Recommended Book List

1. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain mind and body in the healing of trauma. 

By Bessel A. van der Kolk, MD

2. Childhood Disrupted: How your biography becomes your biology and how you can heal. By Donna Jackson Nakazawa

3. Molecules of Emotion. The science of mind-body medicine. 

By Candace B. Pert, PhD

4. The Body Bears the Burden: Trauma, Dissociation, and Disease.

By Robert Scaer, MD

5. The Deepest Well: Healing the long-term effects of childhood adversity.  

By Nadine Burke Harris, MD

6. Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: As updated  guide to stress, stress-related diseases and coping. By Robert M. Sapolsky

7. The Developing Mind: How relationships and the brain interact to shape who we are. By Daniel J. Siegel, MD

8. It Didn't Start With You: How inherited family trauma shapes who we are and how to end the cycle. By Mark Wolynn

9. Waking the Tiger: Healing trauma. By Peter A. Levine, PhD

10. The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological foundations of emotions, attachment, communication, & self-regulation. By Stephen W. Porges

11. Trauma Informed Healthcare Approaches: A Guide for Primary Care. 

By Megan Gerber, 2019.