Resources
FINDING HELP
Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline
800-4-A-CHILD
800-422-4453
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
800-273-TALK (8255)
TRAUMA & RECOVERY
BOOKS
Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis
Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body and Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine
Remapping Your Mind: The Neuroscience of Self-Transformation through Story by Lewis Mehl-Madrona with Barbara Mainguy
Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse by Renee Fredrickson
Secret Survivors: Uncovering Incest and Its Aftereffects in Women by E. Sue Blume
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by Gabor Mate with Daniel Mate
Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror by Judith Herman
Writing as a Way of Healing: How Telling Our Stories Transforms Our Lives by Louise DeSalvo
Healing & Resilience Books & Resources: https://sexualrespect.columbia.edu/resources-healing-resilience-readings
WEBSITES
Bessel van der Kolk, MD
https://www.besselvanderkolk.com/
Dr. Gabor Mate
https://drgabormate.com/trauma/
Jim Hopper, PhD
me too. Movement
https://metoomvmt.org/explore-healing/
me too. Resource Library
Share Your Story
Self-Compassion with Dr. Kristin Neff
https://self-compassion.org/self-compassion-practices/#guided-practices
Survivors Sanctuary
https://sanctuary.metoomvmt.org/
Trauma Research Foundation
HEALING THROUGH WRITING & ART
Expressive Writing: Words That Heal and Writing to Heal: A Guided Journal for Recovering from
Trauma and Emotional Upheaval by James Pennebaker
Narrative Healing: Awaken the Power of Your Story by Lisa Weinert
The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity by Julia Cameron
ON WRITING
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
If You Want to Write: A Book about Art and Independence and Spirit by Brenda Ueland
The Art of Memoir by Mary Karr
The Situation and the Story: The Art of the Personal Narrative by Vivian Gornick
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within by Natalie Goldberg
WRITING THAT GAVE ME HOPE
Bastard Out of Carolina and Two or Three Things I Know for Sure by Dorothy Allison
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Know My Name by Chanel Miller
Lucky by Alice Seebold
Still Waters by Jennifer Lauck
Telling: A Memoir of Rape and Recovery by Patricia Weaver Francisco
The Glass Castle: A Memoir by Jeannette Winterson
The Part the Burns: A Memoir by Jeannine Ouellette
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement by Tarana Burke