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A living shelf of the books and writers that shape the conversations at the heart of One Sanctum — on trauma and healing, consciousness, and our shared world.

Essays

Lara’s writing on trauma, attachment, satiety, and the world we share — published on Substack.

When Calm Signals Threat
When Calm Signals Threat
Addiction, unsatisfied longing, and political extremism — all stemming from the same nervous system failure.
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The Pursuit of Satiety
The Pursuit of Satiety
A lifelong void for some — why, for some, the signal that says “enough” never comes.
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The Violence of Being Numb
The Violence of Being Numb
How the pharmaceutical industry is colonialism’s most elegant weapon — and what lies beneath.
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The Hunger That Burned the World
The Hunger That Burned the World
While men blaze the world alight, women are quietly walking away from the fire.
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On Medium
On the Afterlife of Transgenerational Trauma
On the Afterlife of Transgenerational Trauma
Freeing the flow of love when it has been frozen by trauma — and how family constellations reveal what a system hides.
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Resilience is an Expansion of Consciousness
Resilience is an Expansion of Consciousness
Inner strength, capacity and growth in an absurd world — eight dimensions of resilience.
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For Life on Earth Today
For Life on Earth Today
On intergenerational trauma, a family lost to the Holocaust, and the cost of looking away.
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From Our Faculty

The Myth of Normal
Gabor Maté
Trauma, illness, and healing in a culture that mistakes disconnection for health.
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts
Gabor Maté
A compassionate reframing of addiction as a response to pain, not a moral failing.
Truth Medicine
Michael Ryoshin Sapiro
Healing and living authentically through psychedelic psychotherapy — ancient contemplative wisdom meets clinical science.
The Battle for Compassion
Jonathan Leighton
Ethics for a world in turmoil — the case for a compassionate, suffering-focused morality.
Wilding
Isabella Tree
The Knepp experiment — what happens when land is allowed to return to itself.
Entheogens and the Future of Religion
Robert Forte (ed.)
Scholars and seekers on the sacred dimension of psychedelic experience.

On Trauma, Attachment & the Body

The Body Keeps the Score
Bessel van der Kolk
How trauma reshapes body and brain — and the paths toward repair.
Waking the Tiger
Peter Levine
Healing trauma through the body's own instinctual capacity to restore balance.
What Happened to You?
Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey
Shifting the question from what is wrong with us to what happened to us.
The Polyvagal Theory
Stephen Porges
The nervous system, safety, and the biology of connection.

Consciousness, Healing & the Sacred

How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
The new science of psychedelics and the frontiers of consciousness.
The Doors of Perception
Aldous Huxley
A classic meditation on perception, mind, and the mystical.
The Master and His Emissary
Iain McGilchrist
The divided brain and the making of the Western world.

Ecology & Our Common World

Braiding Sweetgrass
Robin Wall Kimmerer
Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants.
The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible
Charles Eisenstein
Reweaving the story of separation into one of interbeing.
Finding the Mother Tree
Suzanne Simard
The hidden, cooperative intelligence of forests.

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