Resources

Just a list of books and helpful words from wise people to assist with your journey, if you are ever in need of inspiration, or curious about where to start with this whole “mental health” thing.

Helpful Reading

  • Setting Boundaries that Stick

    By Juliane Taylor Shore, LMFT

    A wonderful guide to imagining boundaries for self-care and relationships.

  • The Miracle of Mindfulness

    By Thich Nhat Hanh

    A gentle foundation for learning how to slow down, and ease anxiety through mindful connections with ourselves, and our surroundings.

  • How We Love

    By Kay and Mila Yerkovich

    This practical guide to recognizing and reshaping patterns in relationships is an easy read, and accompanied by tons of additional resources on the authors’ website- like this quiz for identifying your relationship style (https://howwelove.com/love-style-quiz/)

  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

    By Lindsay C. Gibson

    This is a helpful read for reducing the shame, or self-blame, that can come from a dysfunctional family of origin.

  • What My Bones Know

    By Stephanie Foo

    This incredible autobiography depicts the author’s personal experience living with Complex PTSD. *This book may have triggering content for some readers, so caution is advised.

  • How to be a Good Creature

    By Sy Montgomery

    For stories of empathy, and for a reminder that you are not alone in this world. If you are an animal lover, this is a particularly good read.

Favorite Quotes

“Tell your child ‘I love you the same amount when I’m proud of something you did, as when I’m disappointed. Behaviors are things you do. They’re outside of you. I love you, the person inside.’ ”

Dr. Becky Kennedy

“One nice way to feel better about yourself is to imagine what Steve Irwin would say about you if you were a little snake in the desert.”

Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue

“Every human has a true, genuine, authentic self. The trauma is the disconnection from it. The healing is the reconnection with it”

Gabor Mate

“In Irish when you talk about emotion, you don’t say ‘I am sad.

You’d say ‘sadness is on me’.

And I love that, because there’s an implication of not identifying yourself with the emotion fully. I am not sad, it’s just that sadness is on me for a while.

Something else will be on me another time, and that’s a good thing to recognize.”

P. O. Tuama

“Remember that the minute you take your first step into the life of your dreams, the first to greet you will be Fear. Nod. Keep Walking.”

Brianna Wiest

“You’re struggling to make the change because the old behavior is still meeting a need.

Instead of shaming yourself, identify the deeper need and allow it to exist.

Then get curious about a new way to meet it.”

The EQ School