Resources

Gabor Maté

Gabor Maté weaves together memoir, neuroscience, and clinical narrative to explore addiction — showing it not as a moral failure but as a response to trauma, early attachment wounds, and the loss of connection with self and others.

Resmaa Menakem

Resmaa Menakem offers a body-centered analysis of racialized trauma — exploring how white supremacy and its violence live in the nervous systems of Black, white, and police bodies alike. Proposes somatic healing practices as a path to collective repair.

Philip Shepherd

Philip Shepherd proposes that the Western fragmentation between head and body — and between the individual and the world — is the source of our deepest suffering. He offers somatic practices to restore embodied wholeness as a foundation for presence, creativity, and belonging.

Bessel van der Kolk

A landmark synthesis of neuroscience, psychiatry, and somatic therapy showing how trauma physically reshapes the brain and body — and presenting multiple pathways to healing including yoga, EMDR, theater, and neurofeedback.

Staci Haines

Connects personal trauma to collective and structural violence, arguing that healing must address both the individual body and the social conditions that cause harm. A foundational text for trauma-informed, justice-oriented coaching.

Francis Weller

Maps the five 'gates of grief' most Westerners never pass through. A fierce and tender invitation to mourn fully — and discover what is renewed in that passage.

Gabor Maté

Gabor Maté draws on decades of clinical practice and medical literature to show how chronic illness is often the body's way of saying no to what the mind has suppressed — stress, unexpressed emotion, and the denial of the self's true needs.

Irene Lyon

Practical somatic education on nervous system regulation, trauma healing, and how to build greater capacity for aliveness. Accessible to both practitioners and the general public — one of the clearest teachers in somatic work.