Learning Resources Rooted in Dignity
Recommended Reading
My Grandmother’s Hands — Resmaa Menakem
Explores how trauma and oppression live in the body and nervous system, emphasizing embodied awareness and collective healing.
Unmasking Autism — Devon Price
Examines masking, internalized ableism, and authenticity across neurodivergent experiences.
NeuroTribes — Steve Silberman
Reframes neurodiversity historically and culturally, beyond deficit narratives.
Daring Greatly — Brené Brown
Explores vulnerability, courage, and shame resilience.
The Gifts of Imperfection — Brené Brown
Supports unlearning perfectionism and cultivating worthiness.
Atlas of the Heart — Brené Brown
Builds emotional language and understanding without pathologizing.
Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain — Zaretta Hammond
Connects culture, learning, and nervous system safety, widely used in educational and community settings.
Scattered Minds — Gabor Maté
Explores ADHD through a compassionate, relational, and trauma-informed lens.
Podcasts
The Neurodivergent Woman Podcast
Evidence-based, affirming discussions on ADHD, autism, trauma, and lived experience.
Trauma Rewired
Explains nervous system regulation, trauma responses, and healing through education.
ADHD for Smart Ass Women
Reframes ADHD through empowerment, identity, and self-trust.
Recommended TED Talks
Brené Brown — The Power of Vulnerability
Explores how shame, connection, and worthiness shape the human experience and how vulnerability supports belonging.
Brené Brown — Listening to Shame
Names shame as a universal experience and offers language for resilience without pathologizing.
Devon Price — Autism and the Cost of Masking (TEDx)
Examines masking, internalized ableism, and the impact of social expectations on identity.
Maria Milagros Vazquez — The Life-Changing Practice of Radical Acceptance (TEDxNatick)
This talk explores radical acceptance as a practice of meeting oneself with compassion rather than judgment.
Nadine Burke Harris – "How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime" (TED)
Connects ACEs, nervous system development, and long-term wellbeing.
Thomas Armstrong – "The Myth of the Normal Brain" (TEDx)
Challenges the idea of “normal” and promotes neurodiversity as natural variation.