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TRAUMA AND RESILIENCE RESOURCES

Everyone’s recovery journey is different. Here are books, podcasts and organizations that helped Geralyn in her recovery and may help you.

My barn having burned down, I can now see the moon.

JULIA ALVAREZ, CELEBRATED
DOMINICAN-AMERICAN WRITER

BOOKS – SURVIVOR STORIES

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REYNOLDS PRICE

A Whole New Life

New York: Scribner, 1982

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KATE BOWLER 

Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I’ve Loved

New York: Random House, 2018

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TRAVIS RIEDER

 In Pain: A Bioethicist’s Personal Struggle with Opioids

New York: HarperCollins, 2019

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COLLEEN KELLY ALEXANDER 

Gratitude in Motion

New York: Hachette, 2018

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MATT LONG

The Long Run

New York: Rodale Books, 2011

BOOKS – JOY AND HEALING

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BSTAN-’DZIN-RGYA-MTSHO, DALAI LAMA XIV, DESMOND TUTU, DOUGLAS ABRAMS

The Book of Joy: Lasting Happiness in a Changing World

New York: Avery, 2016

BOOKS – THE SCIENCE OF TRAUMA, PAIN AND RESILIENCE

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LAURENCE GONZALES

Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience

New York: Norton, 2012

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MELANIE THERNSTORM 

The Pain Chronicles: Cures, Myths, Mysteries, Prayers, Diaries, Brain Scans, Healing, and the Science of Suffering

New York: Picador, 2010

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BESSEL VAN DER KOLK

The Body Keeps the Score

New York: Viking, 2014

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LINDA HOOPES

Prosilience: Building your Resilience for a Turbulent World

Data Press, 2017

Do not judge me by my success, judge me by how many times I fell down and got back up again.

NELSON MANDELA

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ABOUT GERALYN

Geralyn wrote her memoir, Bone by Bone, in hopes of helping other survivors of traumatic injury—as well as their families and caregivers. Inspired by her own feelings of loneliness during her recovery and efforts to connect with other survivors, Geralyn shares her story as a deeply personal attempt to salvage a shred of something positive from the disaster. Her lessons learned during an arduous recovery are inspiring and told with both honesty and humility. She is unique in her ability to find humor in even the darkest situations and to highlight some of the absurdities of the medical and insurance system that survivors of complex trauma must navigate.

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I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

MAYA ANGELOU

ORGANIZATIONS

TRAUMA 
SURVIVORS NETWORK

AMERICAN

TRAUMA SOCIETY

THE NATIONAL

ALLIANCE FOR CAREGIVING

FAMILY

CAREGIVER ALLIANCE

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