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Meditation App

Waking up with Sam Harris (*best meditation app!)

Feelings

Authenticity (video)

When you feel disgusted (article)

Messages behind feelings (podcast)

Ted Talks/Youtube/Misc.

The Power of Vulnerability, Brown

How to Stop Screwing Yourself Over- Mel Robbins

There's more to life than happiness

The Secret to Desire in a Long-Term Relationship, Perel

Increase Your Self-Awareness

Your "Inner Universe,"Seth

Psychology of Evil, Zimbardo 

How to Prevent School Shootings, Peterson 

Rethinking Infidelity, Perel

Gaslighting

Psychedelics to treat mental health

Relationship Skills and Workplace Dynamics at SXSW 2019, Perel

Grief, McInerny

Tara Brach's videos/podcasts are great.

Neuroscience

1st hour of the day do this

Livewire book

Huberman lab podcast

Sleep

Dr. Walker & Dr. Huberman on sleep (2 hour podcast)

Why We Sleep, Walker (book)

Why do I wake up at 3am?

Misc.

How to Apologize (podcast with H. Lerner & B. Brown)

Are you a woman and questioning leaving a relationship? Check this Unlocking Us

podcast. 

How to have hard conversations, Tim Ferris podcast

How Does Psychotherapy Work, Weiss

Imaginary Crimes, Engle (Guilt)

Radical Acceptance, Brach

The Power of Habit, Duhigg

Non-violent Communication, Rosenberg

Braving the Wilderness, Brown 

Rising Strong, Brown

The Female Brain, Brizendine

The Power of Now, Tolle

Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear, Gilbert 

Top Dog: The Science of Winning and Losing, Merryman & Bronson

The Dance of Anger, Lerner

Man's Search For Meaning, Frankl

I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression, Real

Give Yourself Permission to Feel-podcast

Indecision & Depression

The Upside of Vulnerability, Dermendzhiyska (Audio Article)

Anxiety

Over & Under Functioning with Anxiety- podcast

Highly Sensitive People (HSP)

hsperson.com (self-test here & tons of resources from Dr. Elaine Aron

(Book) Highly Sensitive People

(Podcast) Great intro talk @ Google on HSP's

Trauma

The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Van der Kolk 

Any of Peter Levine's work. 

Tribe, Junger (PTSD & Belonging)

A Child Called It, Pelzer (Short Memoir on Child Abuse)

http://www.traumacenter.org/

Anything by Dr. Siegal but I find his books hard to read. But excellent. https://www.drdansiegel.com/

Ending relationships

Conscious Uncoupling (Book) 

How to fix a Broken Heart (TED)

Can Not Let Breakups Break Us (TEDx) * great speaker (HA, it's me)

Grief

Grieving timeless love, Tara Brach, Phd.

Readings by David Kessler & Elisabeth Kübler-Ross are the cornerstone to grief. Don't forget the 6th stage too. Meaning.

Death/dying

What really matters at the end of Life (5 min read)

(TED)- BJ Miller

Addictions/Substance Use

Dr. Gabor Maté Interview | The Tim Ferriss Show

Relationships

Gottman's Four Horsemen

Fierce Intimacy

The New Rules of Marriage, Real

The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity, Perel

Coming Apart, Kingma

Attached, Levine & Heller

Mating in Captivity, Perel

The Relationship Cure, Gottman

Recovering from Fights, Gottman 

Parenting 

Raising An Adult, Lythcott-Haims

Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children, Merryman & Bronson

Teens

Teens Under Pressure (amazing podcast)

Untangled: Guiding Teenage Girls Through the Seven Transitions Into Adulthood, (*So good!)

Better Behavior, Kempler (ADHD)

Sex

(Any book by McCarthy)

Rekindling Desire, McCarthy & McCarthy

Sex Made Simple, McCarthy

How to Be a Great Lover, Paget

What Women Want, Bergner 

She Comes First: The Thinking Man's Guide to Pleasuring a Woman

He Comes Next: The Thinking Woman's Guide to Pleasuring a Man

Ethical Porn for Dicks, Dr. Ley (book)

sexandpsychology.com (blog/podcast)

KinseyInstitute.org

Adult ADHD

How to ADHD (videos)

Is it me, you or Adult A.D.D. (Book for Adults in a relationship with a person who had ADHD).

Video for Adults in relationship with or are themselves ADHD

Gender 

Growing Up Trans, Frontline

What Doctors Should Know About Gender Identity, Overstreet 

What doctors should know about trans, TEDx

Time 

Laura Vanderkam

How can I gain control of my time? (TEDx)

Pre-marital 

Unveiling Weddings, Sacerdoti & Jackson Fitzgerald (Super Authors! Ha!) 


Dyslexia

Fish in the Tree, Hunt (Fiction for Children 8+)

Speechify - App 

Group Dynamics

The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, Yalom


Young Psychotherapists

The Gift of Therapy, Yalom

Letters to a Young Therapist, Pipher

On Being A Therapist, Kottler


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