When You’re Ready, This Is How You Heal 


By Brianna Wiest. (2022)

From Amazon.com:  “Healing is not a one-time event.

It can begin with a one-time event — typically some form of sudden loss that disrupts our projection of what the future might be. However, the true work of healing is allowing that disruption to wake us from a deep state of unconsciousness, to release the personas we adapted into and begin consciously piecing together the full truth of who we were meant to be.

In her follow up collection to the international bestseller 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think, Brianna Wiest shares 45+ new pieces that will help you find your inner sanctum and embark on the path of true transformation. Wiest’s words are a balm for any soul on the journey of their own becoming.”

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture 

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture by [Gabor Maté]

By Gabor Maté, MD. 2022.

From Amazon.com: “The instant New York Times bestseller

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.

In this revolutionary book, renowned physician Gabor Maté eloquently dissects how in Western countries that pride themselves on their healthcare systems, chronic illness and general ill health are on the rise. Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere, adolescent mental illness is on the rise. So what is really “normal” when it comes to health?

Over four decades of clinical experience, Maté has come to recognize the prevailing understanding of “normal” as false, neglecting the roles that trauma and stress, and the pressures of modern-day living, exert on our bodies and our minds at the expense of good health. For all our expertise and technological sophistication, Western medicine often fails to treat the whole person, ignoring how today’s culture stresses the body, burdens the immune system, and undermines emotional balance. Now Maté brings his perspective to the great untangling of common myths about what makes us sick, connects the dots between the maladies of individuals and the declining soundness of society—and offers a compassionate guide for health and healing. Cowritten with his son Daniel, The Myth Of Normal is Maté’s most ambitious and urgent book yet.”

Healing Visualizations: Creating Health Through Imagery

Healing Visualizations: Creating Health Through Imagery

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By Gerald Epstein. MD (Author, Narrator), Dan Strutzel (Narrator), Gildan Seminars (Publisher) (2014)

From Amazon.com: “Welcome to the comprehensive audio program to imagery therapy for: The Common Cold, Bone Fractures, Arthritis, Hypertension, Headaches, Asthma, Infertility, Depression, Anxiety, Obesity… and Much More!! For years it has been widely known that the mind exerts a tremendous influence on our physical wellbeing – often determining the difference between health and disease. In Healing Visualizations, Dr. Gerald Epstein, a psychiatrist and pioneer in waking dream therapy, provides a new vision of how the mind can help heal the body through the power of “imaginal medicine.” Developed over thirtyfive years of clinical practice, Dr. Epstein’s safe, potent techniques for tapping the mind’s healing energy enable us to influence our own health with remarkably fast, positive results. More than seventyfive exercises cover specific health problems from common ailments such as allergies, colds, backaches, headaches, and arthritis to life threatening illnesses such as heart disease and cancer. Each exercise takes just one to five minutes. And there are special visualizations for overall wellness that you can personalize to fit your own daily health and fitness needs.

A revolutionary and inspiring program, Healing Visualizations is a major contribution to understanding, restoring, and maintaining the healthful unity of body and mind.”

From Pain to Power: Overcoming Sexual Trauma and Reclaiming Your True Identity

By Mary Ellen Mann, LCSW, MS. (2015)

From Amzon.com: “Sexual violation was not your choice, but recovery is.

As a survivor of sexual trauma, you’ve likely experienced feelings of shame and confusion, and weakening of your faith and trust. It may feel like no one understands. And each day you’re simply trying to survive. 

But the reality is you are meant for much more than survival. You are born with the right to use the pain as a point of power and reclaim what was taken without permission—your true identity. 

Author Mary Ellen Mann understands. She’s been there. In From Pain to Power, she weaves personal story and years of research and counseling experience to provide comfort and respect, biblical insight, guided imagery, and self-care strategies. She will help you:

·         Regain your power, safety, and sense of self
·         Go to battle as a “Princess Warrior”
·         Learn to trust your gut instinct again
·         Protect yourself from further assault
·         Reconcile your faith in God, who understands your doubt and anger

Mary Ellen Mann stands in your corner as you restore and honor your rightful femininity, find your voice of reason, and choose to live a legacy-filled life.

Includes tips and resources for spouses, parents, ministry leaders, and advocates who want to help survivors of sexual assault.”

Mind Over Medicine

Mind Over Medicine by [Rankin, Lissa]

By Lissa Rankin, MD (2013)

From Amazon.com: “We’ve been led to believe that when we get sick, it’s our genetics. Or it’s just bad luck—and doctors alone hold the keys to optimal health. For years, Lissa Rankin, M.D., believed the same. But when her own health started to suffer, and she turned to Western medical treatments, she found that they not only failed to help; they made her worse. So she decided to take matters into her own hands.

Through her research, Dr. Rankin discovered that the health care she had been taught to practice was missing something crucial: a recognition of the body’s innate ability to self-repair and an appreciation for how we can control these self-healing mechanisms with the power of the mind. In an attempt to better understand this phenomenon, she explored peer-reviewed medical literature and found evidence that the medical establishment had been proving that the body can heal itself for over 50 years.

 Using extraordinary cases of spontaneous healing, Dr. Rankin shows how thoughts, feelings, and beliefs can alter the body’s physiology. She lays out the scientific data proving that loneliness, pessimism, depression, fear, and anxiety damage the body, while intimate relationships, gratitude, meditation, sex, and authentic self-expression flip on the body’s self-healing processes.

In the final section of the book, you’ll be introduced to a radical new wellness model based on Dr. Rankin’s scientific findings. Her unique six-step program will help you uncover where things might be out of whack in your life—spiritually, creatively, environmentally, nutritionally, and in your professional and personal relationships—so that you can create a customized treatment plan aimed at bolstering these health-promoting pieces of your life. You’ll learn how to listen to your body’s “whispers” before they turn to life-threatening “screams” that can be prevented with proper self-care, and you’ll learn how to trust your inner guidance when making decisions about your health and your life.

By the time you finish Mind Over Medicine, you’ll have made your own Diagnosis, written your own Prescription, and created a clear action plan designed to help you make your body ripe for miracles.”

Becoming Safely Embodied Skills Manual

Becoming Safely Embodied Skills Manual

By Deirdre Fay, MSW (Author),‎ Foreword by Janina Fisher, PhD (2012)

From Amazon.com – For most clients with a trauma history, especially those grappling with dissociation, living inside their own skin is challenging. Most clients struggle between sessions, needing the connection to the therapist in order to feel contained. Our trauma clients tread water between therapy sessions, often feeling incapacitated and lost in figuring out a way to help themselves. The results of therapy once or twice a week can fade quickly when faced with the rest of the hours of a week besieged with overwhelming anxiety or despair. The skills in this manual are the foundation of the Becoming Safely Embodied experiential skill set developed to help clients learn step by step ways of being with themselves, especially when they are on their own, between therapy sessions. Nine easy to learn skills are presented and can easily be taught in a group format or to individual clients. Described for groups, the skills can be used individually. In addition there is curriculum for how to open and close the group.

Resensitization: Coming Back to Life after Trauma

Resensitization: Coming Back to Life after Trauma

February 23, 2015

By Jeremy McAllister, MA, LPCIHakomi Experiential Psychotherapy Topic Expert Contributor

http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/resensitization-coming-back-to-life-after-trauma-0223154?utm_source=Subscribers&utm_campaign=0b5be2b07c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_135946a8dd-0b5be2b07c-71304725

Between Therapy Sessions: 3 Handy Coping Skills for Trauma

Between Therapy Sessions: 3 Handy Coping Skills for Trauma

March 5, 2015

By Anastasia Pollock, LCMHCPosttraumatic Stress Topic Expert Contributor

http://www.goodtherapy.org/blog/between-therapy-sessions-3-handy-coping-skills-for-trauma-0305154?utm_source=Subscribers&utm_campaign=562e27a994-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_11_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_135946a8dd-562e27a994-71304725

How Meditation, Placebos And Virtual Reality Help Power ‘Mind Over Body’

Science writer Jo Marchant investigated the healing power of the mind for her new book, Cure.

Science writer Jo Marchant investigated the healing power of the mind for her new book, Cure.

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How Meditation, Placebos And Virtual Reality Help Power ‘Mind Over Body’

Published January 26, 2016pm

Terry Gross interviews Jo Marchant, PhD, Science Writer

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/01/26/464372009/how-meditation-placebos-and-virtual-reality-help-power-mind-over-body