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Trauma Book Recommendations

  • maloymmorgan
  • May 5
  • 1 min read

I Hate You—Don't Leave Me by Jerold J. Kreisman and Hal Straus

This book is written to help friends, family, and individuals understand BPD (borderline personality disorder) as well as how to navigate symptoms and move towards healing.

What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma

by Stephanie Foo

This book explores CPTSD (complex post traumatic stress disorder) and explores how Foo's intergenerational trauma as well as being the child of immigrants shaped her life.

My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem

Exploring how trauma impacts the body through the lens of racism, and how we can move towards collective healing through hope

Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, Or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay Gibson

This book explores how to process emotions such as anger or loneliness that stem from having a parent that is emotionally immature.

 
 
 

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