Healing Trauma

Somatic-focused

The Revolutionary Trauma Release Process: Transcend Your Toughest Times- David Berceli 

Fables and Spells- adrienne maree brown

Polyvagal Exercises for Safety & Connection- Deb Dana

The Tao of Trauma- Alaine D. Duncan & Kathy Kain

Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy: Bringing the Body into Treatment- David Emerson

Overcoming Trauma Through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body- David Emerson

What My Bones Know- Stephanie Foo

Healing the Oppressed Body: A Therapeutic Guide for Radical Self-Liberation- Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik (also listed under LGBTQAI+ section)

The Politics of Trauma- Staci K. Haines

What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World- Prentis Hemphill

Nurturing Resilience: Helping Clients Move Forward from Developmental Trauma- Kathy Kain & Stephen Terrell

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma- Bessel van der Kolk

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

Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body- Peter Levine 

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma- Peter Levine

Trauma and Memory- Peter Levine

Freedom from Pain: Discover Your Body’s Power to Overcome Physical Pain- Maggie Phillips & Peter Levine

The New Saints: From Broken Hearts to Spiritual Warriors- Lama Rod Owens

Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox: 125 Worksheets and Exercises to Treat Trauma & Stress- Manuela Mischke-Reeds

Healing Trauma through Family Constellations and Somatic Experiencing- Efu Nyaki

Polyvagal Theory- Stephen Porges

The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders- John E Sarno

ACT & DBT-focused

Building A Life Worth Living- Marsha M. Linehan

Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety- Kelly Wilson

Parts work/Internal Family Systems/Structural Dissociation-focused

All Parts Welcome: A Queer and Trans Internal Family Systems Workbook- Sand C Chang

Parts Work: An Illustrated Guid to Your Inner Life- Tom & Lauri Holmes

Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma workbook- Janina Fisher

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Repairing Wholeness- Dick Schwartz

Attachment & Relationships

How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship & Community- Mia Birdsong

The Emotionally Absent Mother: A Guide to Self-Healing and Getting the Love You Missed- Jasmin L Cori

Understanding & Treating Chronic Shame: Healing Right Brain Relational Trauma- Patricia DeYoung

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy- Jessica Fern

ACT with Love: Stop Struggling, Reconcile Differences, and Strengthen Your Relationship with Acceptance and Commitment Therapy- Russ Harris

The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships- Diane Poole Heller

Healing Your Attachment Wounds- Diane Poole Heller

Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship- Laurence Heller & Aline LaPierre

Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love- Dr. Sue Johnson

The Polyamory Paradox- Irene Morning

It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle- Mark Wolynn

Racial Trauma Healing

Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome- Joy DeGruy, Ph.D.

Rest is Resistance- Tricia Hersey

Living While Black: Using Joy, Beauty, and Connection to Heal Racial Trauma- Guilaine Kinouani

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

Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger- Lama Rod Owens

Me and White Supremacy- Layla F Saad

Radical Dharma: Talking Race, Love & Liberation- Rev. angel Kyodo Williams & Lama Rod Owens, with Jasmine Syedullah, PhD.

The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health: Navigate an Unequal System, Learn Tools for Emotional Wellness, and Get the Help you Deserve- Rheeda Walker, Ph.D.

Being Black: Zen and the Art of Living with Fearlessness and Grace- Rev. angel Kyodo Williams

Disability, Disability Justice

Body Talk: 37 Voices Explore Our Radical Anatomy- edited by Kelly Jensen

Crip Kinship- Shayda Kafai

Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body- Rebekah Taussig (Kansas City writer)

We are the Scrappy Ones- Rebekah Taussig (children’s book)

Disabled Voices- edited by S.B. Smith

The View from Down Here- Lucy Webster

Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, & Desire- edited by Alice Wong

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century- edited by Alice Wong

Year of the Tiger: An Activist’s Life- Alice Wong

Sins Invalid

LGBTQIA+ Healing

More Than Organs- Kay Ulanay Barrett

Healing the Oppressed Body: A Therapeutic Guide for Radical Self-Liberation- Andrea Gutiérrez-Glik

Let’s Talk About Love- Claire Kann

Elatsoe- Darcie Little Badger (fiction book with ACE main character)

The Faggots & Their Friends Between Revolutions- Larry Mitchell

Queer Attachment: An Anti-Oppression Toolkit for Relational Healing- Fizz Perkal & Leah Jo Carnine

Falling Back in Love with Being Human- Kai Cheng Thom

Femme Healing

Women Who Run with the Wolves- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

Girlhood- Melissa Febos

Bad Feminist- Roxane Gay

Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women that a Movement Forgot- Mikki Kendall

The Moon is Always Female- Marge Piercy

Sexuality, Sexual Trauma, Pleasure & the Erotic

Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good- adrienne maree brown

Urban Tantra: Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century- Barbara Carrellas

Good Sex: Getting Off Without Checking Out- Jessica Graham 

Healing Sex: A Mind-Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma- Staci K. Haines

The New Topping Book- Dossie Easton & Janet W. Hardy

Abused Boys: The Neglected Victims of Sexual Abuse- Mic Hunter

Sex Yourself- Carlyle Jansen

Sex from Scratch: Making Your Own Relationship Rules- Sarah Mirk

Wild Feminine: Finding Power, Spirit, & Joy in the Female Body- Tami Lynn Kent

Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic As Power- Audre Lorde

Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life- Emily Nagoski

Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections- Emily Nagoski

Mating in Captivity: Reconciling the Erotic & the Domestic- Esther Perel

Living an Orgasmic Life: Heal Yourself and Awaken Your Pleasure- Xanet Pailet

Slow Pleasure: Explore Your Pleasure Spectrum- Euphemia Russell

Private Pain: It’s About Life, Not Just Sex- Ditza Katz & Ross Lynn Tabisel

Sensual Self: Prompts and practices for getting in touch with your body: A guided journal- Ev’Yan Whitney

Grief

When Things Fall Apart- Pema Chodron

The Way of Wakan: Reflections on Lakota Spirituality and Grief- David J. Mathieu

The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully- Frank Ostaseski

Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation Through Anger- Lama Rod Owens

Keep Moving- Maggie Smith

The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of Grief- Francis Weller

Perinatal Support & Pregnancy Loss

Life, Almost: Miscarriage, misconceptions and a search for answers from the brink of motherhood- Jennie Agg

The Bluejay’s Dance: A Memoir of Early Motherhood- Louise Erdrich

Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change- Angela Garbes

Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy- Angela Garbes

Why Did No One Tell Me This? The Doulas’ Honest Guide for Expectant Parents- Natalia Hailes & Ash Spivak

Birth Without Fear- January Harshe

Expecting Better- Emily Oster

The Unexpected: Navigating Pregnancy During and After Complications- Emily Oster & Dr. Nathan Fox

The Wonder Weeks: A Stress-Free Guide to Your Baby’s Behavior- Hetty van de Rijt, PhD, Frans X. Plooij, PhD & Xaviera Plas-Plooij