Mandatory for the Class
Books ($64 – $110 total) – everything we have chosen is available on Kindle and audiobook in addition to hard copies.
Complex PTSD, Pete Walker
It Didn’t Start with You, Mark Wolynn
Neuroqueer Heresies, Nick Walker
What Happened to You?, Winfrey and Perry
The Myth of Normal, Gabor Maté

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Other required materials:
art supplies, telescoping pointer, brain model, mobile (optional – you can also make one)

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HIGHLY Recommended
Brain-Body Parenting, Mona Delahooke
Healing Collective Trauma, Thomas Hübl

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For a Deeper Dive and an Awesome Bookshelf:
Beyond the Self, Mario Salvador
In an Unspoken Voice, Peter Levine
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, Gabor Maté
Living in a Mindful Universe, Eben Alexander
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor, Layla Saad
Medical Apartheid, Hariet A. Washington
My Grandmother’s Hands, Resmaa Menakem
No Bad Parts, Richard Schwartz
Not to People Like Us, Susan Weitzman
Parenting from the Inside out, Daniel Siegel
So You Want to Talk About Race, Ijeoma Oluo
The Body is Not an Apology, Sonya Renee Taylor
The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk
The Brain that Changes Itself, Norman Doidge
The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity, Dr Nadine Burke Harris
The Gift of Failure, Jessica Lahey
The Polyvagal Theory, Stephen Porges
The Primal Wound, Nancy Verrier
The Tao of Fully Feeling, Pete Walker
Waking the Tiger, Peter Levine
Will I Ever Be Good Enough?, Karyl McBride
When the Body Says No, Gabor Maté
Why Does He Do That?, Lundy Bancroft

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Titles subject to change at any time.