Resources

Trauma Healing and the Body

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma – Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. 

• Somatic Experiencing: How Trauma Can Be Overcome (link) - Psychology Today

• The Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness: Peter Levine, PhD  (Somatic Experiencing)

• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma - Peter Levine, PhD (Somatic Experiencing)

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

• 8 Keys to Brain-Body Balance (8 keys to Mental Health) - Robert Scaer, MD

• Trauma and the Embodied Brain (podcast) - Bonnie Badenoch

Healing One’s Relationship with Food and Body

• Intuitive Eating: A Revolutionary Program that Works - Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Reach

• Body Respect: What Conventional Health Books Get Wrong, Leave Out, and Just Plain Fail to Understand about Weight - Linda Bacon and Lucy Aphramor

• Be Nourished - programs, e-courses, and workshops to create a weight-inclusive and body-compassionate world

• Dear Sugars: Trust Your Body (podcast) with Dana Strurtevant and Hilary Kinavey

Mindfulness & Compassion

• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times – Pema Chodron

• The Places that Scare you: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times – Pema Chodron

• Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame – Tara Brauch

• A Path with Heart: A Guide Through the Perils and Promises of Spiritual Life – Jack Kornfield

• Self-Compassion.org - a link to meditations and resources developed by Kristin Neff, PhD

Becoming Embodied

• Body Stories: A Guide to Experiential Anatomy – Andrea Olsen and Caryn McHose

• The Embodied Teen: A Somatic Curriculum for Teaching Body-Mind Awareness, Kinesthetic Intelligence, and Social and Emotional Skills--50 Activities in Somatic Movement Education - Susan Bauer

• Wisdom of the Body Moving: An Introduction to Body Mind Centering - Linda Hartley

Movement Matters

• Body Security: The Body Brain Asks “Where Am I?” (article with link) - Kevin Frank 

• The Body has a Mind of Its Own: How Body Maps in Your Brain Help You Do (Almost)  Everything Better - Sandra & Matthew Blakeslee

• Making Connections: Total Body Integration through Bartenieff Fundamental: Peggy Hackney

• Orientation and Empathetic Resonance Considered as Psychobiological Elements in Structural Integration – Kevin Frank

• The Well Balanced Child: Movement and Early Learning - Sally Goddard Blythe

• Categories of Embodiment (article with link) - Kevin Frank

Body and Earth

• Body and Earth: Seven Web-based Somatic Excursions ( link to this interactive website with experiential explorations)

• How Life Moves: Explorations in Meaning and Body Awareness – Caryn McHose and Kevin Frank

• Body and Earth: An Experiential Guide – Andrea Olsen and Caryn McHose

Relationship Support

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

Parenting Support

• Hand in Hand Parenting -online resources, classes, and support for parents to listen to and connect with their children so they thrive

• Listen: Five Simple Tools to Meet Your Everyday Parenting Challenges - Patty Wipfler and Tosha Schore 

• Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding can Help you Raise Kids who Thrive - Daniel Siegel, MD and Mary Hartzell, M.Ed

• Raising Parents, Raising Kids: Hands on Wisdom for the Next Generation - Dawn Menken, PhD