Sunny Psychology Maroochydore
Resource Library
What is trauma
The impact of childhood events (ACE studies)
EMDR Therapy
*Trigger warning* Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
Author Jeni Haynes talks about her experience of extreme childhood trauma, leading to DID
ACE questionnaire
EMDR handouts
Resources for kids
Book Suggestions
There are so many amazing resources out there and even if you’re “not a big reader”, many of these books are easily accessible and available on audio, so that you can read while cooking, doing the school run or walking the dog. They are in no particular order, but they are certainly highly recommended 🙂
Trauma related
- All books by Dr Bruce Perry: What happened to me; Born for Love, The boy who was raised as a dog and What happened to you?.
- The body keeps the score, Dr Bessel vd Kolk
- Waking the tiger, Peter Levine, PhD
- EMDR: the breakthrough therapy for overcoming anxiety, stress and trauma by Francine Shapiro (developer of EMDR Therapy)
- Running on empty, Jonice Webb, PhD.
Difficult mothers, adult daughters by Karen Anderson - Unf—k your brain by Faith Harper, PhD (warning, coarse language)
- Leaving the fold by Marlene Winell, PhD (religious trauma syndrome)
- Coping with trauma related Dissociation by Suzette Boon and others
Trauma related for kids
- A terrible thing happened by Margaret Holmes
- Help! My feelings are too big by K.L. Aspden
- The Boy who built a wall around himself by Ali Redford
General mental health
- A mind of your own by Dr Kelly Brogan
- The happiness trap + The reality Slap by Russ Harris
- Breaking the habit of being yourself by Dr Joe Dispenza
- You can heal yourself by Louisa Hay
- Molecules of emotion by Dr Candace Pert
- Braving the wilderness by Brene Brown
- Wake up! The powerful guide to changing your mind about what it means to really live by Lindsay Teague Moreno
Parenting
- The postnatal depletion cure by Dr Oscar Serrallach
- All books by Dr Daniel Siegel, e.g. Parenting from the inside out & No-drama discipline.
- The Conscious Parent + The awakened family by Shefali Tsabary
- Well-adjusted babies by Dr Jennifer Barham
- Raising boys by Steve Biddulph
- Raising a secure child by Kent Hoffman
- The loving push by Debra Moore
- Mothering our boys by Maggie Dent
Dissociative identity Disorder
- Dear little ones by Jade Miller
- It’s not me by Anabel Gonzales
- Coping w trauma related dissociation, Onno van der Hart and others
- If tears were prayers by Emma Sunshaw
- Trauma and dissociation-informed psychotherapy by Elizabeth Howell
Relationships
- Hold me tight by Sue Johnson, PhD.
- The 7 principles of making a marriage work, by John Gottman, PhD
- The Five love languages by Gary Chapman (warning: religious context and therefore may be triggering)
- The journey from abandonment to healing by Susan Anderson
- The 80/80 marriage by Nate Klemp, PhD & Kaley Klemp
- The way of the superior man by David Deida
- Beyond Mars and Venus by John Gray
- Mating in captivity by Esther Perel
- Wabi-sabi love by Arielle Ford
- Getting the love you want by Harville Hendrix & Helen LaKelly Hunt
Masculinity and men's health
- The way of the superior man by David Deida
- Beyond Mars and Venus by John Gray
- Raising Boys +Manhood by Steve Biddulph
- The Boy Crisis by Warren Farrell, PhD and John Gray, PhD
Femininity and women's health
- A mind of your own + Own yourself by Dr Kelly Brogan
- The Wild Woman’s way by Michaela Boehm
- Woman Code + In the Flow by Alisa Vitti, Holistic Health Coach
- The fifth vital sign by Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
- Difficult mothers, adult daughters by Karen Anderson
- The way of the superior man by David Deida
- Beyond Mars and Venus by John Gray
