On this page you will find a list of trauma-informed resources for further exploration. If you are in crisis or you think you may have an emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately. If you’re having suicidal thoughts visit this website to talk to a skilled, trained counselor at a crisis center in your area at any time.
Books
Gabor Maté: When The Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress (U.S. subtitle: Exploring the Stress/Disease Connection)
Gabor Maté: In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters With Addiction
Gabor Maté: Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder (U.S. title: Scattered: How ADD Originates and What You Can Do About It)
Bessel van der Kolk: The Body Keeps the Score
Stephen Porges: The Polyvagal Theory (for professionals)
Peter Levine: In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
Peter Levine: Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of the Body
Peter Levine: Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Mark Wolynn: It Didn’t Start With You
Thomas Hübl: Healing Collective Trauma
Julie Brown Yau: The Body Awareness Workbook for Trauma
John Sarno: The Mindbody Prescription: Healing The Body, Healing the Pain
Jeffrey Rediger: Cured: Strengthen Your Immune System and Heal Your Life
Anita Morjani: Dying to Be Me
Mark Epstein: The Trauma of Everyday Life
Daniel Siegel: The Developing Mind
Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey: What Happened to You?
Bruce D. Perry: Brief: Reflections on Childhood, Trauma and Society
Bruce D. Perry: Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential—and Endangered
Diane Poole Heller: The Power of Attachment
Laurence Heller and Aline Lapierre: Healing Developmental Trauma
Nadine Burke Harris: The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
Resmaa Menakem: My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
Videos/Documentaries
Gabor Mate & Adyashanti: Emotional and Spiritual Maturity
Step Inside the Circle
Cracked up (on Netflix)
PBS Newshour: Childhood Trauma
Breakthrough: The Trauma Chaser
Is Your Story Making You Sick?
Paper Tigers: One High School’s Unlikely Success Story
Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope
How childhood trauma effects health across a lifetime (TED talk with Nadine Burke Harris)
Oprah reports on Childhood Trauma’s long term effects
Adverse Childhood Experience short video explaining toxic stress (by KPJR Films)
ACE Study (by Academy on Violence and Abuse)
Trauma and The Nervous System: A Polyvagal Perspective
Reasons I Drink (Alanis Morrissette)
Former Jail Warden Dr. Nneka Jones Tapia | We Are Witnesses
Gabor Maté Talks and Interviews
Tim Ferris interview
Russell Brand Interview
On mind/body unity in health/illness
On addiction
Interview with Joe Polish
When The Body Says No: Mind/Body Unity and the Stress- Disease Connection
Gently Dusting Off The Mind
Emotional and Spiritual Maturity: Gabor Mate and Adyashanti
The Psychology of Spiritual Seeking
Spiritual seeking, Addiction and the Search for Truth
A Neurosurgeon Talks of Vulnerability: Gabor Maté and James Doty
Working with Collective Trauma: Gabor Maté & Thomas Hübl
Conversation About Addiction with Gabor Maté and Arold Langeveld
The Causal pain at the Root of Addiction
Understanding Trauma: A Conversation with Dr. Gabor Maté
Therapists
Trauma Healing Modalities
Trauma Summits/Online Classes
Organizations
Other
Please note: this list of mental health professionals is provided as a courtesy and is for informational purposes only. It does not constitute an endorsement or approval by SAND, as SAND is not affiliated with these providers and does not assume responsibility for their services. Please contact these mental health professionals directly should you have any questions. Thank you!