Although these resources are incredible and credible, it is not a replacement for a therapeutic relationship or mental health and medical care.  Information obtained from this page should not be considered a substitute for mental and medical evaluation by a credentialed and licensed professional.  If you are in immediate crisis, please contact a trusted friend, family member, therapist, your health care provider or call 911.  

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Abusive and Domestic Violence Relationships

• Crazy Love by Leslie Morgan Steiner

• Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life (Interpersonal Violence) by Evan Stark

• Cycle of Violence

• Domestic Abuse Hotline

• Healing from Hidden Abuse: A Journey Through the Stages of Recovery from Psychological Abuse by Shannon Thomas

• It’s My Life Now by Meg Kennedy Duggan

• Mr. Unavailable and the Fallback Girl by Natalie Lue

• Power and Control Wheel

• Psychopath Free: Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships with Narcissists, Sociopaths and Other Toxic People by Jackson MacKenzie

• Rethinking Domestic Violence by Donald Dutton

• Should I Stay or Should I Go? by Lundy Bancroft

• The Emotionally Abused Woman by Beverly Engle

• The Gaslighting Effect: A Revealing Look at Psychological Manipulation and Narcissistic Abuse by Reva Steenbergen

• The Gaslight Effect: How to Spot and Survive Hidden Manipulation Others Use to Control Your Life by Dr. Robin Stern

• The Gift of Fear by Gavin deBecker

• The Verbally Abusive Relationship by Patricia Evans

• Why does he do That? Inside the Mind of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft

• Women who Love Psychopaths: Inside the Relationships of Inevitable Harm with Psychopaths, Sociopaths & Narcissists by Sandra Brown

• Women who Love too Much by Robin Norwood 

• You can Thrive After Narcissistic Abuse by Melanie Tonia Evans

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Trauma and PTSD

• Healing Sex: A Mind-Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma by Staci Haines

• Healing the Fragmented Selves of the Trauma Survivors by Janina Fisher

• Healing Trauma by Peter Levine

• In an Unspoken Voice by Peter Levine

• Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How they Heal by Bellruth Naparstek

• Meditations for Healing Trauma: Mindfulness Skills to Ease Post Traumatic Stress by Louanne Davis

• Secret Bad Girl: A Sexual Trauma Memoir and Resolution Guide by Rachael Maddox

• Sexual Healing: The Complete Guide to Overcoming Common Sexual Problems by Barbara Keesling

• The Art of Healing from Sexual Trauma: Tending Body and Soul through Creativity, Nature, and Intuition by Naomi Ardea

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

• The Body Remembers by Babbette Rothschild

• The Body Remembers Volume 2 by Babbette Rothschild

• The Complex PTSD Workbook by Arielle Schwartz

• The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Wendy Maltz

• Trauma and Memory by Peter Levine

• Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy by Pat Ogden

• Trauma and the Unbound Body by Judith Blackstone

• Traumatic Stress by Bessel van der Kolk

• Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine

• When the Body says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection by Gabor Mate

• Writing Ourselves Whole: Using the Power of your own Creativity to Heal from Sexual Trauma by Jen Cross

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Religious Trauma & Purity Culture

• Damaged Goods: New Perspective on Christian Purity by Dianna Anderson

• God by Reza Aslan

• God and Sex: What the Bible Really Says by Michael Coogan

• Holy Terror: The Fundamentalist War on America's Freedoms in Religion, Politics and our Private Lives by Flo Conway and Jim Siegalman

• Journey Free - Recovery from Harmful Religion (website)

• Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving their Religions by Marlene Winnell

• Living in Sin?: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality by John Shelby Spong

• Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein

• Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation by Dale Martin

• Sacred, Sexy & Whole: Undressing the Purity Culture, Redressing Redemption by Rachel Halder

• Sacred Wounds: A Path to Healing from Spiritual Trauma by Theresa Pasquele

• Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality by Dr. Darrel Ray

• Sex, God and the Conservative Church: Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy by Tina Schermer Sellers

• Shameless: A Sexual Reformation by Nadia Bolz Webber

• Social Bodies: The Shaping of Internal and External Worlds by Rusti Poulette

• Reclamation Collective (website)

• Religious Trauma Institute (website)

• Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships by Janja Lalich

• The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances Fitzgerald

• The God Virus: How Religion Infects our Lives and Culture by Dr. Darrel Ray

• The Mind of the Bible-Believer by Edmund Cohen

• Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Beliefs in a New Light by Valerie Tarico

• Unprotected Texts: The Bible's Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire by Jennifer Wright Knust

• Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence by Sara Moslener

• You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity by Jamie Lee Finch

 

Women’s Issues

• Better Sex Through Mindfulness: How Women can Cultivate Desire by Lori Brotto 

• Come as you Are by Emily Nagoski

• Dance of Intimacy by Harriet Lerner

• Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner

• Dodging Energy Vampires by Christiane Northrup

• Embodiment and Eating Disorders by Hillary McBride

• Embrace by Taryn Brumfitt

• How to Stop Feeling like Sh*t: 14 Habits that are Holding You Back from Happiness by Andrea Owen

• Mothers, Daughters and Body Image by Hillary McBride

• Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown

• Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly

• The Assertiveness Guide for Women: How to Communicate Your Needs, Set Healthy Boundaries, and Transform Your Relationships by Julie de Azevedo

• The Birth of Pleasure: A New Map of Love by Carol Gilligan

• The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor

• The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd

• The Hungry Self by Kim Chernin

• The Woman Code by Alisa Vitti

• Untame Yourself: Reconnect to the Lost Art, Power and Freedom of Being a Woman by Elizabeth DiAlto

• When Food is Love by Geneen Roth

• Women, Food and God by Geneen Roth

 

Personal Growth

• Attached by Amir Levine

• Boundaries: When to Say YES, When to Say NO, To Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud and John Townsend

• Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown

• Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Joe Dispenza

• Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser

• Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie

• Deeper Dating by Ken Page

• Enneagram Institute Website

• Feelings Buried Alive Never Die by Karol K. Truman

• Judgement Detox by Gabrielle Bernstein

• Rising Strong by Brene Brown

• Safe People by Henry Cloud and John Townsend

• Soul Repair: Rebuilding Your Spiritual Life by Jeff VanVonderen

• The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective by Richard Rohr and Andreas Ebert

• The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor

• The New Codependency by Melody Beattie

• The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

• Voice of the Heart by Chip Dod

• Why People don't Heal and how they Can by Carolyn Myss

• You are the Placebo by Joe Dispenza

• You can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay

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Couples and Relationships

• A Celebration of Sex: A Guide to Enjoying God’s Gift of Sexual Intimacy by Doug Rosenau

• Created for Connection by Dr. Sue Johnson and Kenneth Sanderfer

• Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson

• Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel

• ScreamFree Marriage: Calming Down, Growing Up and Getting Closer by Hal Runkel and Jenny Runkel

• The Path Between Us: An Enneagram Journey to Healthy Relationships by Suzanne Stabile

• The State of Affairs by Esther Perel

• The Self-Centered Marriage: The Revolutionary ScreamFree Approach to Rebuilding Your “We” by Reclaiming Your “I” by Hall Runkel and Jenny Runkel 

• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by Dr. John Gottman
   

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Podcasts

• Align: Mind, Body, Movement with Aaron Alexander

• Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson

• Beyond Me Too with Molly Coeling

• Bliss & Grit with Vanessa Scotto and Brooke Thomas

• Body Kindness with Rebecca Scritchfield

• Born Again, Again with Joe + Katie Bauer

• Change Making Women

• Conversations with Alanis Morissette

• Courage & Spice with Sas Petherick

• Deconversion Therapy 

• Deeper Dating with Ken Page

• Dirty John on Wondery

• #Exvangelical with Blake Chastain

• Everyone's Agnostic with Cass Midgley & Marie D'Elephant

• Fearless Rebelle Radio with Summer Innanen

• Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison

• Free Sex Podcast with Candice and Katie

• God is Grey with Brenda Davies

• Hay House Meditations

• Her Rules Radio with Alexandra Jamieson

• Ignite Intimacy with Laura Aiisha

• Let's Talk About It with Taylor Nolan

• Life After God with Ryan Bell

• Love, Sex, Desire with Susana Frioni

• #Millenneagram with Hannah Paasch

• MagaMama with Kimberly Ann Johnson

• Making Peace with Your Religious Past with Cheri Jamison

• Mind Body Musings with Maddy Moon

• MindShift with Dr. Clint Heacock

• Mormon and the Meth-Head with Aaron Woodall and Jessa Reed

• Naked Conversations with Sage Hobbs

• One Broken Mom with Amiee Quiriconi

• Oprah's Super Soul Conversations

• Other People's Problems with Hillary McBride

• Parenting Forward with Cindy Wang Brandt

• Polyvagal Podcast with Justin Sunseri

• Probably the Enneagram 

• Psychology of Eating with Marc David and Emily Rosen

• Real Crime Profile with Laura Richards, Jim Clemente and Lisa Zambetti

• Reclaim with Thais Sky

• Recovering from Religion Podcast

• Reclaiming your Eroticism with Amber Leitz

• Relationship Alive! with Neil Sattin

• Remedial Sex-Ed Podcast

• Sex Gets Real with Dawn Serra

• Shameless Sex with April Lampert and Amy Baldwin

• She Lift with Sarah Herron

• Smart Drug Smarts with Jesse Lawler

• Straight White American Jesus with Bradly Onishi 

• The Baggage Reclaim Sessions with Natalie Lue

• The BodyLove Project with Jessi Haggerty

• The Deconstructionists with Adam Narloch & John Williamson

• The Enneagram Journey with Suzanne Stabile

• The Graceful Atheist Podcast

• The Life After with Chuck Parson & Brady Hardin

• The Living Experiment with Dallas Hartwig and Pilar Gerasimo

• The Liturgists with Michael Gungor, Science Mike, William Matthews & Hillary McBride

• The Mantalks Podcast

• The Mental Illness Happy Hour with Paul Gilmartin

• The Polyvagal Podcast with Justin Sunseri

• The Science of Psychotherapy with Dahlitz Media

• The Sensibly Speaking Podcast with Chris Shelton

• The Sexually Liberated Woman with Ev'Yan Whitney

• The Tapping Solutions with Nick Ortner & Jessica Ortner

• Therapist Uncensored with Sue Marrio and Ann Kelley

• Therapy Chat with Laura Reagan

• Truth Telling with Elizabeth DiAlto

• Trauma Therapist Podcast with Guy Macpherson

• Tuff Love with Robert Kandell

• Typology with Ian Morgan Crohn

• UnErased: The History of Conversation Therapy in America

• Unscrewed with Jaclyn Friedman

• Where Should We Begin with Esther Perel

• You Have Permission with Dan Koch

• Your Kick Ass Life with Andrea Owen

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