When I first began therapy, my therapist recommended Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter Levine. This book, somewhat of a classic in the trauma field, helped me understand trauma, the body and mind's natural response to traumatic events, and how we can "freeze" and become stuck in trauma. This was useful to me from the point of providing better self knowledge. The book also has exercises on how to heal trauma, but at that time, I did not use them, I mainly benefited from this book by increasing my knowledge, so I can't say if the exercises are helpful. (This is not a workbook.) However, I recommend this book. It gave me greater insight. Here is the review of the Amazon site:

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Waking the Tiger offers a new and hopeful vision of trauma. It views the human animal as a unique being, endowed with an instinctual capacity. It asks and answers an intriguing question: why are animals in the wild, though threatened routinely, rarely traumatized? By understanding the dynamics that make wild animals virtually immune to traumatic symptoms, the mystery of human trauma is revealed.

Waking the Tiger normalizes the symptoms of trauma and the steps needed to heal them. People are often traumatized by seemingly ordinary experiences. The reader is taken on a guided tour of the subtle, yet powerful impulses that govern our responses to overwhelming life events. To do this, it employs a series of exercises that help us focus on bodily sensations. Through heightened awareness of these sensations trauma can be healed.

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Now that I am a year and a half into therapy, I think it would be interesting to go back and reread this book.