Recommended Reads
Complex Post-Traumatic Stress (Attachment Trauma) and Narcissistic Abuse
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma – Pete Walker
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma – Peter Levine
8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery: Take Charge Strategies to Empower Your Healing – Babette Rothschild
Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search For The True Self – Alice Miller
Free From Lies: Discovering Your True Needs – Alice Miller
The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self – Alice Miller
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents – Lindsay C. Gibson
Inner Child / Parts / Internal Family Systems
Introduction to the Internal Family Systems Model – Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Self-Therapy – Jay Earley, Ph.D.
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with IFS – Richard C. Schwartz, Ph.D.
Healing
The She Book – Tanya Markul
Circle of Stones: Woman's Journey to Herself – Judith Duerk
Clarity and Connection – Yung Pueblo
Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home – Toko-pa Turner
Tao Te Ching (Stephen Mitchell translation) – Lao Tzu
Welcome Home: Life After Healing – Sandra Ingerman
Fragrance After Rain: mystic whispers for your tender heart -Jaiya John
The Five Minute Journal -Intelligent Change
Grief and Loss
Lament for a Son – Nicholas Woltersoff
When Things Fall Apart – Pema Chodron
Traveling With a Sense of Absence – Jeanette Hogan Wright
Prayers of Honoring Grief – Pixie Lighthorse
The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief – Francis Weller
Emotions
Shame and Pride: Affect, Sex and the Birth of the Self – Donald Nathanson, M.D.
The Feeling of What Happens: Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness – Antonio Damasio
Disgust: The Gatekeeper Emotion – Susan B. Miller
Shame: The Power of Caring – Gershen Kauffman
Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions – Jaak Panksepp
The Upside of Shame – Vernon C. Kelly, Jr. and Mary Lamia
Healing the Shame That Binds You – John Bradshaw
The Hundred Dresses – Eleanor Estes (a children’s book for all ages)
Parenting and Mother Daughter Relationships
Mothering Without a Map – Kathryn Black
Will I Ever Be Good Enough: Healing the Daughters of Narcissitic Mothers – Karyl McBride, Ph.D.
What Babies Say Before They Can Talk – Paul Holinger, M.D.
Neuroscience and the Brain
Proust Was A Neuroscientist – Jonah Lehrer
Making a Good Brain Great – Daniel Amen, M.D.
Affective Neuroscience: The Foundations of Human and Animal Emotions – Jaak Panksepp