Resources

Guided Meditations & Retreat Centers 🧘🏾‍♂️

• Tara Brach

• Phillip Moffitt

• Jill Shepherd

• Alexis Santos

• Self-Compassion Practice

• Cambridge Insight Meditation Center (MA)

• Insight Meditation Society (MA)

• The Barre Center for Buddhist Studies (MA)

• Spirit Rock Meditation Center (CA)

• River Valley Insight Meditation Community (MA)

• Southern Dharma Retreat Center (NC)

• Insight Retreat Center (CA)

• Insight Meditation Western Mass (MA)

Top recommended books 📚📚

• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

• My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Dr. Resmaa Menakem

• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model by Richard Schwartz Ph.D.

• Transforming the Living Legacy of Trauma (a workbook) by Janina Fisher, PhD

• The Gift of Therapy by Irvin Yalom

• When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön

• The Magnanimous Heart: Compassion and Love, Loss and Grief, Joy and Liberation by Narayan Helen Liebenson

• Dancing With Life: Buddhist Insights for Finding Meaning and Joy in the Face of Suffering by Phillip Moffitt

• Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief by Dr. Joanne Cacciatore

• Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening by Joseph Goldstein

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel Van Der Kolk

• Past Tense: Facing Family Secrets and Finding Myself in Therapy by Sacha Mardou (“A brave and captivating graphic memoir about the power of therapy to heal anxiety and generational trauma”)

• Awake At The Bedside: Contemplative Teachings On Palliative And End-Of-Life Care by Koshin Paley Ellison & Matt Weingast

• Say What You Mean: A Mindful Approach to Nonviolent Communication by Oren Sofer

Post-Concussion Support

Virtual Post-Concussion Support Group - https://alirheaume.com/life-after-concussion

Helpful/favorite TED talks 📺 🎥

• Jill Bolte Taylor - My Stroke of Insight

• Kristin Rivas - The Life-Changing Power of Words

• Dr. Kristen Neff - The Space Between Self Esteem and Self Compassion

• Amy Cuddy - Your Body Language May Shape Who You Are

• Dr. Nadine Burke Harris - How Childhood Trauma Affects Health Across a Lifetime

• About resilience and healing - Michelle Esrick: Through the Mud We Rise

• Jane Whitlock - “What I Learned About Life from Death”

Websites 👇🏾👇

• The Conversation Project - Death & Dying (and Dementia) https://theconversationproject.org/tcp-blog/ellen-goodman-talks-dementia-and-alzheimers-disease/

• End of Life Choices - https://www.compassionandchoices.org/

• The Limbic Brain and Its Role in Trauma by Dr. Russ Harris - Acceptance Commitment Therapy - https://youtu.be/a-ddSEHRWVg

• Free online personality test (Enneagram & Jungian-based Myers Briggs) - https://similarminds.com/embj.html

• Are you a highly sensitive person? https://hsperson.com/test/highly-sensitive-test/

• Helpful information on working with nightmares: https://drleslieellis.com/what-can-you-do-about-your-nightmares-ideas-from-a-trauma-expert/

• IFS (Internal Family Systems) “parts work” explained https://youtu.be/fzevlBt5HUA