Resource Shed
A gardener has graciously compiled a list of therapeutic resources to help you better understand and recover from emotional trauma. Many amazing therapies have been recently developed that can move you from pain to peace.
Everyone has a different path and needs a different tool.
Explore the therapies that intrigue you.
Note we don’t promise any miracle cures or endorse any practitioners. DISCLAIMER
Therapies & Books
Therapies
Somatic / Body-based Therapies - therapies that go beyond thinking and involve working with the body.
Emotional Freedom Tapping (EFT): EFT is tapping technique done with the hands that is used to “change negative feelings, reduce distressing and/or self-limiting thoughts, to alter repetitive unwanted behaviors and is even effective resolving traumatic memories.”
Rosen Therapy: A gentle hands-on body therapy where you get in touch with frozen or repressed trauma and release it.
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
Vagus Nerve Therapy : Therapy that uses toning/soothing/calming to rewire lingering automatic and unconscious negative responses to trauma.
Trauma Recovery Exercises :“TRE®” is an innovative series of exercises that assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension and trauma. The exercises safely activate a natural reflex mechanism of shaking or vibrating that releases muscular tension, calming down the nervous system.”
Some leading practitioners of body-based therapies:Embodied Trauma HealingIrene Lyon: Somatic Experiencer and Nervous System expert. She teaches neuro-sensory exercises which you can do by yourself, to learn to self-regulate and build capacity in the nervous system to trauma can gradually be released.Barbara Rothschild
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
EMDR is a psychotherapy that enables people to heal from the symptoms and emotional distress that are the result of disturbing life experiences. EMDR therapy shows that the mind can in fact heal from psychological trauma much as the body recovers from physical trauma.
Attachment-focused EMDR - a variant of standard EMDR, focusing on developmental trauma
Psychological, Cognitive and Talk Therapies
Too many of us have had to manage our emotional hardships alone. Many of us can be compassionate towards others but incredibly harsh towards ourselves. For some types of trauma, e.g. childhood emotional neglect, working alongside someone who is committed to helping you and who hears, sees, and validates you, can be an essential path to healing. Listed below are therapies that can be engaged in with a trained therapist.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
The Change Triangle is a guide “to carry you from a place of disconnection back to your true Self. It's a step-by-step process for simply feeling better. It works by getting you reacquainted with core emotions like joy, anger, sadness, fear, and excitement.”
Internal Family Systems “is a transformative, evidence-based model of psychotherapy. It is based on the premise that the mind is ‘naturally multiple’ and that this is a good thing; that our inner parts contain valuable qualities and our core Self knows how to heal, allowing us to become integrated and whole.”
Lifespan Integration is a therapeutic process which enables trauma survivors to integrate body memory of past experiences into their present-day selves, resulting in more coherence in their self-systems and more fluid life narratives.
Positive Intelligence is a digital app that helps you to identify mental saboteurs that evolved as a defense mechanism early in life and teaches you how to grow your sage muscle.
Mindfulness and meditation
Some leading practitioners and /or authors:Healing art therapies (art, writing, journaling, music, theater, etc.)
Some leading practitioners and /or authors:Adverse Childhood Experiences
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)Childhood Emotional Neglect (What is it?)
Some leading practitioners and /or authors:Books
The Body Keeps the Score – Bessel Van der Kolk
The Body Says No – Gabor Mate
In An Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness - Peter Levine and Gabor Mate
The Body Remembers - Barbara Rothchild
8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery – Barbara Rothschild
The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy - Deb Dana
Running on Empty – Jonice Webb (Childhood Emotional Neglect)
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents – Lindsay Gibson
A Secure Base - John Bowlby
Home Coming - John Bradshaw
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving – Pete Walker
The Inner Bonding Workbook - Margaret Paul
How to Love your Inner Human - John Crawford
Letting Go of Self-Destructive Behaviours – Lisa Ferentz
It Wasn’t Your Fault: Freeing Yourself from the Shame of Childhood Abuse with the Power of Self-Compassion – Beverley Engel
Healing the Shame that Binds You - John Bradshaw
It’s not Always Depression – Hilary Jacobs Hendel (The Change Triangle)
Emotional Sensitivity and Intensity – Imi Lo
Imperfectly Sane - Stacy Hoch
Your Resonant Self (Working towards self-compassion and self-care) - Sarah Peyton
The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook – Tim Desmond
Tara Brach - RAIN technique (Radical Compassion)
The Compassionate Mind Workbook – Chris Irons and Elaine Beaumont
Overcoming Traumatic Stress: A self-help guide using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques - Claudia Herbert
Radical Acceptance – Tara Brach
Intergenerational Trauma - Mark Wolynn
It Didn’t Start With You - Mark Wolynn
The Ancestor Syndrome - Anne Angelin Schutzenberger
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation - Janina Fisher