From My Desk.

• The Self-Reclamation Project: A Trauma-Informed Roadmap to Healing & Narcissistic Abuse Recovery | By Kendra Wagner, RP 
  I created The Self-Reclamation Project as a structured, compassionate roadmap for individuals navigating antagonistic, narcissistic, or toxic relational systems. Grounded in trauma-informed care and attachment-based principles, this workbook offers practical exercises, reflective prompts, and actionable strategies to help you rebuild self-trust, establish firm boundaries, and reclaim your voice and true self.
  Grab your copy on Amazon | Explore the project page here on my site
   

Internal Family Systems and Inner Child Healing.

Connecting with the vulnerable parts of yourself, understanding protective behaviours, and rebuilding self-compassion.

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• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness | By Richard Schwartz, PhD

  How This Supports The Journey: Offers a gentle introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) that helps shift your inner dialogue from self-criticism to self-compassion. You’ll learn how to understand your protective behaviours and connect with wounded parts of yourself with curiosity and care.

• How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self | By Dr. Nicole LePera
  How This Supports The Journey: Provides an accessible, holistic approach to self-healing that connects mind, body, and nervous system health. It offers practical tools to help you identify automatic subconscious loops, understand how trauma lives in the body, and step out of survival mode.

• How to Meet Your Self: The Self-Healing Workbook | By Dr. Nicole LePera
  How This Supports The Journey: Serves as a hands-on, interactive resource focused on active reparenting. It provides daily prompts and reflective exercises to help you identify unfulfilled emotional needs, cultivate self-compassion, and practice showing up for yourself in real time.
   

Narcissistic Abuse Recovery and Complex Relational Dynamics.

Validating your reality, untangling gaslighting, and reclaiming your power after relational trauma.
 

• "It's Not You": Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People | By Dr. Ramani Durvasula

  How This Supports The Journey: Delivers deep validation for your lived experience alongside a clear breakdown of antagonistic relationship dynamics. This book offers essential insights for breaking free from self-doubt, gaslighting, and the ongoing confusion of toxic systems.

• Why Does He Do That? Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men | By Lundy BancroftHow This Supports The Journey: Offers an eye-opening look into coercive control, entitlement, and emotional manipulation. It provides clarity on subtle or minimized relationship dynamics to help you break through self-doubt and trust your reality.

• Healing from Hidden Abuse: A Journey Through the Stages of Recovery from Psychological Abuse | By Shannon Thomas, LCSW

  How This Supports The Journey: Gives clear language to identify covert, non-physical psychological abuse, alongside a structured, step-by-step framework to guide you from target to survivor.

• On my must-read list: Fawning: How the Need to Please Makes Us Lose Ourselves | By Dr. Ingrid Clayton
  How This Supports The Journey: Unpacks the "fawn" trauma response—using people-pleasing, boundary suppression, and appeasement as survival strategies in toxic or controlling relationships. It offers a compassionate guide to breaking free from self-abandonment and safely reclaiming your authentic voice.
   

Attachment and Relational Healing.

Understanding your attachment style, navigating relational anxiety, and cultivating earned security.

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• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - and Keep - Love | By Amir Levine, MD & Rachel Heller, MA

  How This Supports The Journey: Offers an introduction to adult attachment theory. You’ll gain insight into your specific attachment style (anxious, avoidant, or secure), understand your relational triggers, and learn how to navigate relationships with greater security.

• On my must-read list: Healing Developmental Trauma: How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship | By Laurence Heller, PhD & Aline LaPierre, PsyD
  How This Supports The Journey: Explores how early relational and developmental trauma shapes our nervous system, self-worth, and capacity for connection. It offers a compassionate framework for understanding core survival styles, resolving deep-seated patterns of self-blame, and restoring a felt sense of agency and connection.

• On my must-read list: Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship | By Stan Tatkin, PsyD
  How This Supports The Journey: Offers a psychobiological approach to relationships, combining attachment theory and neuroscience. It provides practical exercises to help couples (and individuals) understand how fear and threat responses show up in romantic bonds, offering a roadmap for creating mutual safety, co-regulation, and earned security.
   

​Parenting, Perinatal and Intergenerational Cycles.

Cultivating connected relationships, breaking old scripts, and parenting from a place of regulation.

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• Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids: How to Stop Yelling and Start Connecting | By Dr. Laura Markham, PhD
  How This Supports The Journey: Delivers practical, actionable tools for managing your own emotional regulation as a parent so you can shift from fear-based discipline to deep, connective parenting.

• Good Inside: A Guide to Becoming the Parent You Want to Be | By Dr. Becky Kennedy

  How This Supports The Journey: Shares compassionate, attachment-based strategies for holding firm boundaries while supporting your child's emotional world - and honouring your own needs alongside theirs.

• Brain-Body Parenting: How to Stop Managing Behaviors and Start Raising Joyful, Resilient Kids | By Dr. Mona Delahooke

  How This Supports The Journey: Provides a neurodiversity-affirming perspective that shifts the focus from behaviour management to nervous system safety and co-regulation, helping both you and your child build lasting emotional resilience.