📚 Trauma and Recovery by Judith L. Herman
Herman bridges domestic abuse (rape, child abuse, domestic captivity) with public atrocities (war, torture, genocide), showing how both sever human connection and agency while demanding parallel recovery paths. Her landmark three-stage model of recovery (safety, remembrance and mourning, and reconnection) prioritizes stabilizing the body and life before confronting memories — framing recovery as reclaiming power in a world that often silences survivors.
Judith Herman, Harvard psychiatry professor and Victims of Violence Program director, pioneered Complex PTSD diagnosis after decades treating survivors of incest, rape, and terror while advocating for their recognition in DSM and law. Her insider-outsider perspective — clinical pioneer confronting institutional denial — makes her the definitive voice bridging individual agony with collective justice.
Use these while you give it a go . . .
Process trauma & regulate the body with rhythmic, alternating side-to-side taps, sounds, or visuals.
When you want presence or to interrupt autopilot.
Tones that synchronize your brainwaves to help you access your subconscious, foster creativity, daydream, focus, learn, and more.
Downloadable PDF created by Brené Brown.
Downloadable PDF to reference while you learn your emotions.
Touch the Earth with bare skin to balance your body's electrical charge and positively affect inflammation, mood, pain, and more.
Use the vibration of vocal sound to move energetic blockages, create resonance within your body, and gently activate your vagus nerve to feel calm & grounded.
When you need deep emotional or energetic clearing.
Attune to the heartbeat of Gaia — mother of all life.
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Care for “little you” by giving them space to be heard, felt, and nurtured in the ways you needed as a child — then gently reparent, so together you can begin to restore a sense of safety and love.
Mindfully journey through your body to identify, connect with, and release places of tension, stored emotion, or resistance.
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What are three things you love about yourself? ... If you're coming up blank, this one's for you.
Timeline your past to uncover the forgotten experiences that are shaping your present, and open the door to healing at the root.
Change your internal narrative & raise your self-worth.
Downloadable PDF to reference while you rewire your subconscious beliefs.
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