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Grief and Trauma Therapist Gives Book Recs
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A simple read that breaks down your understanding of self and others to begin your healing journey. A book for both clinician and community member alike. Dr Nicole LaPera does a beautiful job creating a space for compassionate exploration as you lean...
How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and ...
A true pioneer in grief and bereavement. While working in hospice, I recommended this book to all my clients when they started grief counseling. It’s a simple read that puts words to experiences all throughout the grief journey. A love the term compa...
Understanding Your Grief: Ten Essential Touchstones for Finding Hope and Healing Your Heart|Paperback
So many of my older clients found meaning with this book. Practical ideas for navigating life after the loss of a spouse. Simple things can feel impossible after our most treasured person dies. What I love about these practical books is you can read ...
Healing a Spouse's Grieving Heart: 100 Practical Ideas After Your Husband or Wife Dies|Paperback
Another gem! Working with teens can be touch, but also so rewarding. Sometimes teens have trouble expressing how they feel. Words and emotions are hard enough for us adults - this book has helped create space and open communication amongst grieving t...
Healing Your Grieving Heart for Teens: 100 Practical Ideas|Paperback
All loss is traumatic - but research shows us that unnatural and unexpected losses create a whole other dynamic to our grieving process. Books like this help normalize and validate our lived experiences.
Grief After Homicide: Surviving, Mourning, Reconciling|Paperback
Favorite trauma professional ever! Arielle has a way with her work. Pioneering ways of healing outside of narrative or talk therapy. This flip chart is a staple for me. Our emotions need movement - sometimes words don’t come, or they aren’t enough - ...
Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery Flip Chart: A Psychoeducational Tool for Embodied Healing Through the Lens of Applied Polyvagal Theory|Other Format
One of my newest additions and already a favorite. Highly recommend by of Arielles work.
The Polyvagal Theory Workbook for Trauma: Body-Based Activities to Regulate, Rebalance, and Rewire Your Nervous System Without Reliving the Trauma|Paperback
Another gem from Dr Nicole LaPera! She brings an awareness to our life experiences without judgement, but compassion. Understanding how our experiences shape us allows us the ability to make changes, to heal, and to see others with compassion too. Dr...
How to Meet Your Self: The Workbook for Self-Discovery|Paperback
If you haven’t heard of this book, you may be living under a rock. Kidding! But really it’s a staple in all things trauma and healing all the things. A lot of science so it can feel like a heavy read, but lots of gems and great information if you can...
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma|Paperback
One of the first books I read when I came a clinician. Normalizing therapists going to therapy and working through human things is a yes for me. Yes, clinicians have extensive and often specialized training but we too are human. Now only practical bu...
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed|Hardcover
Favorite! I recommend this to everyone - client, clinician, friend, enemy (we want them to heal too) :) it’s written in such a way that even if you aren’t a clinician it’s fairly easy to understand and start applying. Many of my clients have shared t...
Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory|Paperback
Most of us are so externally focused that we have to relearn how to attune to our internal environment. A pioneer in applying science to scripture, this book was a great starting point for both. Written where both clinician and community can apply th...
Altogether You: Experiencing personal and spiritual transformation with Internal Family Systems therapy|Paperback
Flip charts are the way to go when working in clinical sessions with clients that are visual learners. Designed for the client to see one page, clinical instruction is noted on the back to help guide the clinician in the application. They are also gr...
Polyvagal Flip Chart: Understanding the Science of Safety|Other Format
Received these as a gift when I started to share about my interest in polyvagal theory. I’ve had great feedback from clients when using these. They mirror the book Anchored and help provide practical application.
Polyvagal Card Deck: 58 Practices for Calm and Change|Other Format
As a grief therapist and Christian, I cannot wait for this book! Amber and Granger Smith lost their son River in an accidental drowning. They vulnerably share their story of grief, loss, and newfound faith in Jesus on their socials, podcasts, traveli...
The Girl on the Bathroom Floor: Held Together When Everything is Falling Apart|Hardcover
Great read! If you’re a social worker going into palliative care or a therapist working with ANY topic related to healthcare, this book is a must. I spent 7 years in inpatient palliative care and found this very helpful in the beginning of my career.
Palliative Care: A Guide for Health Social Workers|eBook
Love this book so much! It’s a comic style making it a super easy read. Parenting can be HARD. Learning different ways to talk to your kids can make a world of difference. This books helps to open communication and re-evaluate expectations for less f...
How to Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk (30th Anniversary Edition)|Paperback
One of my first purchase as a grief therapist and a go to for anyone looking to learn more about grief to walk the journey with others. Grief is a sacred and personal journey for each person. Grief shouldn’t be pathologists, but welcomed in however i...
Grief Counseling and Grief Therapy, Fifth Edition: A Handbook for the Mental Health Practitioner|eBook
A recommendation from the clients bereaved by spousal loss. The book was described as helpful, relatable, and practical in their healing.
Growth Through Grief: A Widower's Guide to Healing and Renewed Purpose|Paperback
Another great book! A simple read that breaks down how to really understand your emotions and their impact. I still use the RULER method with clients to help navigate all things grief and trauma they feel ready to explore.
Permission to Feel: The Power of Emotional Intelligence to Achieve Well-Being and Success|Paperback
Another gem of a grief book. Deeply moving and personal but also light and reflective. I love the different topics to pick and choose what to read when you need to give attention to what’s present in your grief journey. Anger, guilt, unhealthy coping...
Grief Day By Day: Simple Practices and Daily Guidance for Living with Loss|Paperback
Simple but practical little daily meditations or devotional type readings that give words to parts of grief that we struggle to find words for. Go by the date or flip to a random page for a moment of reflection and care on your grief journey.
Healing After Loss: Daily Meditations for Working Through Grief|Paperback
A gentle devotional on the loss of a precious child. Devotional style with comfort and care in each page.
Loved Baby: 31 Devotions Helping You Grieve and Cherish Your Child after Pregnancy Loss|Hardcover
One of the first Christian grief books I read. It was an easy read. Filled with hope while also providing care to the rocky journey that grief can be. Many of my Christians clients found wonderful gems and value with this book.
The Christian's Journey Through Grief: How to Walk Through the Valley With Hope|Paperback
A must read for ADHD. Anything by Gabor Mate is a humbling read. A palliative care physician with personal trauma experience that makes him a pioneer in the field.
This books gives an eye opening view into ADHD.
Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder|Paperback
If you want a better understanding of the connection of trauma and everyday stress on your overall health this is the book for you. It may appear overwhelming at first because it is a big book but you’ll want the hard copy for sure. Rereading and und...
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture|Hardcover
Come meet your amygdala! Anxiety is such a popular word and topic is conversation today, but how many of us really understand what it is and how we can befriend it? This book is a great read and comes with a free resource workbook. Check it out!
Taming Your Amygdala: Brain-Based Strategies to Quiet the Anxious Mind|Paperback