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SUICIDE PREVENTION HOTLINE

Suicide prevention website and phone number, please click the link below. If this an emergency please call 9-1-1.

NATIONAL SUPPORT TEXT LINE

Please click the link below for the National Support Line. It is available and on 24/7 to text.

THE TREVOR PROJECT

They provide information & support to LGBTQ 
young people 24/7, all year round.

Paper Heart
Quality Time Outdoors
Babysitter

PFLAG

Find your local PFLAG chapter - over 400 chapters across the country. They provide "confidential peer support, education, and advocacy to LGBTQ+ people, their parents and families, and allies."

ABORTION SUPPORT

Connect & Breathe 
Nonjudgemental post-abortion talk line
1-866-647-1764 

Exhale 
Nonjudgmental post-abortion text-line
617-749-2948

PODCASTS

  • CalPsychiatry (Podcast)

  • The OCD Stories (Podcast)

  • Griefcast (Podcast)

  • Mentally Yours (Podcast)

  • The Homecoming with Dr. Thema (Podcast)

  • Therapy for Black Girls (Podcast)
    Where Should We Begin? (Podcast)

  • Mom & Mind (Podcast)

  • Motherhood Sessions (Podcast)

  • The Psychology of Parenting (Podcast)

  • Sleepy Qs (Podcast)

  • On Being (Podcast)

  • Tara Brach (Podcast)

  • Insight Timer (App)

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BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS

TEENS

  • Girls & Sex by Peggy Orenstien 

  • Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and Storytelling by Anita A. Johnston PhD.  

  • Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman

  • I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L Sanchez

  • Every Body Looking by Candice Iloh

  • The Body Image Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help Girls Develop a Healthy Body Image in an Image-Obsessed World by Julia V. Taylor

  • Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions into Adulthood by Lisa Damour Ph.D.

TRAUMA & INNER CHILD WORK

  • Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine

  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson

  • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine

  • Self-Love Workbook for Women: Release Self-Doubt, Build Self-Compassion, and Embrace Who You Are by  Megan Logan MSW 

  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson 

  • Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help - You Find and Keep Love by Amir Levine and Rachel Heller  

  • The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self by Alice Miller  

  • Self Compassion by Kristin Neff

EMOTIONAL WELLBEING BOOKS

  • Maybe You Should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb

  • The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown

  • Untamed by Glennon Doyle

OCD & PHOBIAS

PARENTING

  • The Whole Brain Child by Daniel Siegel

  • No-Drama Discipline by Daniel Siegel

  • Now Say This: The Right Words to Solve Every Parenting Dilemma by Heather Turgeon

  • The Emotional Wellbeing of the Toddler by Alicia F. Lieberman

  • Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child by John Gottman

  • The Gifts of Imperfect Parenting by Brené Brown

ABORTION

The Healing Choice: Your Guide to Emotional Recovery After an Abortion by Candace De Puy


PREGNANCY, BIRTH, PERINATAL MENTAL HEALTH

  • The Bottom Line for Baby: From Sleep Training to Screens, Thumb Sucking to Tummy Time by Tina Payne Bryson

  • Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn by Penny Simkin

  • The Birth Partner (5th Ed) by Penny Simkin

  • This Isn’t What I Expected by Karen R. Kleiman and Valerie Davis Raskin

  • Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts by Karen R. Kleiman

  • What No One Tells You by Alexandra Sacks and Catherine Birndorf

COUPLES

  • Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson, PhD

  • Infidelity by Esther Perel

  • Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel

  • Conscious Uncoupling by Katherine Woodward Thomas

  • Attached by Amir Levine and Rachel S. F. Heller

  • Wired for Love: How Understanding Your Partner's Brain and Attachment Style Can Help You Defuse Conflict and Build a Secure Relationship by Stan Tatkin PsyD 

  • The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity by Esther Perel

  • Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski

  • Rewriting the Rules: An Integrative Guide to Love, Sex and Relationships by Meg-John Barker 

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