Trauma informed Resources

BOOKS

Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future. Patty Krawec.

Born for Love: Why Empathy is Essential and Endangered. Bruce D. Perry.

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

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle. Amelia Nagoski and Emily Nagoski.

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.

Complete PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma. Pete Walker.

Counselling Insights: Practical Strategies for Helping Others with Anxiety, Trauma, Grief, and More. Vikki Enns.

Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead. Brené Brown.

Deep Diversity: Overcoming Us vs. Them. Shakil Choudhury.

Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies. Renee Linklater

Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Daily. Jamie Marich.

Embodied Activism: Engaging the Body to Cultivate Liberation, Justice, and Authentic Connection - A Practical Guide for Transformative Social Change. Rae Johnson.

Emergent Strategies. Adrienne Maree Brown.

Fumbling Towards Repair: A Workbook for Community Accountability Facilitators. Mariame Kaba and Shira Hassan.

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

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation. Janina Fisher.

Inspiring Believed-in-Hope as an Ethical Position: Vicarious Resistance & Justice-Doing. Vikki Reynolds et al.

It's All About the Land: Collected Talks and Interviews on Indigenous Resurgence. Taiaiake Alfred.

Looking at Trauma – A Toolkit for Clinicians. Abby Hershler, Lesley Hughes, Patricia Nguyen, Shelley Wall

Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger. Lama Rod Owens

Mindfulness Skills for Trauma and PTSD: Practices for Recovery and Resilience. Rachel Goldsmith Turow.

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

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

Oppression and the Body: Roots, Resistance, and Resolutions. Christine Caldwell, Lucia Bennett Leighton.

Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation. Deb Dana and Stephen W. Porges.

Reclaiming Power and Place: : The Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication. Oren Jay Sofer.

The Boy who was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: what Traumatized Children Can Teach Us about Loss, Love, and Healing. Bruce D. Perry.

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

The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love. Sonya Renee Taylor.

The Compassion Fatigue Workbook: Creative Tools for Transforming Compassion Fatigue and Vicarious Trauma. Francoise Mathieu.

The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs. Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture. Gabor Maté, MD & Daniel Maté.

The Pain We Carry: Healing From Complex PTSD. Natalie Y. Gutiérrez.

The Politics of Trauma. Staci K. Haines.

The Post-Traumatic Growth Guidebook: Practical Mind-Body Tools to Heall Trauma, Foster Resilience and Awaken your Potential. Arielle Schwartz, PhD.

The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward. Britt Frank.

The Tender Parts: A Guide to Healing from Trauma through Internal Family Systems Therapy. Ilyse Kennedy.

The Wisdom of the body: Finding Healing, Wholeness, and Connection through Embodied. Hillary L. McBride.

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror. Judith Lewis Herman.

Trauma is Really Strange. Steve Haines.

Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others. Laura van Dernoot Lipsky.

Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: A Workbook for Survivors and Therapists. Janina Fisher.

Treating The Trauma Survivor. Carrie Clark, Catherine C. Classen, Anne Fourt, & Maithili Shetty.

Unbroken: The Trauma Response Is Never Wrong: And Other Things You Need to Know to Take Back Your Life. Mary Catherine McDonald,

Unfuck Your Brain: Getting Over Anxiety, Depression, Anger, Freak-Outs, and Triggers with Science. Faith Harper.

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

We Do This 'Til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice. Mariame Kaba.

We Heal Together: Rituals and Practices for Building Community and Connection. Michelle Cassandra Johnson.

What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing. Bruce D. Perry & Oprah Winfrey.

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma. Stephanie Foo.

Why Am I Like This?: How to Break Cycles, Heal from Trauma, and Restore Your Faith. Kobe Campbell

E-BOOKS

Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing. David A. Treleaven.

“Beyond the Cliff,” Laura van Dernoot Lipsky. TEDxWashingtonCorrectionsCenterForWomen.

“How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime,” Nadine Burke Harris. TEDMED.

“Resisting Burnout with Justice-Doing Part 1: Collective Care & Ethical Pain,” Vicky Reynolds.

“Treating Trauma: 2 Ways to Help Clients Feel Safe, with Peter Levine,” NICABM.

“The Body Keeps the Score,” The School of Life.

“The Edge of Compassion,” Françoise Mathieu. TEDxQueensU.

“Understanding Empathy,” Brené Brown.

“me too.” Survivor Healing Series: Choice, Voice, & Boundaries

Understanding the Land Acknowledgement: York University

WEBSITES

Adrienne Maree Brown, “Documenting My Liberation” - http://adriennemareebrown.net/

Andrea Papin and Jess Jackson, “Trauma Aware Care” - https://trauma-aware-care.mykajabi.com/about-us

Becky Carter, “Trauma Healing: Body Wisdom” - https://www.beckycarterlcpc.com/

Crisis and Trauma Resource Institute (CTRI) - https://ca.ctrinstitute.com/

Generative Somatics - https://generativesomatics.org/

Janina Fisher - https://janinafisher.com/

Rhonda Magee - https://www.rhondavmagee.com/

Kai Cheng Tom - https://kaichengthom.com/

Kristen Neff, “Self-Compassion Guided Meditations and Exercises” https://self-compassion.org/category/exercises/#guided-meditations%E2%80%A6

Lama Rod Owens - https://www.lamarod.com/

Linda Thai - www.linda-thai.com

McMaster University, “Mindfulness & Relaxation” -https://wellness.mcmaster.ca/topics/mindfulness-and-relaxation/

National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM) - https://www.nicabm.com/

Palouse Mindfulness - www.palousemindfulness.com

Rania El Mugammar - https://www.raniawrites.com/

Robin DiAngelo - https://www.robindiangelo.com/

Ruth King - https://ruthking.net/

Somatic Experiencing Trauma Institute, “Anti-Oppression Resources” - https://traumahealing.org/anti-oppression-resources/

Sonya Renee Taylor - https://linktr.ee/sonyareneetaylor

Tanya Talaga - https://www.ttalaga.ca/

Tara Brach - www.tarabrach.com

The Embodiment Institute (TEI) - www.theembodimentinstitute.org/

The Embody Lab -https://www.theembodylab.com/

VAW Learning Network - https://www.vawlearningnetwork.ca/

Wildbody Somatics - https://wildbody.ca/

WORKSHOPS

Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors. Janina Fisher. Online.

ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS

Bath, H. (2015). “The Three Pillars of TraumaWise Care: Healing in the Other 23 Hours.” Reclaiming Children and Youth. 23(4), pp. 5-11.

Black, Rebel Sidney (2020). “Pod Mapping for Mutual Aid.”

Decolonization is not a metaphor – Eve Tuck, K. Wayne Yang

Kahn, F. “Caring for Yourself is a Radical Act: Self-Care Guide for Youth Working in Community.”

Linklater, R. (2014). “Colonialism, Indigenous Trauma and Healing.” Decolonizing trauma work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies, pp. 19-50 Fernwood Press: Halifax.

Mingus, Mia (2012). “On Collaboration: Starting With Each Other” Leaving Evidence.

Reynold, V. (2019). “The Zone of Fabulousness: Resisting vicarious trauma with connection, collective care and justice-doing in ways that centre the people we work alongside.” Association for Family and Systemic Therapy, pp. 36-39.

Truth and Reconciliation Comission of Canada (2012). “Calls to Action”.

“Session 1: Mindfulness and The Window of Tolerance.”

Wilkin, L. & Hillock, S. (2015). “Enhancing MSW Students’ Efficacy in Working with Trauma, Violence, and Oppression: An Integrated Feminist-Trauma Framework for Social Work Education.” Feminist Teacher, 24(30), pp. 189-206.