This page is a work in progress!

Bodywork

Suzan Postel, professional singer/dancer, has created a methodology of bodywork that is specific to singers and teachers working through chronic pain or just wanting to learn to use their bodies more efficiently. On her website, The Body Sings, "she tailors her sessions to meet the goals and needs of the individual, with particular focus on core strength, alignment, healthy body mechanics, breath control, injury prevention and rehabilitation.
Transform Emotional Release Therapy and Healing Center is a Houston-based practitioner who takes a hands-on approach for people processing heavy trauma that is trapped within the body.

The Voice and Trauma website can help with staying up-to-date with the ongoing research linking voice and trauma.

Bessel van der Kolk's The Body Keeps the Score is an excellent resource on how the body stores trauma and what that looks like years after the trauma has ended.
A resource book on the ways in which childhood abuse can affect you in adulthood, It's Not You, It's What Happened to You, by Christine A. Courtois, walks you through learning to recognize thought and behavior patterns and how to turn negative coping strategies around.
One of the most complete explanations and guides to learning to recognize negative thought and behavior patterns as they relate to past trauma, Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving, by Pete Walker, helps you learn to stop unwanted behaviors and thoughts in real time. It is also a great resource on how CPTSD occurs, giving explanations of triggers, flashbacks, and emotional flashbacks, and on how to retrain the brain and body to overcome debilitating symptoms of CPTSD.
Daring Greatly by Brené Brown
Rising Strong by Brené Brown
Braving the Wilderness by Brené Brown
Untamed by Glennon Doyle
A helpful resource on overt and covert emotional, physical, and sexual abuse inflicted by our parents, Toxic Parents, by Dr. Susan Forward, offers insight on how to talk to your parents about past abuse or painful experiences, how to set boundaries, and how to have compassion for yourself and for what your parents weren't able to give you.
Unfu*k Yourself by Gary John Bishop