Resources
We recommend the following resources for learning more about attachment, raising children from hard places, trauma, and overall brain development.
Books for Families
The Connected Child
Healing Parents
Attaching Through Love, Hugs, and Play
Attaching In Adoption
Safe House: How Emotional Safety Is the Key to Raising Kids Who Live, Love, and Lead Well
Wounded Children Healing Homes
The Circle of Security Intervention
Raising a Secure Child
Gathering the Missing Pieces In An Adopted Life
Twenty Things Adopted Children Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew
The Out-of-Sync Child: Recognizing and Coping with Sensory Processing Disorder
Getting to Calm: Cool-Headed Strategies for Parenting Tweens + Teens
Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul
Touchpoints-Birth to Three
Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child
Playful Parenting
The Science of Parenting Adopted Children: A Brain-Based, Trauma-Informed Approach to Cultivating Your Child’s Social, Emotional and Moral Development
Books on Attachment Theory for Adult Learning
The Connected Parent
A Secure Base
Attachments: Why You Love, Feel, and Act the Way You Do
Anatomy of the Soul
God Attachment
The Body Keeps the Score
Books for Children
God Found Us You
I Wished For You
I’ve Loved You Since Forever
Tell Me Again About the Night I Was Born
Yes, I’m Adopted
We Belong Together
Rosie’s Family
Over the Moon
The Day We Met You
How I Was Adopted
I Don’t Have Your Eyes
The Mulberry Bird
All Bears Need Love
Red in the Flower Bed
My New Mom and Me
Lamb-a-Roo
A Mother for Coco
Just Really Joseph