These are books we recommend for many different reasons. Learning about humanitarian outreach is a lifelong marathon, not a sprint. Enjoy it.
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Gunilla Hamne, Ulf Sandström
Trauma Tapping Technique
We have written this book as a village handbook, for laymen and professionals. Download the pdf and learn First Aid Stress & Trauma now >>.
Bessel Van der Kolk
The Body Keeps the Score
The state of the art classic for understanding coding and decoding of trauma, research and clinical applications coming from body to mind (bottom-up) and mind to body (top-down).
Judith Simon Prager
The Worst Is Over
This is a must for every person wanting to know what to say to be of support and comfort even in the most dire situations of life and death, accidents or sorrow. First responders all over the world use it. There is a chapter in Trauma Tapping Technique on this, by Judith.
Peta Stapleton
The Science behind Tapping
Is anyone asking you if there is qualified research on tapping? The answer is yes, and this is a book on it by one of the most prominent researchers in the field, from Bond University.
Peter Levine
Waking the Tiger
Peter was one of the first to observe how trauma affects wild animals differently from us humans and domesticated animals. How it can get "stuck" in our systems and why. A classic.
Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
A classic written by a psychiatrist who survived the concentration camps of WWII and is the creator of logotherapy - therapy focusing on existential meaning. "Humor is the highest healer".
Eve Ensler
In the Body of the World
Eve founded City of Joy in Congo, a refuge for women, where we have taught First Aid Stress & Trauma. A fantastic book for understanding the impact of gender based violence and healing.
Father Gregory Boyle
Tattoos On the Heart
Father G is the founder of Homeboy Industries, the worlds biggest and most successful gang-rehabilitation project in LA. We love the way Homeboy supports it's community and support with our tools of tapping and Havening.
Judith Herman
Trauma and Recovery
When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. It has changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims. About the systems that allow abuse.
Dr Ronald Ruden
When The Past Is Always Present
Dr Ronald Ruden who was baffled how easily a phobia could be cured with tapping. He spent 16 years researching the neurological underpinnings and came up with a scientific model for decoding trauma, and Havening Techniques.