Resources for Hope, Healing & Restoration

BOOKS

• The Actor’s Secret by Betsy Polatin

• Back in Control: A Surgeon’s Roadmap Out of Chronic Pain by David Hanscom

• Back Pain Permanent Healing: Understanding the Myths, Lies, and Confusion by Steven Ray Ozanich

• The Body Awareness Workbook for Trauma by Julie Brown Yau

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

• Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential—and Endangered by Bruce D. Perry

• The Brain’s Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity by Norman Doidge

• Brief: Reflections on Childhood, Trauma and Society by Bruce D. Perry

• Chronic Pain: Your Key to Recovery by Georgie Oldfield

• Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life by Jeffrey Rediger

• The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity by Nadine Burke Harris

• The Developing Mind by Daniel Siegel

• The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders by John E. Sarno

• Dr. John Sarno’s Top 10 Healing Discoveries by Steven Ray Ozanich

• Dying to Be Me by Anita Morjani

• From the Ashes: My Story of Being Métis, Homeless, and Finding My Way by Jesse Thistle

• From Triggered to Tranquil: How Self-Compassion and Mindful Presence Can Transform Relationship Conflicts and Heal Childhood Wounds by Susan Campbell

• The Great Pain Deception: Faulty Medical Advice Is Making Us Worse by Steven Ray Ozanich

• Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Discovering Your True Self Through Internal Family Systems Therapy by Richard C. Schwartz

• Healing and Recovery by David R. Hawkins

• Healing Back Pain: The Mind Body Connection by John E. Sarno

• Healing Collective Trauma by Thomas Hübl

• Healing Developmental Trauma by Laurence Heller and Aline Lapierre

• Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of the Body by Peter Levine

• Hidden from View: A Clinician’s Guide to Psychophysiologic Disorder by Allan Abbass and Howard Schubiner

• Humanual: An Epic Journey to your Expanded Self by Betsy Polatin

• In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness by Peter Levine

• In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction by Gabor Maté

• Inflamed: Deep Medicine and the Anatomy of Injustice by Rupa Marya and Raj Patel

• It Didn’t Start With You by Mark Wolynn

• The Little Book of Race and Restorative Justice by Fania Davis

• The Mindbody Prescription: Healing The Body, Healing the Pain by John Sarno

• My Body, My Earth: The Practice of Somatic Archaeology by Ruby Gibson

• My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

• The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Maté:

• Never Broken: Songs Are Only Half the Story by Jewel

• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard C. Schwartz

• The Polyvagal Theory (for professionals) by Stephen Porges

• The Power of Attachment by Diane Poole Heller

• The Trauma of Everyday Life by Mark Epstein

• Reclaiming Our Students: Why Children Are More Anxious, Aggressive, and Shut Down Than Ever—And What We Can Do About It by Hannah Beach & Tamara Neufeld Strijack

• Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder (U.S. title: Scattered: How ADD Originates and What You Can Do About It) by Gabor Maté

• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment by Pat Ogden and Janina Fisher

• Singing to the Darkness by Patricia June Vickers

• They Can’t Find Anything Wrong!: 7 Keys to Understanding, Treating, and Healing Stress Illness by David D. Clarke

• Think Away Your Pain: Your Brain is the Solution to Your Pain by David Schechter

• Unlearn Your Anxiety & Depression by Howard Schubiner

• Unlearn Your Pain by Howard Schubiner

• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine

• The Way Out: A Revolutionary, Scientifically Proven Approach to Healing Chronic Pain by Alan Gordon and Alon Ziv

• What Happened to You? by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey

• When The Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (U.S. subtitle: Exploring the Stress/Disease Connection) by Gabor Maté

• The Will To Live by Arnold Hutschnecker

• Wounds Into Wisdom: Healing Intergenerational Jewish Trauma by Tirzah Firestone

VIDEOS / DOCUMENTARIES / PODCASTS

• Adverse Childhood Experience short video explaining toxic stress (by KPJR Films)

• ACE Study (by Academy on Violence and Abuse)

• Breakthrough: The Trauma Chaser

• Cormac Russell on Asset Based Community Development (Podcast)

• CRACKED UP

• Former Jail Warden Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia | We Are Witnesses

• Gabor Mate & Adyashanti: Emotional and Spiritual Maturity

• Hannah Beach, trauma work with students using movement and stories, Each of Us Has a Story

• Higher Practice (Podcast)

• How childhood trauma effects health across a lifetime (TED talk with Nadine Burke Harris)

• Is Your Story Making You Sick?

• Oprah reports on Childhood Trauma’s long term effects

• Paper Tigers: One High School’s Unlikely Success Story

• PBS Newshour: Childhood Trauma

• Professor Julianne Holt Lunstad on the the amazing impact of social relationships on health and longevity (Podcast)

• Professor Steve Cole on human social genomics amongst many others with fantastic insight into the power of community (Podcast)

• Reasons I Drink (Alanis Morrissette)

• Reclaiming Our Students, 12-session online educational series for educators

• Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope

• Step Inside the Circle

• Surgical Empathy

• Tashi and The Monk (Film)

• This Might Hurt (Film)

• Trauma and The Nervous System: A Polyvagal Perspective

GABOR MATÉ TALKS, INTERVIEWS & MORE

• The Causal pain at the Root of Addiction

• Conversation About Addiction with Gabor Maté and Arold Langeveld

• Dr. Gabor Mate (Official Website)

• Emotional and Spiritual Maturity: Gabor Mate and Adyashanti

• Gently Dusting Off The Mind

• Interview with Joe Polish

• A Neurosurgeon Talks of Vulnerability: Gabor Maté and James Doty

• On addiction

• On mind/body unity in health/illness

• The Psychology of Spiritual Seeking

• Russell Brand Interview

• Spiritual seeking, Addiction and the Search for Truth

• Tim Ferris interview

• Understanding Trauma: A Conversation with Dr. Gabor Maté

• When The Body Says No: Mind/Body Unity and the Stress- Disease Connection

• Working with Collective Trauma: Gabor Maté & Thomas Hübl

THERAPISTS

• Compassionate Inquiry Practitioners

• Emotion-Focused Family Therapy Practitioners

• Generative Somatics Practitioners

• Katie Gray

• National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network

• Ognyan Enev IPHM (CI therapist in Bulgaria with focus on central and Eastern Europe. First 20min session is free.)

• Psychedelic Directory

• Somatic Experiencing Practitioners

• Therapists for Ukraine (from It's Complicated)

• Thriving Spirit

Please note: this list of mental health professionals is provided as a courtesy and is for informational purposes only. It does not constitute an endorsement or approval by SAND, as SAND is not affiliated with these providers and does not assume responsibility for their services. Please contact these mental health professionals directly should you have any questions. Thank you!

TRAUMA HEALING MODALITIES

• Bessel van der Kolk

• Brainspotting

• Compassionate Inquiry

• Deep Brain Reorienting (DBR)

• Empowered Heart Work

• Exploring the Sacred Line

• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) 

• EMDR International Association 

• Family Constellation Work

• Francis Weller

• Freedom Lodge

• Internal Family Systems Therapy

• The International Focusing Institute

• NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)

• Rewind Technique for PTSD and Phobias (HGI)

• Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth

• Sensorimotor Psychotherapy

• Somatic Experiencing

PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS

• Compassionate Inquiry

• Somatic Experiencing

• NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM)

TRAUMA SUMMITS/ONLINE CLASSES

• Brain Story Certification Course

• Collective Trauma Summit

• Shock Trauma Healing with Peter Levine

ORGANIZATIONS

• ACEs Connection

• Addiction Resource

• Action Trauma

• Compassionate Prison Project

• Chrysalis Society

• Collectively Rooted

• Compassionate Communities UK

• Downtown Streets Team

• The IDEA Centre, an initiative of the Neufeld Institute

• The International Center for Ethnobotanical Education, Research, and Service (ICEERS)

• Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS)

• The National Alliance on Mental Illness

• The National Child Trauma Stress Network

• The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine

• Nurture Development

• Project Healthy Minds

• The Temple of the Way of Light

• Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga

• Trauma Research Foundation

• World Hunger: Key Facts and Statistics

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