most of us need to read this. even if you don't think you have cptsd, or ptsd, you should probably just read the book.
the hard part of recommending this one is part 1 is a fairly intense trauma history of the author's childhood so....rough. but she also says in her author's note at the beginning that you can skip it, which i can attest to - i didn't skip it but none of it is specifically relevant to the therapeutic knowledge and guidance she received and shares in the subsequent parts of the book.