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
