This is a short list of resources I have found helpful and insightful, organized by topic. If you have resources that have been influential to your life and healing, please do share.
More immediate or crisis resources:
Allegheny County Re:Solve Crisis Network – 1.888.7YOU CAN (1.888.796.8226)
National Suicide Prevention Hotline – 1.800.273.TALK (1.800.273.8255)
Center for Victims Crisis line (Pittsburgh) – 1.866.644.2882
Pittsburgh Action Against Rape – 1.866.END.RAPE (1.866.363.7273)
Postpartum Support Warm-line (National) – 1.800.944.4PPD (1.800.944.4773)
LGBT National Hotline – 1.888.843.4564
Casa San José (Pittsburgh) – 412.343.3111
JFCS Refugee & Immigration (Pittsburgh) – 412.521.1737
Steel Smiling– black mental health care fund
Pittsburgh Mutual Aid – connection to resources, including funds
Be Well! – Pittsburgh health care guide
Pandemic:
How To Survive The end Of The World – podcast
WHO Mental Health and COVID-19 page
Advice For Dealing With Uncertainty, From People Who’ve Been There
Illness, disability, pain:
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna Samarasinha – podcast interview
Bitch Magazine – In Sickness series
Access Intimacy: The Missing Link – Mia Mingus
Spoons – Savannah Logsdon-Breakstone
You feel like shit – An Interaction Self-care guide
Grief and loss: How to honor our losses and not lose ourselves
grief is gratitude, fear is intelligence, truth is strategic – Adrienne Maree Brown
Grief and Gratitude – Adrienne Maree Brown
grief is not linear and it is everywhere – Adrienne Maree Brown
lighting candles for orlando, and for all of us – Adrienne Maree Brown
the dark magic of grief – Rae Swersey
What Does it Mean to Hold Space – Heather Plett
Caitlin Doughty on Death Positivity and Rituals
There Are No Five Stages of Grief – ‘When my father died, I wanted desperately to know the timing of this thing. But grief doesn’t have a timeline.’ – Andy Kopsa
Attachment:
John Bowlby – the person who first spoke about attachment in the way we know it now. Plus some exploration of the ideas.
How Your Attachment Style Affects Your Relationship – in relation to relationships, models, building.
Hold Me Tight– a book by Sue Johnson, the founder of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT)
The Art of Wellbeing – on attachment theory
Your Attachment Style Influences the Success of Your Relationship
How to Change Your Attachment Style
EFT research
The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture – Nora Samaran
Sue Johnson: Changes in Relationship-Specific Romantic Attachment in EFT
Mind and body, Somatics:
Generative Somatics
Somatic Experiencing
The Charming Science of Your Gut – video on how our gut and brain interact, including how our mental health is impacted
Trauma and resiliency:
The art of healing trauma – Heidi Hanson
15 Trauma Healing Goals – Symbolic Representations
Window of Tolerance – Laura Kerr
Trauma Stewardship – This is a book that I have found extremely helpful for people experiencing intensity, vicarious/secondary trauma
Radical mental healthcare:
Fireweed Collective – formally The Icarus Project
Mad In American
Culture, Healing justice and Activism:
California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) – with guests such as Angela Davis, Boots Riley, Lindy West, Francesca Ramsey, Chelsea Manning and many more
Healing Justice for the Black Lives Matter Movement – Just Healing
Medical Industrial Complex – Visual – Mia Mingus
The Opposite of Rape Culture is Nurturance Culture– Nora Samaran
Filling the Void – an interview with Bruce K. Alexander On How Our Culture Is Making Us Addicted
Conflict and trauma transformation:
Transforming Historical Harms – Coming to the Table
What isn’t transformative justice – Adrienne Maree Brown
Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet – by the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective on relationships to turn towards for both support and responsibility
Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective Resources
Pregnancy, birth and postpartum:
Darkside of Motherhood Therapeutic Group – Pittsburgh’s Post Traumatic Birth Therapeutic Group
Postpartum Pittsburgh – Mental health resources for people who are pregnant or postpartum
Therapy:
A Therapist Walks into a Bar – A podcast that brings therapy to you
Why We Feel Lonely and Odd– short animated video
On Soul, Character and Calling: A Conversation with James Hillman – Scott London
How Therapy Works – a Deep Eddy Psychotherapy therapist writing about their practice, but with really general and helpful ideas