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Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
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Wild

By Cheryl Strayed ,

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The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
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The Body Keeps the Score

By Bessel Van Der Kolk ,

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NOS4A2
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NOS4A2

By Joe Hill ,

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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook: What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing
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The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog

By Bruce D. Perry , Maia Szalavitz ,

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It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
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It Didn't Start With You

By Mark Wolynn ,

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American Daughter: A Memoir
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American Daughter

By Stephanie Thornton Plymale , Elissa Wald ,

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Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence--From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
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Trauma and Recovery

By Judith Lewis Herman ,

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Simon Sort Of Says
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Simon Sort Of Says

By Erin Bow ,

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In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness
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In an Unspoken Voice

By Peter A. Levine ,

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My Heart Is a Chainsaw
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My Heart Is a Chainsaw

By Stephen Graham Jones ,

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The Burning Light of Two Stars: A Mother-Daughter Story
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The Burning Light of Two Stars

By Laura Davis ,

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Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating Our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds
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Healing Collective Trauma

By Thomas Hübl , Julie Jordan Avritt ,

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Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use It For Good
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Call of the Wild

By Kimberly Ann Johnson ,

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The End of Trauma: How the New Science of Resilience Is Changing How We Think About PTSD
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The End of Trauma

By George Bonanno ,

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Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation
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Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors

By Janina Fisher ,

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Dreaming the Soul Back Home: Shamanic Dreaming for Healing and Becoming Whole
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Dreaming the Soul Back Home

By Robert Moss ,

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The Inheritors: Moving Forward from Generational Trauma
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The Inheritors

By Gita Arian Baack ,

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The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
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The Deepest Well

By Nadine Burke-Harris ,

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Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.
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Night. Sleep. Death. The Stars.

By Joyce Carol Oates ,

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Tuning the Human Biofield: Healing with Vibrational Sound Therapy
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Tuning the Human Biofield

By Eileen Day McKusick ,

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Hideaway
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Hideaway

By Nora Roberts ,

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Ripple Effect
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Ripple Effect

By N.A. Cooper ,

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The Daughter
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The Daughter

By Liz Webb ,

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My Years with Ayn Rand
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My Years with Ayn Rand

By Nathaniel Branden ,

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Finding Resilience: Unlock the Door to Mental Health and Happiness
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Finding Resilience

By Robert W. Schmidt , Kirsten D. Hammer (illustrator) ,

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Moments of Silence: The Unforgetting of the October 6, 1976, Massacre in Bangkok
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Moments of Silence

By Thongchai Winichakul ,

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Wrecked Palace
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Wrecked Palace

By Catherine Cowles ,

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I Love You When You're Angry
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I Love You When You're Angry

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Surviving Identity: Vulnerability and the Psychology of Recognition
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Surviving Identity

By Kenneth McLaughlin ,

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Treating The Adult Survivor Of Childhood Sexual Abuse: A Psychoanalytic Perspective
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Treating The Adult Survivor Of Childhood Sexual Abuse

By Jody Messler Davies , Mary Gail Frawley ,

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Dark August
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Dark August

By Katie Tallo ,

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Find Me
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Find Me

By Anne Frasier ,

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PTSD
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PTSD

By Guillaume Singelin ,

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You Are Not Your Mother: Releasing Generational Trauma and Shame
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You Are Not Your Mother

By Karen C.L. Anderson ,

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Shattered Assumptions
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Shattered Assumptions

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Tell Me I'm Worthless
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Tell Me I'm Worthless

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We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies
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We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies

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Burn Down, Rise Up
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Burn Down, Rise Up

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In My Grandfather's Shadow: A story of war, trauma and the legacy of silence
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In My Grandfather's Shadow

By Angela Findlay ,

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Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma: Concepts and Psychotherapy
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Shame, Pride, and Relational Trauma

By Ken Benau ,

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Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship
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Healing Developmental Trauma

By Laurence Heller , Aline LaPierre ,

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Die Volume 1: Fantasy Heartbreaker
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Die Volume 1

By Kieron Gillen , Stephanie Hans ,

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We Can Never Leave This Place
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We Can Never Leave This Place

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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America's Legacy of Enduring Injury and Healing
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Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome

By Joy Degruy ,

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Hummingbird Season
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Hummingbird Season

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Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body
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Healing Trauma

By Peter A. Levine ,

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Where I Belong: Healing Trauma and Embracing Asian American Identity
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Where I Belong

By Soo Jin Lee , Linda Yoon ,

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Expect Delays: How to Reclaim Your Life, Light and Soul After Trauma
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Expect Delays

By Danielle Delaney ,

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Gone Wolf
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Gone Wolf

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Silently Seduced: When Parents Make Their Children Partners
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Silently Seduced

By Kenneth M. Adams ,

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Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma: A Workbook for Survivors and Therapists
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Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma

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Like Mother, Like Daughter
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Like Mother, Like Daughter

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Lola
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Lola

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Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness
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Trauma-Sensitive Mindfulness

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Trauma and Recovery
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Trauma and Recovery

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Third Class Relics
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Third Class Relics

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Soulbroken: A Guidebook for Your Journey Through Ambiguous Grief
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Soulbroken

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Unbroken: The Trauma Response Is Never Wrong: And Other Things You Need to Know to Take Back Your Life
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Unbroken

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Reboot
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Reboot

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Home
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Home

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The Last Girls Standing
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The Last Girls Standing

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