Resources for Healing Resources to Support Your Journey

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Below is a curated collection of books that reflect the approaches used at

Mosaic Healing Collective—

including trauma-informed care, somatic therapy, Internal Family Systems (IFS), and EMDR. 

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🌱 A Gentle Note

You don’t need to “do it all” or understand everything at once. Healing is not about gathering more information—it’s about integrating what feels meaningful, at a pace that supports your nervous system.

If you’re unsure where to begin, we can explore what might feel most supportive for you in our work together.

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BOOKS:

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 🫀Somatic & Body-Based Healing

• A classic introduction to how trauma is stored in the body and how it can be released through somatic awareness.

• Healing Trauma — by Peter A. Levine
  A shorter, practical guide with exercises to support nervous system regulation and grounding.

• Somatic Therapy for healing trauma — by Jordan Dann - Effective Tools to Strengthen the Mind-Body Connection.

• 101 Trauma-Informed Interventions — by Linda Curran - Activities, Exercises and Assignments to Move the Client and Therapy Forward.

 

🧠 Parts Work & Self-Understanding

• No Bad Parts — by Richard C. Schwartz
  An accessible introduction to Internal Family Systems, helping you understand and work with different parts of yourself.

• Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving — by Pete Walker
  A compassionate guide to understanding trauma responses, emotional flashbacks, and the path toward healing.

• Trauma and Recovery — by Judith Herman

        A foundational work that outlines how trauma impacts individuals and relationships, and maps a clear compassionate path           toward safety, remembrance, and reconnection.

• Transcending Trauma — by Frank G. Anderson, MD
  Healing complex PTSD with attorney, internal family systems therapy

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🌿 EMDR & Processing the Past

• Getting Past Your Past — by Francine Shapiro
  Explains how unresolved experiences become “stuck” and how EMDR supports healing and integration.

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💛 Personal Healing Journey

• What Happened to You? — by Oprah Winfrey and Bruce D. Perry
  A powerful shift from asking “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?”

• What My Bones Know — by Stephanie Foo
  A deeply personal and insightful memoir of healing from complex trauma.

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🌱 Understanding Trauma & the Nervous System

• The Body Keeps the Score — by Bessel van der Kolk
  A foundational book on how trauma lives in the body and why healing must include both mind and nervous system.

• The Myth of Normal — by Gabor Maté
  Explores the connection between trauma, stress, and modern life, offering a compassionate lens on health and healing.

 

🧠 ADHD

• Scattered Minds — by Gabor Maté
  Explores ADHD through a compassionate, trauma-informed lens, linking attention challenges to early environment, stress, and emotional development.

 

🌍  Systemic Trauma & Somatic Healing

• My Grandmother’s Hands — by Resmaa Menakem

        How racialized and systemic trauma lives in the body and offers somatic practices for healing through embodied awareness,           nervous system regulation, and collective repair.

• The Warmth of Other Suns — by Isabel Wilkerson

         A deeply researched narrative on the Great Migration that illuminates the enduring impact of systemic racism and                         intergenerational trauma in the United States.

 

🌊 Emotions 

• The Language of Emotions — Karol K. Truman

        ​Connects emotional experiences to bodily sensations and meaning-making through a somatic lens.

• Permission to Feel — Marc Brackett
  A practical and research-based guide to understanding, labeling, and working with emotions in a healthy, regulated way.

• Emotional Agility — Susan David
  Teaches how to relate to emotions with flexibility, curiosity, and self-compassion rather than avoidance or suppression.

• Understanding and Treating Chronic Shame: A Relational/Neurobiological Approach — by Patricia A. Deyoung

 

💑 Couples

• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find--and Keep Love — by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller. Guides readers in determining what attachment style they and their mate (or potential mate) follow, offering a road map for building stronger, more fulfilling connections with the people they love. 

• Hold Me Tight — by Sue Johnson

        Directly from Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), it recognize attachment needs beneath conflict, break negative cycles and         shows how to rebuild emotional safety and connection and move toward secure attachment in relationships

• The Fight Right: How Successful Couples Turn Conflict Into Connection — by John Gottman, PhD and Julie Gottman, PhD. Focuses on healthy conflict (not avoiding it), repair after rupture and how to turn arguments into connection.

 

🧸 Childhood Trauma 

• It Didn’t Start with You — Mark Wolynn

        How inherited family trauma shapes who we are and how to end the cycle

• Childhood Disrupted — Donna Jackson Nakazawa

        Illuminates the cost of childhood trauma and how biography becomes your biology and how you can heal

• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents  — by Lindsay C. Gibson 

        A foundational guide that helps you understand how emotionally immature parenting shapes attachment, self-worth, and             relational patterns, and offers a path toward healing through boundaries, self-awareness, and emotional differentiation.

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🌑  Foundations of the Shadow Work & Depth Psychology (Somatic + Trauma-Informed Lens)

• Man and His Symbols — Carl Jung
  A foundational introduction to the unconscious, archetypes, and symbolic language of the psyche. Helpful for understanding how inner material expresses itself beyond logic.

• Owning Your Own Shadow — Robert A. Johnson
  A clear and accessible entry point into projection, disowned parts of self, and the process of integration.

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🌿 Shadow Work Through Relationships & Attachment

• Romancing the Shadow — Connie Zweig
  Explores how unconscious material emerges in intimate relationships, especially through attraction, conflict, and projection.

• Meeting the Shadow — edited by Connie Zweig & Jeremiah Abrams
  A collection of essays exploring how the shadow appears in identity, culture, relationships, and emotional life.

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🧠 Depth Psychology + Nervous System Awareness

• Inner Work — Robert A. Johnson
  A practical guide to working with dreams, active imagination, and unconscious material in a reflective, embodied way.

• The Black Sun — Stanton Marlan
  A deeper exploration of depression, darkness, and transformation through a Jungian and alchemical lens.

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🎧 10 Podcasts on Trauma, Healing, IFS & EMDR

 

1. Empowered Through Compassion (IFS + EMDR focused)

Deep clinical conversations integrating Internal Family Systems, EMDR, and relational trauma healing.

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2. The Trauma Therapist Podcast

Long-form interviews with leading trauma clinicians exploring EMDR, somatic therapy, and attachment repair.

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3. IFS Talks / IFS Institute Podcast

Core teachings from the Internal Family Systems model, including parts work, Self-energy, and clinical applications.

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4. Transforming Trauma (with Emily Ruth)

Focuses on nervous system healing, somatic awareness, and trauma integration in everyday life.

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5. Therapist Uncensored

Blends neuroscience, attachment theory, EMDR-informed thinking, and relational healing in an accessible way.

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6. The Somatic Experiencing Podcast (or Somatic-based interviews)

Focused on body-based trauma healing, nervous system regulation, and working with stored trauma in the body.

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7. Trauma Rewired

Highly accessible podcast connecting neuroscience, nervous system regulation, EMDR concepts, and somatic healing.

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8. The One Inside (IFS podcast)

A conversational, lived-experience approach to Internal Family Systems and parts work.

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9. The Polyvagal Podcast / Polyvagal-Informed Talks 

Explores nervous system states, safety cues, trauma responses, and regulation through the polyvagal lens.

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10. Ten Percent Happier (selected trauma episodes)

Not trauma-specific, but features excellent episodes with clinicians on mindfulness, regulation, and emotional resilience.

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