This page includes a brief selection book recommendations and links to video clips and podcasts in no particular order (with no affiliations) that may be helpful, however please note they are not a substitute for therapy or medical advice.

Books

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - by Bessel A. van der Kolk, 2014

• When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress - by Gabor Maté, 2003

• The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog - by Bruce D. Perry and Maia Szalavitz, 2006

• The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture - by Daniel Maté and Gabor Maté, 2022

• It Didn't Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle - by Mark Wolynn, 2016

• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model - by Richard C. Schwartz, 2021

• Introduction to Internal Family Systems, 2nd Edition - by Richard C. Schwartz, 2023

Media

• “What is trauma? The author of “The Body Keeps the Score” explains” 7min Video by Bessel van der Kolk, 2021 (Youtube)

• “How the body keeps the score on trauma” 8min Video Bessel van der Kolk, 2024 (Youtube)

• “6 ways to heal trauma without medication” 8min Video Bessel van der Kolk, 2022 (Youtube)

• “Dr. Richard Schwartz explains Internal Family Systems” 7min presentation by IFS Institute, 2019 (Youtube)

• “What is Experiential Therapy?” 20min presentation by Dr Tori Olds, from an Experiential Therapy Series of 7 Videos, 2024 (Youtube)

• “What is IFS Therapy? Intro to Internal Family System” 18min presentation by Dr Tori Olds, 2022 (Youtube)

• “Experiential Therapy: Mindfulness in Action” 9min presentation by Dr Tori Olds, 2020 (Youtube)

• What does starting EMDR look like? 23min clip by The Lukin Center (Youtube)

• Bessel van der Kolk discussing Neurofeedback, 90min at the Trauma Research Foundation, 2021 (Youtube)