Other writing — Tara Westover

Here’s where I’ve stashed all my writing that isn’t academic and isn’t Educated. You’ll notice there’s not a lot of it :) The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk (also, listen to conversation with Bessel Van der Kolk and Ezra Klein that took place on The Ezra Klein Show, 8/24/21) Playing With Reality, by Donald Winnicott Trauma and Recovery and Truth and Repair by Judith Herman An Examined Life, by Stephen Grosz Are You My Mother?, by Alison Bechdel Codependent No More, Melody Beattie The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller (the title always makes me wince but it’s worth pushing through it) Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine with Ann Frederick Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors by Janina Fisher Internal Family Systems Therapy by Richard C. Schwartz and Martha Sweezy Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel S.F. Heller Three Essays on Religion by John Stuart Mill The Poetry of Self Compassion, a lecture by David Whyte, available here Why Be Happy

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