Resources

Read/Interact: You Feel Like Shit - a great interactive flow chart for people who struggle with self care, executive dysfunction, and/or who have trouble reading internal signals

Listen: The Fake Bride Hidden Brain - Who are you underneath your conditioning?

Relationships, Connection, & Community

Read: You Are the One You've Been Waiting For by Richard C. Schwartz

Read: Emotional regulation in relationships – Whose job is it to make me feel OK? Justice Schanfarber

Read: How Friends Help You Regulate Your Emotions Kira M. Newman

Read: Discover the Gift of Co-Regulation Hayden Lindsey

Read: Self-care isn't enough. We need community care to thrive Heather Dockray

Read & Practice: So You're Ready to Choose Love a free conflict resolution workbook by Kai Cheng Thom

Read: Big Friendship: How We Keep Each Other Close Aminatou Sow and Ann Friedman

Read: Loving Laterally: Soft Monogamy & Radical Friendship Margeaux Feldman

Read: How We Show Up: Reclaiming Family, Friendship, and Community Mia Birdsong

Read: All About Love bell hooks

Read: Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma, and Consensual Non-Monogamy Jessica Fern

Practice: Centered Accountability Course and Workbook by Daria Garina

Recontextualizing Trauma & Oppression

Practice: Cultural Somatics / Racialized Trauma Free e-course Resmaa Menakem

Read: My Grandmother's Hands Resmaa Menakem

Learn More: The Embodiment Institute

Read: Psychiatric Diagnoses Found to Be "Scientifically Meaningless"

Read: Our Obsession with Releasing is Hurting Us Jane Clapp

Read: White Supremacy Culture Characteristics

Listen: One Head, Two Brains Hidden Brain

Read: Decolonizing Trauma Work Renee Linklater

Read: Palestine’s head of mental health services says PTSD is a western concept Olivia Goldhill

Identity & Belonging

Read: The Body is Not an Apology Sonya Renee Taylor

Read: Brown Girls Daphne Palasi Andreades

Learn More: Mixed in America

Read: Married With A Toddler, I Appear Straight. I'm Finally Ready To Stop Hiding My Identity Lelia Gowland

Read: Organic Chemistry Taught Me to Fully Inhabit My Mixed Identities Ariana Remmel

Reframing Self-Care

Read: A History of Self-Care From its radical roots to its yuppie-driven middle age to its election-inspired resurgence Aisha Harris

Read: The revolutionary origins of self-care: Don’t believe the hashtags. Self-care is not a modern luxury—it’s a radical act with a long history Nicole Stamp

Read: I need to talk to spiritual white women about white supremacy (Part One) by Layla F. Saad

Read: Women are flocking to wellness because modern medicine still doesn’t take them seriously

Annaliese Griffin

Additional Resources for Therapists

& Somatic Practitioners

Trauma Treatment Collective Pro Membership & Online Courses - Enhance your trauma treatment skills with these resources by my friend and colleague, Nina Keeler, LMFT

Embodied Ethics - Support for somatically oriented coaches, therapists, bodyworkers, facilitators, and movement teachers who are seeking deep integrity, right-relationship, and values alignment with their work, with my friend and colleague Marika Heinrichs

Connect with Oumou - My friend and colleague Oumou Sylla (LMFT, MA) offers a number of resources, including a Burnout Prevention Lab.

Mind Money Balance - Get your mind and your money in balance! My friend and colleague, Lyndsay Bryan-Podvin works with people 1:1 and also offers an amazing group coaching program for therapists in private practice.