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books / community resources / inspiration

Coping and self-care
     How to stay outraged without losing your mind: Self-care lessons for the resistance
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Resources for coping and solidarity from Satmato Yoga Therapy
​​     Healing through the dark emotions: The wisdom of grief, fear, and despair
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Hope in the dark
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     Pleasure activism by adrienne maree brown
     
Developing your self-care plan

BIPOC and allied Mental Health Resources
Deconstructing the Mental Health System Directory and Free Therapy
Interconnections Healing Center
MEND Seattle
Georgetown Healing Arts

Anti-racism resources 
     Learning about privilege / oppression / white allyship
          Beyond inclusion, beyond empowerment: A developmental strategy to liberate everyone
          Witnessing whiteness: The need to talk about race and how to do it
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          Uprooting racism: How white people can work for social justice
          Racial and social justice education: Consulting, publications, resources 
          My grandmother's hands: Racialized trauma and the pathway to mending our hearts and bodies by Resmaa Menakem

          Diverse bodies, diverse practices: Toward an inclusive practice of somatics by Don Hanlon Johnson
          How to be an antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
          Stamped from the beginning: The definitive history of racist ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi
     Bystander intervention
​          Six tips to avoid being a bystander when witnessing a racist attack
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          Compiilation of bystander intervention training resources
     Challenging Islamophobia
          12 suggestions for confronting Islamophobia
          Answers to frequently asked questions about Muslims
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          Islam Fact Check
     Integrating spirituality with racial and social justice
          Living in the tension: The quest for a spiritualized racial justice
​          Radical Dharma: Talking race, love and liberation
          Spirituality and racial justice book club
     Organizations 
​          Coalition of anti-racist whites
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          Cultures Connecting
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          The People's Institute
          Showing up for racial justice
​          Social Justice Fund
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Immigration rights
     Mijente
     United We Dream
     Resources for refugees, detainees, asylum seekers and torture survivors

Queer / lesbian / gay / bisexual resources
​     Entre Hermanos
​     Gay City
​     Living out your gifts: Groups for gay men
     Sexual fluidity: Understanding women's love and desire

Gender Identity / Trans rights
     Center of Excellence for Transgender Health
     Gender Diversity / Gender Odyssey
     Gender Justice League
     Ingersoll Gender Center
     Fantastic list of transgender resources from Gay City
     The Queer and Transgender Resilience Workbook by Annaliese Singh

Body Image
     Body image movement: Celebrating body diversity and positive body image
​     Intuitive eating: A revolutionary program that works
     Why weight: A guide to ending compulsive eating
     What to do if your doctor fat shames you
     The Body is Not an Apology by Sonya Renee Taylor
     Body wars: Making peace with women's bodies - An activist's guide by Margo Maine
     Embodied resistance: Challenging the norms, breaking the rules by Chris Bobel
​     Non-normative body club


Disability Justice
     Care work: Dreaming disability justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha 
     Exile and pride: Disability, queerness and liberation by Eli Clare
​     Sins Invalid

     
Poly / non-monogamy / open relationships
     Polysecure: Attachment, trauma and non-monogamy
     A modern marriage: A memoir
    The jealousy workbook: Exercises and insights for managing open relationships
     Love in abundance: A counselor's advice on open relationships
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     The open relationship handbook: Basic tips and tools for navigating non-monogamy
     Scientific American: Polyamory may be good for you
    
Sex at dawn: How we mate, why we stray, and what it means for modern relationships
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     www.polyamory.org
     www.morethantwo.comwww.morethantwo.com/

Kink
​     Kink aware professionals directory
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     When someone you love is kinky

Coping with anxiety
​     Anxiety Disorders Association of America
     Obsessive-Compulsive Foundation

Coping with depression, bipolar disorder, and suicidality
​     bipolarhappens.com
     How I stayed alive when my brain was trying to kill me: One person's guide to suicide prevention
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     Take charge of bipolar disorder: A 4-step plan for you and your loved ones to manage the illness and create lasting stability
     
Touched with fire: Manic-depressive illness and the artistic temperament
     
Coping with trauma
     Coping with trauma related dissociaton: Skills training for patients and therapists
     Healing sex: A mind-body approach to sexual trauma
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     Not the price of admission: Healthy relationships after childhood trauma
     The survivor's guide to sex: How to have an empowered life after child sexual abuse
 
Somatic Therapies
​     The body keeps the score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma
     
Waking the tiger: Healing trauma
     Therapy without talking is a real thing: What you need to know about somatic therapy
     What your body has to do with social change

Cognitive Behavior Therapy
     
Feeling good: The new mood therapy
    
​Mindfulness
     The mindful way through depression: Freeing yourself from chronic unhappiness

Poetry and inspiration
     Joy Harjo - Conflict resolution for holy beings 
     Naomi Shihab Nye - Words under the words
     Lauren Zuniga - Confessions of an uneducated queer and other spoken word poems
     Andrea Gibson - You better be lightning
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     Social justice quote archives from Therapeutic Justice Project 
Without community there is certainly no liberation, no future, only the most vulnerable and temporary armistice between me and my oppression."   ~ Audre Lorde
  • Home
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  • WHO WE ARE
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  • Workshops & Groups
    • Asian Men's Group
    • Trans Kids Play Group and Parents Support Group
    • Transits: Writing workshop for trans teens
    • Hospicing Zionism
    • Parenting Neurodivergent Children
    • Trans Teens Connect!
    • When Winter is Too Much
    • Raising your unexpected child
    • Kate Mageau Groups
    • OCD Group
    • Intersectionality, race, and spirituality
    • From Strength to Strength
    • Eric Ward: Responding to White Nationalism
    • Resmaa Menakem: Healing racial trauma
    • Womxn of Color Healing Circle
    • Tools for healing and liberation >
      • Oct 28 2017
      • Dec 9 2017
      • Jan 28 2018
      • Feb 10 2018
      • March 2 2018
      • March 31 2018
      • April 27 2018
    • Family Values for the Revolution >
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