The Trauma-Informed Bookshelf
Resources for trauma-informed practice
Understanding how trauma influences the brain, body, actions, and reactions of a survivor is the foundation of trauma-informed practice. That understanding leads to more thoughtful, compassionate interactions.
The resources on this page are books and tools that have shaped my work professionally, as a trauma-informed editor and advocate for safe practices for trauma survivors, and personally, as someone who lives with Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (C-PTSD). I share them here for those who are supporting survivors, deepening their own healing, or both.
This is an evolving list with resources that add to understanding, resilience, and recovery.
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors
Synthesizes parts work and trauma research.
Complex PTSD
A guide to understanding and recovering from the long-term effects of childhood trauma.
The Body Keeps the Score
An overview of how trauma affects the brain and body, and how it can be treated.
Decolonizing Therapy
An examination of how colonialism, power, and intergenerational trauma shape mental health and healing.
Trauma and Recovery
A foundational framework for understanding trauma and the stages of recovery.
No Bad Parts
An introduction to Internal Family Systems therapy and working compassionately with trauma-based “parts.”
Skill development for editors
Trauma-informed editing webinar
If you are an editor or other publishing professional who wants to add trauma-informed practice to your skillset, watch the webinar I presented for Editors Canada: Safe and Sensitive Practices for Working with Trauma Survivors.