Collective Trauma

Spiritual teacher Thomas Hübl has spent years investigating why it is that old and seemingly disconnected traumas can seed their way through communities and across generations. His work culminates in Healing Collective Trauma, a new perspective on trauma that addresses both its visible effects and its most hidden roots. Thomas combines deep knowledge of mystical traditions with the latest scientific research. "In this way", writes Thomas, "we are weaving a double helix between ancient wisdom and contemporary understanding". 

A grounded and mythical guidebook for coaches facilitating personal and collective trauma resolution. After working with hundreds of clients with complex, sexual, or systemic trauma, respected educator, coach, and author Rachael Maddox observed that there were seven core wounds her clients struggled to heal - but underneath each wound was a natural capacity longing to reawaken. 

In the last decade, contemporary psychoanalysis and empirical research have expanded the literature on epigenetics and what is called 'intergenerational transmission of trauma', referring to the way trauma is transmitted from generation to generation and held in our minds and bodies, sometimes in uncanny ways. Emotional Inheritance describes the many ways in which we can identify the ghosts of the past that hold us back and interfere with our lives.

When Dr. Tim Lewis was twenty-eight years old, his father shot his mother while she was sleeping in his childhood bedroom, and then he turned the gun on himself. As he sat in the hospital waiting room while his mother clung to her life, his friends and family seemed to have only one question for him: "Why?" This book is his attempt at an answer. While Daddy is the story of Dr. Lewis's trauma, substance abuse, and his lifelong dedication to PTSD research as a clinical psychologist, it turns out it is also the story of America and American men.

In Dismantling the 3rd Dimension, Antonia suggests that ancient trauma has solidified in our beings through thousands of years of human torment. This wounding is at the heart of our 3D state of separation - a density held within our own bodies that we often deny, avoid and repress, keeping it locked in place. To date, we have looked outward–to our lovers, our doctors, our spiritual leaders, and our families–to free us from our abandonment and rejection. But the myth of separation exists within our own bodies. As does our transcendence.

When your work is inextricable from your identity, your community, and your own liberation, you need a unique praxis of care to sustain it—and for mission-driven activists, organizers, and changemakers working under oppressive systems, making space to center vital needs like rest, self-care, and healthy boundaries isn’t as simple as clocking out. Practicing Liberation reorients collective justice work toward a model that transforms the effects of injustice, harm, and oppressive systems into resilience, joy, and community care.