Book & Podcast Recommendations by Topic

Trauma

Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body • Peter Levine

In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness • Peter Levine

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

The Body Remembers • Babette Rothschild

Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past • Peter Levine

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma • Peter Levine

Childhood Trauma

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents • Lindsay Gibson

Difficult Mothers, Adult Daughters: A Guide for Separation, Liberation, & Inspiration • Karen Anderson

Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship • Laurence Heller and Aline LaPierre

I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression • Terrence Real

Mother Hunger: How Adult Daughters Can Understand and Heal from Lost Nurturance, Protection, and Guidance • Kelly McDaniel

Mothers Who Can’t Love: A Healing Guide for Daughters • Susan Forward

The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self • Alice Miller

The Emotionally Absent Mother: How to Recognize and Heal the Invisible Effects of Childhood Emotional Neglect • Jasmin Lee Cori

The Practical Guide for Healing Developmental Trauma: Using the NeuroAffective Relational Model to Address Adverse Childhood Experiences and Resolve Complex Trauma • Laurence Heller and Brad Kammer

Will I Ever Be Good Enough?: Healing the Daughters of Narcissistic Mothers • Karyl McBride

Grief & Loss

A Grief Observed • C. S. Lewis

Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief • Joanne Cacciatore

Getting Grief Right: Finding Your Story of Love in the Sorrow of Loss • Patrick O’Malley

It’s OK That You’re Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn’t Understand • Megan Devine

Modern Loss: Candid Conversations About Grief. Beginners Welcome. • Rebecca Soffer & Gabrielle Birkner (they have a website, too)

Permission to Mourn: A New Way to Do Grief • Tom Zuba (poetry)

Staring at the Sun: Overcoming the Terror of Death • Irvin Yalom

Terrible, Thanks for Asking • Nora McInerny (podcast)

The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully • Frank Ostaseski

The Gift of Second: Healing From the Impact of Suicide • Brandy Lidbeck

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

Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying • Stephen Levine & Ondrea Levine