Books
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Books
Lord Jesus, I offer myself for Your people. In any way. Any place. Any time.
John Sherrill • The Hiding Place
In order to overcome trauma people need to feel safe enough to open up their hearts and minds to others and become engaged with new possibilities. This can only be done if trauma survivors, and their communities, are helped to confront and confess the reality of what has happened and are helped to feel safe again. In many non-Western cultures this... See more
Bessel Van Der Kolk, M.D. • The Body Keeps The Score
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Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.
Bessel van der Kolk • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
In his 1905 essay “On Reading,” Marcel Proust puts it nicely: “With books there is no forced sociability. If we pass the evening with those friends—books—it’s because we really want to. When we leave them, we do so with regret and, when we have left them, there are none of those thoughts that spoil friendship: ‘What did they think of us?’—‘Did we... See more
Ceridwen Dovey • Can Reading Make You Happier? | the New Yorker
Gulliver's Travels (Wisehouse Classics Edition - with original color illustrations by Arthur Rackham)
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