Apps & Tools

Insight Timer

Free & paid · iOS & Android

A free meditation app with thousands of guided sessions. Useful for building a consistent mindfulness practice between sessions.

Calm

Free & paid · iOS & Android

Guided meditations, sleep stories, and breathing exercises. Particularly helpful for anxiety, stress, and sleep difficulties.

Calm Harm

Free · iOS & Android

An app designed to help manage the urge to self-harm by providing tasks and activities grounded in evidence-based techniques.

How We Feel

Free · iOS & Android

A simple, research-backed tool for checking in with your emotions, building emotional vocabulary, and tracking how you feel over time.

Books

Atlas of the Heart

Brené Brown

A guide to mapping the language of human emotion, helping us make sense of what we feel and find deeper connection.

The Body Keeps the Score

Bessel van der Kolk

A foundational text on how trauma lives in the body and the many pathways toward healing, including somatic, relational, and beyond.

Codependent No More

Melody Beattie

A compassionate guide to understanding and overcoming codependency, with practical tools for reclaiming your own life.

The Expressive Body in Life, Art, and Therapy

Daria Halprin

An exploration of how movement, art, and embodied expression can become powerful tools for personal transformation.

The Highly Sensitive Child

Elaine Aron

Helping our children thrive when the world overwhelms them, with practical strategies for parents of sensitive kids.

Hold Me Tight

Dr. Sue Johnson

A deeply insightful look at how emotional bonds shape our relationships and how to strengthen them through connection.

Mating in Captivity

Esther Perel

A bold exploration of desire and intimacy in long-term relationships, unlocking erotic intelligence.

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone

Lori Gottlieb

A therapist turns the lens on herself. Part memoir, part exploration of what therapy can offer. Warm, honest, and often funny.

The Modern Loss Handbook

Rebecca Soffer

A candid, practical guide to navigating grief and loss in all its forms, with wisdom from a wide community of voices.

Mothers, Daughters, and Body Image

Dr. Hillary McBride

An insightful look at how the mother-daughter relationship shapes our experience of our bodies and sense of self.

My Grandmother's Hands

Resmaa Menakem

A somatic exploration of how racial trauma lives in our bodies and how we can begin to heal individually and collectively.

On Grief and Grieving

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

A compassionate guide to understanding the stages and experiences of grief, offering comfort and perspective for those who are mourning.

Renegade Grief

Carla Fernandez

A fresh, honest exploration of grief that challenges conventional expectations and makes space for the full range of loss.

The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work

John Gottman

Research-backed principles for building stronger, healthier partnerships grounded in decades of relationship science.

The Teenage Brain

Frances E. Jensen & Amy Ellis Nutt

A neuroscientist's survival guide to raising adolescents, offering insight into why teens think and act the way they do.

The Whole-Brain Child

Daniel Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson

Practical strategies for nurturing your child's developing mind, helping them thrive emotionally and intellectually.

The Wild Edge of Sorrow

Francis Weller

A poetic, soulful guide to grief as a communal and sacred experience, inviting us to tend our sorrows with care.

The Wisdom of Your Body

Dr. Hillary McBride

A compassionate invitation to reconnect with the body as a source of wisdom, healing, and belonging.

Your Body Is Not an Apology

Sonya Renee Taylor

A powerful call to radical self-love and body liberation, challenging systems that teach us to feel shame about our bodies.

Crisis & Immediate Support

If you or someone you know is in crisis, please reach out to one of these resources.
Help is available.

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline Call or text 988 · Available 24/7
Crisis Text Line Text HOME to 741741 · Available 24/7
NAMI Helpline Call 1-800-950-6264 · Mon–Fri, 10am–10pm ET
Trans Lifeline Call 877-565-8860 · Available 24/7
The Trevor Project Call 1-866-488-7386 or text START to 678-678
SAMHSA National Helpline Call 1-800-662-4357 · Available 24/7
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