The MIDÉ Library

📘 Trauma & Complex PTSD

Foundational Trauma Healing

• The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk

• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma — Peter Levine

• Trauma and Recovery — Judith Herman

• The Myth of Normal-Gabor Maté

Complex PTSD

• Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving — Pete Walker

• The Complex PTSD Workbook — Arielle Schwartz

• Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors — Janina Fisher

• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction — Gabor Maté

• When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection — Gabor Maté

Nervous System Regulation

• Anchored — Deb Dana

• Polyvagal Theory in Therapy — Deb Dana

• In an Unspoken Voice — Peter Levine

🧠 EMDR & Eye Movement-Based Healing

For Clinicians

• EMDR Therapy: Basic Principles, Protocols, and Procedures — Francine Shapiro

• EMDR Toolbox — Jim Knipe

For Clients

• Getting Past Your Past — Francine Shapiro

• EMDR Made Simple — Jamie Marich

EMDR + Trauma Integration

• The Body Remembers — Babette Rothschild

• Transforming Trauma — Laurel Parnell

🫁 Somatic & Mind–Body Healing

Somatic Experiencing / Body Awareness

• Healing Trauma — Peter Levine

• The Somatic Therapy Workbook — Livia Shapiro

• The Language of the Body — Alexander Lowen

Mindfulness & Body Connection

• The Mindful Path to Self-Compassion — Christopher Germer

• Full Catastrophe Living — Jon Kabat-Zinn

• Radical Acceptance — Tara Brach

💛 Attachment, Relationships & Relational Trauma

Attachment Theory

• Attached — Amir Levine & Rachel Heller

• The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Relationships — Diane Poole Heller

• Polysecure — Jessica Fern

• Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More Than Peers — Gabor Maté & Gordon Neufeld

• The Whole Brained Child- Daniel Seigal

Relational Patterns & Healing

• The Dance of Intimacy — Harriet Lerner

• Hold Me Tight — Sue Johnson

• The Power of Attachment — Diane Poole Heller

Boundaries

• Set Boundaries, Find Peace — Nedra Glover Tawwab

• Boundary Boss — Terri Cole

💭 Parts Work, Internal Family Systems & Identity

IFS for Everyone

• No Bad Parts — Richard Schwartz

• You Are the One You’ve Been Waiting For — Richard Schwartz

• The IFS Skills Training Manual — Frank Anderson

• All Parts are Welcome-Sand Chang

Identity Exploration & Self-Understanding

• The Mountain Is You — Brianna Wiest

• How to Do the Work — Nicole LePera

• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents — Lindsay Gibson

🌿 Grief, Loss & Meaning-Making

Complex Grief

• It's OK That You're Not OK — Megan Devine

• The Grief Recovery Handbook — John W. James & Russell Friedman

• The Smell of Rain on Dust-Ramesh Bharti

Meaning-Making

• Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl

• Bearing the Unbearable — Joanne Cacciatore

Ritual & Ceremony

• The Wild Edge of Sorrow — Francis Weller

  🌿 Addiction, Recovery & Healing

  Foundational Addiction & Trauma

• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction — Gabor Maté

• When the Body Says No: Exploring the Stress-Disease Connection — Gabor Maté

• Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book — Alcoholics Anonymous

• Drinking: A Love Story — Caroline Knapp

  Cultural & Gendered Perspectives on Addiction

• In Her Moccasins — Pamela J. Palmater

• Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget — Sarah Hepola

• Quit like a woman - Holly Whittaker

• Blitzed-Norman Ohler

Healing & Mind-Body Approaches

• Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions — Russell Brand

• Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy — David Sheff

Resources for Families & Support Systems

• Beyond Addiction: How Science and Kindness Help People Change — Jeffrey Foote, Carrie Wilkens & Nicole Kosanke

✨ Anxiety, Depression & Emotional Health

Anxiety

• Unwinding Anxiety — Judson Brewer

• Hope and Help for Your Nerves — Claire Weekes

Depression

• Lost Connections — Johann Hari

• The Mindful Way Through Depression — Mark Williams

🌿 Trauma, Resilience & Healing

Personal Trauma & Resilience

• What Happened to You? — Oprah Winfrey & Bruce Perry

• Educated — Tara Westover

• The Glass Castle — Jeanette Walls

• The Year of Magical Thinking — Joan Didion

• Untamed — Glennon Doyle

• What My Bones Know — Stephanie Foo

• Know My Name — Chanel Miller

• Hunger — Roxane Gay

• Man’s Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl

• Eat, Pray, Love — Elizabeth Gilbert

Identity, Culture & Personal Transformation

• Bone Black — bell hooks

• Born a Crime — Trevor Noah

• Crying in H Mart — Michelle Zauner

• How We Fight for Our Lives — Saeed Jones

• On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous — Ocean Vuong

Grief, Loss & Emotional Truth

• When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi

• Once More We Saw Stars — Jayson Greene

• Wild — Cheryl Strayed

Recovery, Healing & Personal Growth

• Seeing Ghosts — Kat Chow

• Drinking: A Love Story — Caroline Knapp

• A Grief Observed — C.S. Lewis

• Townie — Andre Dubus III

🌿 Generational & Intergenerational Trauma Healing

Healing from Historical & Cultural Trauma

• Braiding Sweetgrass — Robin Wall Kimmerer

• Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome — Dr. Joy DeGruy

• The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America — Andrés Reséndez

• Your Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies — Resmaa Menakem

• Then They Came for Mine — Tracey Micheal Lewis-Giggetts
  

Memoirs & Personal Stories of Generational Healing

• Crying in H Mart — Michelle Zauner

• The Smell of Rain on Dust — Ramesh Bharti

• Everything Here Is Beautiful — Mira T. Lee

• Healing the Soul Wound: Counseling with American Indians and Other Native Peoples — Eduardo Duran
  The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee — David Treuer

• A Girl Like Her — Talia Hibbert

• Seven Circles of Wellness - Thosh Collins & Chelsea Luger

  Neurodivergence

• The Explaining Everything Brain- Liz Angoff

• NeuroTribes -Steve Silberman

• The Divergent Mind - Jenara Nerenberg

• Thinking in Pictures - Temple Grandin

• The Autistic Brain - Temple Grandin and Richard Panek

• Why This Matters-Carl F. Craver

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