Katie McClain posted:Janie- Also check out Peter Levine's books. Peter is the creator of Somatic Experiencing which is a gentle, body based method for healing trauma. He has many books. You could start with Waking the Tiger.
There're basically two easy, "pop psych", starting points for this sort of material -- Psychotherapy Networker, and NICABM -- National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine -- (even SoundsTrue -- but this is also more "fringe pop", less formally recognised) which have mailing lists which will keep you appraised of their latest offerings in the area,"try before you buy" but there's also a lot of "free samples" in this area, and other material to be found either on the internet (e.g., Levine's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUL8HU-SSs8) or on the websites of people in this group ;-D -- especially if you like drinking coffee out of a cup!
I also particularly like Pat Ogden's book on Sensorimotor Psychotherapy -- lots of worksheets etc etc so while "Waking The Tiger" is dirt cheap on Kindle, the paper version of Ogden's book is more "useful".
Other resources available from these sites includes one guy that'll help you write "your book" to share your experiences with others -- I can't remember his name, so -- Katie, any ideas?
And then there's the formally respected journals, e.g., this article -- which causes even me to wish they'd studied more, but the article is even more important
http://www.sciencedirect.com/s...d=raven_sd_aip_email
but somehow I think you might not wish to be that far ;-D