Sunny Psychology Maroochydore
Resource Library
What is trauma
The impact of childhood events (ACE studies)
EMDR Therapy
*Trigger warning* Ritualistic Abuse
*Trigger warning* Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
Author Jeni Haynes talks about her experience of extreme childhood trauma, leading to DID
Full Episode: "One Mom, 20 Personalities" | The Oprah Winfrey Show | Oprah Winfrey Network
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
- Complex PTSD: from surviving to thriving by Pete Walker
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
- Dear you, love from your brain and Hey warrior, by Karen Young
- My Body, what I say goes by Janeen Sanders
- Hannah’s diaries, Hannah’s Hope and Dealing with sexual abuse by Hannah baker
- Strong at the Heart: How It Feels to Heal from Sexual Abuse by Carolyn Lehman
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
- Dissociation made simple by Jamie Marich; Healing the fragmented selves of trauma survivors by Janina Fisher
- No bad parts by Richard Schwartz
- The girl in the green dress by Jeni Hayes
ritualistic abuse
- Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control by Alison Miller
- Becoming Yourself: Overcoming Mind Control and Ritual Abuse by Alison Miller
- Demystifying Mind Control and Ritual Abuse: A Manual for Therapists by Alison Miller
- From the Trenches: A Victim and Therapist Talk about Mind Control and Ritual Abuse by Wendy Hoffman and Alison Miller
- The Enslaved Queen; White Witch in a Black Robe; A Brain Of My Own: A memoir about dissociation dissolved, After Amnesia, all by Wendy Hoffman (survivor)
- Quest for Love, Memoir of a Child Sex Slave by Anneke Lucas (survivor)
religious trauma and mind control
- When religion hurts by Laura E Anderson, PhD
- Escaping Utopia by Janja Lalich
- Leaving the fold by Marlene Winell, PhD
- An everyday cult by Gerette Buglion
- Combatting Cult Mind Control, Releasing the Bonds: Empowering People to Think for Themselves, Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs, all by Steven Hassan
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
- Becoming the one by Sheleana Aiyana
- The Journey from Abandonment to Healing by Susan Anderson
Parenting
- The nurture revolution by Greer Kirchenbaum
- Hunt, Gather, Parent by Michaeleen Doucleff
- Hold on to your kids by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Mate
- Postnatal depletion cure by Oscar Serralach
- The fourth trimester by Kimberly Ann Johnson, Simplicity parenting by Kim John Payne
- The Montessori child by Simone Davies
- The awakened family by Dr Shefali Tsabary
- 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
General mental health
- Good energy by Dr Casey and Calley Means
- You happier, the 7 neuroscience secrets of feeling good based on your brain type by Dr Daniel Amen
- Autism reimagined by Jodie Meschuk
- The glucose revolution by Jessie Inchauspe
- Brain energy by Dr. Christopher Palmer
- 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
female mental 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
- Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler
- Come as you are by Emily Nagoski
male mental 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
- No more Mr Nice Guy by Robert A Glover
- The mask of masculinity by Lewis Howes
