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Racialized Trauma and and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts

A groundbreaking book that tells us what we already knew in our unconscious pain - and gives us brave new ways to understand and heal from white body supremacy

Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being

An essential volume to understand the way our brain contributes to our challenges - and how it can guide our healing

Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model

Based in the intuitive knowledge that we all have different "parts" of ourselves, Schwartz offers a safe and loving way to explore the conflicts we experience in our inner life, and find ways to embrace and heal those parts with an insightful and compassionate Self. Cultivating that Self is a crucial aspect of the work.

Recently released, this workbook is a step=by-step hourney through the process of discovering our "parts" and bringing clarity to what often feels like inner conflict and confusion. Working alone or with a therapist, readers can make significant progress in building a more compassionate and understanding relationship with themselves - and build more positive relationships with others as well.

A Workbook: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

While we do not see ACT is the be-all, this workbook has been surprisingly popular with our clients. It guides you through a mindful and structured, gentle but direct approach investigation of beliefs that may be in your way.

For a different take on the same theme, we've heard this is great too! But haven't read it yet...
Unf*ck Yourself: Get out of your head and into your life by Gary John Bishop

From mindful.org

A great article that explores the usefulness of mindfulness-based practice for (self-identified) BIPOC women, who have for so long both carried the burdens and provided strength and solace in our oppressive world. 

So many Books, podcasts, articles!  Brené's work falls in all of these categories. Her earlier work focuses on moving beyond shame, building resilience and "daring greatly." More recently, her work moves towards anti-racism and principled leadership. Start on her website and explore it all - worth your time.

This article addresses an important distinction and asks some probing questions. I personally learned a lot about why this is an important distinction. And I also want to explore that last point much more deeply: how do self-esteem and self-worth actually interact? How can we use one to improve and strengthen the other? 

A web-based community created by Menakem, one of the leading trauma experts who has located  racialized trauma our everyday body experiences, both for white and Black folks. His practical somatic exercises, Q&A, and local events, appearances and podcasts show us how to use the wisdom in our bodies to bring about healing and authentic connection. His book, My Grandmother's Hands, has been transformative both in the worlds of healing and of anti-racism work.

A website full of self-assessments, meditations, exercises, to help you develop your own self-compassion practices. Neff is a researcher who has gathered important insights into the structure of self-compassion and most effective ways to develop effective compassion actively in our lives and advance our healing journey.

Author of Setting Boundaries, Finding Peace - Tawwab is popular on IG and shows up in many podcasts, like The Sugar Bowl. Her approach seeks to connect our childhood experiences to our adult ability to strengthen and improve, rather than end, our important relationships with healthy, specific boundaries, communicated lovingly and firmly. In other words, letting folks we care about know what we need.

This website opens a portal into the many sessions, practices, and publications of this internationally renowned spiritual and growth healer. With a gentleness and authenticity that continues to evolve, Tara offers her compassionate leadership to millions of people, free of charge. She is best known for her RAIN meditation, which is also described in the Ideas and Practices section.

The Gottmans have developed a clear and multi-layered approach to enriching intimate partner relationships, based on years of research around the qualities and practices of couples who have been happy together over a long term. The website includes a Store with engaging and ofttimes enjoyable programs, game cards, and conflict resolution models that many couples find helpful.* (These products do not replace couples counseling with a qualified therapist, especially a LMFT.)