Community Trauma

During and after a traumatic experience, survivors experience a cascade of physical, emotional, cognitive, behavioral, relational, and spiritual responses that can make them feel unbalanced and threatened. The second edition of Building Resilience to Trauma explains common responses from a biological perspective, reframing the human experience from one of shame and pathology to one of hope and biology.

For readers seeking solutions to finally end the gun violence that kills tens of thousands of people each year in the United States— from a Harvard-trained trauma surgeon treating victims in Chicago If hope for ending gun violence can take hold in Chicago’s South Side, then it can take hold...

Embrace your innate power and find growth from trauma with this essential guide filled with groundbreaking solutions and strategies for your healing journey. Amid collective trauma, it helps to know that our bodies are built to respond to stress and what we might do to shift those reflexes...

Stress changes how we think, connect, and respond. Play helps the brain recover its capacity for growth. In a world shaped by chronic stress, digital overload, emotional pressure, and increasing disconnection, Play Now. Thrive Later. offers a practical and deeply human framework for understanding how the brain responds to safety, stress, and healing. Built around the Brain Well-Being Model®, this book explains how play, creativity, movement, relational connection, and self-awareness support emotional regulation, identity development, and resilience across the lifespan. Rather than viewing ...

An original and groundbreaking examination of the psychological devastation of war through the lens of Homer’s Iliad in this “compassionate book [that] deserves a place in the lasting literature of the Vietnam War” (The New York Times). In this moving and dazzlingly creative book, Dr...

The Commons calls her salvation. The outside world calls it control. Lucy Elowen Vale has always belonged to Solista: a secluded mountain community where every song has a purpose, every grief is witnessed, and every girl learns the cost of being needed. Raised beneath antlers, winter rites, and old stories, Lucy is treasured for her gift as a mediator—the one who can turn fear, shame, and rebellion back into peace. When the elders send her beyond the ridge to college, Lucy is supposed to learn the outside world’s language without forgetting her own. But freedom arrives in unsettlingly ...

A stunning, complex narrative about the fractured legacy of a decades-old double murder in rural West Virginia -- and the writer determined to put the pieces back together. In the early evening of June 25, 1980 in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, two middle-class outsiders named Vicki Durian...

An immersive account of a commercial fishing disaster at sea whose repercussions haunt its survivors to this day, lauded by New York Times bestselling author Ron Suskind as “an honest and touching book, and a hell of a story.” In March of 1984, the commercial fishing boat Wind Blown left...

From bestselling author Lisa Graff, this important coming-of-age story follows a thirteen-year-old with a mysterious scar on her face—and a big secret she feels pressured to keep. Fallon Little has a secret—and it’s not how she got the enormous scar that divides her face in two...

African American Wayism: Returning to Wholeness - a Lifestyle, Philosophy and Spirituality Rediscover your spiritual birthright beyond religious boundaries In a world that fragments identity and disconnects us from our deeper wisdom, "African American Wayism" offers Black families a path of integration, healing, and authentic power. Drawing from ancient spiritual principles that predate modern religious divisions, author Mabel Thompson illuminates how Wayist teachings align with traditional African wisdom while providing practical tools for navigating contemporary challenges. Unlike ...

The Connected Classroom: Building Belonging and Community for Every Student A practical guide to creating an inclusive, safe, and engaging classroom culture Academic success begins with one essential component: a strong sense of community and belonging. The Connected Classroom offers educators easy-to-implement strategies to foster a classroom environment where students feel safe, valued, and ready to engage. From the first day of school to sustaining community all year, this book provides daily routines, inclusive activities, and relationship-building practices that strengthen student ...

Historically, sexual minorities are the first targets of authoritarian movements. Prof. Ruth Ben-Ghiat of New York University has documented that you can draw a through line of attacks on gay people by dictators from Mussolini right to the present. Ironically it is this degradation that causes stress and trauma in the lives of the LGBTQ community. Professor Eric Kandel of Columbia University has stated that "Brain science can be a liberating influence in our lives. As we understand the biology of our own gender identity and sexual orientation better and become more comfortable with ...

A “vital, life-saving must-read” (Nora McInerny, author of Bad Vibes Only) manifesto for communal resilience based on in-depth investigations into history, social science, and psychology, from the bestselling author of Rage Becomes Her. We are often urged to rely only on ourselves for...

Connecting to Our Ancestral Past is a pragmatic, spiritual journey that introduces a variety of specific rituals and conversations in connection with Constellations work, an experiential process that explores one's history and powerful events of the past in order to understand and resolve...

How do we do effective, sustainable social change…without burning out, internalizing systemic toxicity, or replicating urgency culture? A trauma-informed anthology with contributions from 13 activists and community organizers—for readers of adrienne maree brown, Staci K. Haines, and Ejeris...

An epic novel of a mother and daughter wrestling with the aftermath of a murder, set against the backdrop of a tightknit, working-class barrio in Puerto Rico—from the Whiting Award-winning author Jaquira Díaz. When Maricarmen meets Rey el Cantante, beloved small-time Robin Hood and local...

Discover the Shaman’s Path to Empowerment, Healing, and Personal and Global Transformation Throughout human history, the shaman’s purpose has been to serve their community. Traditionally, shamans were healers, seekers of truth, peacemakers, and keepers of wisdom. Most of all, shamans were...

What if the villain was never the enemy? What if the villain was the part of you that learned to survive before it learned how to live? The Gospel According to the Villain is a raw, adult, and provocative exploration of power, desire, kink, culture, shadow, shame, and transformation. Joseph Crown takes the familiar idea of the villain and turns it inward, not to excuse harm, but to understand the cognitive machinery behind it. The Tyrant wants order. The Addict wants relief. The Seducer wants proof. The Trickster wants freedom. The Martyr wants control without looking controlling. The ...

In the shadowed hollows of 1890s Ashe County, North Carolina, the enigmatic Melungeons—descendants of African, European, and indigenous blood—face a world of whispers and prejudice. Sensationalized by journalist Will Allen Dromgoole, their myths of shifting skin tones and exotic origins ignite public fascination, while census takers label them "free persons of color" amid flickering illusions: blue eyes and high cheekbones that shimmer like holograms under mountain light. But as racial reclassification laws tighten and discrimination bites deeper, a darker horror stirs—people ...

Book 6 of the Princes of Prophecy has us looking in on Taylor Blackhawk who has fought the demons that followed him home from the military for the last two years. His past hits hard. She helps him stand. The Princes make sure he never falls again. Taylor grew up in Cloud and CJ’s home — a place built on structure, loyalty, and second chances. As the Princes’ Sniper, he’s calm under pressure, deadly accurate, and fiercely loyal. But PTSD hits him hard, and the memories he carries threaten to pull him under. His Brothers refuse to let him fall, but it’s Beth who gives him a reason ...