Suggested Reading
Learn more about ACEs and Trauma-Informed Community building from experts in the field.
What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
— Bruce D. Perry, M.D., PhD and Oprah Winfrey
It Didn’t Start with You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
— Mark Wolynn
Books
The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
— Gabor Maté, M.D. and Daniel Maté
Healing Collective Trauma: A Process for Integrating our Intergenerational and Cultural Wounds
— Thomas Hübl
Parenting in the Present Moment: How to Stay Focused on What Really Matters
— Carla Naumburg, PhD
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending our Hearts and Bodies
— Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
— Bessel Van Der Kolk
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
— Nadine Burke Harris
Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Health
— Donna Jackson Nakazawa
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child’s Developing Mind
— Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
Loss, Trauma, and Resilience: Therapeutic Work with Ambiguous Loss
— Pauline Boss
Raising Human Beings: Creating a Collaborative Partnership with Your Child
— Ross W. Greene