My Favourite Mental Health Resources

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Mental Health Podcasts

Mental Health Resources

Unlocking Us With Brene Brown: “Trauma, Resilience, and Healing”

This week I’m talking to Oprah Winfrey and Dr. Bruce Perry about their new book, What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing. We define trauma and talk about why big and small traumas activate our stress response systems and create emotional, physical, and social consequences, and how we can find the path to healing.

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Unlock Us With Brene Brown: "Burnout and How to complete the stress cycle"

Burnout. We’re all experiencing it and we’re all desperate for a way through it. In this episode, I talk to Drs. Emily and Amelia Nagoski about what causes burnout, what it does to our bodies, and how we can move through the emotional exhaustion. This has been a game-changer for me and for my family!

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Unlocking Us with Brene Brown: “What Makes Love Last”

Drs. Julie and John Gottman have taken more than 40 years of breakthrough research and written or co-written more than 40 books on marital stability, divorce prediction, and how science can help people have successful, loving relationships. We talk about the toll the pandemic has taken on couples, their work in the context of current events, and practical shifts that can help us take care of each other.

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Where Words Can’t Reach: Shedding Light on our Dark Side

Hosted by Dr Madeleine De Little, this program opens up a conversation about the world of shame, how it has been needed in our past and the cost that comes with holding on to it.

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Mental Health Books/Audiobooks:

Mental Health Resources

Burnout

Sisters Emily Nagoski, PhD, and Amelia Nagoski, DMA, are here to help end the cycle of feeling overwhelmed and exhausted. Instead of asking us to ignore the very real obstacles and societal pressures that stand between women and well-being, they explain with compassion and optimism what we’re up against - and show us how to fight back.

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ADHD 2.0

“An inspired road map for living with a distractible brain . . . If you or your child suffer from ADHD, this book should be on your shelf. It will give you courage and hope.”—Michael Thompson, Ph.D., New York Times bestselling co-author of Raising Cain

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Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts: Discovering Your True Self Through Internal Family Systems Therapy

Many forms of therapy and even spiritual practice inadvertently put us in conflict with ourselves as we try to transcend or reject our parts. With Greater Than the Sum of Our Parts, Dr. Schwartz invites you to embrace each of your many parts with self-compassion - and discover the inclusive greater Self that is your true, divine nature.

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Healing Your Attachment Wounds: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships

Through key principles, examples, and practical exercises, this program invites you to begin your own healing journey toward healthy vulnerability, wholeness, and connection with others.

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What Happened to You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing

Through deeply personal conversations, Oprah Winfrey and renowned brain and trauma expert Dr. Bruce Perry offer a groundbreaking and profound shift from asking “What’s wrong with you?” to “What happened to you?”

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Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children Who Thrive

In Parenting from the Inside Out, child psychiatrist Daniel J. Siegel, M.D., and early childhood expert Mary Hartzell, M.Ed., explore the extent to which our childhood experiences shape the way we parent. Drawing on stunning new findings in neurobiology and attachment research, they explain how interpersonal relationships directly impact the development of the brain, and offer parents a step-by-step approach to forming a deeper understanding of their own life stories, which will help them raise compassionate and resilient children.

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Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder

Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD) has remainded a controversial topic in recent years. Whereas other books on the subject describe the condition as inherited, Dr. Maté believes that our social and emotional environments play a key role in both the cause of and cure for this condition.

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Stop Walking on Eggshells

Stop Walking on Eggshells by Paul T. Mason and Randi Kreger has already helped more than a million people with friends and family members suffering from BPD understand this difficult disorder, set boundaries, and help their loved ones stop relying on dangerous BPD behaviors.

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The Emotionally Destructive Marriage

For any woman caught in an emotionally destructive marriage, Leslie Vernick offers a personalized path forward. Based on decades of counselling experience, her intensely practical, biblical advice will show you how to establish boundaries and break free from emotional abuse.

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Community Resources:

24-hour Suicide Hotline: 1800-SUICIDE (1-800-784-2433)

Eating Disorder information: https://keltyeatingdisorders.ca/

310-MENTAL HEALTH (310-6789) – no area code needed anytime of the day or night if you need emotional support or looking for information on mental health resources.

Abbotsford Hospice Society: https://www.abbotsfordhospice.org/ 604-852-2456 - free resources for people who are grieving the death of their loved ones or facing end-of-life

Child and Youth Mental Health: provides mental health support for children, youth and families through groups and individual clinical counselling. Drop-in Intake – Tuesdays 9-4pm.

Foundry: https://foundrybc.ca/abbotsford/ 101-32555 Simon Ave, Abbotsford. 604-746-3392 - free resources/center for youth 12+; drop-in counselling, groups and youth clinics

START team: https://www.fraserhealth.ca/Service-Directory/Services/mental-health-and-substance-use/mental-health---child-and-youth-services/start-team---short-term-assessment-response-treatment#.YyYJ1-zMI1I
604-557-2095 - Provides mental health assessment, short-term crisis intervention for children and youth ages 6-18 who are in acute mental health crisis.

Early Psychosis Intervention (EPI) Program: https://www.fraserhealth.ca/Service-Directory/Services/mental-health-and-substance-use/mental-health---community-services/early-psychosis-intervention-program#.YyYKAuzMI1I
Provides clinical services and education for youth and young adults (13-30) with symptoms of early psychosis.