Resources
Tools for building healing spaces.
Whether you're a parent, educator, clinician, or designer, these are the resources our team returns to again and again.
WellSpace Guide
Bring a WellSpace to your community.
Our WellSpace Guide walks schools and community organizations through the elements of a trauma-informed, biophilic space — from layout and materials to the resources that make it a place students actually use. Request your copy and we'll send it over.
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How childhood trauma affects health across a lifetime
Childhood trauma isn't something you simply get over as you grow up. Pediatrician Nadine Burke Harris explains that the repeated stress of abuse, neglect, and parents struggling with mental health or substance use has real, tangible effects on the developing brain.
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Reading and viewing
Understanding trauma
- Trauma and Recovery — Judith Herman, MD
- The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk
- Healing Trauma: Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body — Peter A. Levine
- Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving — Pete Walker
- How to Do the Work — Nicole LePera
- In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts — Gabor Maté
- We Are All in Shock — Stephanie Mines
- Transcending Trauma — Dr. Frank Anderson
- What Happened to You? — Dr. Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey
For parents, providers & educators
- Listening to My Body — Gabi Garcia
- Calm-Down Time — Elizabeth Verdick
- Understanding My Brain: Becoming Human(E)! — Julie Kurtz
- Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day — Judith Viorst
- I Believe in Myself — Laurie Wright
- Breathe Like a Bear — Kira Willey
- Moody Cow Meditates — Kerry Lee MacLean
- The Way I Feel — Janan Cain
- Lots of Feelings — Shelley Rotner
- I Am Peace: A Book of Mindfulness — Susan Verde
- My Magic Breath — Nick Ortner
- B Is for Breath — Melissa Munro Boyd
- The Invisible String — Patrice Karst
- Optimal Brain Integration®