Resources
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Recommended resources
Understanding CPTSD--or Complex (Childhood) Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker
Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology And How You Can Heal by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle by Mark Wolynn
The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole by Arielle Schwartz, Ph.D.
Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C Schwartz
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
Bessel van der Kolk
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
Understanding Narcissistic Abuse
“Don't You Know Who I Am?”: How to Stay Sane in an Era of Narcissism, Entitlement, and Incivility by Ramani S. Durvasula Ph.D
Traumatic Narcissism and Recovery by Daniel Shaw
Traumatic Narcissism: Relational Systems of Subjugation
by Daniel Shaw
Healing: Doing the Work, Mindfulness, Connection, Embodiment, Self Compassion
Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself by Kristin Neff
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha by Tara Brach
Radical Compassion. Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN by Tara Brach
Start Where You Are by Pema Chodron
How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery
by Dr. Nicole LePera
First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety
by Sarah Wilson
Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict by Tsultrim Allione
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