Recommended Resources
Our therapists shared some of their favorite recommended resources that they have found beneficial for mental health and healing. To learn more about how we can help you along your healing journey, take a look at the Therapies We Offer.
Downloadable Worksheets
Use this worksheet to express and release your raw grief (and outrage, and anger, and loss, and gratitide) through the art of journaling.
Cry out to God in the midst of your grief just like the Psalmist does; use this worksheet to write your own lament.
If you’re struggling to communicate with a loved one, this formula can help you to both actively listen as well as express yourself well.
Understand which values are most important to you so that you can lead from those, rather than aiming at moving targets.
Finding a new therapist can be hard. Use these questions during your initial consultation to get a good feel for how well they fit with you.
Books
by Melody Beattie
Learning to care for yourself and to let go of what isn’t yours can be difficult. This book, also used in our Overcoming Codependency group, outlines how to find yourself again and take your power back.
by Brené Brown
Feeling inadequate is an epidemic in our society. This book outlines how to live from a place of worthiness, including walking through ten helpful guideposts for wholehearted living.
by Gretchen Schmeltzer
There are three principles that it is important for trauma survivors to understand: Healing is possible. It requires courage. And it cannot be done alone. This book provides a map for the trauma healing journey, including five phases of healing.
by Brené Brown
This book explores themes of vulnerability, courage, and how to safely bring your whole self into a relationship with others.
by Lindsay C. Gibson
There is a special kind of grief that comes with realizing that the parents you have may never show up for you the way you want and need. This book helps you heal from those wounds.
by Jonice Webb and Christine Musello
This book addresses a side of adverse childhood experiences that is often overlooked: what was missing. Learn about Childhood Emotional Neglect and its signs, along with strategies for healing.
by Aundi Kolber
This book offers an alternative route to “white-knucking” life through practicing boundaries, making sense of experiences, understanding Attachment styles, moving through emotions, and growing in self-compassion.
by Jenna Riemersma
This faith-based introduction to Internal Family Systems (IFS) explains how to genuinely welcome and integrate all parts of us, even the ones who feel unhelpful.
by Dane C. Ortlund
This book explores Jesus’s words, “I am gentle and lowly in heart,” diving deeper into the truth of His loving character and tenderness.
Apps
This app helps you name and track your emotions throughout the day; you can also share with a loved one. It’s great for increasing self-awareness!
The Gottman Institute offers this helpful app to spark conversations between couples and increase emotional intimacy.
This app provides daily prompts for practicing gratitude, which is proven to help shift your brain out of fight/flight/freeze/fawn.
Podcasts
This podcast focuses specifically on trauma and symptom yelief. In this episode, Louise Finley discusses how Neurofeedback can help women heal from abusive relationships.
Other
This non-profit practice provides individual and group therapy for trauma with highly-trained, trauma-informed professionals.