Recommended Reading

Welcome to the group! I'm posting books that I highly recommend to anyone working on their mental health and self-healing.

Please let me know if there are other books you would like me to add to this list!

My latest book is textbook-like, as it is a guide for psychotherapists and other helpers to learn my multidimensional approach to effectively treating the childhood trauma that is commonly at the roots of Complex PTSD. This book reorganizes and greatly expands the material of my earlier books. It emphasizes the crucial importance of relational psychotherapy in healing the fear and distrust that most survivors have of all other people. It can deeply aid therapists to mend the damage and arrested development that survivors experienced as traumatized children in the “care” of abusive and/or neglectful parents or other caretakers.

Many therapists have gratefully conveyed to me that the map, perspective, and tools herein for healing complex trauma aids their clients to identify, repair and evolve six key dimensions of their damaged and arrested development. These dimensions are the Relational, Behavioral, Cognitive, Emotional, Somatic, and Spiritual layers of their as-yet unmanifested innate…

Hope and light are on the horizon to help clients overcome the challenges of healing and releasing the pain of relational trauma.

The highly acclaimed Transcending Trauma explores a unique, compassionate, and evidence-based approach to resolving complex and dissociative trauma. In this transformative book Frank Anderson, MD, masterfully details an IFS path to therapy that allows clients to access their inherent capacity for healing – called Self-energy – while also helping them welcome, as opposed to manage, the extreme emotions frequently associated with trauma.

Included are clinical case examples, summary charts, current neuroscience research, and personal stories that will enable your clients to reclaim self-connection, experience self-love, and regain the ability to connect with and love others. Designed with clinicians in mind, this book offers a comprehensive map to complex trauma treatment that will enable readers to:

-Learn how to stay calm and steady in the presence of extreme symptoms

Our first session of this next round of Book Club starts October 9th! Looking forward to diving into this book with everyone.

We are reading: Deb Dana's Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory.

Please read or listen to the Foreward, Introduction and Chapter 1 for next week.

Please be sure to note down any questions you have or thoughts that come up as you read. Bring these to the session for discussion.

If you have any questions please do not hesitate to message me or comment below!