As you become more engaged with the recovery process you may find yourself searching for resources to learn more. And in other cases, you may simply be curious about a new perspective. As George Orwell once said, “the best books are those that tell you what you already know”. If you are striving to become more familiar with mind, body, and emotions, please feel free utilize my resources as a starting point. Each title below has a link to a short video, followed by a list of reading suggestions, ending with a podcast:
Trauma: Understanding Pain + The Nervous System
- Body Keeps the Score (+workbook) by Dr. Van Der Kolk
- The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Dr. Perry & Maia Szalavitz
- What Happened to You by Dr. Bruce Perry
- When the Body Says No by Dr. Gabor Mate
- Waking the Tiger by Dr. Peter Levine
- Podcast: “Letting the Tiger out of the Cage” with Dr. Eric Brymer
Military Trauma & Moral Injury: Value Systems
- Soul Repair- recovering from moral injury after war by Rita Nakashima
- AfterWar- healing moral wounds of our soldiers by Colonel Sherman, MD
- What Have We Done- the moral injury of our longest wars by David Wood
- Once a Warrior, Always a Warrior by Colonel Hode, MD
- Workbook: ACT moral injury
- Podcast: “Letting go of hate by questioning the very idea of evil” with Simran Jeet Singh
- In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate, M.D.
- The Globalization of Addiction: A study in poverty of the spirit by Bruce Alexander, Ph.D.
- Undoing Drugs: The untold story of harm reduction by Maia Szalavitz
- Get Your Loved One Sober: Alternatives to nagging, begging, pleading, and yelling by Robert J. Meyers Ph.D.
- Campaign: “Recover Your Rights”
- YouTube: Understanding Human Systems
- YouTube: Addiction as an Adaptation by Bruce Alexander, Ph.D.
- TedTalk: “Everything You Think You Know about Addiction is Wrong” by Johann Hari
Depression, Grief & Anxiety: Meaning-Making
- Man’s Search for Meaning, by Dr. Victor Frankl
- “Huberman Lab” Podcast with Andrew Huberman, Ph.D.
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F…. by Mark Manson
- The Happiness Trap by Giovanni Dienstmann
- Article: “In Praise of Bewilderment: Trading False Simplicity for Complicated Truth” by Alan Levinovitz
- Podcast: “A Conversation with Viktor Frankl’s Grandson” with Ana Melikian, Ph.D.
- Dare To Lead by Brene Brown Ph.D.
- The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by John Gottman Ph.D.
- Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson, PsyD
- The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman
- “Sex with Dr. Jess” Podcast with Dr. Jess O’Reilly
- Podcast: “What is your attachment style?” with Kia Natisse
- TedTalk: “What Makes a Good Life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness” by Dr. Waldinger
Strengths-Based (Activities & Links):
Other Supportive Resources: