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Subtitle: A Guide for Facing Death and Loss This is a loving clear-eyed unflinchingly personal look at terminal illness, death, and grief by Oregon’s former governor Barbara Roberts. Her husband Frank Roberts died of cancer during her governorship. From the introduction: I hope for a culture of loving openness in every medical office, […] Subtitle: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body Recommended to me by: a client This is a practical, applied introduction to Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing work. After an introductory summary, he presents 12 exercises, starting with body awareness and grounding, continuing with awareness of felt senses in the body, and then […] Subtitle: Tending Body and Soul through Creativity, Nature, and Intuition Recommended to me by: Robyn Posin As I started reading, I was relieved to discover that Naomi Ardea has thoughtfully structured her book so that it is inviting rather than overwhelming. Stories about her healing process are interspersed with her abstract paintings, peaceful nature […] Subtitle: Using Your Felt Sense to Solve Problems, Effect Change & Liberate Creativity This is a gentle, step by step introduction to Focusing, with exercises for each section and personal annotated examples of Focusing sessions. David Rome calls his approach Mindful Focusing. He explains how to be with ourselves in a Focusing way without […] Subtitle: A self-healing guide to auto accident trauma & recovery Recommended to me by: watching Diane Poole Heller’s teaching videos This is a practical, easy to follow introduction to Somatic Experiencing as it applies to car crashes, with lots of vignettes and gentle exercises. It focuses on bringing in resources and supporting the body […] Subtitle: The Reckoning. The Rumble. The Revolution. Additional subtitle: If we are brave enough, often enough, we will fall. This is a book about what it takes to get back up. Recommended to me by: reading Brene Brown’s other books This book covers a lot of ground I care about – how to recover […] Subtitle: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal Recommended to me by: a friend Science journalist Donna Jackson Nakazawa carefully researches and clearly describes how Chronic Unpredictable Toxic Stress changes the growing brain of a child, pruning neurons and stunting growth in some areas. Because the toxic stress is unpredictable, […] Subtitle: How to Release Your Trapped Emotions for Abundant Health, Love, and Happiness Recommended to me by: a client This is a marketing book for Dr. Nelson’s chiropractic and emotion-clearing practice, with lots of dramatically successful case studies, most of which I skimmed. It also includes some interesting self-help techniques. The “sway test” is […] Subtitle: a guide to self-healing and getting the love you missed Recommended to me by: a client This is a gently enlightening book. It talks about all the different roles a Good Mother plays (“yeah, yeah, I know”) and all the holes that result when those roles are missing (“yeah, yeah, I know”) … […] Subtitle: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others This book describes and offers solutions for the secondary trauma of working to address trauma and injustice. Laura van Dernoot Lipsky shares her own experiences as a trauma social worker as well as a wide range of detailed profiles of other helping […] |