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Our most recommended trauma resources

Looking for more resources to support your healing journey? We've curated a list of thoughtful, evidence-based books that offer insight, compassion, and practical tools for recovery. Whether you're beginning your journey or deepening the work you're already doing, these reads can be powerful companions along the way.

Recommended Trauma Books

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing From Complex Trauma

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo is a powerful, deeply personal account of living with and healing from complex PTSD.

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Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving by Pete Walker is a compassionate, comprehensive self-help guide that combines the author’s personal experience and professional expertise to explore the lasting impact of childhood trauma and provide practical tools.

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The Power of Attachment

The Power of Attachment by Diane Poole Heller illuminates how early attachment wounds—like anxious, avoidant, or disorganized patterns—can fracture our sense of safety and connection, and offers evidence-based strategies to mend those fractures.

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The Tender Parts

The Tender Parts: A Guide to Healing from Trauma through Internal Family Systems Therapy by Ilyse Kennedy is a heartfelt blend of memoir and practical self-help that invites readers to meet and tend to their own inner “parts.”

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No Bad Parts

No Bad Parts by Richard C. Schwartz introduces the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model’s radical premise that all internal “parts”—even those that protest, control, or self-sabotage—have positive intentions and deserve compassion rather than suppression.

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Waking The Tiger

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences by Peter A. Levine (with Ann Frederick) is a seminal exploration of trauma’s physiological roots, reframing it not as a mental flaw but as unfinished biological survival responses locked in the body.

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In An Unspoken Voice

In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness by Peter A. Levine is a rich, somatic exploration of trauma as a physiological injury rather than a pathology.

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What Happened To You?

What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing by Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey explores how early experiences shape the brain, behavior, and resilience, and offers practical guidance on regulation, safe relationships, and healing from adversity.

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