Our Go-To Resources

Trauma Informed Yin Yoga 

Creating a Safe place (video I created with MCWC) 

Create Your Own Comfort Box (video I created with MCWC)

Ejercicios de respiración (Español) 

Diaphragmatic Breathing 

Relajación Muscular Progresiva (Español) 

Progressive Muscle Relaxation 

Breath Tracing: A Creative Arts Approach for Managing Stress

Simple Meditation Exercises for Grounding for people with CPTSD and DD

Using Art Materials for Self-Soothing: Coping With Clay

Making Mandalas to Contain and Manage Stress

Yoga for People with Complex Trauma and Dissociative Disorders

Grounding Techniques for Dissociation 

Container Imagery Guided Meditation (helpful for intrusive thoughts and flashbacks) 

Peaceful Place Guided Imagery Meditation

Meditación en el lugar seguro. Mindfulness. (Español)

Spiral Technique

Light Stream  

The Butterfly Hug: A Simple Grounding Technique

Self-Care Wheel 

How to Teach Kiddos About Consent

Domestic Violence

Local 24/7 Crisis Resources

Why Does He Do That -Lundy Bancroft

Libro: Mejor sola que mal acompañada: para la mujer golpeada / For the Latina in an Abusive Relationship (edición bilingüe) - Myrna M. Zambrano

Other resources for abused women, their children, and others:

Adults Molested as Children

The Courage to Heal - Ellen Bass and Laura Davis

Trauma Related Dissociation:

Trauma-Related Dissociation Two-Book Set (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology) -Suzette Boon, Onno van der Hart Ph.D., et al.

Me, Not-Me, and We: A Lived Experience Workbook for Phased Recovery from Complex and Relational Trauma with Dissociative Identity Response - Emma Sunshaw

Podcast: System Speak

What is trauma related dissociation

Abuse and Trauma - Causes of Dissociative Disorders

Video: La disociación y el trauma (Español)

Trauma-Related Dissociation 101: 3 Steps to Healing from Dissociative CPTSD

Podcast: What is DID? by System Speak

Supporting a Person Who Lives with Dissociative Identities

Trauma and the Body

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma - Bessel van der Kolk M.D.

5 Types of Unhealed Trauma

Trauma Symptoms

Trauma symptoms (adolescents)

Childhood Trauma and the Brain

Complex PTSD

Adverse Childhood Experiences

Experiencias Infantiles Adversas (Español)

PTSD & Substance Abuse

Seeking Safety: A treatment Manual for PTSD and Substance Abuse (The Guilford Substance Abuse Series) -Lisa M. Najavits. (great therapist tool and handouts)

Finding Your Best Self, Revised Edition: Recovery from Addiction, Trauma, or Both Revised Edition - Lisa M. Najavits

Compassion Fatigue

Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others - Laura van Dernoot Lipsky & Connie Burk

EMDR

EMDR- Client Handout

What is EMDR?

Forma: Que es EMDR? (Español)

Video: Introduction to EMDR therapy

Video: Que es EMDR? (Español)

EMDR Therapy & LGBTQ Experiences

Parenting

Parent Yourself First - Bryanna Kappadakunnel, LMFT

Raising Kids with Big, Baffling Behaviors - Robyn Gobbel

Podcast: The Baffling Behavior Show

Adults of Emotionally Immature Parents - Lindsay C Gibson, PsyD

Autism: Parent to Parent

The Whole Brain Child- Daniel J Siegel, MD & Tina Payne Bryson, PhD

El Cerebro del Niño - Daniel J Siegel, MD & Tina Payne Bryson, PhD

No Drama Discipline- Daniel J Siegel, MD & Tina Payne Bryson, PhD

10 Days to a Less Defiant Child- Jeffery Bernstein, PhD

Scaffold Parenting - Harold S Koplewicz, MD

Polyvagal Theory

Our Polyvagal World - Stephen and Seth Porges

Anchored - Deb Dana

Polyvagal Exercises for Safety and Connection - Deb Dana

Autism & ADHD

Unmasking Autism - Devon Price, PhD

Attachment, Adoption, & Intergenerational Trauma

The Primal Wound - Nancy Newton Verrier

Attached - Amir Levine, MD & Rachel S. F. Heller, MD

The Deepest Well - Nadine Burke Harris, MD

The Myth of Normal - Gabor Mate, MD

It Didn’t Start With You - Mark Wolynn