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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 […] Recommended to me by: Ani Rose Whaleswan. I’ve known the author for a long time online, and I contributed an essay to her collection We Have Come Far. “A Safe Place for Pearl” is a gentle offering of artwork, dreams, and narration, full of hope and inner resources. When there is no human support […] Subtitle: How inherited family trauma shapes who we are and how to end the cycle Recommended to me by: a client The book starts with Mark Wolynn’s story. He had sudden trouble with an eye and, fearing blindness, traveled in southeast Asia seeking gurus and healers who could help him. Finally, two separate gurus […] Recommended to me by: boxofdelights This is a graphic “novel” (although it’s non-fiction) or comic, or graphic medicine book. Each page is divided into panels with drawings and word bubbles, sometimes with additional explanations in tiny red print at the bottom of the page. This is a solid introduction to the nervous system and […] |