Resources

ANXIETY & DEPRESSION

Can Empathy Hurt Your Health? – learn the difference between compassion and empathy.
 
 
Turning Negative Thinkers into Positive Ones – Reminder of how to increase your positive outlook every day.
 

BODY IMAGE

Four Steps to Healthier Self-Esteem – A great article on self-esteem from the Mayo Clinic.

Tossing Out the Diet and Embracing the Fat – Great article to challenge the idea that lean is better.

10 “Will Powers” for Improving Body Image – NEDA

Dove’s Self Esteem Project – wonderful site for parents and kids exploring varied body types.

Ted Talk: Cameron Russell: Looks aren’t everything. Believe me, I’m a model.

CAREER & WORK

Skill Scan – Wonderful assessment tools for people in search of a new career.

My Next Move – A short questionnaire to determine overall career interests and possible job moves. Great starting point for a new career or career change.

Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory – This is THE personality test. There are tons of reports and available here and also the STRONG career inventory. Not free but valuable!

Keirsey Temperament Inventory – A free temperament test that is related to the MBTI. Once you have your temperament type you can pay for more reports or find many resources online for free.

ADDICTION AND RECOVERY

Find your local AA meetings

National Institute on Drug Abuse – there’s information here for everyone.

The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think

Addiction as an attachment disorder

MINDFULNESS & MEDITATION

Calm.com – Simple guided meditation & mindfulness to sleep, relax, breathe.
 
Headspace.com – Mindfulness meditation via an app but also has 10 introductory lessons on Netflix.
 
Benefits of Mindfulness

PARENTING

Kids First Center – A wonderful resource for parents who are divorcing or families going through crisis.

Center for Grieving Children – Local peer support groups for children and their parents after the death of a loved one.

Center on Media and Child Health – keeping children healthy in the information age.

The Child’s Developing Brain – New York Times article

PREGNANCY & POSTPARTUM DEPRESSION

Women’s Mental Health – A comprehensive website for women pertaining especially to reproductive and perinatal health.
 
 
 

RELATIONSHIPS AND SEXUALITY

Meetup.com – A great way to meet other people and do interesting things. Not a dating site!
 
How Not to Say the Wrong Thing – Los Angeles Times article
 
Igniting the Spark – Psychology Today article on low desire and sex therapy techniques

How Vulnerability Holds the Key to Emotional Intimacy – Spirituality & Health article

Lessons from the Love Lab – an overview of John and Julie Schwartz Gottman’s relationship model

Reclaiming Female Sexual Desire –  Pamela Joy TED talk on her experience with low sexual desire

The Link Between Body Image, Sexual Mindfulness and Desire – Psychology Today article

Sexercises– Excerpt from article by Jaida Edwards

DOMESTIC ABUSE

 
 
Power and Control Wheel – a diagram outlining some of the ways the abuser controls their partner.
 
Cycle of Abuse – I particularly like this article because it outlines not just the abuser’s behavior but the abused person’s common responses.
 
 

CHEER ME UP!

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