Toward understanding & healing this human condition
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Resources
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The path is the goal.
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Trust in your goodness.
—Chögyam Trungpa
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Self-assessments
300+ peer-reviewed psychometric tests; discretion advised with some of these
Myers Briggs 16 personalities test (& types)
Big 5 personality test · Big 5, more granular
Experiences in close relationships scale
What’s your core relationship desire?
Disc workplace personality test
What’s your road trip personality?
Multidimensional happiness test
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EMDR & Flash Technique
One foot in the present, one foot in the past
EMDR: The breakthrough therapy for overcoming anxiety, stress, and trauma
Free videos of EMDR sessions (discretion advised)
Guided meditation: Inner Advisor in a beautiful place
Flash technique · published research
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IFS: Internal Family Systems (parts work)
Greater than the sum of our parts
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Trauma, the body & healing
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Mindful Focusing (felt-sense work)
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Attachment theory
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CBT: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
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DBT: Dialectical Behavior Therapy
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook
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ADHD
ADDitude: Inside the ADHD mind
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Moderation management & harm reduction re: substance use & addiction
Gabor Maté: Addiction is a response to suffering
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Self-compassion
Self-compassion guided practices & exercises
There is nothing wrong with you
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Grief & bereavement
Have you considered the benefits of crying?
Five things to know about processing loss
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Encouragement
Another Postponement of Destruction
Pete Carroll & the power of positive coaching
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Permission
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Longing for connection
Sleeping Next to the Man on the Plane
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Attention
The value of 'deep work' in an age of distraction
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Empathy
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Memory
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Desire
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Love
[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]
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Appreciation & gratitude
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Resolve
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inspiration · creative process · self-discovery · play
Not quite what I was planning: six-word memoirs
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Birthday
[i thank You God for most this amazing]
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Sacredness
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Choices
The enduring allure of Choose Your Own Adventure books
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HSP
Is your child an orchid or a dandelion?
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Introversion
The power of introverts in a world that can't stop talking
Why do we undervalue introverts?
Dividend of the Social Opt Out
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Holistic
What we gain from a good-enough life
The little rituals that keep us going
The unexpected joy of repeat experiences
To get out of your head, get out of your house
Why walking is the most underrated form of exercise
An overlooked cure for loneliness
Psychotherapy books & resources
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Forest (& indoor plant) bathing
Forest bathing: how trees can help you find health and happiness
The mood-boosting effects of indoor plants
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Mental health in modern times
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Bravery & vulnerability
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Being human
People share their deepest secrets anonymously
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Friendship
The six forces that fuel friendship
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Couples
The Skin Deep relationship cards
Love Made Simple couples workshop
Hold Me Tight couples workshop
Premarital counseling workshop
Emotionally focused workbook for couples
Seven principles for making marriage work
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Infidelity
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Poly
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Parenthood
Diary of a baby: what your child sees, feels, and experiences
Why we long for the most difficult days of parenthood
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Childfree by choice
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Codependency
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Trauma-informed resilience practices
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Depression & bipolar
Touched with fire: bipolar and the artistic temperament
Unholy ghost: writers on depression
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Support around suicidal intensity
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Sleep
Can’t sleep? Try sticking your head in the freezer
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Dreams
Everything we know about dreams
A new test for an old theory about dreams
Why adults still dream about school
The dreams you can’t remember might never have occurred
The unknowable enigma of babies’ dreams
What people around the world dream about
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Happiness index
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Mindfulness & meditation in everyday life
Tara Brach: Guided meditations
Wherever you go, there you are
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Mindfulness in treating depression
The mindful way through depression
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Neuroscience for treating depression
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Secular contemplative Buddhist psychology
Toward a psychology of awakening
The key: and the name of the key is willingness
How you do anything is how you do everything
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Authentic movement
Offering from the conscious body
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Digital age & social media
No-phone phobia self-assessment
How to break up with your phone
Increase your digital well-being
Reclaiming conversation: the power of talk in a digital age
The shallows: what the internet is doing to our brains
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Music, emotion & memory
Why does music affect our moods so much?
How a song can spark a vivid recollection
Music-evoked autobiographical memories in everyday life
Lyrics on the left side, music on the right; how our brains disentangle music
Music evokes at least 13 emotions; scientists have mapped them
Harnessing the healing power of music
How music makes us feel better
Why we listen to our favorite songs on repeat
Extreme re-listening: songs people love… and continue to love
How music loops help me feel more present
Schopenhauer on the power of music
Musicophilia: Tales of music & the brain
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Philosophy
The Socrates Express: In search of life lessons from dead philosophers
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Math
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Reading
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The power of poetry
Autobiography in five short chapters
Milk & honey · The sun & her flowers
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Relatable neurosis
Man spends whole day dreading fun activity he signed up for
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Sense of humor & parody
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Cats
I could pee on this (and other poems by cats)
15 great cat poems not written by cats
A cartoon tribute to cats, & the poets who loved them
Cats give the laws of physics a biiiiig stretch
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Dogs
I could chew on this (and other poems by dogs)
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Introspection
A natural history of the senses
Poem: Stopping By Woods On a Snowy Evening
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Bearing witness
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families: stories from Rwanda
At the Un-National Monument along the Canadian Border
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Exploring what it means to be white
White fragility (original free/open source essay)
We need to talk about whiteness