18 Best nonfiction books like Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies by Renee Linklater

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Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

By: Renee Linklater

4.46

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Decolonizing Trauma Work, Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in Indigenous communitie…

"Implying that realities are merely psychotic experiences or that they exist in a realm that is not legitimate disregards Indigenous belief systems, which value spiritual experiences and recognize the impact of ancestral trauma"

-Renee Linklater, Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

"Implying that realities are merely psychotic experiences or that they exist in a realm that is not legitimate disregards Indigenous belief systems, which value spiritual experiences and recognize the impact of ancestral trauma"

-Renee Linklater, Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

"Duran argues for the need for healing institutions to retain culturally competent staff and that the adherence to strictly Western models of treatment maintains the colonization process. Hodge, Limb, and Cross claim that the Western therapeutic project is inconsistent with many Indigenous cultures and often serves as a form of Western colonization."

-Renee Linklater, Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

"Duran argues for the need for healing institutions to retain culturally competent staff and that the adherence to strictly Western models of treatment maintains the colonization process. Hodge, Limb, and Cross claim that the Western therapeutic project is inconsistent with many Indigenous cultures and often serves as a form of Western colonization."

-Renee Linklater, Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

If you liked the nonfiction plot in Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies by Renee Linklater , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity

By: Aurora Levins Morales

4.57

Format: 135 pages, Paperback

Drawing vibrant connections between the colonization of whole nations, the health of the mountainsi… read more

Similar categories in Aurora Levins Morales's Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity book and Renee Linklater's Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"What is so dreadful is that to transform the traumatic we must re-enter it fully, and allow the full weight of grief to pass through our hearts. It is not possible to digest atrocity without tasting …"

-Aurora Levins Morales, Medicine Stories: History, Culture and the Politics of Integrity

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2. The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

By: Elyn R. Saks

4.31

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Elyn Saks is a success by any measure: she's an endowed professor at the prestigious University of … read more

Similar categories in Elyn R. Saks's The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness book and Renee Linklater's Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"in my experience, the words “now just calm down"

-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

"some truths that were too difficult and frightening to know."

-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

"The humanity we all share is more important than the mental illnesses we may not"

-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

"I needed to put two critical ideas together: that I could both be mentally ill and lead a rich and satisfying life."

-Elyn R. Saks, The Center Cannot Hold: My Journey Through Madness

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3. Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods

By: Shawn Wilson , Shawn Wilson

2.89

Format: None pages, Paperback

Describing a research paradigm shared by indigenous scholars in Canada and Australia, this study de… read more

Similar categories in Shawn Wilson's Research Is Ceremony: Indigenous Research Methods book and Renee Linklater's Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

  • nonfiction

4. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples

By: Linda Tuhiwai Smith

4.25

Format: None pages,

From the vantage point of the colonized, the term 'research' is inextricably linked with European c… read more

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5. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

By: Gabor Maté

4.49

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more

Similar categories in Gabor Maté's In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction book and Renee Linklater's Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

  • counselling
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"Passion creates, addiction consumes."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."

-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

6. Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

3.65

Format: 192 pages,

Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategyis … read more

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7. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

By: Gabor Maté

4.32

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the c… read more

Similar categories in Gabor Maté's The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture book and Renee Linklater's Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
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8. Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

By: Tricia Hersey

4.08

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Far too many of us have claimed productivity as the cornerstone of success. Brainwashed by capitali… read more

Similar categories in Tricia Hersey's Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto book and Renee Linklater's Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

  • race
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • self help
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9. The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery

By: Barbara K. Lipska

3.88

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

Neuroscientist Lipska was diagnosed early in 2015 with metastatic melanoma in her brain's frontal l… read more

Similar categories in Barbara K. Lipska's The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery book and Renee Linklater's Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • mental health
"Ich hoffe, dass meine persönliche Erfahrung wenigstens Zu der Erkenntnis beiträgt, dass psychisch kranke Menschen ebenso wenig für ihre Krankheit verantwortlich sind wie Krebskranke und dass die best…"

-Barbara K. Lipska, The Neuroscientist Who Lost Her Mind: My Tale of Madness and Recovery

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10. My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

By: Resmaa Menakem

4.40

Format: 300 pages, Paperback

The body is where our instincts reside and where we fight, flee, or freeze, and it endures the trau… read more

Similar categories in Resmaa Menakem's My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts book and Renee Linklater's Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

  • race
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • self help
"At its best, activism is a form of healing. It is about what we do and how we show up in the world. It is about learning and expressing regard, compassion and love."

-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

"In today's America, we tend to think of healing as something binary: either we're broken or we've healed from that brokenness. But that's not how healing operates, and it's almost never how human gro…"

-Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

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11. All Our Relations US Edition: Finding the Path Forward (The CBC Massey Lectures)

By: Tanya Talaga

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

In this vital and incisive work, bestselling and award-winning author Tanya Talaga explores the ala… read more

Similar categories in Tanya Talaga's All Our Relations US Edition: Finding the Path Forward (The CBC Massey Lectures) book and Renee Linklater's Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • indigenous
"In Ojibwe and Cree culture, leadership didn't mean power; it meant caring."

-Tanya Talaga, All Our Relations US Edition: Finding the Path Forward (The CBC Massey Lectures)

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12. A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

By: Alicia Elliott

4.42

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

A bold and profound meditation on trauma, legacy, oppression and racism in North America from award… read more

Similar categories in Alicia Elliott's A Mind Spread Out on the Ground book and Renee Linklater's Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

  • race
  • indigenous
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
"If intergenerational trauma can alter DNA, why can’t intergenerational love?"

-Alicia Elliott, A Mind Spread Out on the Ground

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13. Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice

By: Jennifer Mullan

4.48

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

A call to action for therapists to politicize their practice through an emotional decolonial lens. … read more

Similar categories in Jennifer Mullan's Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice book and Renee Linklater's Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

  • race
  • counselling
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • self help
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14. Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day

By: Kaitlin B. Curtice

4.20

Format: 208 pages, Hardcover

In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice rec… read more

Similar categories in Kaitlin B. Curtice's Living Resistance: An Indigenous Vision for Seeking Wholeness Every Day book and Renee Linklater's Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

  • self help
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • indigenous
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15. The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives

By: Viet Thanh Nguyen

4.36

Format: 210 pages, Hardcover

In January 2017, Donald Trump signed an executive order stopping entry to the United States from se… read more

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  • race
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
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16. Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

By: Patty Krawec

4.58

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

We find our way forward by going back. The invented history of the Western world is crumbling fast,… read more

Similar categories in Patty Krawec's Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future book and Renee Linklater's Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • indigenous
"Blood quantum is a race theory that still forms the basis for legal Indian status in the United States and Canada."

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Each of these terms is correct and wrong, and it is likely that whatever term you use will at some point be corrected by somebody else to a term they think is more appropriate. The best thing to do i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"Settlers and migrants and the forcibly displanted get worried when Native people start talking about Land Back. What about their house? Where will they go? Unable to imagine any scenario other than w…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

"It isn't wrong to think about your ancestors, to hear their stories and understand where they came from. And if your ancestors have been in the United States or Canada for a long period of time, it i…"

-Patty Krawec, Becoming Kin: An Indigenous Call to Unforgetting the Past and Reimagining Our Future

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17. Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

By: Renee Linklater

4.46

Format: 176 pages, Paperback

In Decolonizing Trauma Work, Renee Linklater explores healing and wellness in Indigenous communitie… read more

Similar categories in Renee Linklater's Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies book and Renee Linklater's Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

  • race
  • counselling
  • social work
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • indigenous
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • self help
"Implying that realities are merely psychotic experiences or that they exist in a realm that is not legitimate disregards Indigenous belief systems, which value spiritual experiences and recognize the…"

-Renee Linklater, Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

"Duran argues for the need for healing institutions to retain culturally competent staff and that the adherence to strictly Western models of treatment maintains the colonization process. Hodge, Limb,…"

-Renee Linklater, Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

"It is widely recognized that Indigenous peoples are often not well served by Western treatment styles and those seeking help are often confronted with more alienation and traumatization. Sones et al.…"

-Renee Linklater, Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

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18. What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World

By: Prentis Hemphill

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

From one of the most prominent voices in the trauma conversation comes a groundbreaking new way to … read more

Similar categories in Prentis Hemphill's What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World book and Renee Linklater's Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

  • race
  • psychology
  • mental health
  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • anti racist
  • self help
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19. Queering Your Therapy Practice: Queer Theory, Narrative Therapy, and Imagining New Identities

By: Julie Tilsen

4.70

Format: 196 pages, ebook

Winner of the AASECT Book Award for General Audience 2022! Queering Your Therapy Practice: Queer T… read more

Similar categories in Julie Tilsen's Queering Your Therapy Practice: Queer Theory, Narrative Therapy, and Imagining New Identities book and Renee Linklater's Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

  • counselling
  • psychology
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20. Liberated to the Bone: Histories. Bodies. Futures. (Emergent Strategy)

By: Susan Raffo

4.51

Format: 264 pages, Paperback

Self-transformation requires social transformation. Social transformation requires self-transformat… read more

Similar categories in Susan Raffo's Liberated to the Bone: Histories. Bodies. Futures. (Emergent Strategy) book and Renee Linklater's Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

  • nonfiction
  • social justice
  • self help
Cover of Loving Corrections (Emergent Strategy #12) by Adrienne Maree Brown

21. Loving Corrections (Emergent Strategy #12)

By: Adrienne Maree Brown

4.53

Format: 203 pages, Kindle Edition

New York Times–bestselling author adrienne maree brown transcends binary thinking about "accountabi… read more

Similar categories in Adrienne Maree Brown's Loving Corrections (Emergent Strategy #12) book and Renee Linklater's Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies

  • nonfiction
  • social justice

9 best-selling self help books like Decolonizing Trauma Work: Indigenous Stories and Strategies by Renee Linklater

Transform Your Habits

In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction

Gabor Maté

4.49

Transform Your Habits

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture

Gabor Maté

4.32

Transform Your Habits

Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto

Tricia Hersey

4.08

Transform Your Habits

My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Mending of Our Bodies and Hearts

Resmaa Menakem

4.40

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15 Best psychology books like Queering Your Therapy Practice: Queer Theory, Narrative Therapy, and Imagining New Identities by Julie Tilsen

Transform Your Habits

ACT Made Simple: An Easy-to-Read Primer on Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Steven C. Hayes , Russ Harris

4.41

Transform Your Habits

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert

John M. Gottman , Nan Silver

3.97

Transform Your Habits

Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others

Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky , Connie Burk

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

Irvin D. Yalom

3.66

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