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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 [...] Subtitle: How I Lost the Mormons and Found My Faith Recommended by: Reading Martha Beck’s older books I first read this years ago and loved it. I came back to it while writing a (forthcoming) article about spiritual abuse and faith. Since I last read it, I read her newer book “Steering by Starlight” and saw [...] Subtitle: Let Go of Who You Think You’re Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are Addtional subtitle: Your guide to a wholehearted life Recommended by: Brene Brown’s Ted talk on vulnerability Brene Brown studies shame resilience and wholehearted living by collecting people’s stories and searching for patterns of what works and what doesn’t. It turns out [...] Subtitle: Therapy for Child Abuse Survivors in Family and Social Context Recommended by: Dr. Kathleen Young This is an academic book, written in precise psychological language, containing enough material for a semester course. Startlingly compassionate insights into complex trauma and prolonged childhood abuse (abbreviated PCA) are built into a treatment model that focuses on the family context [...] My response to The Tao of Equus doesn’t begin to express the impact it had on me. I immediately looked for Kohanov’s next book. Riding Between the Worlds contains less abstract theory and more stories from clients and from her own life. It also contains a helpful adaptation of Karla McLaren’s work with emotions into [...] Subtitle: A Woman’s Journey of Healing and Transformation through the Way of the Horse Recommended by: A client. Linda Kohanov and her herd of sensitive horses offer equine facilitated psychotherapy. Together they help both horses and humans recover from trauma, regain their balance, and treat each other with more respect. This many-layered book contains autobiography, horse stories, client [...] |
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