Recs if you like Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies...

instead of the body keeps the score

look into these books that are widely varied on the topic of trauma, with a more empathetic and understanding approach and perspective.

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What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love

No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Trauma studies

A syllabus

Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy

Project LETS: Learn About Trauma

by IngoDenker

24 books

Project LETS’s beyond The Body Keeps the Score recommendations.

“What’s wrong with TBKTS?…some major criticisms from community members include: -Status quo politics; Western and Eurocentric perspectives on trauma, -Lack of analysis around politics, oppression, identity, and trauma -Author is accused of sexual misconduct, various forms of harassment…"

🔗Here is Project LETS’s full post for more info.

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My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

decolonize social work

by ahotski

7 books

what my degree reading list should have looked like

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The Revolution Will Not Be Funded: Beyond the Non-Profit Industrial Complex

Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth

Sand Talk: How Indigenous Thinking Can Save the World

Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice