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Our counselling session together is one component of your healing journey. The more time you spend reading, writing, and reflecting outside of session, the more you will benefit from this season of counselling.
Below are some resources you may find useful at different points of your journey. Please use your best judgment in reading or viewing these materials, as content may be distressing. Many of these resources may be available at your public library.
Menaken, Resmaa. My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies. 2017.
Allender, Dan B. The Wounded Heart: Hope for Adult Victims of Childhood Sexual Abuse. 1990.
Allender, Dan B. Healing the Wounded Heart: The Heartache of Sexual Abuse and the Hope of Transformation. 2016.
Allender, Dan B. and Longman, Tremper, III. The Cry of the Soul: How Our Emotions Reveal Our Deepest Questions About God. 1994.
van der Kolk, Bessel. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. 2014.
Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard, Lannon. A General Theory of Love. 2000.
Rolheiser, Ronald. The Holy Longing: The Search for a Christian Spirituality. 1999.
Stringer, Jay. Unwanted: How Sexual Brokenness Reveals Our Way to Healing. 2018.
Cloud, Henry, and Townsend, John. Boundaries: When to Say Yes When to Say No To Take Control of Your Life. 1992.
May, Gerald. Addiction and Grace: Love and Spirituality in the Healing of Addictions. 1990.
DiAngelo, Robin. White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard For White People to Talk About Racism. 2018.
Coates, Ta-Nehisi. Between the World and Me. 2015.
Westover, Tara. Educated. 2018.
Vance, J. D. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis. 2016.
Boyle, Gregory. Tattoos on the Heart: The Power of Boundless Compassion. 2010.
Bauman, Christy Angelle. Theology of the Womb: Knowing God Through the Body of a Woman.
Chase, Truddi. When Rabbit Howls. 1990.
Peck, M. Scott. People of the Lie. 1983.
Lewis, C. S. The Chronicles of Narnia. 1950-1956.
Tolkein, J. R. R. The Lord of the Rings. 1954.
L’Engle, Madeleine. Time Quintet. 1962-1989.
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich, Netflix documentary. 2020.
Stabile, Suzanne and Cron, Ian Morgan. The Road Back To You: An Enneagram Journey to Self-Discovery. 2016.
Riso, Don Richard. The Wisdom of the Enneagram. 1999.
Levine, Peter A. In An Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness. 2010.
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