Resources to support you making art after trauma
Provided by Julie Kotler, LCPAT, LCPC, ATR-BC
Books:
Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay Gibson
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Kolk
The Eldest Daughter Effect by Lisette Schuitemaker and Weis Enthoven
How to Do the Work by Nicole LePera
It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn
It’s Not Your Fault by Alex Howard
My Grandma’s Hands by Reesma Menakem
The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté
No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz
To Be Loved by Frank Anderson, MD
Transcending Trauma by Frank Anderson, MD
What Happened to You? by Bruce Perry and Oprah Winfrey
What My Bones Know by Stephanie Foo
Websites:
The Compassion Practice, compassionify.com
Crisis & Trauma Resource Institute, ctrinstitute.com/resources
Dr. Gabor Maté YouTube channel Self-Compassion by Dr. Kristen Neff, self-compassion.org
Mindful, mindful.org (“Just Like Me”)
Podcasts:
Complex Trauma Recovery, Kina Penelope
Counselor Toolbox Podcast with DocSnipes
Healing Trauma, the Trauma Institute
The Healing Trauma Podcast, Monique Koven
IFS Talks, Aníbal Henriques, Tisha Shull & Alexia Rothman
Therapy Chat, Laura Reagan
Trauma Rewired: Neurology & Somatic Healing, Jennifer Wallace & Elisabeth Kristof
Trauma Therapist, Guy Macpherson
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An annual art and literary journal that explores how trauma manifests, transforms, and is held inside us.
Tendrils: Trauma & the Body, Issue 1, is an independent art and literary journal that brings together contemporary visual art and short-form literature, exploring how trauma manifests, transforms, and is held inside us.
This first edition features over 60 works selected from more than 1,500 submissions. The artists and writers included here approach trauma from many angles: bold and quiet, surreal and humorous, personal and ancestral. Instead of offering resolution, these pages invite you to pause, witness, and stay with what is present.
This is a printed journal meant to be held. To be returned to. To sit beside you.
What you’ll find inside:
66+ pages of curated visual art, poetry, and short‑form prose
Work by artists and writers creating from lived experience
A trauma‑informed editorial approach rooted in care and respect
Guidance and creative reflection prompts from a licensed therapist
Full‑color, perfect‑bound print edition
Each piece was chosen not for clarity or ease, but for what lingered.
Featuring work by:
Leah King
Bruce Morrow
Naila Francis
Shelby Hubbard
M. Lopes da Silva
Megan Mosholder & David Clifton-Strawn
Sasha Kelly Jackson
Juanita Cox
Bolu Adeniran
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nat raum
Annika Klein
Amanda Quaid
Marie McCarty
Leslie Holt
Sandra Kluge
Nia “Newt” Pipkin-Glover
Ira Joel Haber
Jan Freeman
Lisa Wilde
Rama AlFarkh
Carol D Guerrero-Murphy
Joanna Hoge
Kristy Snedden
Erick Alejandro Hernández
izzy bulling
Livia Garofalo
S Maxfield
Sarah Bachinger
Teresa Camozzi
Estelle Lewis
Federico Muelas
Chanika Svetvilas
Victoria Barnes
Sheldon Wong
Theda Sandiford
Pauline Chu
Bo (Boram) Kim
Peppa
Sam Grabowska
Hazel Yan
Diana Raab
Aiyana Sha’niel
Olivia Laura
Sarah E. Brook
Richard LeBlond
Shelby Fleming
Regina Berg
Daun Daemon
Maudie Bryant
Heather Beardsley & Alexandra Carter
Angie Meche Kilcullen
Dana Donaty
Neha Misra
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Jacqueline Yvonne Tull
Oriada Dajko
Nakemiah “Kiki” Williams
Annette Gagliardi
Alex Younger
Elijah Angelo Chavez
Bring Tendrils home
Witness, reflect, and fall in love with over 60 works of trauma-informed visual art and short-form literature that asks what is Trauma and the Body.