We hope to be a resource for you during your healing journey. Below are some recommended sites, books, and apps to help you on your way.
Mindfulness is the practice of bringing attention to one's internal and external experiences in that moment, and beginning to practice accepting those experiences without judgement. Mindfulness often reduces stress, depression, anxiety and allows someone to eat intuitively. Mindfulness can also improve relationships, and retrain the body to react differently in response to stress. Mindfulness can be achieved in a number of ways including deep breathing, meditation, walking, group therapy, coloring, and other simple exercises that can bring about full awareness. Mindfulness can be for most people as there is no one correct way to be mindful, aware, and non-judgemental.
Trauma
No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz PhD
Healing the Fragmented Selves of Trauma Survivors: Overcoming Internal Self-Alientaion by Janina Fisher
Transcending Trauma by Dr. Frank Anderson
Mother Hunger by Kelly McDaniel
It Didn’t Start with You by Mark Wolynn
The Body Keeps Score by Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk
Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine
Parenting
Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids by Hunter Clarke-Fields
The Whole Brain Child by Dr. Daniel Siegel
Recommended Reading
Anxiety
Things Might Go Terribly, Horribly Wrong: A Guide to Life Liberated from Anxiety by Kelly Wilson PhD
Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
Attachment/Relationships
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find - And Keep - Love by Amire Levine and Rachel Heller
Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
Brainspotting
Brainspotting by David Grand PhD
Self-Compassion
Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff PhD
Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power and Thrive by Kristin Neff PhD
Substance Abuse
In the Realm of Hungry Ghost by Dr. Gabor Mate
The Wisdom to Know the Difference by Kelly Wilson PhD
Workbooks
The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook: A Proven Way to Accept Yourself, Build Inner Strength, and Thrive by Kristin Neff PhD and Christopher Germer PhD
Self-Therapy Workbook: An Exercise Book for The IFS Process by Bonnie Weiss LCSW
