RESOURCES
*Please note: I share these simply as a collection of resources that I have found supportive and which others might - not as a list of what will work for everyone. Please take what is helpful to you and leave what is not!
BOOKS
Anchored: How To Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory, by Deb Dana
The Body is Not An Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, by Sonya Renee Taylor
What It Takes To Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World, by Prentis Hemphill
In An Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, by Peter Levine
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, by adrienne maree brown
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel Van der Kolk
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction, by Gabor Mate