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.

Movies

^The wisdom of trauma

^Life is beautiful

^Bucket List

^The Intouchables