Resources

This former #1 New York Times Bestseller analyzes the effects of trauma and post-traumatic stress on the body—and upon the whole of society—through a wide range of stories, scientific studies, and evidence that suggests more people than we typically realize are still affected by traumatic episodes and events, long after their conclusion.

Articulating the connection between stress and disease, this international best-seller offers studies, stories, and insights into how disease is suspected or understood to be the body’s way of saying “no” to what the mind cannot or will not acknowledge as true.

The creator of Somatic Experiencing presents a guide for better understanding a highly complex and even controversial topic of post-traumatic stress and traumatic memory, including the idea that the body itself stores “implicit” memory. You’ll learn how symptoms of trauma manifest even long after traumatic experiences have passed, and ways to constructively work with healing traumatic memories.

Originally published in 1994, this book eventually went on to become an international best-seller as mindfulness, meditation, and reflective contemplation gained popular acceptance throughout society. A collection of short meditations on mindfulness, this book will help you stay connected to your sense of self in your everyday life.

For more than two decades, this compassionate and sensitive book has been a looked-to resource for helping survivors of sexual abuse heal from the traumatic events of the past, improve the quality of their intrapersonal relationships, and rediscover sexual intimacy for themselves. This is a comprehensive and helpful read for survivors and their partners.

This literary graphic novel is a modern-day fable full of charm, wit, and playful intelligence, featuring over 100 illustrations that beautifully convey the life lessons strewn throughout its pages. A delightful treasure of inspirational quotes for all ages.

This book offers a practical mechanism that helps its readers learn how to let go of inner blockages that hold them back from the happiness, love, joy, success, health they desire and deserve in their lives. What we stand to gain when we let go is, ultimately, Enlightenment! An easy to read and powerful book.

Illustrating the unpredictable and messy nature of life after the experience of personal loss, this book blends laughter, comfort, and compassion for the journey of grief. Relevant to children and adults alike, cartoon characterizations narrate the need for patience, kindness, compassion, and understanding along the way. Grief is normalized in a relatable way.

Based on cutting-edge research in the field of interpersonal neurobiology, this book offers parents of teenagers and teenagers alike a resource for transforming some of the most notoriously challenging years of brain development into some of the most rewarding. An informative book for any bewildered parent of a teenager.

Viktor Frankel’s stirring memoir recreates his experiences inside Nazi concentration camps to illustrate his belief that suffering cannot be avoided in life, but every human still retains the ability to choose how to cope with that suffering, and even to find meaning in it.

Leaning on attachment theory, this book presents seven healing conversations that can be embraced by romantic couples to bond, explore one another, and nurture their relationship with the goal of a lifetime of love.

This treatise on the complexity and profundity of the female experience looks upon cultural myths, archetypes, and stories to recreate a modern-day understanding for the endangered “Wild Woman,” the instinctual and untamed nature of all women.

Affirming that there is nothing wrong with grief—and that every grieving journey is unique to the individual, despite what culture and social expectations claim—this book challenges “grief myths” and offers practical exercises and suggestions for common struggles with grief, including managing your stress, improving your sleep, and alleviating your anxiety without trying to “fix” or “remove” the pain of grief.

Examining the specific impact of mental health dysregulation, including anxiety, stress, and depression, on the male gender, this book contends that men are experiencing an epidemic of depression but refuse to acknowledge it or accept treatment because of toxic definitions of masculinity in Western culture.

The strange and confusing experience of codependency must be understood if you wish to remove its hold on your life. This book offers life stories, interesting personal reflections, actionable exercises, and even some personality tests to help readers chart a path from codependency toward freedom.

Discover “nonpredatory power” in how you develop a sense of personal and professional assertiveness, cultivate your own creativity, deal with conflicts in the relationship and in the workplace, and heighten your overarching mind-body awareness.

A book designed for children of mothers with borderline personality disorder, this book offers guidelines, stories, and suggestions for creating healthier relationships between children and their mothers—without falling victim to common misunderstandings and well-established pitfalls in these sorts of relationships.

Losing your memory? Can’t focus or concentrate? Do you have brain fog or tire easily? Have you lost your zest for life or motivation? Do people tell you this is all a normal part of aging? If so, your brain may be growing old too fast, or degenerating. Modern diets, a stressful lifestyle, and environmental toxins all take their toll on the brain. This doesn’t just happen to seniors-brain disorders and degeneration are on the rise for young and old alike. The good news is the brain is extremely adaptable and wants to get well.