Trauma and Abuse

• The Body Keeps Score
  by Bessel dan der Kolk
  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 grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence. Such experiences inevitably leave traces on minds, emotions, and even on biology. Sadly, trauma sufferers frequently pass on their stress to their partners and children.
• It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
  by Mark Wolynn
  A groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field. Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains—but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents. The latest scientific research, now making headlines, supports what many have long intuited—that traumatic experience can be passed down through generations. These emotional legacies are often hidden, encoded in everything from gene expression to everyday language, and they play a far greater role in our emotional and physical health than has ever before been understood.
• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist’s Notebook
  by Bruce Perry
  In this instant classic of developmental psychology, a renowned psychiatrist examines the effect that trauma can have on a child, reveals how PTSD impacts the developing mind, and outlines the path to recovery. Deftly combining unforgettable case histories with his own compassionate, insightful strategies for rehabilitation, Perry explains what exactly happens to the brain when a child is exposed to extreme stress -- and reveals the unexpected measures that can be taken to ease a child's pain and help him grow into a healthy adult.
• What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
  by Bruce Perry, MD, PhD and Oprah Winfrey
  Through wide-ranging and often deeply personal conversation, Oprah Winfrey and Dr Perry explore how what happens to us in early childhood – both good and bad - influences the people we become. They challenge us to shift from focusing on 'What’s wrong with you?' or 'Why are you behaving that way?' to asking 'What happened to you?'. This simple change in perspective can open up a new and hopeful understanding for millions about why we do the things we do, why we are the way we are, providing a road map for repairing relationships, overcoming what seems insurmountable, and ultimately living better and more fulfilling lives.
• 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. By freeing yourself from your parents’ emotional immaturity, you can recover your true nature, control how you react to them, and avoid disappointment. Finally, you’ll learn how to create positive, new relationships so you can build a better life.
• Waking the Tiger, Healing the Trauma
  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.
• Trauma Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing
  by David Treleaven
  Drawing on a decade of research and clinical experience, psychotherapist and educator David Treleaven shows that mindfulness meditation―practiced without an awareness of trauma―can exacerbate symptoms of traumatic stress. Instructed to pay close, sustained attention to their inner world, survivors can experience flashbacks, dissociation, and even retraumatization. This raises a crucial question for mindfulness teachers, trauma professionals, and survivors everywhere: How can we minimize the potential dangers of mindfulness for survivors while leveraging its powerful benefits? Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness offers answers to this question.
• Complex PTSD from Surviving to Thriving
  by Pete Walker
• How To Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from the Past, and Create Your Self
  by Dr. Nicole LePera

Tik Toks on Healing Trauma

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Instagram on Healing

• tribecaintegrativetherapy
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Podcasts for Intimate Partner Violence

• Shatterproof by Mickie Zada
• I’m not in an Abusive Relationship by DASAS
• Root for each other Branches domestic violence shelter
• Domestic abuse recovery journal by Jennifer Mixor
• After Dark by Isaac Marano

Podcasts for Trauma

• Self Care for survivors of Trauma by Erin Hearts
• Beyond Trauma by Jen Savage, Melisa Sund Wall, and Bridger FAlkestein
• It’s not you; its’ your trauma by Joe Ryan
• Unbroken: Reclaiming Your Self after Childhood trauma
• Regulated and Relational by Julie Beem and Ginger Healy
• Being Well by Dr. Rick Hanson
• Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness by David Treleaver
• Trauma Chat with Laura Reagan, LCSW-C

• Cleveland Clinic Article: Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA)
• BrainMD.com: How to Naturally Increase GABA for Better Sleep
• RAINN: Self Care After Trauma
• RAINN: Rape, Abuse, and Incest National Network
• OneLove Foundation

• American Psychological Association: Trauma
• Psychology Today: Trauma
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration: Trauma and Violence
• U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs: PTSD