurate measure of courage.

Rising Strong: How The Ability To Reset Transforms The Way We Live, Love, Parent And Lead by Brene Brown

Social scientist Brené Brown has ignited a global conversation on courage, vulnerability, shame, and worthiness. Her pioneering work uncovered a profound truth: Vulnerability—the willingness to show up and be seen with no guarantee of outcome—is the only path to more love, belonging, creativity, and joy.

Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection by Julie Schwartz Gottman and John Gottman

Through decades of research, Drs. John and Julie Gottman, founders of the world- famous Love Lab, have identified the five common mistakes we make when we are at odds. In Fight Right, we learn the five secrets that help us to get back on track and harness conflict to build stronger, healthier relationships.

Hold Me Tight by Dr. Sue Johnson

Are you looking to enrich a healthy relationship, revitalize a tired one, or rescue one
gone awry? We all want a lifetime of love, support, and companionship. But sometimes
we need a little help.

Enter Dr. Sue Johnson, developer of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and “the
most original contributor to couple’s therapy to come along in the last thirty years,”
according to Dr. William J. Doherty, PhD.

The Power Of Attachment: How To Create Deep And Lasting Intimate Relationships by Diane Poole Heller, PhD

How traumatic events can break our vital connections―and how to restore love, wholeness, and resiliency in your life. In The Power of Attachment, Dr. Diane Poole Heller, a pioneer in attachment theory and trauma resolution, shows how overwhelming experiences can disrupt our most important connections― with the parts of ourselves within, with the physical world around us, and with others.

Wired For Love by Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT

Wired for Loveis a complete insider’s guide to understanding your partner’s brain and enjoying a romantic relationship built on love and trust. Synthesizing research findings on how and why love lasts drawn from neuroscience, attachment theory, and emotion regulation, this book presents ten guiding principles that can improve any relationship.

Undefended Love by Jett Psaris, PhD and Marlena Lyons, PhD

This book precisely maps a unique journey that turns the problems and conflicts that inevitably arise in relationships into opportunities for deeper connection. Illuminating case studies, guided self-inquiries, and challenging exercises help you discover how to engage your partner in a deeper dialogue and find ways of expressing the most profound and untamed aspects of your nature.

Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski, PhD

Come As You Are uses groundbreaking science and research to prove that the most important factor in creating and sustaining a sex life filled with confidence and joy is not what the parts are or how they’re organized but how you feel about them.

Healing Sex: A Mind Body Approach To Healing Sexual Trauma by Staci Haines

The first encouraging, sex-positive guide for all women survivors of sexual assault — heterosexual, bisexual, lesbian, coupled, and single — who want to reclaim their sex lives.

Mating In Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence by Esther Perel

One of the world’s most respected voices on erotic intelligence, Esther Perel offers a bold, provocative new take on intimacy and sex. Mating in Captivity invites us to explore the paradoxical union of domesticity and sexual desire, and explains what it takes to bring lust home.

Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin

Based on the female-centered Midwifery Model of Care and drawing upon her decades of experience, Ina May Gaskin gives expectant mothers comprehensive information on everything from the all-important mind-body connection to how to give birth without technological intervention.

What No One Tells You: A Guide to Your Emotions from Pregnancy to Motherhood by Dr. Catherine Berndorf

In What No One Tells You, two of America’s top reproductive psychiatrists with thirty years of combined experience counseling new and expectant mothers, provide a psychological and hormonal backstory to the complicated emotions that women experience, and show why it’s natural for “matrescence”—the birth of a mother—to be as stressful and transformative a period as adolescence.

The Whole Brain Child by Daniel J. Seigel MD and Tina Payne Bryson

In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson offer a revolutionary approach to child rearing with twelve key strategies that foster healthy brain development, leading to calmer, happier children.

Nurture Revolution by Greer Kirshenbaum

The latest research in neuroscience and parenting come together in this groundbreaking book, which brings to light new realizations about the power of nurture for our children's mental and physical health outcomes.

The Attachment Parenting Book: A Common Sense Guide to Nurturing and Caring for Your Baby by William Sears, MD and Martha Sears, RN

Would you and your baby both sleep better if you shared a bed? How old is too old for breastfeeding? What is a father's role in nurturing a newborn? How does early attachment foster a child's eventual independence? Dr. Bill Sears, “the man who remade motherhood” (TIME), and Martha Sears — the doctor-and-nurse, husband-and- wife team who coined the term "attachment parenting" — answer these and many more questions in this practical, inspiring guide.

The Montessori Toddler by Simone Davies and Hiyoko Imai

It’s time to change the way we see toddlers. Using the principles developed by the educator Dr. Maria Montessori, Simone Davies shows how to turn life with a “terrible two” into a mutually rich and rewarding time of curiosity, learning, respect, and discovery.

Wonder Weeks by Xaviera Plooij, Frans X. Plooij and Hetty van de Rijt PhD

Everything a new parent needs to know about their baby’s 10 magical “leaps”―and when to expect them―in a new, modern sixth edition of The Wonder Weeks.

Elevating Childcare: A Guide to Respectful Parenting by Janet Lansbury

A Resources for Infant Educarers (RIE) teacher and student of pioneering child specialist Magda Gerber, Janet Lansbury helps parents look at the world through the eyes of their infants and relate to them as whole people who have natural abilities to learn without being taught.

Good Inside: A Guide To Becoming The Parent You Want To Be by Dr. Becky Kennedy

Offering perspective-shifting parenting principles and troubleshooting for specific scenarios—including sibling rivalry, separation anxiety, tantrums, and more—Good Inside is a comprehensive resource for a generation of parents looking for a new way to raise their kids while still setting them up for a lifetime of self-regulation, confidence, and resilience.

The Emotional Life of the Toddler by Alicia F. Lieberman

Alicia F. Lieberman offers an in-depth examination of toddlers’ emotional development and illuminates how to optimize this crucial stage so that toddlers can develop into emotionally healthy children and adults.

Becoming a Father: How To Nurture and Enjoy Your Family by William Sears and Gwen Gotsch

Offers guidance for new fathers by addressing common questions and concerns, including a father's role at night, balancing work and family, becoming a role mode, and interacting with a newborn.

The Expectant Father by Armin A. Brott and Jennifer Ash Ruddick

This reassuring month-by-month overview gives fathers the facts and advice they need to understand their baby’s development, support their partner, and prepare for the joys and challenges of fatherhood. It concludes with two special sections: one on labor and delivery, and the other covering the first few months after baby’s arrival.

An Introduction to KAP

Science Behind Ketamine and the Brain

Patient Stories

Unlocking Us With Brene Brown

Conversations that unlock the deeply human part of who we are, so that we can live,
love, parent, and lead with a whole heart.

How To Do Hard Things With Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach and Amanda Doyle

We are all doing hard things every single day – things like loving and losing; caring for
children and parents; forging and ending friendships; battling addiction, illness, and
loneliness; struggling in our jobs, our marriages, and our divorces; setting boundaries;
and fighting for equality, purpose, freedom, joy, and peace. On We Can Do Hard
Things, Glennon Doyle, her wife Abby Wambach, and her sister Amanda Doyle do the
only thing they’ve found that has ever made life easier: Drop the fake and talk honestly
about the hard things including sex, gender, parenting, blended families, bodies,
anxiety, addiction, justice, boundaries, fun, quitting, overwhelm . . . all of it.

Tara Brach Podcast

Tara shares a weekly guided meditation and talk that address the value of mindfulness meditation and self-compassion in relieving emotional suffering, serving spiritual awakening and bringing healing to our world.

Huberman Lab Podcast

The Huberman Lab podcast is hosted by Andrew Huberman, Ph.D., a neuroscientist and tenured professor in the department of neurobiology, and by courtesy, psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford School of Medicine. The podcast discusses neuroscience and science-based tools, including how our brain and its connections with the organs of our body control our perceptions, our behaviors, and our health, as well as existing and emerging tools for measuring and changing how our nervous system works.

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