Recs if you like Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory...

i’m a massage therapist by trade, obsessed with the growing body of research around trauma, fascia, and the role of somatics in whole-self healing. some of these selections are more hard science based, some memoir, and some more ‘woo-woo’ - but all of them are informing my thinking around bodywork for myself and my clients.

A syllabus

learning how to be back in a body and process and see the world and find hope/joy/forward motion again - see you. feel you. this is a list of books that gather up resources and psycho education that isn't overwhelming - it's all practical and useful and (mostly, but not completely) based on inquiry and somatic practices.

(you will absolutely not find the body keeps the score on this list)