HEALING TRAUMA RESOURCES
ORGANIZATIONS
National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine
Dr. Gabor Maté
Compassionate Prison Project
Downtown Streets Team
Chrysalis Society
ACEs Connection
National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)
The International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service (ICEERS)
The Temple of the Way of Light
Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga
Nurture Development
Compassionate Communities UK
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TRAUMA HEALING MODALITIES
Somatic Experiencing
Compassionate Inquiry
Bessel van der Kolk
Family Constellation Work
NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR International Association
Internal Family Systems Therapy
Rewind Technique for PTSD and Phobias (HGI)
The International Focusing Institute
Brainspotting
Freedom Lodge
Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth
Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)
Exploring the Sacred Line
Francis Weller
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BOOKS
Gabor Maté: When The Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (U.S. subtitle: Exploring the Stress/Disease Connection)
Gabor Maté: In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction
Gabor Maté: Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder (U.S. title: Scattered: How ADD Originates and What You Can Do About It)
Bessel van der Kolk: The Body Keeps the Score
Stephen Porges: The Polyvagal Theory (for professionals)
Peter Levine: In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
Peter Levine: Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of the Body
Peter Levine: Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Mark Wolynn: It Didn’t Start With You
Thomas Hübl: Healing Collective Trauma
Julie Brown Yau: The Body Awareness Workbook for Trauma
John Sarno: The Mindbody Prescription: Healing The Body, Healing the Pain
Jeffrey Rediger: Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life
Anita Morjani: Dying to Be Me
Mark Epstein: The Trauma of Everyday Life
Daniel Siegel: The Developing Mind
Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey: What Happened to You?
Bruce D. Perry: Brief: Reflections on Childhood, Trauma and Society
Bruce D. Perry: Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential—and Endangered
Diane Poole Heller: The Power of Attachment
Laurence Heller and Aline Lapierre: Healing Developmental Trauma
Nadine Burke Harris: The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
Resmaa Menakem: My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Jewel: Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story
Rupa Marya and Raj Patel: Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice
Richard C. Schwartz: Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Discovering Your True Self Through Internal Family Systems Therapy
Patricia June Vickers: Singing to the Darkness
Jesse Thistle: From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way
Ruby Gibson: My Body, My Earth
Fania Davis: The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice
Ruby Gibson: My Body, My Earth: The Practice of Somatic Archaeology
VIDEOS / DOCUMENTARIES / PODCASTS
Gabor Mate & Adyashanti: Emotional and Spiritual Maturity
Step Inside the Circle
CRACKED UP(on Netflix)
PBS Newshour: Childhood Trauma
Breakthrough: The Trauma Chaser
Is Your Story Making You Sick?
Paper Tigers: One High School’s Unlikely Success Story
Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope
How childhood trauma effects health across a lifetime (TED talk with Nadine Burke Harris)
Oprah reports on Childhood Trauma’s long term effects
Adverse Childhood Experience short video explaining toxic stress (by KPJR Films)
ACE Study (by Academy on Violence and Abuse)
Trauma and The Nervous System: A Polyvagal Perspective
Reasons I Drink (Alanis Morrissette)
Former Jail Warden Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia | We Are Witnesses
This Might Hurt (Film)
Tashi and The Monk (Film)
Surgical Empathy
Higher Practice (Podcast)
Professor Julianne Holt Lunstad on the the amazing impact of social relationships on health and longevity (Podcast)
Cormac Russell on Asset Based Community Development (Podcast)
Professor Steve Cole on human social genomics amongst many others with fantastic insight into the power of community (Podcast)