Inspirational and useful reading:
- Shake It Off Naturally: Reduce Stress, Anxiety & Tension with TRE – David Berceli
- Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences – Peter Levine
- When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress – Gabor Maté
- The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain & Body in the Transformation of Trauma – Bessel van der Kolk
- 8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery: Take-charge Strategies to Empower your Healing – Babette Rothschild
- The Pocket Guide to Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe – Stephen Porges
I also hugely recommend the following ‘comic’ style books by Steve Haines & Sophie Standing which help to explain in easier-to-understand terms what is happening in the nervous system when we experience Trauma, Anxiety & Pain:
- Anxiety is Really Strange
- Trauma is Really Strange
- Pain is really Strange
- Touch is Really Strange
- Forgiveness is Really Strange