Video & Book recommendations
Visual
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Prompt(s) to stabilize the stress response when aroused.
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Understanding the concept of window of capacity (tolerance).
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Polyvagal hierarchy of protection (defence).
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What is Interoception, and why is it important?
Books
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Trauma is Really Strange: Steve Haines, Sophie Standing (Illustrator).
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My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies: Resmaa Menakem.
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The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body in Transforming Trauma: Bessel van der Kolk.
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What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing: Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey.
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Jonathan Livingstone Seagull: Richard Bach
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Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Lewis Carroll
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The Wizard of Oz: L. Frank Baum
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The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse: Charlie Mackesy
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The Velveteen Rabbit: Margery Williams
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Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype: Clarissa Pinkola Estés
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Basava And The Dots Of Fire: Radhika Chadha
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The Little Prince: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
Movies
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Life is beautiful
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Bucket List
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The Intouchables
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The wisdom of trauma
