Daniel Gaustad, DC, RYT, SEP

Book Recommendations

My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies

Resmaa Menakem

The Will To Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love

bell hooks

White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People To Talk About Racism

Robin Diangelo

Birth of a White Nation: The Invention of White People and Its Relevance Today

Jacqueline Battalora

How To Be An Antiracist

Ibram X. Kendi

The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness

Michelle Alexander

American Nations: A History of the Rival Regional Cultures of North America

Colin Woodard

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America

Richard Rothstein

Matrix Works: A Life-Affirming Guide to Facilitation Mastery and Group Genius

Mukara Meredith

The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy: Engaging the Rhythm of Regulation

Deb Dana

In An Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness

Peter Levine, PhD

Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past

Peter Levine, PhD

The Power of Myth

Joseph Campbell

The Developing Mind: How Relationships and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are

Daniel J. Siegel

Nurturing Resilience: Helping Clients Move Forward from Developmental Trauma — An Integrative Somatic Approach

Kathy L. Kain and Stephen J. Terrell

Trauma, Bonding & Family Constellations: Understanding and Healing Injuries of the Soul

Franz Ruppert

Man’s Search For Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

Judith Herman, M.D.

The Polyvagal Theory: Neurophysiological Foundations of Emotions, Attachment, Communication, Self-Regulation

Stephen W. Porges

Trauma-Sensitive Yoga in Therapy: Bringing the Body into Treatment

David Emerson

Overcoming Trauma through Yoga: Reclaiming Your Body

David Emerson

Trauma Through a Child’s Eyes: Awakening the Ordinary Miracle of Healing, Infancy through Adolescence

Peter A. Levine PhD and Maggie Kline, MS, MFT