Resources
TOP PICK BOOK:
HOLD ON TO YOUR KIDS, WHY PARENTS MATTER MORE THAN PEERS
DR GABOR MATE AND DR GORDON NEUFELD explain why a positive/supportive and validating parent/adult child attachment is crucial for a child’s healthy development – not only during the first years but throughout childhood and adolescence.
- The Body Keeps the Score. Mind, Brain and Body in the Transformation of Trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk, 2015. What causes people to continually relive what they most want to forget and what treatments could help restore them to a life with purpose and joy? In this audiobook, Dr Bessel van der Kolk offers a new paradigm for effectively treating traumatic stress. Neither talking nor drug therapies have proven entirely satisfactory. With stories of his work and those of specialists around the globe, The Body Keeps the Score sheds new light on the routes away from trauma, which lie in the regulation and syncing of body and mind, using sport, drama, yoga, mindfulness, meditation and other routes to equilibrium.
- Polyvagal Prompts: Finding Connection and Joy through Guided Exploration by Deb Dana & Courtney Rolfe, 2024. This interactive guide invites readers to explore their nervous systems through Polyvagal Theory using engaging questions and exercises. Designed for both personal reflection and therapeutic settings, the prompts help individuals notice, listen to, and reflect on their physiological states, fostering emotional regulation and connection.
- Helping You to Identify and Understand AUTISM MASKING by Emma Kendall, 2020. The author was diagnosed with ASD in her early thirties. Emma describes her struggles at school and work, trying to maintain her social persona and starting to fall into a state of self-destruction. Later on in life, she describes how her diagnosis and strong family bonds helped her feel like her true self and happy.
- Parenting ASD TEENS by Andrew Schlegelmilch, 2014 – “This is stuff we as parents and professionals need to know!” (Luby Aczel, parent of a son with ASD and Executive Director of The Specialists Guild)
- The Let Them Theory (Mel Robbins, 2025)
- Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia (Hadley Freeman, 2023)
- Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder (Gabor Maté, 2022)
- Mindset – Changing the way you think to fulfil your potential (Carol Dweck, 2017)
- Authentic Happiness (Martin Seligman, 2017)
- Developing Resilience (Michael Neenan, 2017)
- The skill of self-confidence / Ted Talk Dr Ivan Joseph (Link)
- What makes a good life? Ted Talk Robert Waldinger (Link)
Journals for Adults
- Do It For Your Self (Kara Cutruzzela & Tessa Forrest, 2024)
- Hold On, Let Me Overthink This (Anxiety Journal, 2023)
- Journal Like a Stoic (Brittany Polat, 2022)
For children
- MUD BOY (Sarah Siggs, Illustrated by Amy Crosby, 2023)
- Be Mindful of Monsters (Lauren Stockly, 2022)
- The Calm Down Jar (Jennifer Jones, 2021)
- My Behaviour and Emotions Library: 20-Book Set (Jasmine Brooke)
- The Colour Monster: A Pop-Up Book of Feelings (Anna Llenas, 2018)
- My Body Sends a Signal (Natalie Maguire, 2022)
- Sussed Card Games: The Family Personality Quiz (2-10 players)
- The HUGE BAG of WORRIES (Virginia Ironside, 2011)
- The Invisible Boy (Trudy Ludwig, 2013)
- Marlene Marlene Queen of Mean (Jane Lynch, 2014)
- Write and Draw Your Own Comics (Louie Stowell, 2014)
My Thoughts & Feelings Journal: Help Kids To Express Emotions, Practice Mindfulness, Gratitude & Positivity! (Cherry & Pickle Publishing, 2021)
Autism Related Books
- Empowering Children on the Autism Spectrum Disorder (Lauren Varela, 2022)
- Daily Triumphs for Children with Autism (Lauren Varela, 2022)
- Asperger’s Rules!: How to make sense of school and friends (Blythe Grossberg, 2012)
