Reading path
Heal From the Past
Trauma, patterns, and the nervous system — the books people reach for when they're ready to do the work.
Insight alone rarely fixes what the body is still carrying. This path moves from understanding trauma to the tools for working through it.
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
The cornerstone. Van der Kolk's case that trauma lives in the body, not just the memory — and why talking alone often isn't enough.
What Happened To You?
Perry and Winfrey reframe the whole question, from what's wrong with you to what happened to you. A gentler entry point than Score.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Names a specific, common wound with unusual precision. A lot of readers meet their own family on the page here.
How to Do the Work
LePera bridges insight and action — how to actually interrupt the patterns once you can see them.
Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy
The CBT classic. Concrete, structured tools for the thought distortions that drive low mood, and still clinician-recommended decades on.