Trauma


The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
What My Bones Know
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
I'm Glad My Mom Died
A Little Life
In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents
No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma & Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der KolkTrauma and Recovery by Judith Lewis HermanMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklShattering Silence by Darlene LekowskiThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
Trauma Wisdom
357 books — 266 voters

The Meaning of Okay by Cortney RaymondWait for You by J. LynnHopeless by Colleen HooverHeart of Obsidian by Nalini SinghTwice a Target by Susan Vaughan
Romance Novel Heroines with PTSD
194 books — 229 voters
The Courage to Heal by Ellen BassThe Courage to Heal Workbook by Laura   DavisThe Daughter of Kurdland by Widad AkreyiLight in Bandaged Places by Liz KinchenTrauma And Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman
Resources for Survivors
190 books — 124 voters

Han Kang
The feeling that she had never really lived in this world caught her by surprise. It was a fact. She had never lived. Even as a child, as far back as she could remember, she had done nothing but endure. She had believed in her own inherent goodness, her humanity, and lived accordingly, never causing anyone harm. Her devotion to doing things the right way had been unflagging, all her successes had depended on it, and she would have gone on like that indefinitely. She didn't understand why, but fa ...more
Han Kang, The Vegetarian

Camille Paglia
We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible. ...more
Camille Paglia

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