Resources
Book - The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk
Book - Overcoming Trauma through Yoga by David Emerson
Book - Trauma Sensitive Yoga in Therapy: Bringing the Body into Treatment by David Emerson
Book - Embodied Healing: Survivor and Facilitator Voices from the Practice of Trauma Sensitive Yoga, edited by Jenn Turner
Book - Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
Book - A Straight Talking Introduction to The Power Threat and Meaning Framework by Mary Boyle and Lucy Johnstone
Book - Drop the Disorder: Challenging the Culture of Psychiatric Diagnosis
Book - Oppression and the Body by Christine Caldwell and Lucia Bennett Leighton
Local Organisations for Crisis Support
Please note, Embodied Empowerment is not a crisis service.
The Samaritans are a free and confidential listening service. They can be reached 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on 116 123. They also have an email service and aim to respond within 24 hours. You can reach them at jo@samaritans.org
In case of a mental health emergency, please contact your GP in the first instance or call 111 if it is out of hours
Support for domestic abuse: https://www.leewaysupport.org/
Support for drug and alcohol addictions: https://www.changegrowlive.org/