Recommended Books For Healing trauma & better understanding your adhd brain
How psychoeducational books can support (but sometimes distract from) our healing
Psychoeducational books can provide us with a critical resource for learning about how our brains work and making sense of our experiences. They can validate us and make us feel more understood in a world that is constantly telling us that there is something “wrong” with us. Below you’ll find a comprehensive list of books that I recommend to many of my clients to assist in their healing and understanding of themselves.
I offer this psychoeducational book recommendation list with an important caveat: though there is a time and place for educating yourself about how your trauma and other experiences have impacted you, it can be a way to continue to dissociate from your feelings and experiences and keep you stuck in the intellectualization of "why" you're feeling so terrible.
If you’re finding that you’re immersing yourself in reading countless books about trauma, self-help, and the like - take a break.
As an alternative, spend time getting out of your head, dropping into your body, and finding something that you enjoy because learning to find JOY in your day-to-day can literally help to rewire your sweet, little traumatized brain.
With no further ado, here are my favorite book recommendations:
PSychoeducational books on trauma
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma by Stephanie Foo
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk
