At Woven Therapy, our staff took all of the newly found 2020 downtime seriously, and started reading together. We’ve been meeting biweekly to discuss books, articles and movies that help us broaden our cultural competency. 2021 will be no different, and we are setting our sights high by putting together a list of books that we want to dive in to as a staff.  This book list is full of helpful trauma reads, as well as writing that challenges our colonized, white-centric ways of thinking about the psychology of our patients.

Our staff wants to make the world a safer, more knowledgeable place for all people to exist.  We also want to challenge ourselves to rethink the ways that we understand human suffering and overcome obstacles. We always invite the reimagining of healing. If you would like to read along with us in 2021, grab a copy and cozy up in your most comfortable chair; we would love to have you. If you are a therapist or clinician reading along, reach out and let us know what it has been like for you to learn alongside us. We host biweekly book clubs and would love for you to join us. You can email us anytime at hello@gideonpsych.com.

List of books our trauma therapists will read in 2021:

Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance and Being You by Kathryn Gonzales and Karen Rayne

Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century by Alice Wong

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson 

Being a Brain-Wise Therapist by Bonnie Badenoch 

The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Content of Relationships by Bonnie Badenoch

Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski

My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem

The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment by Babette Rothschild

The Polyvagal Theory in Therapy by Deb Dana

In an Unspoken Voice: How the Body Releases Trauma and Restores Goodness by Peter A Levine and Gabor Mate

The New Science of Narcissism: Understanding One of the Greatest Psychological Challenges of Our Time and What You Can Do About It by W. Keith Campbell, Carolyn Crist, et al.

Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment by Patricia Hill Collins

Happy reading!