These are books and tools we recommend!

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Books

Trauma

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

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

In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness

Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past

Trauma Through a Child's Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-Regulation

Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory

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Attachment

The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships

Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship

Attachment Theory in Practice: Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) with Individuals, Couples, and Families

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Couples

The Practice of Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Creating Connection

Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

We Do: Saying Yes to a Relationship of Depth, True Connection, and Enduring Love

Eight Dates: Essential Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

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Somatics

Nurturing Resilience: Helping Clients Move Forward from Developmental Trauma-An Integrative Somatic Approach

The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation

Accessing the Healing Power of the Vagus Nerve: Self-Help Exercises for Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, and Autism

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Spirituality

When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times

The Wisdom of No Escape: How to Love Yourself and Your World

Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety

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Neurodivergence

Divergent Mind: Thriving in a World That Wasn't Designed for You

Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity

Unmasked: The Ultimate Guide to ADHD, Autism and Neurodivergence

Is This Autism?

Self-Care for Autistic People

Unmasking for Life: The Autistic Person's Guide to Connecting, Loving, and Living Authentically

Living with Intensity

Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Adults and Youth

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Workbooks

The Chemistry of Joy Workbook: Overcoming Depression Using the Best of Brain Science, Nutrition, and the Psychology of Mindfulness

Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids Workbook: Using Mindfulness and Connection to Raise Resilient, Joyful Children and Rediscover Your Love of Parenting

No-Drama Discipline Workbook: Exercises, Activities, and Practical Strategies to Calm The Chaos and Nurture Developing Minds

The Whole-Brain Child Workbook: Practical Exercises, Worksheets and Activitis to Nurture Developing Minds

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Psychology

Man's Search for Meaning

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

On Becoming a Person: A Therapist's View of Psychotherapy

Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy

Focusing

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Parenting

No-Drama Discipline: The Whole-Brain Way to Calm the Chaos and Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

And Baby Makes Three: The Six-Step Plan for Preserving Marital Intimacy and Rekindling Romance After Baby Arrives

Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting

The Whole-Brain Child: Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind

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Self Help

The Chemistry of Calm: A Powerful, Drug-Free Plan to Quiet Your Fears and Overcome Your Anxiety

The Chemistry of Joy: A Three-Step Program for Overcoming Depression Through Western Science and Eastern Wisdom

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General Reading

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

The Power of Myth

The Hero With a Thousand Faces

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers

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Tools

Smovey Rings are great for working safely with anger and aggression — Smovey Rings

Goofy looking, but a great tool for working out anger and aggression without breaking stuff

Chew Sticks can be great for working with primal infant aggression — Bite Sticks

Great way to access and release pre-verbal anger and also a great sensory stim tool to boot

yoga sandbag for trauma therapy — The Sandbag

If you know, you know. Our most used and best liked somatic intervention. It’s a sandbag. How do we use it? Let us count the ways…