Comprehensive Book List for Trauma Recovery

Trauma

• The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - Van Der Kolk
• Complex PTSD - From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma - Walker
• Trauma and Recovery - The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror - Herman
• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model - Schwartz
• My Grandmother's Hands - Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies - Menakem

Dissociation

• Coping with Trauma Related Dissociation: Skills Training for Patients and Therapists - Boone

Insomnia

• This is NATTO - Erichsen

Shame and Such

• I Thought It Was Just Me (but it isn't): Making the Journey from "What Will People Think?" to "I Am Enough" - Brown (geared at women)
• Gifts of Imperfection - Brown
• Rising Strong: How the Ability to Reset Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead - Brown
• Braving the Wilderness: The Quest for True Belonging and the Courage to Stand Alone - Brown
• Dare to Lead: Brave Work. Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. - Brown
• Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha - Brach
• Facing Codependency - Mellody
• Loyal to a Fault: How to Establish New Patterns When Loving Others Has Left You Hurting - Burg (Christian perspective)

Family Dynamics

• Good Inside: A Practical Guide to Resilient Parenting Prioritizing Connection Over Correction - Kennedy (not just for parents)
• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents - Gibson
• The Narcissistic Family: Diagnosis and Treatment - Pressman
• The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self - Miller
• Emotional Blackmail: When the People in Your Life Use Fear, Obligation, and Guilt to Manipulate You - Forward
• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment - Levine
• Understanding the Borderline Mother: Helping Her Children Transcend the Intense, Unpredictable, and Volatile - Lawson (If borderline mom)
• Stop Walking on Eggshells: Taking Your Life Back When Someone You Care About Has Borderline Personality Disorder - Mason, Krueger

Sexual Abuse

• Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and Its Aftereffects in Women - Blume
• Trauma and Recovery - The Aftermath of Violence--from Domestic Abuse to Political Terror - Herman
• The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse - Davis
• The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse - Maltz

Other Helpful Concepts

• The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence - De Becker
• Don't Believe Everything You Think: Why Your Thinking Is The Beginning & End Of Suffering - Nguyen
• The Anatomy of Peace: Resolving the Heart of Conflict - The Arbinger Institute
• Leadership and Self Deception: The Secret to Transforming Relationships and Unleashing Results - The Arbinger Institute
• The Outward Mindset: Seeing Beyond Ourselves - The Arbinger Institute
• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom - Ruiz
• Rewire: Understanding the Neuroscience Behind Behavior Change and Mental Wellbeing - Vignola
• Your Purpose Is Calling: Your Difference Is Your Destiny - Daniels (Christian perspective)
• When the Body Says No - Maté
• On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and in Peace - Grossman
• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain - Edwards
• Man's Search for Meaning - Frankl
• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High - Grenny
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity - Allen

Spirituality

• The Book of Forgiving - Tutu
• The Yamas & Niyamas: Exploring Yoga's Ethical Practice - Adele
• The Kleshas: Exploring the Elusiveness of Happiness - Adele
• Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion - Boyle
• Barking to the Choir: The Power of Radical Kinship - Boyle
• Strength to Love - King, Jr.
• The Dhammapada - Maitreya
• Shakti Rising: Embracing Shadow and Light on the Goddess Path to Wholeness - Chinnaiyan
• Living Buddha, Living Christ - Hanh
• How to Sit - Hanh
• How to Love - Hanh
• No Mud No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering - Hanh
• Grace (Eventually) Thoughts on Faith - Lamott
• The Spontaneous Fulfillment of Desire: Harnessing the Infinite Power of Coincidence - Chopra
• Changing Lenses - Dass
• Be Here Now - Dass
• The Prophet - Gibran
• The Book: On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are - Watts

Professional Resources

• Internal Family Systems Therapy - Schwartz
• EMDR 3rd Ed. - Shapiro
• Polyvagal Theory - Porges