Editors Reads

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Healing

8 reading guides and book lists curated by the Editors Reads team.

8 posts

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Where to Start with Bessel van der Kolk: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Bessel van der Kolk — how to approach The Body Keeps the Score, his essential book on trauma. A complete reading guide to the trauma researcher.

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Where to Start with Brianna Wiest: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Brianna Wiest — how to approach The Mountain Is You, her essential exploration of self-sabotage and the psychology of self-defeat. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Laurie Halse Anderson: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Laurie Halse Anderson — how to approach Speak, her debut novel and landmark of YA literature about a ninth-grader rendered mute by an assault she cannot yet name, written in a fragmented first-person voice that mirrors trauma with precision. A complete reading guide.

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Where to Start with Rupi Kaur: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Rupi Kaur — whether to begin with milk and honey, the sun and her flowers, or home body. A complete reading guide to the bestselling poet.

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Best Books About Trauma and Survival: Fiction and Memoir

The best books about trauma and survival — from A Little Life and Beloved to The Body Keeps the Score and Shuggie Bain. Essential fiction and memoir.

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15 Books Like The Body Keeps the Score to Read Next

Finished The Body Keeps the Score? These 15 books on trauma, healing, resilience, and the relationship between mind and body continue the work of understanding how we carry our history.

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20 Books to Read After a Breakup

Books to read after a breakup: novels that make loneliness feel less alone, memoirs about rebuilding, and philosophy about what grief and loss can teach you about what actually matters.

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Where to Start with Louise Hay: A Reading Guide

Where to start with Louise Hay — how to approach You Can Heal Your Life, her bestselling guide to self-love and affirmation practice, arguing that changing thought patterns is the foundation of healing and transformation in every area of life. A complete reading guide.

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