Books, Articles, and more
These are all my favorite books that may be able to support your therapeutic and mental health goals.
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The Body keeps the score
“The Body Keeps The Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma” By Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
This book is a wonderful read that sheds light on how trauma affects us, and how our understanding of trauma has developed.
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Attached
“Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How it Can Help You Find and Keep Love” by Amir Levine
If you are looking for an easy read about relationships that is based in research, but does not have the feel of a research paper, this book is for you!
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Body Love
Do you want to learn more about how nutrition can affect your day to day life and health? This one is for you!
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The Gift of Fear
“The Gift of Fear” by Gavin de Becker
This book explores the way we react to our gut instincts and why fear is a wonderful and adaptive emotion that we have. This book can be trigging for some, so take care of yourself through your read!
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The Whole Brained Child
A parenting must have! This book will walk you through ways to interact and parent your child that will help to foster their development.
Not into reading a whole book? Here are some short articles!
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The Right to Boundary
The Right To Boundary By Andrea Mathews
This article does a great job of defining what exactly are boundaries and how do why they are important.
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When Guilt Keeps you From Setting Boundaries
When Guilt Keeps you From Setting Boundaries By Ilene Strauss Cohen
Have you ever felt bad about telling someone no or found yourself doing something for someone so they don’t get upset? This article talks more about those very experiences!
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How to Manage Dissociating
How to Manage Dissociating By Jade Wu
Here is a great resource for people who often times feel “zoned out” or finding themselves with memory lapses in their day.
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5 Essential Strategies for Effective Communication
5 Essential Strategies for Effective Communication By Lori Katz
Communication is something that everyone could use some support with from time to time! This article gives some great strategies for improving healthy communication.
And here are some more links that might be very helpful in your therapeutic journey!
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Grounding techniques
Here is a link that lists 30 ideas for grounding techniques to try and use to help regulate your emotions and reactions.
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self care assessment tool
We all know self care is important, but it is sometimes hard to know what self care even is, or how to add it into your life. This might help!
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Cycle of Abuse
Have you experiences intimate partner violence or any other kind of abuse? This link can break down a common cycle that happens in abusive situations.
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Feelings inventory
Sometimes putting a name to the feeling can be hard so this is here to help!
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Needs Inventory
So you can name the feeling, but now what do you need to deal with that feeling? Here is a list to help you put a name to it!