Nov 2024 BOTM: poll closed > Likes and Comments

Please post here to nominate books for the November 2025 book-of-the-month (BOTM). Must have at least 500 ratings and be remotely related to trauma and/or dissociation. Can be scholarly, or shoot from the hip opinion, non-fiction, fiction (maybe ... we did Slaughterhouse 5), memoir, etc.

Just post TITLE by AUTHOR.

The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture
by Gabor Maté (2022)

Childhood Disrupted: How Your Biography Becomes Your Biology, and How You Can Heal
by Donna Jackson Nakazawa (2015)

The Pocket Guide to the Polyvagal Theory: The Transformative Power of Feeling Safe
By Stephen W. Porges (2013)

Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship by Laurence Heller (2012)

I’m switching to 3 months per read. We’ll still start one every month.

I like the idea of every 3 months. For me, now that November is here I'm stepping back for the next couple months to deal with the usual uptick of the holidays. :)

Poll closed. We had a tie, which usually I break by whichever book got to the number of votes first of the tied candidates. This one got 1 vote first. I did listen to 5 minutes of each book. Didn't help much. Did watch a bit of YouTube videos from each author. I opted for the Polyvagal Theory book.