Resources
🌊 Trauma Recovery & Nervous System Regulation
📚 Books
- The Body Keeps the Score — Bessel van der Kolk
- Waking the Tiger — Peter A. Levine
- Polyvagal Theory in Therapy — Deb Dana
- What Happened to You? — Oprah Winfrey & Bruce D. Perry
🎧 Podcasts
- The Trauma Therapist Podcast — Guy Macpherson
- Therapy Chat — Laura Reagan
- Trauma Rewired — Jennifer Wallace & Elisabeth Kristof
🎵 Music / Sound
- Liquid Mind series — streaming platforms
- Nature soundscapes — Insight Timer & meditation apps
🎬 Movies / Docs
- Stutz (Netflix)
- The Wisdom of Trauma — Gabor Maté
📱 Apps
- Insight Timer — trauma-informed meditations
- Breathwrk — guided breathwork
- Somatic Tracking (iOS) — body awareness tool
🌱 Anxiety & Stress Relief
📚 Books
- Unwinding Anxiety — Judson Brewer
- Radical Acceptance — Tara Brach
- Full Catastrophe Living — Jon Kabat-Zinn
🎧 Podcasts
- Ten Percent Happier — Dan Harris
- The Mindful Kind — Rachael Kable
- Sleepy — bedtime stories for calm
🎵 Music / Sound
- Ambient 1: Music for Airports — Brian Eno
- Lo-fi Hip Hop playlists — Spotify/YouTube
🎬 Movies / Docs
- My Octopus Teacher — nature & connection
- Fantastic Fungi — wonder of nature & healing
📱 Apps
- Calm — meditation, sleep stories, breathwork
- Headspace — stress-specific programs
- Oak — guided breathing & meditation
✨ Spiritual Growth & Mindfulness
📚 Books
- The Untethered Soul — Michael A. Singer
- The Power of Now — Eckhart Tolle
- Radical Compassion — Tara Brach
- When Things Fall Apart — Pema Chödrön
🎧 Podcasts
- On Being — Krista Tippett
- Tara Brach Podcast — talks & meditations
- Ram Dass Here and Now
🎵 Music / Sound
- Snatam Kaur — mantra-based sacred music
- Deva Premal & Miten — chanting & devotional music
🎬 Movies / Docs
- Walk with Me — Plum Village meditation practices
- Baraka — meditative visuals & nature
📱 Apps
- Insight Timer — spiritual talks & mantras
- Plum Village — guided meditations
🎨 Creative Expression & Art Therapy
📚 Books
- The Artist’s Way — Julia Cameron
- Your Brain on Art — Susan Magsamen & Ivy Ross
- Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain — Betty Edwards
🎧 Podcasts
- Art for All — Danny Gregory & Koosje Koene
- Creative Pep Talk — Andy J. Pizza
🎵 Music / Sound
- East Forest — gentle electronic/ambient for creative flow
- Instrumental playlists — Spotify: “Deep Focus”
🎬 Movies / Docs
- Abstract: The Art of Design — Netflix series
- Exit Through the Gift Shop — street art & creativity
📱 Apps
- Procreate — digital art creation (iPad)
- DailyArt — daily art history & inspiration
- Tayasui Sketches / Adobe Fresco — mindful drawing & painting
🖤 BIPOC-Centered Mental Health
📚 Books
- My Grandmother’s Hands — Resmaa Menakem
- Rest Is Resistance — Tricia Hersey
- Sister Outsider — Audre Lorde
🎧 Podcasts
- Therapy for Black Girls — Dr. Joy Harden Bradford
- Latinx Therapy — Adriana Alejandre & friends
- Code Switch — NPR
🎵 Music / Sound
- A Seat at the Table — Solange
- Lo-fi playlists by BIPOC artists — Bandcamp/Spotify
🎬 Movies / Docs
- Homecoming — Beyoncé
- In My Mind — mental health in Black communities
📱 Apps
- Liberate Meditation — BIPOC-led mindfulness
- Shine — daily support & self-care
🌸 Women’s Mental Health & Self-Compassion
📚 Books
- Women Who Run with the Wolves — Clarissa Pinkola Estés
- The Dance of the Dissident Daughter — Sue Monk Kidd
- Untamed — Glennon Doyle
- Mother Hunger — Kelly McDaniel
🎧 Podcasts
- Self-Compassion Podcast — Kristin Neff & Chris Germer
- We Can Do Hard Things — Glennon Doyle, Amanda Doyle, Abby Wambach
- Call Your Girlfriend — friendship & feminist mental health
🎵 Music / Sound
- Yaima — soothing feminine vocals
- Indie folk playlists — self-reflection
🎬 Movies / Docs
- Miss Representation — media & women’s self-worth
- Wild — resilience & self-discovery
📱 Apps
- Clue / Flo — cycle tracking & mood awareness
- Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff — guided practices