Whether currently in therapy, or perhaps considering it, here are a few resources that have resonated with me along the way.
While these are familiar, I cannot endorse everything contained within them.
YouTube
Irene Lyon, Nervous System Expert and Somatic Practitioner, shares her learnings around how we can work safely with the presence of trauma – past survival energies often stored and stuck in the body.
Anna Runkle of The Crappy Childhood Fairy shares the information which helped her manage the experience of childhood post-traumatic stress. Direct but sensitive, she offers guidance around specific daily methods of journalling and meditation for healing.
Podcasts
The Gathering Pod. Martha Beck disseminates her lived experience to wonder with about life lived with integrity, mindfulness and with the spirit of presence.
It’s OK That You’re Not OK with Megan Devine. Megan Devine and her guests discuss the complex territory of grief with curiousity, vulnerability and openness.
Needy. Mara Glatzel offers the space to consider the ways in which we may minimise, push away or contract from our needs – and how to connect back in with ourselves.
On Purpose. Jay Shetty interviews guests with his trademark thoughtfulness and compassion, offering a non-judgmental ear for issues of connection and self-development in the modern age.
Books
Anxious Attached: Becoming More Secure In Life and Love. Jessica Baum offers an empathetic and useful guide, as well as brilliant meditations to becoming more self-full when we might be in danger of losing ourselves in relationships.
When Things Fall Apart. Pema Chödrön writes for the moments where everything feels incredibly messy and heartbreaking, encouraging us to stay with the pain and the hopelessness for greater presence with life.
Buy Yourself the F*cking Lilies & Glow in the F*cking Dark. Tara Schuster shares practical, supportive and spiritual insights from her own healing road, with humour and grace.
Updated September 2023.
Ataya Kanji 