Free Resources By Monique

The Healing Adoption Trauma Handbook

Your Guide to Understanding the Complexities of Adoption

Understanding Attachment Security

10 Ways to Embody Security in Your Relationships

The Somatic Expressive Therapies Workbook

Your Guide to Whole Hearted Living

6 Ways Somatic Sand Therapy Heals Trauma

Make the Leap from Helping to Healing

Recommended Books

Adoption Unfiltered: Revelations from Adoptees, Birth Parents, Adoptive Parents, and Allies

Adoption Unfiltered is an important and much needed book, released in 2024.  It is written by three authors – an adoptee, a birth mother and an adoptive mother.  This book offers a much-needed model for those navigating the inevitable tensions and joys that exist in adoption.

The Primal Wound: Understanding the Adopted Child

The Primal Wound has revolutionised the way we think about adoption.  Writen by an adoptive mother, it describes and clarifies the effects of separating babies from their birth mothers as a primal loss which affects the relationships of the adopted person throughout their life.

Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness

Adopted Author, Betty Jean-Lifton, explores the inner world of the Adopted Person, tracing the adopted person’s lifelone struggle to form an authentic sense of Self.

The Flourish Experience: The Power of Adoptee Healing in Community

This anthology shares the stories, thoughts, feelings and experiences of a group of Adopted People who met together for a year.  This powerful book was written to educate, inspire and spark discussion amongst fellow Adoptees and their loved ones.

The Keys Book by Ruth Monnig

An illustrated story for the Adult Adoptee and the people who need to understand them.

Goodbye Hypervigilence: Healing Adoption Worry by Lora K. Joy

Goodbye Hypervigilence is a true story about Lora K. Joy’s experience realising how adoption trauma put her on high alert her whole life.

Nobody Looks Like Me: An Adoptee Experience

Nobody Looks Like Me is a book about what it is like for an adoptee to grow up in a family where they are not genetically related to anyone.

Self Attunement: An Adoptee Superpower

Self Attunement:  An Adoptee Superpower is a testament to the grief and loneliness we can feel as adoptees.  The ability to reparent our younger parts gives us the power to heal, grow and feel safe.

Raising a Secure Child by Drs Hoffman, Cooper and Powell

Simple, powerful “Circle of Security” parenting strategies that Kent Hoffman, Glen Cooper, and Bert Powell have taught thousands of families are available in self-help form for the first time.

Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviour by Robyn Gobbel

Parenting coach Robyn Gobbel is here to reveal how all behaviour, no matter how baffling, can be explained and remedied. You just need to look past the behavior and understand what’s going on inside.

Mother Hunger By Kelly McDaniel

The constant search for mother love can be a lifelong emotional burden, but healing begins with knowing and naming what we are missing.  McDaniel demystifies the search for love and provides the compass that each woman needs to end the struggle with achy, lonely emptiness, and come home to herself.

The Power of Attachment by Dr Diane Poole Heller

Dr Poole Heller shows how overwhelming experiences can disrupt our most important connections – with the parts of ourselves within, with the physical world around us, and with others.  The good news is that we can restore and reconnect at all levels, regardless of our past.

Healing Developmental Trauma by Dr Heller and Dr LaPierre

Heller and LaPierre introduce the NeuroAffective Relational Model (NARM), a method that integrates bottom-up and top-down approaches to regulate the nervous system and resolve distortions of identity such as low self-esteem, shame, and chronic self-judgment that are the outcome of developmental and relational trauma.

Healing Trauma by Dr Peter Levine

“Trauma is a fact of life,” teaches Peter Levine, “but it doesn’t have to be a life sentence.” Now, with one fully integrated self-healing tool, he shares his essential methods to address unexplained symptoms of trauma at their source―the body―to return us to the natural state in which we are meant to live.

Waking the Tiger by Dr Peter Levine

Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question- why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed.

The Body Keeps the Score by Dr Bessel van der Kolk

Van der Kolk is a psychiatrist who specializes in the treatment of trauma. He has worked tirelessly to elucidate the neurobiological underpinnings of the body-mind connection, perhaps more than any other individual in our generation.

The Nervous System Reset By Jessica Maguire

Heal Trauma, Resolve Chronic Pain, and Regulate Your Emotions with the Power of the Vagus Nerve.

Anchored by Deb Dana

Through guided imagery, meditation, self-inquiry, and more, Anchored offers a practical user’s manual for moving from a place of fear and panic into a grounded space of balance and confidence.

Therapeutic Yoga for Trauma Recovery by Dr Arielle Schwartz

With her innately compassionate and gentle guidance, Dr. Arielle Schwartz introduces you to the power of the yogic philosophy and offers a variety of accessible yoga poses and breathing practices for healing trauma.

Somatic Internal Family Systems Therapy by Susan McConnell

Enhance your clinical practice and patient outcomes by skillfully uniting body and mind through an evidence-based therapeutic modality—endorsed by leaders in the field, including Richard Schwartz.

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