Media Suggestions

Books

  • “The Journal of Best Practices: A Memoir of Marriage, Asperger Syndrome, and One Man's Quest to Be a Better Husband” by David Finch

  • “Three Little Words: A Memoir” by Ashley Rhodes-Courter

  • “A Beautiful Boy” by David Sheff

  • “Tweak: Growing Up on Amphetamines” by Nic Sheff

  • “The Leavers” by Lisa Ko

  • “Good Morning, Monster: A Therapist Shares Five Heroic Stories of Emotional Recovery” by Catherine Gildiner

  • “What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing” by Oprah Winfrey  and Bruce D. Perry 

  • “Bright Burning Things” by Lisa Harding

  • “This is All I Got” by Lauren Sandler

  • “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog” by Bruce D. Perry

  • “Demon Copperheard” by Barbara Kingsolver

Movies & TV

  • “Adolescence,” 2025, Netflix

  • “Maid,” 2021

  • "Paper Tigers," 2015

  • “Instant Family,” 2018

  • “They Have Names”,  a documentary film by AZCentral and The Arizona Republic that follows five families navigating Arizona's child welfare system, highlighting the human stories behind the numbers

Podcasts

  • NPR’s Fresh Air, “The Neuroscience of Addiction”

  • NPR, The Connection Between Early Childhood Experiences and Long Term Health

  • NPR, Adverse Childhood Experience Study

  • NPR, How Childhood Trauma Affects Adult Health