Resources

Recommended Resources

This is a partial list of recommended resources covering a variety of topics. It is my hope that you can find something helpful here!

Hotlines and Help

• Psychology Today: Find a therapist or psychologist in your area.
• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: Call 1-800-273-8255 if you are having thoughts of suicide or self-harm. You are loved and the world needs you!
• The Trevor Project: LGBTQ+ and Youth Suicide and Crisis Hotline. Call 1-866-488-7386.
• RAINN: National Sexual Assault Hotline. Call 1-800-656-HOPE. We believe you and you are not alone.
• National Domestic Violence Hotline: Call 1-800-799-7233. Learn more about what constitutes Domestic Violence here.
• National Organization for Victim Assistance: Help for crime and crisis victims.
• National Child Abuse Hotline: Call 1-800-4-A-CHILD.
• Trans Lifeline: Trans-led trans support improving quality of life and combating suicide. Call 877-565-8860. Also offers microgrants and support for name changes and updated IDs.
• Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA): Call 1-800-662-4357. Provides referrals to local treatment facilities, support groups, and organizations.
• Alcoholics Anonymous: Find a meeting and support in your area.
• Grief Resource Network: Offers resources for those in crisis due to the loss of a loved one. Also offers additional hotlines and resources for a variety of situations here.
• Additional Resources for Assault and Abuse Survivors and Their Loved Ones: RAINN’s Extensive Resources List. Includes resources for Sexual Assault, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Incest, Stalking, Survivors with Disabilities, College Students, Male Survivors, LGBTQ+ Survivors, Human Trafficking, Military, Legal Resources, Health, and Sexual Assault Prevention.

Recommended Apps

• Breethe: Meditation app with a 3-month daily program that teaches you how to meditate and offer good perspectives. Meditation is not about clearing your mind – it is about cultivating awareness and bringing yourself back to the present moment each time your mind wanders off, no matter how often. This app also offers a wide variety of situational meditations, sleep support, hypnotherapy, and interesting talks. The “Headaches” meditation is a life-saver for migraines!
• Healthy Minds: Free meditation app with short podcast-style teachings on mindfulness and daily guided mindfulness practices for both seated meditations and active meditations.
• Calm Harm: This app helps you in moments of self-harm.
• Clear Fear: This app helps you in moments of anxiety, fear, and panic.
• Libby: Input your library card information and get access to your library’s extensive catalogue of audiobooks and ebooks.

Recommended Reading

Spiritual and Self Development

• Brené Brown: Daring Greatly; Rising Strong; Braving the Wilderness; Dare to Lead; Atlas of the Heart; and more
• Matt Kahn: Whatever Arises, Love That; All for Love; The Universe Always Has a Plan; Everything is Here to Help You
• Jon Kabat-Zinn: Meditation Is Not What You Think; Wherever You Go, There You Are; The Healing Power of Mindfulness; Full Catastrophe Living; and more
• The Book of Forgiving by Desmond Tutu and Mpho Tutu
• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
• Dr. Joe Dispenza: You Are the Placebo; Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself; Becoming Supernatural
• The Biology of Belief by Dr. Bruce Lipton
• You Can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay
• Set Boundaries, Find Peace by Nedra Glover Tawwab
• The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
• The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz
• Meet Your Soul by Elisa Romeo
• A Return to Love by Marianne Williamson
• Homecoming by Thema Bryant, PhD
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
• Pema Chödrön
• Tara Brach: Radical Acceptance; Radical Compassion; True Refuge
• Inward by Yung Pueblo
• The Wild Woman’s Way by Michaela Boehm
• Conversations with God by Neale Donald Walsch
• Flourish by Martin E. P. Seligman
• Call of the Wild by Kimberly Ann Johnson
• The Highly Sensitive Person by Elaine Aron
• Finding Your Own North Star by Martha Beck
• The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks
• Ram Dass
• Heart Minded by Sarah Blondin
• Quiet by Susan Cain
• Fierce Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff
• The Myth of Normal by Gabor Maté, MD and Daniel Maté
• Heart Talk by Cleo Wade
• A Renaissance of Our Own by Rachel E. Cargle

Energy Healing

• Energy Medicine by Donna Eden
• The Emotion Code by Dr. Bradley Nelson
• The Energy Codes by Dr. Sue Morter
• The Field by Lynne McTaggart

Psychic Development

• Signs by Laura Lynne Jackson
• Mediumship by Gordon Smith
• Trust Your Vibes by Sonia Choquette, Ph.D.
• Animal Lessons by Danielle MacKinnon
• The Gifts Beneath Your Anxiety by Pat Longo
• Sensitive is the New Strong by Anita Moorjani

Past Lives

• Dr. Brian Weiss: Many Lives, Many Masters; Miracles Happen; Messages from the Masters; Same Soul, Many Bodies; Through Time Into Healing; and more

Relationships

• It Didn’t Start With You by Mark Wolynn
• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Dr. Lindsay Gibson
• Dr. Sue Johnson: Hold Me Tight; Love Sense
• Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski
• Attached by Amir Levine, M.D. and Rachel S. F. Heller, M.A.
• Mother Hunger by Kelly McDaniel
• The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish

Social Justice

• How To Be An Antiracist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi
• How the Word Is Passed by Clint Smith
• The Inner Work of Racial Justice by Rhonda V. Magee
• Mindful of Race by Ruth King
• The Person You Mean To Be by Dolly Chugh
• Untamed by Glennon Doyle
• I’m Still Here by Austin Channing Brown
• Me and White Supremacy by Layla F. Saad
• Do Better: Spiritual Activism for Fighting and Healing from White Supremacy by Rachel Ricketts
• The Sum of Us by Heather McGhee
• Rest is Resistance by Tricia Hersey
• My Grandmother’s Hands by Resmaa Menakem

Miscellaneous

• Change Your Schedule, Change Your Life by Dr. Suhas Kshirsagar
• The Sleep Solution by W. Chris Winter, M.D.
• How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis
• The Grieving Brain by Mary-Frances O’Connor
• Brain Wash by David Perlmutter
• We Should All Be Millionaires by Rachel Rodgers
• Tiny But Mighty by Hannah Shaw

Recommended Viewing

• The 9 Attitudes of Mindfulness: By Jon Kabat Zinn; watch on Youtube
• Heal: Watch on Netflix
• Brene Brown: The Call to Courage: Watch on Netflix

Additional Resources

• VerySoul: Ethical Evidential Mediumship for all
• Palouse Mindfulness: Free 8-week Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Course
• The Tapping Solution: Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) or tapping
• Highly Intuitive Kids: Support and resources for highly intuitive kids and their caregivers
• The ‘Whatever Arises, Love That’ Course by Matt Kahn
• Meditation for Optimum Health by Dr. Andrew Weil and Jon Kabat-Zinn