Resources

Favorite books

Books:

• Deb Dana : Polyvagal Practices

  • Understand your nervous system with simple tools for understanding activation of states, tracking stress responses and useful practices for self-regulation.

• Laurence Heller & Aline Lapierre: Healing Developmental Trauma

  • Understand the principles of the Neuroaffective Regulation Model (NARM), explored how relational and somatic therapies can foster reparative experience for disruptions to developmental somatic systems.

• Deirdre Fay: Becoming Safely Embodied

  • Use yoga based trauma practices to discover connection to sensation, body states and regulating the stress system.

• Jessica Fern: Polysecure

  • A favorite for understanding the complexity of attachment and relational disruption as well as the way forward to heal.

• Camilla Nord: The Balanced Brain

  • There’s science! This easy to read book explains the neuroscience of well being with contemporary affective neuroscience and the most up to date science on self-regulation.