Resources
Resources that Shape Helen’s Private Practice
Welcome to the Resources page, where you’ll find a curated collection of books that have profoundly influenced the development of Helen’s ontological lenses and private practice. These texts reflect the evolution of her journey and the diverse modalities she integrates into her work with clients.
The Evolution of Helen’s Practice
Helen’s practice has evolved through several significant stages, each marked by deep engagement with transformative philosophical and therapeutic teachings:
1. Buddhism: Her journey began with the philosophical teachings of Buddhism, which provided a foundation for mindfulness, compassion, and the nature of suffering and enlightenment.
2. Akashic Records: Next, she delved into the Akashic Records, exploring the vast spiritual archive of soul histories and karmic patterns, which opened new dimensions of understanding and healing.
3. Source of Your Consciousness: This phase focused on uncovering the origins and depth of consciousness, leading to profound insights into the nature of self-awareness and existential purpose.
4. Empirical Evidence: Integrating empirical evidence allowed Helen to ground her practice in scientifically validated methods and approaches, bridging the gap between spiritual wisdom and contemporary Western understanding.
5. Decoloniality: Embracing decoloniality brought awareness to the impact of cultural narratives and historical trauma, fostering a more inclusive and holistic approach to healing.
6. Somatic Experiencing: Incorporating somatic experiencing introduced a body-centered approach to trauma resolution, emphasizing the importance of embodied awareness and physical sensations in the healing process.
7. Reprocessing Therapy: Finally, reprocessing therapy has become a crucial component of her practice, offering advanced techniques for integrating and resolving traumatic memories and experiences.
Books and Texts
Explore the books that have been instrumental at each stage of this journey. These resources provide valuable insights and knowledge that can support your own path of self-discovery and healing. Click one of the buttons below to explore by category:
EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE
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ERVIN LÁSZLÓ : "Science and the Akashic Field ~ An Integral Theory of Everything"
“Ervin László’s book, Science and the Akashic Field, explores the rediscovery of the Akashic Field. In this text, he explains how the universe stores a record of all that is happening and has ever happened on Earth and throughout the cosmos, as well as the origins, role, and future of life and consciousness in the universe.”
RESOURCE : EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF THE AKASHIC RECORDS AND BEYOND
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MICHAEL TALBOT : "The Holographic Universe: The Revolutionary Theory of Reality"
“Nearly everyone is familiar with holograms—three-dimensional images projected into space with the aid of a laser. Two of the world's most eminent thinkers believe that the universe itself may be a giant hologram, quite literally a kind of image or construct created, at least in part, by the human mind...”
RESOURCE : EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF THE AKASHIC RECORDS AND BEYOND
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BARBARA BRENNAN : "Hands of Light ~ A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field"
“With the clarity of a physicist and the compassion of a gifted healer with fifteen years of professional experience observing 5,000 clients and students, Barbara Ann Brennan presents the first in-depth study of the human energy field for people who seek happiness, health and their full potential.”
RESOURCE : EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF THE AKASHIC RECORDS AND BEYOND
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STEPHEN W. PORGES : "The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, and Self-regulation"
“This book compiles, for the first time, Stephen W. Porges’s decades of research. A leading expert in developmental psychophysiology and developmental behavioral neuroscience, Porges is the mind behind the groundbreaking Polyvagal Theory, which has startling implications for the treatment of anxiety, depression, trauma, and autism...”
RESOURCE : EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF THE AKASHIC RECORDS AND BEYOND
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RICHARD DAWKINS : "The Selfish Gene"
“Professor Dawkins articulates a gene's eye view of evolution - a view giving centre stage to these persistent units of information, and in which organisms can be seen as vehicles for their replication. This imaginative, powerful, and stylistically brilliant work not only brought the insights of Neo-Darwinism to a wide audience, but galvanized the biology community, generating much debate and stimulating whole new areas of research...”
RESOURCE : EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF THE AKASHIC RECORDS AND BEYOND
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CHANDA PRESCOD-WEINSTEIN : "The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred"
“In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter—along with a perspective informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek...”
RESOURCE : DECOLONIAL PRACTICE/SOCIAL JUSTICE/EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF THE AKASHIC RECORDS AND BEYOND
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WILLIAM BENGSTON : "The Energy Cure: Unraveling the Mystery of Hands-On Healing"
“With The Energy Cure, Dr. William Bengston presents astonishing evidence that challenges us to totally rethink what we believe about our ability to heal. Drawing on his scientific research, incredible results, and mind-bending questions, Bengston invites us to follow him along his 35-year investigation into the mystery of hands-on healing, and to discover a technique that may activate your healing abilities...”
RESOURCE: EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF THE AKASHIC RECORDS AND BEYOND
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KULREET CHAUDHARY M.D. : "Sound Medicine: How to Use the Ancient Science of Sound to Heal the Body and Mind"
“From a leading neurologist, neuroscientist and practitioner of Ayurvedic medicine, comes a rigorous scientific investigation of the healing power of sound, showing readers how they can use it to improve their mental and physical wellbeing...”
RESOURCE : EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF THE AKASHIC RECORDS AND BEYOND
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LISSA RANKIN M.D. : "Sacred Medicine: A Doctor's Quest to Unravel the Mysteries of Healing"
“Sacred Medicine is a book of inclusion. It does not prescribe nor preach nor proselytize: it illustrates, informs, and illuminates.” ―From the foreword by Dr. Gabor Maté, author of When the Body Says No and In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts…“
RESOURCE : EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF THE AKASHIC RECORDS AND BEYOND
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EILEEN DAY McKUSICK: "Electric Body, Electric Health: Using the Electromagnetism Within (and Around) You to Rewire, Recharge, and Raise Your Voltage"
“Tap into the extraordinary power of electricity to heal your body and empower your life
Everything is electric. This seemingly simple observation has transformational repercussions on the way we think about and approach physical, mental, and emotional health. Electric Body, Electric Health is a manifesto for personal empowerment based on an electrical view of life...”
RESOURCE : EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF THE AKASHIC RECORDS AND BEYOND
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FRANK WILCZEK: "The Lightness of Being: Mass, Ether, and the Unification of Forces"
“Our understanding of nature's deepest reality has changed radically, but almost without our noticing, over the past 25 years. Transcending the clash of older ideas about matter and space, acclaimed physicist Frank Wilczek explains a remarkable new discovery: matter is built from almost weightless units, and pure energy is the ultimate source of mass. He calls it "The Lightness of Being...”
RESOURCE : EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF THE AKASHIC RECORDS AND BEYOND
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DR. SHAMINI JAIN: "Healing Ourselves: Biofield Science and the Future of Health"
“A leading mind-body researcher provides an invaluable resource of solid scientific evidence for consciousness-based healing — along with practices anyone can use...”
RESOURCE : EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF THE AKASHIC RECORDS AND BEYOND
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CANDACE B. PERT, Ph.D.:"Molecules of Emotion: Why You Feel the Way You Feel"
“How do our thoughts and emotions affect our health? Are our bodies and minds distinct from one another or do they function together as parts of an interconnected system? Candace Pert - a neuroscientist whose extraordinary career began with her 1972 discovery of the opiate receptor - provides startling and decisive answers to these and other challenging questions that scientists and philosophers have pondered for centuries. From explaining the scientific basis of popular wisdom and phenomena like "gut feelings" to making comprehensible recent discoveries in cancer and AIDS research, Molecules of Emotion is an intellectual adventure of the highest order.”
RESOURCE : EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF THE AKASHIC RECORDS AND BEYOND
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SALLY ADEE: "We Are Electric: Inside the 200-Year Hunt for Our Body's Bioelectric Code, and What the Future Holds"
“Science journalist Sally Adee breaks open the field of bioelectricity—the electric currents that run through our bodies and every living thing—its misunderstood history, and why new discoveries will lead to new ways around antibiotic resistance, cleared arteries, and new ways to combat cancer.
You may be familiar with the idea of our body's biome: the bacterial fauna that populate our gut and can so profoundly affect our health. In We Are Electric, we cross into new scientific understanding: discovering your body's electrome...”
RESOURCE : EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF THE AKASHIC RECORDS AND BEYOND
DECOLONIAL / SOCIAL JUSTICE
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DONNA J. HARAWAY : "Staying with the Trouble ~ Making Kin in the Chthulucene"
“In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and all its inhabitants. She eschews referring to our current epoch as the Anthropocene, preferring to conceptualize it as what she calls the Chthulucene, as it more aptly and fully describes our epoch as one in which the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices.”
RESOURCE : DECOLONIAL PRACTICE
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CHANDA PRESCOD-WEINSTEIN : "The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred"
“In The Disordered Cosmos, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter—along with a perspective informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek.
One of the leading physicists of her generation, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is also one of fewer than one hundred Black American women to earn a PhD from a department of physics. Her vision of the cosmos is vibrant, buoyantly nontraditional, and grounded in Black and queer feminist lineages.”
RESOURCE : DECOLONIAL PRACTICE/SOCIAL JUSTICE/EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF THE AKASHIC RECORDS AND BEYOND
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NIKOLE HANNAH-JONES : The 1619 Project
“The 1619 Project is The New York Times Magazine’s award-winning reframing of American history that placed slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. The project, which was initially launched in August of 2019, offered a revealing new origin story for the United States, one that helped explain not only the persistence of anti-Black racism and inequality in American life today, but also the roots of so much of what makes the country unique.”
RESOURCE : SOCIAL JUSTICE
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IBRAM X. KENDI : "Stamped From The Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America"
“Some Americans cling desperately to the myth that we are living in a post-racial society, that the election of the first Black president spelled the doom of racism. In fact, racist thought is alive and well in America - more sophisticated and more insidious than ever. And as award-winning historian Ibram X. Kendi argues in Stamped from the Beginning, if we have any hope of grappling with this stark reality, we must first understand how racist ideas were developed, disseminated, and enshrined in American society.”
RESOURCE : SOCIAL JUSTICE
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BEVERLY DANIEL TATUM : "Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations about Race"
“Beverly Daniel Tatum, a renowned authority on the psychology of racism, argues that straight talk about our racial identities is essential if we are serious about communicating across racial and ethnic divides and pursuing antiracism. These topics have only become more urgent as the national conversation about race is increasingly acrimonious. This fully revised edition is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand dynamics of race and racial inequality in America.”
RESOURCE : SOCIAL JUSTICE
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JESSICA FERN : "Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy"
“Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate secure monogamous relationships. What if, like many people, you’re striving for secure, happy attachments with more than one partner? Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern breaks new ground by extending attachment theory into the realm of consensual nonmonogamy...”
RESOURCE : DECOLONIAL/QUEER/PERSONAL PRACTICE
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JOE KORT : "LGBTQ Clients in Therapy: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies"
“All the answers clinicians need to work effectively with LGBTQ clients. A therapist who treats LGBTQ clients often must be more than "gay friendly." Clinical experience, scientific research, and cultural understanding are advancing rapidly, and the task of being LGBTQ informed is ever-changing. This book covers topics such as how to avoid making the common mistake of believing that "a couple is a couple," thus treating LGBTQ couples the same as their heterosexual counterparts; how to treat clients struggling in "mixed" orientation marriages and relationships (straight and LGBTQ spouses in the same couple); and how to work with clients who have non-heteronormative sexual behaviors and practices...”
RESOURCE : DECOLONIAL/QUEER/PERSONAL PRACTICE
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RESMAA MENAKEM : "My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies"
“In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. Menakem argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies...”
RESOURCE : SOCIAL JUSTICE/TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE
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AKILAH S. RICHARDS: "Raising Free People: Unschooling as Liberation and Healing Work"
“No one is immune to the byproducts of compulsory schooling and standardized testing. And while reform may be a worthy cause for some, it is not enough for countless others still trying to navigate the tyranny of what schooling has always been. Raising Free People argues that we need to build and work within systems truly designed for any human to learn, grow, socialize, and thrive, regardless of age, ability, background, or access to money...”
RESOURCE : DECOLONIAL PRACTICE
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DALIA KINSEY, RD, LD: "Decolonizing Wellness: A QTBIPOC-Centered Guide to Escape the Diet Trap, Heal Your Self-Image, and Achieve Body Liberation"
“The lack of BIPOC and LGBTQ representation in the fields of health and nutrition has led to repeated racist and unscientific biases that negatively impact the very people they purport to help. Many representatives of the increasingly popular body-positivity movement actually add to the body-image concerns of queer people of color by emphasizing cisgender, heteronormative, and Eurocentric standards of beauty. Few mainstream body-positivity resources address the intersectional challenges of anti-Blackness, colorism, homophobia, transphobia, and generational trauma that are at the root of our struggles with wellness and self-care...”
RESOURCE : DECOLONIAL PRACTICE/SOCIAL JUSTICE
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KERMIT ROOSEVELT III: "The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story"
“Our idea of the Founders’ America and its values is not true. We are not the heirs of the Founders, but we can be the heirs of Reconstruction and its vision for equality.
There’s a common story we tell about America: that our fundamental values as a country were stated in the Declaration of Independence, fought for in the Revolution, and made law in the Constitution. But, with the country increasingly divided, this story isn’t working for us anymore—what’s more, it’s not even true...”
RESOURCE : DECOLONIAL PRACTICE
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ZAKIYYAH IMAN JACKSON: "Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World"
“Rewriting the pernicious, enduring relationship between Blackness and animality in the history of Western science and philosophy, Becoming Human: Matter and Meaning in an Antiblack World breaks open the rancorous debate between Black critical theory and posthumanism. Through the cultural terrain of literature by Toni Morrison, Nalo Hopkinson, Audre Lorde, and Octavia Butler, the art of Wangechi Mutu and Ezrom Legae, and the oratory of Frederick Douglass, Zakiyyah Iman Jackson both critiques and displaces the racial logic that has dominated scientific thought since the Enlightenment. In so doing, Becoming Human demonstrates that the history of racialized gender and maternity, specifically anti-Blackness, is indispensable to future thought on matter, materiality, animality, and posthumanism…“
RESOURCE: DECOLONIAL PRACTICE
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JENNIFER MULLAN, PsyD - "Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice"
“A call to action for therapists to politicize their practice through an emotional decolonial lens.
An essential work that centers colonial and historical trauma in a framework for healing, Decolonizing Therapy illuminates that all therapy is―and always has been― inherently political. To better understand the mental health oppression and institutional violence that exists today, we must become familiar with the root of disembodiment from our histories, homelands, and healing practices. Only then will readers see how colonial, historical, and intergenerational legacies have always played a role in the treatment of mental health...”
RESOURCE: DECOLONIAL PRACTICE
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DEIRDRE COOPER OWENS - "Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology"
“The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Nathan Bozeman are well documented. It is also no secret that these nineteenth-century gynecologists performed experimental caesarean sections, ovariotomies, and obstetric fistula repairs primarily on poor and powerless women. Medical Bondage breaks new ground by exploring how and why physicians denied these women their full humanity yet valued them as “medical superbodies” highly suited for medical experimentation...”
RESOURCE: DECOLONIAL PRACTICE
SOMATIC / TRAUMA-INFORMED
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MARSHALL B. ROSENBERG : "Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life"
“Do you hunger for skills to improve the quality of your relationships, to deepen your sense of personal empowerment or to simply communicate more effectively? Unfortunately, for centuries our culture has taught us to think and speak in ways that can actually perpetuate conflict, internal pain and even violence. Nonviolent Communication partners practical skills with a powerful consciousness and vocabulary to help you get what you want peacefully.”
RESOURCE : TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE
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RESMAA MENAKEM : "My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies"
“In this groundbreaking book, therapist Resmaa Menakem examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology.
The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trauma inflicted by the ills that plague society. Menakem argues this destruction will continue until Americans learn to heal the generational anguish of white supremacy, which is deeply embedded in all our bodies. Our collective agony doesn't just affect African Americans. White Americans suffer their own secondary trauma as well. So do blue Americans—our police...”
RESOURCE : SOCIAL JUSTICE/TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE
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BESSEL VAN DER KOLK : "The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma"
“Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.”
RESOURCE : TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE
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PETER A. LEVINE : "In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness"
“In this culmination of his life’s work, Peter A. Levine draws on his broad experience as a clinician, a student of comparative brain research, a stress scientist and a keen observer of the naturalistic animal world to explain the nature and transformation of trauma in the body, brain and psyche. In an Unspoken Voice is based on the idea that trauma is neither a disease nor a disorder, but rather an injury caused by fright, helplessness and loss that can be healed by engaging our innate capacity to self-regulate high states of arousal and intense emotions. Enriched with a coherent theoretical framework and compelling case examples, the book elegantly blends the latest findings in biology, neuroscience and body-oriented psychotherapy to show that when we bring together animal instinct and reason, we can become more whole human beings.”
RESOURCE : TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE
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PETER A. LEVINE : "Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma"
“Waking the Tiger normalizes the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to heal them. People are often traumatized by seemingly ordinary experiences. The reader is taken on a guided tour of the subtle, yet powerful impulses that govern our responses to overwhelming life events. To do this, it employs a series of exercises that help us focus on bodily sensations. Through heightened awareness of these sensations trauma can be healed.”
RESOURCE : TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE
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PETER A. LEVINE : "Sexual Healing: Transforming the Sacred Wound (Transform the Sacred Wound)"
“Healing the wounds of sexual trauma has long been considered by many psychotherapists to be one of the most challenging tasks a person will ever face. The good news, teaches Dr. Peter A. Levine, is that new and more effective tools are emerging. On Sexual Healing, Dr. Levine, a pioneer in the field of healing trauma, teaches you his innovative series of body-based practices to release the sexual trauma of your past.”
RESOURCE : TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE
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MARK WOLYNN : "It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle"
“As a pioneer in the field of inherited family trauma, Mark Wolynn has worked with individuals and groups on a therapeutic level for over twenty years. It Didn’t Start with You offers a pragmatic and prescriptive guide to his method, the Core Language Approach. Diagnostic self-inventories provide a way to uncover the fears and anxieties conveyed through everyday words, behaviors, and physical symptoms...”
RESOURCE : TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE
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DAVID A. TRELEAVEN : "Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness: Practices for Safe and Transformative Healing"
“Drawing on a decade of research and clinical experience, psychotherapist and educator David Treleaven shows that mindfulness meditation―practiced without an awareness of trauma―can exacerbate symptoms of traumatic stress. Instructed to pay close, sustained attention to their inner world, survivors can experience flashbacks, dissociation, and even retraumatization…”
RESOURCE : TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE
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GABOR MATÉ : "When The Body Says No"
“Through the lens of moving personal stories, medical doctor and best-selling author Dr. Gabor Maté shows how emotion and psychological stress play a powerful role in the onset of chronic illness, cancer, and many other serious illnesses...”
RESOURCE : TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE
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GABOR MATÉ : "In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction"
“Based on Gabor Maté’s two decades of experience as a medical doctor and his groundbreaking work with people with addiction on Vancouver’s skid row, this #1 international bestseller radically re-envisions a much misunderstood condition by taking a compassionate approach to substance abuse and addiction recovery...“
RESOURCE : TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE
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GABOR MATÉ : "Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder"
“In this breakthrough guide to understanding, treating, and healing Attention Deficit Disorder, Dr. Gabor Maté, bestselling author of The Myth of Normal, and himself diagnosed with ADD:
Demonstrates that the condition is not a genetic “illness” but a response to environmental stress
Explains that in ADD, circuits in the brain whose job is emotional self-regulation and attention control fail to develop in infancy – and why
Shows how ‘distractibility’ is the psychological product of life experience...”
RESOURCE : TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE
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THOMAS HÜBL: "Attuned: Practicing Interdependence to Heal Our Trauma—and Our World"
“A road map to harness the power of our collective human consciousness as a source for healing our traumatized world
We are all interconnected—and dependent on each other to shape the world in which we live. Yet even though technology has allowed us to digitally share our lives with more people than ever, the result has been a growing pattern of personal isolation, alienation, and division. Why is this? “We are seeing the manifestation of collective trauma,” says luminary Thomas Hübl, who has reached thousands of people around the world through his teachings on mysticism and healing. “The profoundly complex challenges we face demand a new level of human collaboration…”
RESOURCE : TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE
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BENNETT WEBB: "EMDR and Somatic Psychotherapy Toolbox"
“EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) is a kind of psychotherapy proved to help people recover from trauma and improve their quality of life. EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) is a relatively new therapeutic technique. It's becoming more popular, especially as a therapy for PTSD. Military conflict, physical violence, rape, or vehicle accidents are common causes of PTSD...”
RESOURCE: TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE
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FRANCINE SHAPIRO, PhD + MARGOT SILK FORREST: "EMDR: The Breakthrough Therapy for Overcoming Anxiety, Stress, and Trauma"
“Discover the essential guide to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing therapy (EMDR) from its pioneering creator, Francine Shapiro
Gain insights into how painful life experiences are physically stored in our brains and how EMDR therapy can bring relief...”
RESOURCE: TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE
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PETER A. LEVINE, PhD + MAGGIE PHILLIPS, PhD: "Freedom from Pain: Discover Your Body's Power to Overcome Physical Pain"
“If you are suffering chronic pain―even after years of surgery, rehabilitation, and medication―only one question matters: How do I find lasting relief? With Freedom from Pain, two pioneers in the field of pain and trauma recovery address a crucial missing factor essential to long-term healing: addressing the unresolved emotional trauma held within the body..”
RESOURCE: TRAUMA INFORMED PRACTICE
PERSONAL PRACTICE / RELATIONAL
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DAVID M. BUSS : "The Evolution of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating"
“If we all want love, why is there so much conflict in our most cherished relationships? To answer this question, we must look into our evolutionary past, argues prominent psychologist David M. Buss. Based one of the largest studies of human mating ever undertaken, encompassing more than 10,000 people of all ages from thirty-seven cultures worldwide, The Evolution of Desire is the first work to present a unified theory of human mating behavior...”
RESOURCE : PERSONAL PRACTICE
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AMIR LEVINE + RACHEL HELLER : "Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love"
“We already rely on science to tell us what to eat, when to exercise, and how long to sleep. Why not use science to help us improve our relationships? In this revolutionary book, psychiatrist and neuroscientist Dr. Amir Levine and Rachel Heller scientifically explain why some people seem to navigate relationships effortlessly, while others struggle...”
RESOURCE : PERSONAL PRACTICE
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JESSICA FERN : "Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy"
“Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate secure monogamous relationships. What if, like many people, you’re striving for secure, happy attachments with more than one partner? Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern breaks new ground by extending attachment theory into the realm of consensual nonmonogamy...”
RESOURCE : DECOLONIAL/QUEER/PERSONAL PRACTICE
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ESTHER PEREL : "The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity"
“For the past ten years, Perel has traveled the globe and worked with hundreds of couples who have grappled with infidelity. Betrayal hurts, she writes, but it can be healed. An affair can even be the doorway to a new marriage—with the same person. With the right approach, couples can grow and learn from these tumultuous experiences, together or apart.”
RESOURCE : PERSONAL PRACTICE
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GALIT ATLAS : "Emotional Inheritance: A Therapist, Her Patients, and the Legacy of Trauma"
“The people we love and those who raised us live inside us; we experience their emotional pain, we dream their memories, and these things shape our lives in ways we don’t always recognize. Emotional Inheritance is about family secrets that keep us from living to our full potential, create gaps between what we want for ourselves and what we are able to have and haunt us like ghosts...”
RESOURCE : PERSONAL PRACTICE
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SUSAN CAIN : "Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole"
“Bittersweet is based on the premise that "light and dark, birth and death—bitter and sweet—are forever paired." Cain encourages the reader to accept feelings of sorrow and longing as inspiration to experience sublime emotions—such as beauty and wonder and transcendence—to counterbalance the "normative sunshine" of society's pressure to constantly be positive...”
RESOURCE : PERSONAL PRACTICE
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DEB DANA : "The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation"
“This book offers therapists an integrated approach to adding a polyvagal foundation to their work with clients. With clear explanations of the organizing principles of Polyvagal Theory, this complex theory is translated into clinician and client-friendly language...”
RESOURCE : PERSONAL PRACTICE
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JOE KORT : "LGBTQ Clients in Therapy: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies"
“All the answers clinicians need to work effectively with LGBTQ clients. A therapist who treats LGBTQ clients often must be more than "gay friendly." Clinical experience, scientific research, and cultural understanding are advancing rapidly, and the task of being LGBTQ informed is ever-changing. This book covers topics such as how to avoid making the common mistake of believing that "a couple is a couple," thus treating LGBTQ couples the same as their heterosexual counterparts; how to treat clients struggling in "mixed" orientation marriages and relationships (straight and LGBTQ spouses in the same couple); and how to work with clients who have non-heteronormative sexual behaviors and practices...”
RESOURCE : DECOLONIAL/QUEER/PERSONAL PRACTICE
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ICHIRO KISHIMI + FUMITAKE KOGA : "The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness"
“Is happiness something you choose for yourself? The Courage to Be Disliked presents a simple and straightforward answer. Using the theories of Alfred Adler, one of the three giants of nineteenth-century psychology alongside Freud and Jung, this book follows an illuminating dialogue between a philosopher and a young man...”
RESOURCE : PERSONAL PRACTICE
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CAROLINE MYSS : "Energy Anatomy: The Science of Personal Power, Spirituality, and Health"
“We stand at the threshold of a new era in medicine and healing. Today, instead of looking at the human body as a biological machine, we know it is a vast energetic network, where spirit, matter, and power intersect.
On Energy Anatomy, Caroline Myss teaches how the human body encodes thought, converts it into matter, and stores it as energy within specific areas of the body. After working with thousands of patients, Myss decoded the process of how these energy centers work―linked specific illnesses with past emotional traumas―and solved the puzzle of why some people heal, while others don’t…”
RESOURCE : PERSONAL PRACTICE
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LINDA HOWE : "How to Read the Akashic Records: Accessing the Archive of the Soul and Its Journey"
“After a lifelong search for truth, master teacher and healer Linda Howe has developed an infallible method for accessing this reservoir of information: the Pathway Prayer Process. By lifting you to a divine level of consciousness, this sacred prayer opens the doors of the Records, where your “soul blueprint”—everything you need to know about your soul's destiny—awaits you. There you will work with your Masters, Teachers, and Loved Ones to cultivate a rich relationship with the Records, and ultimately learn to unleash your highest potential.”
RESOURCE : PERSONAL PRACTICE
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LINDA HOWE : "Healing Through the Akashic Records: Using the Power of Your Sacred Wounds to Discover Your Soul's Perfection"
“Imagine opening a book that told the story of your life—and, suddenly, you realized that the painful parts held the key to knowing yourself as completely whole, well, and good. As many of Linda Howe’s students have found, this is the transformative process that we can experience through the Akashic Records, an energetic archive of the soul and its journey. With Healing Through the Akashic Records, you will learn how we can use our wounds—the behaviors or ideas that we hold about ourselves—as a path to inner peace.”
RESOURCE : PERSONAL PRACTICE
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LINDA HOWE : "Discover Your Soul's Path through the Akashic Records: Taking Your Life from Ordinary to ExtraOrdinary"
“The Akashic Records can be understood as the "Cosmic Chronicles of You": an energetic archive, or dimension of consciousness, that tells the story of your soul’s journey through space and time as a human being. By learning to access this dimension, you will gain insight into your earthly experience and discover how to transform your life into one that radiates light and magnetizes good.”
RESOURCE : PERSONAL PRACTICE
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ILYSE KENNEDY: "The Tender Parts: A Guide to Healing from Trauma Through Internal Family Systems Therapy"
“Ten years ago, Ilyse Kennedy was a disconnected twenty-something, sitting on a therapy couch, grappling with her own trauma. Now, as a trauma therapist, Kennedy shows up ready to attune to her treasured clients. Those who meet her might be surprised to know that this twenty-something still lives within her. She also has a people pleaser, who caters to the needs of others for self-protection. Then there is the therapist within her, who offers tools and solutions for her clients. The twenty-something, people pleaser, and therapist are all parts within her—they are adaptations she formed in response to traumas—who show up to aid her in interacting with the outside world...”
RESOURCE : PERSONAL PRACTICE
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CANDACE PERT, PhD: "Psychosomatic Wellness"
“If our bodies are in a state of constant vibration, can the right music “tune” our cells to good health? Dr. Candace Pert’s research has revealed that it can. It has been proven that the molecules of our bodies - not just our ears and brains - actually resonate with the music we hear.
Psychosomatic Wellness features 55 minutes of healing music and guided meditation created with cutting-edge scientific research about which sound frequencies allow us to achieve harmonious integration of our bodyminds, to literally reprogram every cell to a state of greater health. With flute, percussion, vocals, and bass.”
RESOURCE: PERSONAL PRACTICE
QUEERNESS
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JOE KORT : "LGBTQ Clients in Therapy: Clinical Issues and Treatment Strategies"
“All the answers clinicians need to work effectively with LGBTQ clients. A therapist who treats LGBTQ clients often must be more than "gay friendly." Clinical experience, scientific research, and cultural understanding are advancing rapidly, and the task of being LGBTQ informed is ever-changing. This book covers topics such as how to avoid making the common mistake of believing that "a couple is a couple," thus treating LGBTQ couples the same as their heterosexual counterparts; how to treat clients struggling in "mixed" orientation marriages and relationships (straight and LGBTQ spouses in the same couple); and how to work with clients who have non-heteronormative sexual behaviors and practices...”
RESOURCE : DECOLONIAL/QUEER/PERSONAL PRACTICE
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JESSICA FERN : "Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy"
“Attachment theory has entered the mainstream, but most discussions focus on how we can cultivate secure monogamous relationships. What if, like many people, you’re striving for secure, happy attachments with more than one partner? Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern breaks new ground by extending attachment theory into the realm of consensual nonmonogamy...”
RESOURCE : DECOLONIAL/QUEER/PERSONAL PRACTICE