We need more than affirmations and insight. We need tools, context, and connection. The resources below are portals — to healing, to remembering, to reclaiming what was never truly lost. These are the frameworks, practices, and teachings I return to again and again in my work and life.
Couples Therapy Resources:
If you’re seeking support in your relationship, these are the frameworks and methods I draw from, or deeply respect for their integrity and grounding in real relational repair.
Relational Life Therapy (RLT) – Direct, relational, no-nonsense. Focused on accountability, repair, and truth-telling with compassion.
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) – Attachment-based model that helps couples de-escalate conflict and restore emotional connection.
The Gottman Method – Research-based tools for communication, conflict, and long-term relationship success.
Rising Beyond Power and Control – Therapeutic resources for survivors of coercive control and abuse in intimate relationships.
Trauma Healing Modalities:
Healing happens when we work with—not against—the wisdom of the nervous system. These are some of the methods I integrate or admire.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy – A body-centered therapy for trauma and attachment that bridges talk therapy and somatic work.
Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) – A powerful parts-based model for complex trauma, dissociation, and emotional dysregulation.
Crisis and Mental Health Support:
Because surviving shouldn’t mean doing it alone.
These are lifelines when the world goes dark—crucial resources for immediate support, protection, and stabilization.
Domestic Violence Support and Hotlines
Mental Health Support and Hotlines
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services
Trauma, Healing, and Development:
Understanding how we break is how we begin to heal.
These frameworks and tools illuminate the long arc of trauma and the nervous system’s exquisite path back to safety and connection.
Alberta Family Wellness – On child development and neurobiology of trauma
The ACE Study (Adverse Childhood Experiences): On how childhood adversity impacts long-term health
The Breema Center – Body-based practices for presence and integration
Biodynamic International: Somatic developmental psychology
Media, Culture and Critical Thinking:
Waking up means unlearning what we were taught to see.
These sources invite you to question the lens, deconstruct the noise, and reclaim the right to think—and feel—deeply.
Media Education Foundation – Documentaries on media and cultural analysis
Truthdig – Investigative reporting and social critique
Somatic + Experiential Healing:
The body remembers what the mind can’t name.
These practices guide you back to your breath, your bones, your belonging—so healing isn’t just insight, but felt, lived, and held in the body.
TRE (Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises) – Nervous System Healing
Neurogenic Yoga – TRE-based trauma release and nervous system regulation
Somatic Experiencing – Body-based trauma resolution (Peter Levine)
TIST (Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment) –
Recovery & Integration:
This is the long return to the self beneath the roles.
These practices support the sacred process of coming home—of shedding shame, rewriting your story, and rooting in your own truth.
Hoffman Process – Deep personal healing and integration
Smart Recovery – Non-pathologizing recovery support
Urban Bush Queen – Ancestral and intuitive body wisdom
Feminist + Spiritual Lineages:
My work is shaped by these lineages of myth, ritual, remembrance, and resistance.
Suppressed Histories – Max Dashu is an incredible feminist historian preserving and teaching global women’s spiritual traditions.
Starhawk – Reclaiming, Earth-Based Ritual & Activism – Starhawk is the author of The Spiral Dance, Starhawk’s work blends goddess spirituality, activism, and ecofeminism.
Center for Partnership Systems – Riane Eisler’s vision of partnership culture grounded in equity, care, and connection.
Regina Lynn – Mentorship and deep dive into goddess traditions, cyclical living, and embodied awakening.