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Subtitle: Remember When It Didn’t Hurt Recommended by: Rosalind Bell This book is a beautifully photographed and illustrated step-by-step guide to moving well as a human. It is also a carefully crafted sales brochure for the author’s clinic and method, with testimonials sprinkled liberally through the text. Esther Gokhale (“Go-clay”) grew up in India, studied biochemistry and acupuncture [...] Subtitle: An Open Letter to a New Generation of Therapists and Their Patients Recommended by: Rachel Manija This is a collection of short tips about psychotherapy from a longtime practitioner. I loved his tips about creating a warm, safe, positive relationship with the client and processing the here-and-now of the relationship for clues about how to help [...] Subtitle: Divided Consciousness and the Promise of Awareness; Tales of Multiple Personality in Everyday Life This book contains a therapist’s compassionate, engaging views on people who have Dissociative Identity Disorder (previously known as Multiple Personality Disorder) and how they can heal. Martha Stout discusses both specific cases and general themes of survival, courage, integrity, and the [...] Subtitle: Bringing All Parts of You Into Creative Partnership: Conscious & Subconscious, Head & Heart, Masculine & Feminine, Adult & Child, Waking & Dreaming Recommended by: Jenny Davidow Jenny Davidow’s clear, practical, non-judgmental book covers a surprising array of techniques to make friends with your subconscious. Learn to decode your dream symbols, negotiate inner alliances, create positive [...] Subtitle: For Pain-Free Movement Trigger points are small knots of tension within muscles. They cause local taut bands of muscle fibers and dispersed pain in predictable patterns. Steady, firm but not aggressive pressure helps resolve trigger points and the seemingly intractable pain they cause. Clear, detailed, and encouraging, this book helps you find and treat your [...] Subtitle: And Other Tales for Childhood’s Survivors This is an anthology of fairy tales retold for adults, with the scary bits left in, and also the bits about resilience and survival. Yes, her father cut off her arms, but then the armless maiden rescues herself and her child through quick wits as well as magic. The stories vary [...] Subtitle: The Road from Estrangement to Reconciliation Recommended by: Laura Davis’s website Laura Davis is co-author of the classic book about healing from incest, “The Courage to Heal.” This book is written with compassionate awareness that not all stories have happy endings and not all estrangements can be reconciled. Nevertheless, I cried while reading it, for all the [...] Subtitle: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness This book is billed as a “culmination of his life’s work” on the back cover. It recapitulates material from Peter Levine’s earlier book “Waking the Tiger” about trauma and the nervous system, and uses many of the same case studies covered in the Somatic Experiencing curriculum. Somatic Experiencing [...] CROWHEART: becoming unwounded, a memoir of transformation Recommended by: Keelin Anderson To tell her story of healing from incest and emotional abuse, Keelin Anderson weaves together daily narrative, fiction, quotes, tarot readings, and dreams, all in present tense. As I read, I saw places where our paths have overlapped, and places where they have diverged. We have both struggled [...] Subtitle: A Scientist’s Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions Recommended by: jesse-the-k This book was a revelation for me. At last, a book for which I am the perfect target audience! Susan R. Barry writes about the experience of having crossed eyes since infancy, and thus lacking stereoscopic (3-D) vision. After practicing a series of [...] |
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