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Subtitle: Finding Refuge, Friendship, and Hope in an American Classroom Recommended to me by: My friend Linda K. Helen Thorpe spent a year and a half observing and helping in an ELA (English Language Acquisition) class at South High School in Denver Colorado. Her journalist’s eye is both clear and compassionate as she watches a […] Subtitle: Helping Clients Move Forward from Developmental Trauma, An Integrative Somatic Approach Recommended to me by: Taking a class from Kathy Kain I took a 3 day class from Kathy Kain last year and learned techniques that I use every day in my practice, so I was excited about this book. It turned out […] Subtitle: Remembering Ourselves Home The gorgeous, inclusive cover and introduction/dedication to this book grabbed me. For the rebels and the misfits, the black sheep and the outsiders. For the refugees, the orphans, the scapegoats, and the weirdos. For the uprooted, the abandoned, the shunned and invisible ones. May you recognize with increasing vividness that […] Subtitle: Opening Our Hearts to All the Ways We Feel and Are in Every Moment Recommended to me by: reading Robyn Posin’s website for the last 15+ years. Also I was an advance reviewer for this book. This is a collection of line drawings and wise words that have appeared on Robyn Posin’s website […] Subtitle: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief Recommended to me by: Kristin This is a wise, kind, perceptive, affirming, healing book about grief. It warmly includes childhood triggering, shame, and shared grief for the planet among the burdens that we all carry. It emphasizes the importance of both a village […] Subtitle: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past. A Practical Guide for Understanding & Working with Traumatic Memory The first part of this book is a thorough introduction to different kinds of memories. There are explicit and implicit memories. Explicit (conscious) memories include declarative (like the times table) and episodic […] Subtitle: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity Recommended to me by: listening to Nadine Burke Harris’s TED talk This is a skillful blend of memoir and scientific information about the effects of trauma, presented for the layperson. Nadine Burke Harris shares how as a newly licensed doctor she founded a pediatric clinic in […] With: Joan Viginia Allen, Shelah M. Wilgus, Lora Woods, and Joyce Faber Subtitle: Simple Exercises for Whole-Body Mobility Recommended to me by: Amy Bennett This is a kind, gentle book aimed at “goldeners” – also known as senior citizens – who don’t move much (anymore, or yet) but it can apply to any of […] Subtitle: Guided Meditations and Exercises to Engage Your Brain’s Capacity for Healing Recommended to me by: Amy Bennett This book hooked me with, “The inner voice can be a constant flow of emotional warmth.” Yes please! Where do I sign up? It did take me a couple of months to get all the way […] Subtitle: Healthy relationships after childhood trauma Recommended to me by: a client Relationships are hard for everyone. For people with less-than-adequate caregivers early in life, the difficulty feels personal, a cause for shame as well as sadness. Laura Brown, a feminist psychologist, kindly lays out the likely consequences of early attachment wounds and repeatedly […] |