Recs if you like The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color (The Social Justice Handbook Series)...
tending our fire
"self-help" books that situate themselves within both subjective experience and structural analysis - approaching healing and liberation as mutually informing individual and collective work.
RadFem Health + Wellness
This reading guide aims to be a beginner to advanced composition of books within the genre of women/gender (+ LGBTQ -/ basically anything that doesn’t center the experiences of cis-men).
Expect to find titles including but not limited to the scopes of mental health, wellness/psych, disability, & illness in the Global South too!
high vibrations & critical conversations
expanding the self-help genre - personal development - holistic health & growth - centering BIPOC self-help authors - reclaiming wellness as radical
please comment suggestions, this is a growing exploration :)
Understanding trauma and CPTSD
so, you wanna read like a therapist?
books that are well known in the therapy & mental health world - often read & recommended by therapists, social workers, and other professionals in the field 💕
Mental Health & Trauma
Books that help with trauma, mental health, and my autism & ADHD.
Trauma studies
A syllabus
Trauma Literacy
Nonfiction focused on trauma, dissociation, and the neuroscience of how we survive. For survivors, clinicians, students, and the casually curious.
I have potential as the therapist AND the patient
NF books mainly focused on trauma, especially complex trauma.
So you're studying your psychology/ counseling degree and realize you have the potential to make a good therapist and a good patient. I got you.
The following are books for those looking to develop their therapeutic knowledge, or those so deep into the trenches of their mental health recovery they're explaining therapy modalities to their therapist (or both like me)
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