Resources
Books
The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk, MD
In The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van Der Kolk uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments, including EMDR, that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity.
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents
Lindsay G. Gibson, PsyD
Lindsay Gibson exposes the destructive nature of parents who are emotionally immature or unavailable. You will see how these parents create a sense of neglect, and discover ways to heal from the pain and confusion caused by your childhood.
Transforming The Living Legacy of Trauma
Janina Fisher, PhD
Janina Fisher shows how the legacy of symptoms helped people survive and offers step-by-step strategies, simple diagrams that make sense of the confusing feelings and physical reactions survivors experience, and worksheets to practice the skills that bring relief.
Websites
EMDRIA is a professional association for EMDR practitioners and researchers to seek the highest standards for clinical use of EMDR.
The International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation seeks to advance clinical, scientific, and societal understanding about the prevalence and consequences of chronic trauma and dissociation.
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is charged with improving the quality and availability of treatment and rehabilitative services in order to reduce illness, death, and disability resulting from substance abuse and mental illnesses.
Other Resources
The 988 Lifeline is a national network of local crisis centers that provides free and confidential emotional support to people in suicidal crisis or emotional distress 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Call or text 988.
Effective January 1, 2022, the No Surprises Act protects you from surprise billing if you have a group health plan or group or individual health insurance coverage.