Although these resources are credible and incredible, it is not a replacement for a therapeutic relationship or mental health and medical care. Information obtained from this page should not be considered a substitute for mental and medical evaluation by a credentialed and licensed professional. If you are in immediate crisis, please contact a trusted friend, family member, therapist, your health care provider or call 911.
Abusive and Domestic Violence Relationships
- Crazy Love by Leslie Morgan Steiner
- Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life (Interpersonal Violence) by Evan Stark
- Cycle of Violence
- Domestic Abuse Hotline
- Healing from Hidden Abuse: A Journey Through the Stages of Recovery from Psychological Abuse by Shannon Thomas
- It’s My Life Now by Meg Kennedy Duggan
- Mr. Unavailable and the Fallback Girl by Natalie Lue
- Power and Control Wheel
- Psychopath Free: Recovering from Emotionally Abusive Relationships with Narcissists, Sociopaths and Other Toxic People by Jackson MacKenzie
- Rethinking Domestic Violence by Donald Dutton
- Should I Stay or Should I Go? by Lundy Bancroft
- The Emotionally Abused Woman by Beverly Engle
- The Gaslighting Effect: A Revealing Look at Psychological Manipulation and Narcissistic Abuse by Reva Steenbergen
- The Gaslight Effect: How to Spot and Survive Hidden Manipulation Others Use to Control Your Life by Dr. Robin Stern
- The Gift of Fear by Gavin deBecker
- The Verbally Abusive Relationship by Patricia Evans
- Why does he do That? Inside the Mind of Angry and Controlling Men by Lundy Bancroft
- Women who Love Psychopaths: Inside the Relationships of Inevitable Harm with Psychopaths, Sociopaths & Narcissists by Sandra Brown
- Women who Love too Much by Robin Norwood
- You can Thrive After Narcissistic Abuse by Melanie Tonia Evans
Trauma and PTSD
- Healing Sex: A Mind-Body Approach to Healing Sexual Trauma by Staci Haines
- Healing the Fragmented Selves of the Trauma Survivors by Janina Fisher
- Healing Trauma by Peter Levine
- In an Unspoken Voice by Peter Levine
- Invisible Heroes: Survivors of Trauma and How they Heal by Bellruth Naparstek
- Meditations for Healing Trauma: Mindfulness Skills to Ease Post Traumatic Stress by Louanne Davis
- Secret Bad Girl: A Sexual Trauma Memoir and Resolution Guide by Rachael Maddox
- Sexual Healing: The Complete Guide to Overcoming Common Sexual Problems by Barbara Keesling
- The Art of Healing from Sexual Trauma: Tending Body and Soul through Creativity, Nature, and Intuition by Naomi Ardea
- The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
- The Body Remembers by Babbette Rothschild
- The Body Remembers Volume 2 by Babbette Rothschild
- The Complex PTSD Workbook by Arielle Schwartz
- The Sexual Healing Journey: A Guide for Survivors of Sexual Abuse by Wendy Maltz
- Trauma and Memory by Peter Levine
- Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy by Pat Ogden
- Trauma and the Unbound Body by Judith Blackstone
- Traumatic Stress by Bessel van der Kolk
- Waking the Tiger by Peter Levine
- When the Body says No: Understanding the Stress-Disease Connection by Gabor Mate
- Writing Ourselves Whole: Using the Power of your own Creativity to Heal from Sexual Trauma by Jen Cross
Religious Trauma & Purity Culture
- Damaged Goods: New Perspective on Christian Purity by Dianna Anderson
- God by Reza Aslan
- God and Sex: What the Bible Really Says by Michael Coogan
- Holy Terror: The Fundamentalist War on America’s Freedoms in Religion, Politics and our Private Lives by Flo Conway and Jim Siegalman
- Journey Free – Recovery from Harmful Religion (website)
- Leaving the Fold: A Guide for Former Fundamentalists and Others Leaving their Religions by Marlene Winnell
- Living in Sin?: A Bishop Rethinks Human Sexuality by John Shelby Spong
- Pure: Inside the Evangelical Movement that Shamed a Generation of Young Women and How I Broke Free by Linda Kay Klein
- Sex and the Single Savior: Gender and Sexuality in Biblical Interpretation by Dale Martin
- Sacred, Sexy & Whole: Undressing the Purity Culture, Redressing Redemption by Rachel Halder
- Sacred Wounds: A Path to Healing from Spiritual Trauma by Theresa Pasquele
- Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality by Dr. Darrel Ray
- Sex, God and the Conservative Church: Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacyby Tina Schermer Sellers
- Shameless: A Sexual Reformation by Nadia Bolz Webber
- Social Bodies: The Shaping of Internal and External Worlds by Rusti Poulette
- Reclamation Collective (website)
- Religious Trauma Institute (website)
- Take Back Your Life: Recovering from Cults and Abusive Relationships by Janja Lalich
- The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America by Frances Fitzgerald
- The God Virus: How Religion Infects our Lives and Culture by Dr. Darrel Ray
- The Mind of the Bible-Believer by Edmund Cohen
- Trusting Doubt: A Former Evangelical Looks at Beliefs in a New Light by Valerie Tarico
- Unprotected Texts: The Bible’s Surprising Contradictions About Sex and Desire by Jennifer Wright Knust
- Virgin Nation: Sexual Purity and American Adolescence by Sara Moslener
- You Are Your Own: A Reckoning with the Religious Trauma of Evangelical Christianity by Jamie Lee Finch
Women’s Issues
- Better Sex Through Mindfulness: How Women can Cultivate Desire by Lori Brotto
- Come as you Are by Emily Nagoski
- Dance of Intimacy by Harriet Lerner
- Dance of Anger by Harriet Lerner
- Dodging Energy Vampires by Christiane Northrup
- Embodiment and Eating Disorders by Hillary McBride
- Embrace by Taryn Brumfitt
- How to Stop Feeling like Sh*t: 14 Habits that are Holding You Back from Happiness by Andrea Owen
- Mothers, Daughters and Body Image by Hillary McBride
- Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good by Adrienne Maree Brown
- Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly
- The Assertiveness Guide for Women: How to Communicate Your Needs, Set Healthy Boundaries, and Transform Your Relationships by Julie de Azevedo
- The Birth of Pleasure: A New Map of Love by Carol Gilligan
- The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love by Sonya Renee Taylor
- The Dance of the Dissident Daughter by Sue Monk Kidd
- The Hungry Self by Kim Chernin
- The Woman Code by Alisa Vitti
- Untame Yourself: Reconnect to the Lost Art, Power and Freedom of Being a Woman by Elizabeth DiAlto
- When Food is Love by Geneen Roth
- Women, Food and God by Geneen Roth
Personal Growth
- Attached by Amir Levine
- Boundaries: When to Say YES, When to Say NO, To Take Control of Your Lifeby Henry Cloud and John Townsend
- Braving the Wilderness by Brene Brown
- Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Joe Dispenza
- Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow by Elizabeth Lesser
- Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself by Melody Beattie
- Deeper Dating by Ken Page
- Enneagram Institute Website
- Feelings Buried Alive Never Die by Karol K. Truman
- Judgement Detox by Gabrielle Bernstein
- Rising Strong by Brene Brown
- Safe People by Henry Cloud and John Townsend
- Soul Repair: Rebuilding Your Spiritual Life by Jeff VanVonderen
- The Enneagram: A Christian Perspective by Richard Rohr and Andreas Ebert
- The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
- The New Codependency by Melody Beattie
- The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types by Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson
- Voice of the Heart by Chip Dod
- Why People don’t Heal and how they Can by Carolyn Myss
- You are the Placebo by Joe Dispenza
- You can Heal Your Life by Louise Hay
- It’s Not Him, It’s You!: Girl, Forget the Breakup, Forgive Yourself by Precious Williams
Couples and Relationships
- A Celebration of Sex: A Guide to Enjoying God’s Gift of Sexual Intimacy by Doug Rosenau
- Created for Connection by Dr. Sue Johnson and Kenneth Sanderfer
- Hold Me Tight by Sue Johnson
- Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel
- ScreamFree Marriage: Calming Down, Growing Up and Getting Closer by Hal Runkel and Jenny Runkel
- The Path Between Us: An Enneagram Journey to Healthy Relationships by Suzanne Stabile
- The State of Affairs by Esther Perel
- The Self-Centered Marriage: The Revolutionary ScreamFree Approach to Rebuilding Your “We” by Reclaiming Your “I” by Hall Runkel and Jenny Runkel
- The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work by Dr. John Gottman
Podcasts
- Align: Mind, Body, Movement with Aaron Alexander
- Being Well with Dr. Rick Hanson
- Beyond Me Too with Molly Coeling
- Bliss & Grit with Vanessa Scotto and Brooke Thomas
- Body Kindness with Rebecca Scritchfield
- Born Again, Again with Joe + Katie Bauer
- Change Making Women
- Conversations with Alanis Morissette
- Courage & Spice with Sas Petherick
- Deconversion Therapy
- Deeper Dating with Ken Page
- Dirty John on Wondery
- #Exvangelical with Blake Chastain
- Everyone’s Agnostic with Cass Midgley & Marie D’Elephant
- Fearless Rebelle Radio with Summer Innanen
- Food Psych Podcast with Christy Harrison
- Free Sex Podcast with Candice and Katie
- God is Grey with Brenda Davies
- Hay House Meditations
- Her Rules Radio with Alexandra Jamieson
- Ignite Intimacy with Laura Aiisha
- Let’s Talk About It with Taylor Nolan
- Life After God with Ryan Bell
- Love, Sex, Desire with Susana Frioni
- #Millenneagram with Hannah Paasch
- MagaMama with Kimberly Ann Johnson
- Making Peace with Your Religious Past with Cheri Jamison
- Mind Body Musings with Maddy Moon
- MindShift with Dr. Clint Heacock
- Mormon and the Meth-Head with Aaron Woodall and Jessa Reed
- Naked Conversations with Sage Hobbs
- One Broken Mom with Amiee Quiriconi
- Oprah’s Super Soul Conversations
- Other People’s Problems with Hillary McBride
- Parenting Forward with Cindy Wang Brandt
- Polyvagal Podcast with Justin Sunseri
- Probably the Enneagram
- Psychology of Eating with Marc David and Emily Rosen
- Real Crime Profile with Laura Richards, Jim Clemente and Lisa Zambetti
- Reclaim with Thais Sky
- Recovering from Religion Podcast
- Reclaiming your Eroticism with Amber Leitz
- Relationship Alive! with Neil Sattin
- Remedial Sex-Ed Podcast
- Sex Gets Real with Dawn Serra
- Shameless Sex with April Lampert and Amy Baldwin
- She Lift with Sarah Herron
- Smart Drug Smarts with Jesse Lawler
- Straight White American Jesus with Bradly Onishi
- The Baggage Reclaim Sessions with Natalie Lue
- The BodyLove Project with Jessi Haggerty
- The Deconstructionists with Adam Narloch & John Williamson
- The Enneagram Journey with Suzanne Stabile
- The Graceful Atheist Podcast
- The Life After with Chuck Parson & Brady Hardin
- The Living Experiment with Dallas Hartwig and Pilar Gerasimo
- The Liturgists with Michael Gungor, Science Mike, William Matthews & Hillary McBride
- The Mantalks Podcast
- The Mental Illness Happy Hour with Paul Gilmartin
- The Polyvagal Podcast with Justin Sunseri
- The Science of Psychotherapy with Dahlitz Media
- The Sensibly Speaking Podcast with Chris Shelton
- The Sexually Liberated Woman with Ev’Yan Whitney
- The Tapping Solutions with Nick Ortner & Jessica Ortner
- Therapist Uncensored with Sue Marrio and Ann Kelley
- Therapy Chat with Laura Reagan
- Therapy for Black Girls with Dr. Joy Harden
- Truth Telling with Elizabeth DiAlto
- Trauma Therapist Podcast with Guy Macpherson
- Tuff Love with Robert Kandell
- Typology with Ian Morgan Crohn
- UnErased: The History of Conversation Therapy in America
- Unscrewed with Jaclyn Friedman
- Where Should We Begin with Esther Perel
- You Have Permission with Dan Koch
- Your Kick Ass Life with Andrea Owen
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