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AUTHOR'S SUGGESTED RESOURCES

Addiction

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

Vermillion, an imprint of Penguin Random House, 2010.


Rohr, Richard. Breathing Under Water: Spirituality and the Twelve Steps. 

Franciscan Media, 2021.

Forgiveness

Smedes, Lewis B. The Art of Forgiving: When You Need to Forgive and Don’t Know How. 

Random House, 1996.


Yancey, Philip. What’s So Amazing About Grace? 

Revised and Updated. Zondervan, 2023.

Health and Healing

Harding, MD, MPH, Kelli. The Rabbit Effect: Live Longer, Happier, and Healthier with the Groundbreaking Science of Kindness.

Simon and Schuster, 2019.

MDMA

Nuwer, Rachel. I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World.

Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.

Men's Groups

Illuman (illuman.org)

ManKind Project (mkpusa.org)

Order-Disorder-Reorder

Rohr, Richard. The Universal Christ: How a Forgotten Reality Can Change Everything We See, Hope For, and Believe. 

Convergent Books, 2019.

Shame

Brown, Brené. Men, Women, and Worthiness: The Experience of Shame and the Power of Being Enough.  Sounds True, Audible

Audiobook, 2013.

Trauma

Maté, MD, Gabor, with Daniel Maté. The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture. 

Penguin Random House, 2022.


Rohr, Richard, with Joseph Martos. “Father Hunger” and “The Father Wound.” In From Wild Man to Wise Man: Reflections on Male Spirituality. 

St. Anthony Messenger Press, 2005.


The Wisdom of Trauma. Directed by Maurizio Benazzo and Zaya Benazzo, featuring Gabor Maté, MD, 2021.

https://www.thewisdomoftrauma.com.

 

van der Kolk, Bessel, MD. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma. 

Penguin Random House, 2014.



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