Recommendations

Visual

Prompt(s) to stabilize the stress response when activated.

Understanding the concept of window of capacity (tolerance).

Polyvagal hierarchy of protection (defence).

What is Interoception, and why is it important?   

Books

Trauma is Really Strange: Steve Haines, Sophie Standing (Illustrator).

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

The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in Transforming Trauma: Bessel van der Kolk.

What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing: Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey.

The Wizard of Oz: L. Frank Baum

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: Charlie Mackesy

The Velveteen Rabbit: Margery Williams

Movies

Life is beautiful

Bucket List

The Intouchables

The wisdom of trauma