Resources

Somatic Therapy

  • Ron Kurtz, Body-Centered Psychotherapy: The Hakomi Method

  • Peter A. Levine, Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma

  • Pat Ogden, Kekuni Minton & Clare Pain, Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy

  • Babette Rothschild, The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment

Depression

Plant Medicine & Indigenous Healing Practices

  • Wade Davis, The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World

  • Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants

  • Malidoma Patrice Somé, Of Water and Spirit: Ritual Magic and Initiation in the Life of an African Shaman

  • Paul Stamets, “Mushrooms and the Mycology of Consciousness” CIIS lecture: https://soundcloud.com/publicprograms/paul-stamets

  • Joseph Tafur, The Fellowship of the River: A Medical Doctor’s Exploration into Traditional Amazonian Plant Medicine

ADD

  • Jude Star, “Being Integrated” Youtube page, including meditations specifically for ADD.

  • Homebasewithjeff.com - Writer and Meditation teacher Jeff Warren’s website, which includes meditation practices for people with ADD.

Meditation/Contemplative Practice

  • cecmeditate.com - The Consciousness Explorers Club website.

  • Tara Brach, Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha

  • Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times

  • Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life

  • Sam Harris, Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

Internal Family Systems Therapy

  • Richard C. Schwartz & Martha Sweezy, Internal Family Systems Therapy, Second Edition

  • Susan McConnell, Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy: Awareness, Breath, Resonance, Movement and Touch in Practice

Writing Practice

  • Louise DeSalvo, Writing as a Way of Healing

  • Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

  • Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

  • Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones

  • Natalie Goldberg, Wild Mind: Living the Writer’s Life

  • Linda Trichter Metcalf, Writing the Mind Alive: The Proprioceptive Method for Finding Your Authentic Voice

  • Pat Schneider, Writing Alone and with Others

Attachment & Relationships

  • Sue Johnson, Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love

  • David Richo, When Past is Present: Healing the Emotional Wounds that Sabotage Our Relationships

  • David J. Wallin, Attachment in Psychotherapy

Addiction

  • Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

  • Cece Sykes & Marth Sweezy et al, Internal Family Systems Therapy for Addictions: Trauma-Informed, Compassion-Based Interventions for Substance Use, Eating, Gambling and More

Buddism & Psychotherapy

  • Harvey B. Aronson, Buddhist Practice on Western Ground: Reconciling Eastern Ideals and Western Psychology

  • Mark Epstein, Psychotherapy Without the Self: A Buddhist Perspective

  • Mark Epstein, The Trauma of Everyday Life

Trauma & Illness Memoirs

  • Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

  • Anatole Broyard, Intoxicated by my Illness

  • Joan Didion, Blue Nights

  • Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning

  • Roxanne Gay, Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body

  • Siri Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves

  • Jamaica Kincaid, My Brother

  • V (formerly Eve Ensler), The Apology

Restorative Justice

Religious/Spiritual Trauma

  • Natalie Goldberg, The Great Failure: My Unexpected Path to Truth

  • “Cover Story” podcast (Season One)

  • Megan Phelps-Roper, Unfollow: A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church

  • Tara Westover, Educated: A Memoir

Being with Dying

  • Joan Halifax, “Compassion’s Edge States and Caring Better” interview (“On Being” podcast)

  • New York Zen Center for Contemplative Care, “Love and Fear: Contemplative Care: A Film” 

  • Rachel Naomi Remen, “Listening Generously” interview (“On Being” podcast)