Resources
The resources listed below provide information and self-help practices that can assist in your healing. Visit often to discover new resources.
EMDR and Trauma
Trauma Overview:
This quick overview helps you understand what trauma is, what happens when we experience trauma, and how trauma affects our responses and memory.
Polyvagal Stoplight:
This graphic illustrates how the nervous system responds to normal situations, danger, and trauma..
Grief
Grief Myths:
Our mistaken beliefs about recovering from grief can cause much unnecessary distress. Learn what's normal.
Recommended Reading:
Bessel van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score
This book makes trauma and its effects understandable. It clarifies why trauma survivors experience isolation, terror, rage, intolerable anxiety, rage, and difficulty managing normal relationships. It explains how trauma reshapes the body and the brain.
Gabor Mate, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
In this book, Gabor Mate argues that addiction is not the result of moral failure or a genetic disease. He argues that all addiction is the result of human development that has gone askew.
A book for anyone who did not receive adequate nurturing, protection, or guidance from their mother, whether because of the mother's illness, absence, or personality imbalances.