Resources
Starting Therapy & General Wellness
- Blog: How to be Your Own Therapist
- 19 Critical Ways to Save You from Yourself
- 14 Benefits of Paying More Attention To Your Feelings
- Where Emotions Are Felt in the Body
- Assertiveness Workbook
- Video: What is an Emotionally Healthy Childhood?
- HW Blog: What is Self-Acceptance and Emotional Health
- Dr. Jonice Webb: Raised By Emotionally Neglectful Parents: 17 Signs to Look For
- How to Exercise Yourself Happy
- 7 Ways to Manage Stress
- What You Should Think About to Fall Asleep Faster
- Avoidance, not anxiety may be sabotaging your life
- Your life is not a story: Why narrative thinking holds you back
Mindfulness
- Blog and Meditation Resources List: Developing a Mindfulness Practice
- 19 Techniques to Calm a Highly Sensitive Nervous System
- Longer Exhalations Are a Hack for the Vagus Nerve
- How to Reclaim Your Attention: Decluttering your Digital Life and Taking Charge of Distractions
Self-Compassion
- Chart: Shame Reactions
- RECOMMENDED: Blog: How to Improve Self-Worth with Self-Compassion
- RECOMMENDED: Psyche: Self-Compassion Overview
- RECOMMENDED: CNN Anderson Cooper Interviews Dr. Chris Germer: 28-minute version
- CNN Anderson Cooper Interviews Dr. Chris Germer: 4-minute version
- RECOMMENDED: Yoga Journal: The Science of Compassion
- How to Use Self-Compassion to Stop Blaming Yourself for Everything
- John Pavlovitz: Things Someone Who Loved You Should Have Told You
- How to Build Healthy Empathy
- Lean in to Caring and Compassion to Reduce Burnout
- The Importance of Self-Acceptance and 4 Ways to Achieve it
- Neuroscience Reveals How Gratitude Rewires Your Brain
- Resources on Shame, from Center for Healing Shame
- Shame, Dissociation and Child Sexual Abuse
- The Power of Forgiveness
- How to Teach Your Children Self-Compassion
- Five Ways to Feel Like You’re Doing Enough
- Using Self-Compassion to Beat Procrastination
Anxiety & Depression
- PDF: CFT Model of Threat, Soothing, & Drive & Vagal System
- PDF: Conquering Anxiety
- RECOMMENDED: Worry is an Unhelpful Friend and a Shoddy Fortune-teller
- Your Anxiety Might be Coming From Your Body
- How to Stop Overthinking
- Blog: Customize Your Coping Skills
- Blog: How the Fight-or-Flight Response Affects Emotional Health
- We’ve Got Depression All Wrong; It’s Trying to Save Us
- Video: Criticism when you’ve had a bad childhood\
- The Long-lasting Effect of Parental Criticism on Your Self-Worth
- Chronic Stress and Physical and Mental Health
- Understanding the Dangers of Road Rage
Parenting
- Blog: Helping Children Manage Shame
- What Happens When Parents Say ‘I Was Wrong.’
- How to Create More Peaceful Home
- Blog: Reflective Listening
- Five Ways to Talk to Your Kids So They Feel Loved
- Emotions are Not Bad Behavior/Listening without Empathy Blockers
- Reflective Listening With PreSchoolers
- Four Ways for Parents to Manage Their Emotions
- What draws well-meaning parents to authoritarian parenting?
- “A Dangerous Substance”: Te Impact of Social Media on Youth Mental Health
- What to Do So Your Kids Don’t Stress You Out
- RECOMMENDED: 10 Steps to Stop Toxic Parenting
- RECOMMENDED: How to be a Calmer Parent: TEAM Parenting
- Blog: 10 Parenting Tips That Build A Child’s Emotional Health
- Attachment Parenting International website
- Simplifying Childhood May Protect Against Mental Health Issues
- Why It’s Important to Free Your Child From the Burden of Shame
- Five Ways to Talk with Your Kids So They Feel Loved
- 13 Abusive Behaviors You Might Not Be Aware You are Doing as a Parent
- 52 Questions to Ask a Child Instead of “How Was Your Day?
- Video: What is an Emotionally Healthy Childhood?
- Resource List: Articles on How to Help Your Child Develop Social and Emotional Core Competencies
- Video: Dr. Peter Breggin on Good Parenting and the Harms of Psychiatric Medication
- Getting Kids Unhooked from Tech
- Negative Effects of Tech on Children
- The Long-Lasting Effect of Parental Criticism on a Child’ Self-Worth
- Why Attachment Parenting is Not the Same Thing as Secure Attachment
- How Parents Stifle Individuation
- Video: Attachment Theory and Emotional Regulation
- Blog: How to Tell Your Children about Separation and Divorce
- The Rebellion of Over-Criticized Child, by Leon Seltzer
- The effects of praise: 7 evidence-based tips for using praise wisely
- How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger
- 10 Secrets of Effective Discipline with the Strong Willed Child
- Why Consequences Aren’t Working to Change Your Child’s Misbehavior (and What Will)
- Impacts of Permissive Parenting by Dr. Jonice Webb
- Three Ways to Help Children Manage Shame
Parenting: ADHD & Behavioral Problems
- Blog: ADHD Tips for Parents
- PDF: ADHD Parent Teacher Handout
- Connecting with Challenging Kids by Leaning in to Discomfort
- How Exercise Helps Brain Development in Kids with ADHD
- The Six Ways Good Parents Contribute to Anxiety in Children
Parenting: Adolescents
- How to Motivate Your Teen
- What Teens Need Most from Parents
- Infographic on The Effects of Helicopter Parenting
- Five Ways to Help Teens Build Self-worth
Compassion for the Parent
- Self-Compassion for Parents
- Video: Parenting after Experiencing Childhood Trauma
- Parenting With ACES (childhood trauma)
- In the Absence of the Village, Mothers Struggle Most
Trauma
- Adverse Childhood Relationship Experiences (ACRE) / Attachment Trauma by Veronique Meade
- Preventing Adverse Childhood Experiences Can Reduce Chronic Disease
- Childhood Emotional Neglect Questionnaire
- The Crappy Childhood Fairy: What is Childhood PTSD?
- 6 Common Events That Can Trigger Your Childhood Emotional Neglect
- Video: How Childhood Trauma Affects Your Emotional and Physical Health Across a Lifetime
- Harvard University Center on the Developing Child: Childhood Trauma Resources
- Addiction Rooted in Childhood Trauma
- Free e-books on Trauma by Dr. Veronique Mead
- 20 Things People with Childhood Emotional Neglect Often Say
Narcissism/Relational Abuse
- Early Signs of an Unhealthy Relationship
- Why Recovering form the Narcissists is so Hard
- Website: Narcissist Abuse Support by Tracey Malone. Has extensive information on characteristics of various narcissistic abusive people, red flags, and how to co-parent with an abusive ex.
- Narcissist Family Files by Julie L Hall, blog, podcasts, book
- Surviving Narcissism, a variety of resources by Dr. Les Carter (books, YouTube Channel, podcasts, blog, etc)
- Psychology Today: Effect of Narcissistic Parents on Children
- Why Daughters of Unloving Mothers Struggle with Shame
- The Strength of the Scapegoat in the Narcissist Family
- Narcissist Family Ties Website: Dear Therapist: You Missed My Husband’s Narcissism and it Devastated Our Family
- The Dyadic Pairing of the Pathological Narcissist and Co-Narcissist Victim
- Raised by a Narcissistic Parent? 11 Healing Things to Do Right Now
- Video: The Narcissist’s Family Cult
- Blog: Understanding How Narcissistic Traits Relate to Shame Intolerance
- The Loyalty Bind of the Narcissist’s Child
- The Gray Rock Methods of Dealing with Narcissists
- Neuroscience: The shocking impact narcissistic abuse has on the brain
- Why Do People Become Narcissists?
- Why Is It So Hard to Leave the Narcissist in Your Life?
- From the Spouse of a Narcissist: Here’s What You Need to Know
- Divorcing a Narcissist: 14 Tips to Get You Battle Ready
- Co-Parenting with a Narcissist
- When the Narcissist Fails
- 10 Signs You are Dating a Narcissist
- Dating after an Abusive Relationship
- Oprah explores the rising trend of going no contact (YouTube)
Relationships
- Blog: What to Expect in Emotionally Focused Therapy
- What is Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy and Who Can It Help
- PDF: EFT Infinity Loop Relationship Model
- How to Really Improve Communication in Your Relationship with EFT
- How to Forgive Your Partner
- 9 Steps to Forgiveness
- Washington Post: Good Self-Help Books for Couples
- Video: Alain de Botton on the Problems with Romantic Love
- 6 Steps for a Good Apology
- Is Couple’s Therapy a Waste of Time?
- How to Communicate with Love (Even When You’re Mad)
- How to Talk About Sexual Desire
- Video: The Challenge of Being Close
- Video: What is your Attachment Style?
- Anger: When Adults Act Like Children — And Why
- Anger and Intimacy: Incompatible but Unavoidable Housemates
- 10 Habits of People in Happy Relationships
- How a Husband Accidentally Learned to Really Listen to his Wife
- Video: Love Sense: Sue Johnson and Edward Tronick Discuss Attachment Bonding in Relationships
- Develop Emotional Fluency in Relationships
- PDF: Masters of Love Article (The Atlantic)
- 10 Signs You Have Trust Issues
- Video: Attachment Theory and Emotional Regulation
- Video: Jon Allen, PhD, Interview on Trauma and Attachment Relationships
- 5 Principles that Unleash Your Power of Communication
- Rupture & Repair in Relationships
- I Can’t Stop Cheating on My Girlfriend
- How Your Parents Affect Your Relationships Through Attachment Patterns
- Video: What is an Emotionally Healthy Childhood? (And how does it affect your adult relationships?)
- Compassionate Boundaries: How to Say No with Heart
- How Quick Are You to Take Offense? 10 Powerful Remedies
- Emotional Safety is Necessary for Emotional Connection
- Article & Audio: The 36 Questions That Lead to Love
- 5 Questions to Know if You’re in the Right Relationship
- Video: Ester Perel TedX on “Rethinking Affairs”
Psychiatric Medication Issues
- RECOMMENDED: Blog: Dispelling the Myths about Medication and Mental Illness
- How Big Pharma Monetized Depression by Robert Whitaker
- How Psychiatric Drugs Work on the Brain
- Do You Still Believe in the “Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Illness”?
- 12 Essential Facts About Psychiatry
- Website: AntidepressantRisks.org
- In Recovery from Antidepressants (A summary of psychiatric drug harms and good resource links.)
- Study Finds ADHD Drugs Alter Developing Brain
- ADHD Diagnosis Leads to Worse Quality of Life, Increased Self-Harm in Kids
- 8 Years of Mental Health Research Distilled to 4 Infographics
- PDF: Unbiased Medication Information
- The Harmful Effects of Antidepressants
- Antidepressants: 10 Shocking Studies Everyone Should Know
- Infographic on Harms and Benefits of Bi-polar Drugs
- Lasting Damage from Prescribed Drugs
Psychiatric Med Withdrawal
- MIA SSRI withdrawal seminar notes
- Rx-isk: Website on SSRI withdrawal and Guide
- Taper MD Website with deprescribing/tapering information and resources for medical professionals
- Blog: Psychiatric Medication Withdrawal Resources
- Coming Off Psych Drugs: Harm Reduction Guide
- Mad In American Psych Med Withdrawal Resources
- Website: Dr. Kelly Brogan Books and Free Resources
- Researchers Provide Guidance for Reducing & Stopping Psychiatric Drugs
- The Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines: An Interview
- Alliance for Benzodiazepine Best Practices
- Benzodiazepine Information Coalition