Helpful Resources

Helpful Apps:

Meditation/Sleep

Insight Timer

CALM

Headspace

Relax Melodies

Breethe

Sleep Cycle

Mindfulness

T2 Mood Tracker

Moodfit

5 Minute Escapes

Stress Management

COVID Coach

Relax- Stress and Anxiety Relief

YOU: Small actions, Big change

Crisis Hotlines:

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline:
1-800-273-8255 (24/7)

National Eating Disorder
Association/Hotline: 1-800-931-2237

General Crisis Text Line: Text
SUPPORT to 741-741

National Alliance on Mental Illness:
1-800-950-6264

Domestic Violence Hotline –loveisrespect: 1-866-331-9474

Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network: 1-800-656-4673

Veterans Association
Hotline: 1-800-273-8255

Book Recommendations:

For Kids:

• A Little Spot of Anxiety by Diane Alber

• Soda Pop Head by Julia Cook

• Angry Octopus by Lori Lite

• Healing Days by Susan Farber Straus

• Visiting Feelings by Lauren Rubenstein

Adjustment, Anxiety, and Mood Disorders

• Beyond Consequences, Logic and Control by Heather T. Forbes

• How to Stop Worrying and Start Living– Dale Carnegie

• Outsmarting Worry: An Older Kid’s Guide to Managing Anxiety by Dawn Huebner and Kara McHale

• The Little Book of Mindfulness by Patrizia Collard

Healthy Boundaries

• Codependent No More by Melody Beattie

• Boundaries by Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend

Personality Disorders

• Overcoming borderline personality disorder: A family guide for healing and change by Valerie Porr

• Brain lock: Free yourself from obsessive-compulsive behavior by Jeffrey Schwarts

• The everything guide to narcissistic personality disorder: Professional, reassuring advice for coping
  with the disorder – at work, at home, and in your family by Cynthia Lechan Goodman and Barbara Leff

DBT

• The Buddha and the borderline: My recovery from borderline personality disorder through dialectical
  behavior therapy by Kiera Van Gelder

• Freedom from selfharm: Overcoming self-injury with skills from DBT and other treatments by Kim
  Gratz and Alexander Chapman

• Don’t let your emotions run your life for teens: Dialectical behavior therapy for helping you manage
  mood swings, control angry outbursts, and get along with others by Sheri VanDijk

Eating Disorders and Self-harm

• Hope for the hollow: A 30-day devotional guide for women suffering from eating disorders by Jena
  Morrow

• Starving in search of me: A coming-of-age story of overcoming an eating disorder and finding
  self-acceptance by Marissa LaRocca

• Cutting: Understanding and overcoming self-mutilation by Steven Levenkron

New Experiences and Transitions

• Transitions: Making sense of life’s changes by William Bridges

• The anatomy of change: A way to move through life’s transitions by Richard Strozzi-Heckler

• Life’s transitions: Invitations to wholeness by Ben Johnson, Robby Carroll, and Kay Stewart

Parenting

• The whole-brain child: 12 revolutionary strategies to nurture your child’s developing mind By
  Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson

• Raising the kid you love with the ex you hate by Edward Farber

• No-drama discipline by Daniel Siegel

• Wise mind parenting by Laura Kastner

Personal Development

• Daring Greatly/Rising Strong-Brene Brown

• You Are A Badass– Jen Sincero

• Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends On It– Kamal Ravikant

• Girl, Wash Your Face/Girl Stop Apologizing– Rachel Hollis

• The Happiness Project-Gretchen Rubin

• The Power of Now– Eckhart Tolle

• Untamed– Glennon Doyle

• The 7 Habits of Highly Successful People– Stephen Covey

Relationships: Couples and Families

• The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman

• The dance of intimacy: A woman’s guide to courageous acts of change in key relationshipsby Harriet
  Lerner

• Communication miracles for couples: Easy and effective tools to create more love and less
  conflictby Jonathan Robinson

• 4 essential keys to effective communication in love, life, work – anywhere!: A how-to guide for
  practicing the empathic listening, speaking, and dialogue skills to achieve relationship successby
  Bento Leal, III

• Surviving and thriving in stepfamily relationshipsby Patricia Papernow

Sexuality, Sexual Identity, Gender Identity

• The gender identity workbook for kids: A guide to exploring who you are by Kelly Storck and Noah
  Grigni

• The ABC’s of LGBT+ by Ashley Mardell

• You and your gender identity: A guide to discovery by Dara Hoffman-Fox

• Black on both sides: A racial history of trans identity by C. Riley Snorton

Racial/Ethnic Identity/Race-related Stress

• Black lotus: A woman’s search for racial identity by Sil Lai Abrams

• Why are all the black kids sitting together in the cafeteria? And other conversations about race by
  Beverly Daniel Tatum

• Backlash: What happens when

Trauma, Grief, and Medical Concerns

• The body keeps the score by Bessel van der Kolk

• The gifts of imperfection by Brene Brown

• From pain to power: Overcoming sexual trauma and reclaiming your true identity by Mary Ellen Mann

• It’s ok that you’re not ok: Meeting grief and loss in a culture that doesn’t understand by Megan
  Devine

• Under the influence: A journey of abuse, trauma, and grief through poetry by Jacquelyn Lee

Postpartum/Perinatal

• Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts by Karen Kleiman, illustrated by Molly McIntyre

• Overcoming Unwanted Intrusive Thoughtsby Sally Winston and Martin Seif