Resources

Affirmations

• Positive Affirmations, by Alexandra Trottier

Attachment

• Attachment Theory: How Childhood Shapes Your Life
• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find – and Keep – Love

Calming

• How to Calm Yourself Using Vergence
• Breathe to Heal, TEDTalk by Max Strom

Complex PTSD

• C-PTSD Behavior Explained – Common Traits, Triggers & Treatment Options | BetterHelp

Communication

• How to be Assertive
• Your body language may shape who you are, TEDTalk by Amy Cuddy

• How to be Assertive
• Your body language may shape who you are, TEDTalk by Amy Cuddy

Coping with Emotion

• Brene Brown, Blame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZWf2_2L2v8

Happiness

• What makes a good life? Lessons from the longest study on happiness | Robert Waldinger

Help with Addiction

• Alcoholics Anonymous: Hope for a New Day
• Narcotics Anonymous
• Overeaters Anonymous

Help Coping With a Loved One’s Addiction

• Al-anon, Help and hope for families and friends of alcoholics
• Alateen: A place just for teens affected by someone else’s alcoholism.
• Nar-Anon Family Groups

Highly Sensitive People

• This is your Brain on High Sensitivity
• Is Your Child Highly Sensitive?

Marriage & Life Partner Relationships

• The Gottman Relationship Blog
• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert, by John Gottman PhD et al.
• Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find – and Keep – Love

Parenting

• How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen: A survival guide to life with children ages 2-7. By Joanna Faber & Julie King
• Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture by Peggy Orenstein

Parenting Pre-Teens & Teens

• Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein
• Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity by Peggy Orenstein

Research on Trauma

• Childhood Trauma And Its Lifelong Health Effects More Prevalent Among Minorities
• Yoga as a Complementary Treatment for Chronic PTSD

Wisdom

• Am I Going to Show Up? by Brene’ Brown
• Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives by Dan Millman