Trauma & PTSD

What My Bones Know — Stephanie Foo

Best for: Complex PTSD, childhood trauma, and healing.

Journalist Stephanie Foo combines memoir, research, and her own experience in therapy to explore complex PTSD and the long-term effects of childhood trauma. It is especially engaging for people trying to understand why the past keeps affecting relationships, self-esteem, and emotional life in the present.

What Happened to You? — Bruce D. Perry and Oprah Winfrey

Best for: Understanding how early experiences shape the way we respond to the world.

Rather than asking, “What is wrong with you?” this book encourages readers to consider, “What happened to you?” Through conversation and clinical examples, it offers an accessible introduction to trauma, development, and the ways our nervous systems adapt to experience.