Welcome to my resources page with some of my favorite books, links, articles, podcasts, local connections and much more.
Check a video I made for you:
Websites
traumahealing.org (Peter Levine’s Somatic Experiencing)
roseninstitute.net (Rosen Method Bodywork Institute)
somaticsed.com (The Somatics Society, Thomas and Eleanor Hanna)
focusingresources.com (Ann Weiser Cornell; Inner Awareness Skills Training)
Thenapministry.com
Podcasts and YouTube
Dr. van der Kolk and KristaTippet (OnBeing, July 11, 2013)
Parkinson’s Disease and Dance Video
Rethinking infidelity … a talk for anyone who has ever loved (Esther Perel on long-term relationships)
This American Life: Birds and Bees On air June 11, 2016 and May 2015
Even though this podcast seems to be about how to talk to young people about life’s tough subjects, it’s pertinent to communicating at any age about sexual activity and consent, racism, and straight-talk about difficult circumstances around death. The last portion of the episode interviews children about their intact felt-sense of grief and the healing that comes from processing verbally about their physical sensations.
Stan Tatkin on couples: “Love, Danger, Deviance and Conflict” on Good Life Project podcast
Twig’s Suggestions for Pre and Post Surgical Events
Books
On Social Justice and Spirituality
Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger, by Lama Rod Owens
The Inner Work of Racial Justice: Healing Ourselves and Transforming Our Communities through Mindfulness, by Rhonda Magee
Active Hope, by Joanna Macy
Emergent Strategy, by Adrienne Maree Brown
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies, by Resmaa Menakem
All About Love, by bell hooks
On Rosen Method Bodywork
Relaxation, Awareness, Resilience: Rosen Method Bodywork Science and Practice, by Ivy Green
Rosen Method Bodywork: Accessing the Unconscious Through Touch, by Marion Rosen with Sue Brenner
Touching the Body, Reaching the Soul, by Sandra Wooten
Rosen Method: An Approach to Wholeness and Well-Being Through the Body, by Elaine Mayland, PhD
On Somatic Experiencing and Trauma Recovery
In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness, by Peter Levine
Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing, by Peter Levine
Getting Through the Day: Strategies for Adults Hurt as Children, by Nancy Napier
Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness, by David Treleaven
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies, by Resma Menakem
On the Benefits of Touch
Touch: The Science of Hand, Heart and Mind, by David J. Linden
The Oxytocin Factor, by Kersten Uvnas Moberg
Touching, by Ashley Montague
On MindBody Connection
The Body has a Mind of its Own, by Sandra Blakelee and Matthew Blakeslee
Body Sense: The Psychophysiology of Self-Awareness, by Alan Fogel
A General Theory of Love, by Thomas Lewis, et. al.
When the Body Says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection, by Gabor Mate’
Mindsight, by Daniel Siegal
The Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel van der Kolk, MD
Healing Sex: A MInd-Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma, by Staci Haines
Embodied Spirituality
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying, by Sogyal Rinpoche
The Book of Awakening, by Mark Nepo
Body of Health, by Francesca McCartney, PhD
Awareness, by Anthony DeMello
The Four Agreements, by Don Miquel Ruis, MD
Listen to Your Life Speak, by Parker Palmer
Anamcara, by John O’Donahue
Anatomy of the Spirit, by Carolyn Myss
Original Self, by Thomas Moore
The Second Half of Life, by Angeles Arrien
Emergent Strategy, by Adrienne Maree Brown
Taking our Places, by Norman Fischer
Training in Compassion, by Norman Fischer
Waking Up to What We Do, by Diane Eshin Rizzetto
Embodied Psychology and Emotions
The Power of Vulnerability, by Brene Brown
The Power of Focusing, by Ann Weiser Cornell
The Feeling of What Happens, by Antonio Damasio, PhD
The Body is Not an Apology, by Sonya Renee Taylor
The Happiness Trap, How to Stop Struggling and Start Living, by Russ Harris
The Body Encyclopedia: A Guide to Psychological Functions of the Muscular System, by Lisbeth Marcher and Sonja Fich
