Jaya Narayan

Video & Book recommendations

Visual

  • Prompt(s) to stabilize the stress response when aroused.

  • 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.

  • Jonathan Livingstone Seagull: Richard Bach

  • Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: Lewis Carroll

  • The Wizard of Oz: L. Frank Baum

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

  • The Velveteen Rabbit: Margery Williams

  • Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype: Clarissa Pinkola Estés

  • Basava And The Dots Of Fire: Radhika Chadha

  • The Little Prince: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Movies

  • Life is beautiful

  • Bucket List

  • The Intouchables

  • The wisdom of trauma

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I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the unceded land, Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong Boon Wurrung peoples of the Kulin Nation, where I live, learn and play. I pay my respects to the Elders, past and present. I am indebted to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders for their ongoing guardianship of the culture, waterways, stories, songlines and languages. I am grateful to my ancestral lineage for their continued guidance and allyship.