books, podcasts, & more

Revisioning Self & Healing

• All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks

• What It Takes To Heal by Prentis Hemphill

• The Body Is Not an Apology, Second Edition: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

• How We Heal: Uncover Your Power and Set Yourself Free by Alexandra Elle

• Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN by Tara Brach

Rethinking Care & Social Justice

• Social Change Roles - Map & Framework by Deepa Iyer

• Transform Harm - an introduction to anti-violence frameworks, started by Mariame Kaba

• Community Safety Toolkit by Vision Change Win

• Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown

• Kintsugi Therapist Collective, by Onyx Fujii and Asher Pandjiris

Get To Know Your Feelings

• Emotion-Sensation Wheel (English) + (Spanish)

• Feelings Wheel

• Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience by Brene Brown

Identify Your Values & Strengths

• Personal Values Assessment

• Character Strengths Assessment

Boundaries

• Unfuck Your Boundaries: Build Better Relationships through Consent, Communication, and Expressing Your Needs by Dr. Faith G Harper

• How to Set Boundaries by Bobbi Banks

• Different Types of Boundaries with examples

Neurodivergent-Based Resources

• The Neurodivergent Friendly Workbook of DBT Skills by Sonny Jane (Autism + ADHD focused)

• Tips to Prevent a Meltdown by Sonny Jane

• A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD: Embrace Neurodiversity, Live Boldly, and Break Through Barriers by Sari Solden and Michelle Frank

• Your Brain's Not Broken: Strategies for Navigating Your Emotions and Life with ADHD by Tamara Rosier, PhD

Relationships, CNM, & Polyamory

• Relationship Anarchy Smorgasbord, a tool for discussion by Maxx Hill

• Polyamory glossary with definitions

• Non-Escalator Relationship Menu

• Relationship Check-in Framework + Communication Tools (Spanish Version)

• Breakup Grief Guide by Ji-Youn

• Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy by Jessica Fern

• Polysecure Workbook: Healing Your Attachment and Creating Security in Loving Relationships by Jessica Fern

Childhood Trauma

• Hopeful Panda - information, support, and resources for people who’ve experienced abuse from parents/caregivers

• 13 Steps For Managing Flashbacks by Pete Walker (childhood trauma-based)

• The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole by Arielle Schwartz

• Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A Guide and Map for Recovering from Childhood Trauma by Pete Walker

• Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents by Lindsay Gibson

• A Practical Guide to Complex PTSD: Compassionate Strategies to Begin Healing from Childhood Trauma by Arielle Schwartz, PhD

Trama

• Trauma is Really Strange by Steve Haines

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk, MD

• Dissociation Made Simple: A Stigma-Free Guide to Embracing Your Dissociative Mind and Navigating Daily Life by Jamie Marich, PhD

Alcohol & Substance Recovery

• Dawn Farm, long-term recovery treatment and support

• Live Another Day, addiction and mental health resources

• List of recovery support meetings

• Recovery Dharma

Coping Skills

• Harm Reduction Guide to Comming Off Psychiatric Drugs

• Coping Skills Toolbox

• Coping Statements - Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)

Journals

• Today I Affirm: A Journal that Nurtures Self-Care by Alexandra Elle

• Sensual Self: Prompts and Practices for Getting in Touch with Your Body: A Guided Journal by Ev'Yan Whitney

Podcasts

• Finding Our Way/Becoming The People is an exploration into ourselves and the skills we need to create and embody the world we want by Prentis Hemphill

• How To Survive The End Of The World by Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown

• Possibilities Podcast by Umang Antariksh Sagar and kumari giles

• Living in this Queer Body by Asher Pandjiris

• Embodied Astrology by Renee Sills: a synthesis of somatics and astrology through a queer, creative lens

• Embody Podcast by Candice Wu

• First This: 10-minute meditations by Kathryn Nicolai

• Tarot for the Wild Soul: an inclusive, trauma-informed tarot perspective by Lindsay Mack