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Memoirs I Love a Man in Uniform: A Memoir of Love, War, and Other Battles Lily Burana What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma Stephanie Foo You Lied To Me About God Jamie Marich, PhD Self-Help/Workbooks Awakening Loving-Kindness Pema Chödrön Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma Pete Walker The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole Arielle Schwartz, PhD Coping with Trauma-Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists Suzette Booth, Kathy Steele and Onno van der Hart, PhD The Curious Voyage: A Rule-Breaking Guidebook to Authenticity Cynthia Schwartzberg, LCSW Getting Past Your Past: Take Control of Your Life with Self-Help Techniques from EMDR Therapy Francine Shapiro, PhD The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook: A Proven Way to Accept Yourself, Build Inner Strength, and Thrive Kristin Neff, PhD and Christopher Germer, PhD Recovery from Narcissistic Abuse, Gaslighting, Codependency and Complex PTSD Linda Hill Self-Directed DBT Skills: A 3-Month DBT Workbook to Regulate Intense Emotions and Create Lasting Change with Dialectical Behavior Therapy Kiki Fehling, PhD and Elliot Weiner, PhD Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships Janja Lalich, PhD, and Madeleine Tobias Tapping In: A Step-by-Step Guide to Activating Your Healing Resources Through Bilateral Stimulation Laurel Parnell, PhD Trauma Recovery Handbook for Survivors Rachel Walker, LMFT The Trauma Toolkit: Healing trauma from the inside out Susan Pease Banitt, LCSW Waking The Tiger: Healing Trauma Peter A. Levine, PhD with Ann Frederick (Contributor) What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry, MD, PhD Systemic and Intergenerational Trauma It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are And How to End the Cycle Mark Wolynn My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Broken Hearts and Bodies Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color Natalie Y. Gutiérrez, LMFT with Foreword by Jennifer Mullan, PsyD Post-Traumatic Church Syndrome: One Woman’s Desperate, Funny, and Healing Journey to Explore 30 Religions by Her 30th Birthday Reba Riley Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing (PTSS) Dr. Joy DeGruy So You Want to Talk About Race Ijeoma Oluo Trauma & Recovery For Children/Parenting Angry Octopus: Children Learn How to Control Anger, Reduce Stress and Fall Asleep Faster Lori Lite, Illustrated by Max Stasuyk How Are You Feeling Today Baby Bear?: Exploring Big Feelings After Living in a Stormy Home Jane Evans, Illustrated by Lawrence Johnson When Love Is Not Enough: A Guide to Parenting with RAD-Reactive Attachment Disorder Nancy L. Thomas The Whole-Brained Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind Daniel J. Siegel, MD, and Tina Payne Bryson, PhD For Family and Support Systems You Can Help: A Guide for Family & Friends of Survivors of Sexual Abuse and Assault Rebecca Street Psychoeducation Afraid: Understanding the Purpose of Fear and Harnessing the Power of Anxiety Arash Javanbakht, MD The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science Norman Doidge, MD The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma Bessel van der Kolk, MD The Body Never Lies: The Lingering Effects of Hurtful Parenting Alice Miller, PhD Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Daily Life Jamie Marich, PhD In An Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness Peter A. Levine, PhD The Myth of Normal Trauma and Recovery Judith Herman, MD Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton, Clare Pain, Forewords by Daniel J. Siegel, MD and Bessel Van der Kolk, MD The Trauma Spectrum: Hidden wounds and human resiliency Robert Scaer, Foreword by Peter A. Levine, PhD Trauma Made Simple: Competencies in Assessment, Treatment and Working with Survivors Jamie Marich, PhD The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity Nadine Burke Harris, MD The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture Gabor Maté, MD with Daniel Maté Treatment Modalities & Supports Brainspotting: The Revolutionary New Therapy for Rapid and Effective Change David Grand, PhD EMDR: The Breakthrough “Eye Movement” Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma Francine Shapiro, PhD & Margot Silk Forrest Every Memory Deserves Respect: EMDR, the Proven Trauma Therapy with the Power to Heal Michael Baldwin and Deborah Korn, PsyD No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model Richard C. Schwartz, PhD with Foreword by Alanis Morissette Transforming Trauma with Jiu-Jitsu: A Guide for Survivors, Therapists, and Jiu-Jitsu Practitioners to Facilitate Embodied Recovery Jamie Marich, PhD and Anna Pirkl, LMFT Dancing Mindfulness: A Creative Path to Healing and Transformation Jamie Marich, PhD, LPCC-S Overcoming Trauma through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body David Emerson and Elizabeth Hopper, PhD Substance Use Disorders and Addictions Healing the Shame that Binds You John Bradshaw In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction Gabor Maté, MD with Foreword by Peter A. Levine PhD Trauma and the 12 Steps, Revised and Expanded: An Inclusive Guide to Enhancing Recovery Jamie Marich, PhD Abusive Relationships and Survivors The Betrayal Bond: Breaking Free of Exploitive Relationships Patrick J. Carnes, PhD The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition Alice Miller, PhD Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men (Free PDF) Lundy Bancroft, PhD