resources
We want to share some of our go-to practices, tools, and resources. Take what you like and leave the rest, but keep checking back because we will continue to add new resources.
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Practices & Tools
National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
NAMI stands for National Alliance on Mental Illness. It's a nationwide organization that offers support, education, and advocacy for people and families affected by mental illness.
Polyvagal 101
This video will help you understand the autonomic nervous system and its constant efforts to keep us safe. This can help us more effectively navigate the daily challenges of life and relationships.
Brainspotting - What it is & When it’s Helpful
Brainspotting makes use of the natural phenomenon of where you look affects how you feel through its use of relevant eye positions.
RESOURCE Self Brainspotting
In this short video, you will learn how to find a resource in your body and do self-brainspotting. This practice is useful whether you feel calm and want to linger in that or you are upset and looking to calm and feel more regulated. Give it a try and see where it takes you.
Compassionate Body Scan
Body Settling guides you to let your body relax and find stillness, encouraging a comfortable and grounded state for meditation.
Tara Brach RAIN of Compassion Meditation
This talk explores three key features of the trance of unworthiness and introduces this guided meditation based on the acronym RAIN that awakens self-compassion and de-conditions the suffering of being at war with ourselves.
Insight Timer
Body Settling guides you to let your body relax and find stillness, encouraging a comfortable and grounded state for meditation.
Body Settling Practices
This video discusses body regulating practices, like rocking and swaying, to try when you're experiencing things like shutdown or fight or flight mode.
Self-Compassion
Recorded self- compassion practices designed to help you be with yourself in a healthy and supportive way.
Brené Brown
From workbooks and discussion guides to glossaries and checklists, here is a collection of tools that’ll take you deeper into our work—and help you make it your own.
Please note that these resources & practices are not a substitute for therapy.
Pod Casts, Websites & Books
My Grandmother's Hands by Resmaa Menakem
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Elizabeth Gilbert’s Letters from Love
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Greater Good Science Center
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What Happened to You by Bruce Perry and Oprah
Anchored by Deb Dana
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Trusting the Gold by Tara Brach
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On Being Project
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I am Her Tribe by Danielle Doby
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Unbound Tarana Burke