Resources for relational life, healing, and the deeper work.
No single framework explains everything.
These are some of the approaches, organizations, teachers, and resources I return to in my clinical work, writing, and personal life. Some are grounded in psychotherapy and trauma treatment. Others come from feminist scholarship, embodiment, recovery, cultural critique, or spiritual traditions.
I do not necessarily endorse every idea held by every person or organization listed here. I include them because something in their work has contributed meaningfully to how I think about relationship, healing, culture, embodiment, power, or the deeper life.
Relationships & Couples
Relationships ask more of us than communication skills alone. These approaches and resources have shaped how I understand intimacy, attachment, conflict, accountability, and repair.
Relational Life Therapy (RLT)
A direct and relational approach to couples work developed by Terry Real, with particular attention to relational patterns, accountability, repair, and the skills required for intimacy.
Relational Life Institute
Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
An attachment-based approach that works with emotion and recurring interactional patterns to strengthen connection between partners.
International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy
The Gottman Institute
Research, education, and practical resources on friendship, conflict, communication, intimacy, trust, and long-term partnership.
The Gottman Institute
Trauma, Embodiment & Development
Trauma is not only a story about what happened. It can shape the body, attention, relationships, perception, and the ways we organize ourselves around safety.
These approaches have influenced how I understand protective adaptation, developmental experience, embodiment, and the nervous system.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy
A body-oriented psychotherapy that brings together somatic awareness, attachment, emotion, cognition, and relational experience.
Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute
Trauma-Informed Stabilization Treatment (TIST) / Janina Fisher
A parts-oriented model for working with complex trauma and dissociation that integrates mindfulness, somatic interventions, and an understanding of protective adaptations.
Janina Fisher and TIST
Somatic Experiencing®
A body-oriented approach developed for working with the physiological effects of stress, shock, and trauma.
Somatic Experiencing International
Bodynamic
A somatic developmental psychology originating in Denmark that explores the relationship between psychological development, embodiment, dignity, choice, and connection.
Bodynamic International
Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
Accessible education on early brain development, adversity, resilience, addiction, mental health, and the ways early experience can influence health across the lifespan.
Alberta Family Wellness Initiative
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
Research and public education on the relationship between childhood adversity and later health and well-being, while also emphasizing the role of safe, stable, nurturing relationships and environments.
CDC: Adverse Childhood Experiences
Safety, Recovery & Support
Sometimes what you need first isn’t insight, but safety, stabilization, community, or specialized care.
Domestic Violence Support & Hotlines
Resources for people experiencing intimate partner violence, coercive control, or abuse.
View Domestic Violence Resources →
Rising Beyond Power and Control
Education, community, and support for women healing from domestic violence and abusive or coercive relationships.
Rising Beyond Power and Control
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Free, confidential support in the United States for people experiencing emotional distress or suicidal crisis, available by call or text to 988.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
SAMHSA / FindTreatment.gov
A confidential treatment locator for mental health and substance-use services in the United States and its territories.
FindTreatment.gov
SMART Recovery
A non-pathologizing, practical approach to recovery and changing addictive or compulsive behaviors.
Embodied & Experiential Practices
Not every form of learning happens through words.
These are practices and experiential approaches I have encountered as part of the larger landscape of embodiment, presence, and personal development.
Breema
A body-based practice centered on presence, connection, and embodied awareness.
TRE — Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises
A body-based practice using a series of exercises intended to evoke neurogenic tremoring and support physical release.
Neurogenic Yoga
An approach combining yoga-based movement with principles drawn from TRE and nervous-system regulation.
The Hoffman Process
An intensive personal-development program focused on inherited patterns, emotional experience, relationships, and greater freedom of choice.
Feminist, Cultural & Spiritual Lineages
Psychology is not the only lineage that has shaped me.
Feminist scholarship, women’s spirituality, cultural history, myth, ritual, and traditions have also shaped my thinking, asking what gets forgotten when human life is reduced to the individual psyche.
Suppressed Histories Archives / Max Dashu
A remarkable archive of global women’s history, cultural memory, female spiritual traditions, systems of domination, resistance, and women’s spheres of power across time and place.
Suppressed Histories Archives
Starhawk
Writer, activist, teacher, and influential voice in earth-based spirituality and ecofeminism, whose work brings together ritual, ecological thinking, feminism, community, and social change.
Starhawk
Center for Partnership Systems / Riane Eisler
Work exploring the contrast between domination and partnership systems and the roles of gender, care, equity, culture, and power in shaping human societies.
Center for Partnership Systems
Regina Lynn Gladney
Mentorship and teaching around goddess traditions, cyclical life, embodied spirituality, and women’s spiritual development.
Media, Culture & Critical Thought
Inner life is shaped by the culture around us.
These resources have helped me think more critically about media, representation, gender, power, consumer culture, and the stories we inherit about who we are supposed to become.
Media Education Foundation
Documentary films and educational resources designed to support critical thinking about media, culture, representation, commercialism, gender, race, class, and power.
Media Education Foundation
A note about resources
A link is not a prescription.
Different people need different forms of care, and not every modality, teacher, practice, or framework will be right for every person. Some of these resources are clinical; others are educational, experiential, spiritual, or cultural.
I offer them as places to explore, not answers to adopt wholesale.
Take what helps you understand yourself, your relationships, and the world around you more deeply, and keep your own discernment in the room.