Support & Education
Healing Resources
On this page you will find a curated list of trauma-informed resources for further exploration — books, videos, podcasts, and local support across the Treasure Valley.
If you are in crisis or you think you may have an emergency, call your doctor or 911 immediately. If you're having suicidal thoughts visit this website to talk to a skilled, trained counselor at a crisis center in your area at any time.
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Explore
Learn & Explore
Books, documentaries, podcasts, and websites to deepen your understanding of trauma, the nervous system, and the path toward healing.
Books
- The Body Awareness Workbook for Trauma
- The Artist's Way
- From Triggered to Tranquil: How Self-Compassion and Mindful Presence Can Transform Relationship Conflicts and Heal Childhood Wounds
- When Things Fall Apart
- Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory
- The Brain's Way of Healing: Remarkable Discoveries and Recoveries from the Frontiers of Neuroplasticity
- The Trauma of Everyday Life
- Bouncing Back: Rewiring Your Brain for Maximum Resilience & Wellbeing
- Into the Heart of the Feminine
- The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Adversity
- The Power of Attachment
- Healing Developmental Trauma
- Healing Collective Trauma
- Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of the Body
- Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma
- When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
- Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder
- The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture
- My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies
- Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
- What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing
- Born for Love: Why Empathy Is Essential—and Endangered
- Women Who Run With the Wolves
- How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
- Humanual: An Epic Journey to Your Expanded Self
- The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders
- The Post Traumatic Growth Guidebook
- Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Discovering Your True Self Through Internal Family Systems Therapy
- No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model
- The Developing Mind
- Intraconnected
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
- Singing to the Darkness
- It Didn't Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle
Videos / Documentaries / Podcasts
- Attachment, with Janelle Stauffer — Owner & Director of The Resiliency Center of Idaho (Podcast)
- Adverse Childhood Experiences: a short video explaining toxic stress (KPJR Films)
- How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime (TED Talk, Nadine Burke Harris)
- Is Your Story Making You Sick?
- Oprah Reports on Childhood Trauma's Long-Term Effects
- Paper Tigers: One High School's Unlikely Success Story
- Professor Julianne Holt-Lunstad on the Amazing Impact of Social Relationships on Health and Longevity (Podcast)
- Resilience: The Biology of Stress and the Science of Hope
- Trauma & The Nervous System: A Polyvagal Perspective
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Community
Local Support in Idaho
Trauma advocacy initiatives and trauma-informed practitioners and wellness providers serving the Treasure Valley.
Idaho Trauma Advocacy Projects
Trauma-Informed Care & Healing Resources in the Treasure Valley
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Safety
Crisis & Safety
If you or someone you love is in crisis, these lines and resources are available right now.
LGBTQ+ Suicide Prevention Resources
- Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: 988
- Crisis Text Line: Text TALK or AYUDA to 741741
- Trans Lifeline: 1-877-565-8860
- The Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386
- SAGE LGBT Elder Hotline: 1-877-360-LGBT (5428)
- The LGBT National Hotline: 1-888-843-4564
Emergency Support
- Suicide Support: call 988
- Boise Area Community Crisis Center
- Domestic Violence Hotline (24 hr): 208-343-7025
- PTSD Coach Mobile App