These books have shaped my personal and professional outlook on mental health, the impact of stress, and the importance of yoga, meditation, therapy, self-care, small habit changes and more. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. I’d recommend using Audible to listen to books if able :)

The Body Keeps Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

“The Body Keeps Score teaches us how to get through the difficulties that arise from your traumatic past by revealing the psychology behind them and revealing some of the techniques therapists use to help victims recover.”

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

“The power of habit is a digestible and informed examination of why habits exist, how they work, and how you can change them. This book will give you the foundational understanding required to create new habits that will drive your success and break old habits that are limiting your life.”

It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn

“Shows us how the stories and traumas of our parents, grandparents, and even great grandparents can live in our unexplained depression, anxiety, fears, phobias, obsessive thoughts and physical symptoms—what scientists are now calling “secondary PTSD.”

Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others

A practical book that addresses compassion fatigue. The author, a trauma social worker and educator, helps others who work in the trauma field find balance and ways to sustain themselves. Readers are gently guided along a path of exploration, growth, hope and recovery.

The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog by Bruce D. Perry

“A series of stories from a child psychiatrist, Dr. Bruce Perry, who applies his brain development and neuroscience expertise to study how traumatic experiences shape children's behavior.”