Here you can find helpful books, websites, and podcasts covering many trauma related subjects as well as some helpful printables you can open as PDF’s and print out! Are we missing a resource? Kindly let us know so we may review it for inclusion in our list.
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Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors…
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation [Fisher, Janina] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alienation
Healing Trauma
In Healing Trauma, Dr. Levine gives you the personal how-to guide for using the theory he introduced in his acclaimed work Waking the Tiger. Join him to discover: how to develop body awareness and heal trauma.
The Body Keeps the Score
Trauma is a fact of life. Veterans and their families deal with the painful aftermath of combat; one in five Americans has been molested; one in four grew up with alcoholics; one in three couples have engaged in physical violence.
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving
This is a comprehensive user-friendly, self-help guide to recovering from all the the lingering effects of childhood trauma. It is an overview of the tasks of recovering, and an illumination of the silver linings that can come out of effective recovery work…
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized?
The Illustrated Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living
There’s this idea going around that we’re always supposed to be happy—and it’s making us miserable. The good news is, if you can learn to let go of that impossible expectation…
Getting Past Your Past
Whether we’ve experienced small setbacks or major traumas, we are all influenced by memories and experiences we may not remember or don’t fully understand.
The Confidence Gap: A Guide to Overcoming Fear and Self-Doubt
Drawing on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and mindfulness practices, this guide offers breakthrough insights and simple techniques for developing deep-seated, long-lasting confidence.
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises…
Do you have trouble managing your emotions? First developed by Marsha M. Linehan for treating borderline personality disorder, dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) has proven…
Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy…
Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) is a new, scientifically based psychotherapy that takes a fresh look at why we suffer and even what it means to be mentally healthy.
The Neurobiology of “We”: How Relationships, the Mind, and the Brain Interact to Shape…
From a Founder of Interpersonal Neurobiology, Breakthrough Teachings about Human Development and Healing. If you think your mind and your brain are one and the same, think again.
About Children & Teens
The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies …
In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson offer a revolutionary approach to child rearing…
The Whole-Brain Child Workbook: Practical Exercises, Worksheets and Activities…
Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson speak to audiences all over the world about their immensely popular best-sellers, The Whole-Brain Child and No-Drama Discipline.
Heart & Hues Printable Activity Sheets
Formerly PartTectonics.com Activity Sheets
You can print these activity sheets/cards out and fill them out by hand or fill them out using the built-in form fields using Adobe Acrobat Reader.
Disclaimer: These supplemental activities and not meant to replace therapy. Work with your care team/therapist as needed if you have questions about whether these would be beneficial to you. HeartandHues.com (formerly PartTectonics.com) and any associated authors are not responsible for your choice to utilize these activities or any resulting experiences and make no claims or guarantees about their effectiveness/helpfulness. Use these free resources responsibly and at your own risk.
DID System Cards
Fill out these cards with Adobe Acrobat Reader and print. Use these cards to begin to map out your system. Note that this document has 20 cards, feel free to print multiple copies to accommodate larger systems.
DID System Exploration
Fill out these cards with Adobe Acrobat Reader and print. This advanced activity may help you explore how parts/alters work with or against one another. You might gain interesting insights or even a few laughs!
Cards of Remembering
Fill out these cards with Adobe Acrobat Reader and print. Use them to help with remembering people, places, pets or things that bring you comfort and make you feel safe. They may help with reorienting durning amnesia, dissociation, derealization, etc.
Compatibility Note: If you are an Android user in Chrome – you might have difficulty downloading because Chrome for Android doesn’t open Adobe PDFs natively. You can try “long-holding” the link, then select “open in new tab” to force it to open. Or you can try installing the extension by going to the Google Play Store. Feel free to contact us if you’re still having issues and we can send you the file directly.
Power to the Plurals
The Plural Spectrum Tool (powertotheplurals.com)
The Plural Spectrum Tool, designed and created by and for Plurals, is an easy-to-use tool, that lets you and your System indicate your unique and individual experience(s) with Plurality! This tool can help you figure out where your System is currently at and what areas you want to work on together,…
International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD)
There are several amazing printable fact sheets over at ISSTD so we have selected a couple to share here, but here is the direct link to their resources page.
In short, these are tools that have helped me on my journey and they might help you too!
Fact-Sheet-I-Trauma-and-Complex-Trauma_-An-Overview-1.pdf
Trauma literally means “wound, injury, or shock.” A traumatic event is one that a person finds overwhelming. People differ in what they find traumatic. However, some events are so stressful that most people would find them traumatic.
Fact-Sheet-V-Getting-Treatment-for-Complex-Trauma-and-Dissociation-1-1.pdf
Complex trauma therapy can also focus more deeply on concerns around identity and self-esteem. People with complex trauma are more likely to have other problems such as substance abuse, dissociation, self-harm and suicidality. These are also dealt with
in therapy.
in therapy.
2022-Support-Sheet-Supporting-a-Loved-One.pdf
Finding out that your friend, family member or partner has a dissociative disorder may feel confusing or unsettling, or you may find this information helpful – perhaps it confirms many things you have already observed.
Heart & Hues – Printable Information Sheets
Trauma Informed Care at Work (TIC-at-Work.PDF)
A one page guide on adopting Trauma Informed Care practices at work.
Safety Planning Printable Form
Safety planning is an essential skill to help keep you safe if you struggle with suicidality. Fill out the form digitally and/or print it out. Adapted from Stanely-Brown Safety Plan.
Safety Planning Supplemental Crisis Card
This wallet-sized crisis card helps you remember your safety plan on-the-go. This is meant as a supplement to a more in-depth crisis plan (also on the resources page.)
Beauty After Bruises
The Blog is a more informal, informational and inviting space for survivors and supporters alike…
Carolyn Spring | reversing adversity
Carolyn Spring helps people recovery from trauma and reverse adversity through her blog, videos, podcasts, books, resources, live and online training.
Power to the Plurals – Empowerment and resource website for Plurals
This is a website by The Plural Association Nonprofit for plurals, multiples & people with dissociative disorders, like DID / OSDD. We are starting a warmline!
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder? (DID-research.org)
Dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality disorder) is a condition in which trauma disrupts the formation of an integrated identity. Learn more
ISSTD – International Society for the Study of Trauma & Dissociation
ISSTD is the oldest complex trauma and dissociation society in the world. We to advance clinical, scientific, and societal understanding about the prevalence and consequences of chronic trauma and dissociation.
Separating Fact from Fiction: An Empirical Examination of…: Harvard Review of Psychiatry
his article examines the empirical literature pertaining to recurrently expressed beliefs regarding DID: (1) belief that DID is a fad, (2) belief that DID is primarily diagnosed in North America by DID experts who overdiagnose the disorder, (3) belief that DID is rare, (4) belief that DID is an iatr…
A New Model of Dissociative Identity Disorder
DSM-IV’s classic model of DID, the subjective/phenomenological model of DID, and the sociocognitive model of DID. The subjective/phenomenological model portrays DID as a far more complex dissociative disorder…
Disintegrated experience: the dissociative disorders revisited
Reviews the concept of pathological and nonpathological dissociation, including empirical findings on the relations between trauma and dissociative phenomenology and between dissociation and hypnosis.
Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision
The original publication for this article/research appeared in the journal of Trauma & Dissociation. This is nearly 60 page document covering guidelines for treating DID from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD). Published in 2011.
