BOOKS

Christina Hull writes the books she needed and could not find.

Parenting Beyond Survival Currently in Development

What happens when the parent needs to be held too?

Every parenting book tells you what to do. Almost none of them account for what is happening in your body while you are trying to do it. What happens when you are doing your best to stay present for your child while your own nervous system is fighting to survive?

Parenting Beyond Survival is a research-grounded, story-driven book that explores what happens at the impossible intersection of a parent's own trauma and their children's needs. It is not a parenting manual. It is not a self-help checklist. It is an honest, deeply human exploration of what it actually takes to stay connected to your child and yourself when everything in your nervous system is telling you to run, shut down, or fight back.

Rooted in polyvagal science, attachment theory, and trauma-informed practice, this book is for every parent who has ever felt like survival mode was the best they could offer and wondered if that was enough.

It is not a book about perfect parenting. It is a book about human parenting.

Beyond Labels: Reclaiming Humanity in Mental Health Currently in Development

A diagnosis can be a doorway. For many people it is the first time something that felt shameful finally has a name, and the relief of that is real. But a doorway is not a destination. And somewhere between the naming and the living, many people get stuck in the frame.

Beyond Labels is about what comes next.

This book is for anyone who has ever received a diagnosis and wondered whether it was the beginning of understanding or the ceiling of it. For clinicians who sense that the people they serve are larger than any category the field has created for them. For educators, advocates, and helpers who want to practice in a way that opens people up rather than narrows them down.

Drawing on neuroscience, somatic research, and years of clinical experience, Beyond Labels explores how we move from label to landscape, from a fixed description of what is wrong to a living understanding of what the nervous system learned, why it learned it, and what becomes possible when we approach it with curiosity instead of judgment.

You are not your diagnosis. You are a person whose nervous system responded to the world it was given. That is the beginning of a very different story.

And this book is about learning to tell it.