In an effort to guide natural healers toward more trauma sensitive offerings, Elizabeth Guthrie explores what it takes to be effective with plant medicine in a trauma informed space.

Elizabeth expertly weaves discussions around complementary practices and polyvagal theory, trauma sensitive accommodations, and more.

Written for healers and laypersons alike, The Trauma Informed Herbalist encourages us to turn to the plants as complementary medicine. It also invites us to be more mindful and compassionate toward one another. Begin your journey toward healing trauma for yourself, your family, and your community.

This comprehensive guide is useful for anyone, from beginners to experienced practitioners, seeking up-to-date information. It’s an indispensable guide to finding, harvesting, and working with the wild medicinal plants of Alaska, British Columbia, Washington, Oregon, and Northern California.

It includes plant profiles, high-quality color photographs, step-by-step instructions for making herbal remedies, and a detailed overview of wildcrafting techniques. It has sold over 40,000 copies and is used by herb schools and students of natural healing all across the Pacific Northwest.

Achieve Wellness with 100 Medicinal Plants! Learn to make teas, tinctures, salves & syrups. Treatments for common health concerns.

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk, one of the world’s foremost experts on trauma, has spent over three decades working with survivors. In The Body Keeps the Score, he uses recent scientific advances to show how trauma literally reshapes both body and brain, compromising sufferers’ capacities for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust. He explores innovative treatments—from neurofeedback and meditation to sports, drama, and yoga—that offer new paths to recovery by activating the brain’s natural neuroplasticity. Based on Dr. van der Kolk’s own research and that of other leading specialists, The Body Keeps the Score exposes the tremendous power of our relationships both to hurt and to heal—and offers new hope for reclaiming lives.

This classic guide which has helped many people move beyond loss and towards recovery, has been expanded in this special 20th anniversary edition. The new material includes guidelines for choosing which loss to work on first and specific instruction for dealing with loss of health, career, faith, and much more.

Incomplete recovery from grief can have a lifelong negative effect on the capacity for happiness. Drawing from their own histories as well as from others’, the authors illustrate how it is possible to recovery from grief and regain energy and spontaneity. Based on a proven program, The Grief Recovery Handbook offers grievers the specific actions needed to move beyond loss.

New material in this edition includes:

• Loss of faith

• Loss of career and financial issues

• Loss of health

• Growing up in an alcoholic or dysfunctional home