Resources
This page contain a list of books, articles, and online talks and videos to be utilized as supportive tools toward developing a greater understanding and perspective of relationships, sexuality, mindfulness, addiction, parenting, and personal growth. This page will constantly evolve as new resources become available. Enjoy at your leisure!
healthy relationship
ebook - Developing Habits for Relationship Success ~ Dr. Brent J. Atkinson (recommended for all clients)
article - The Four Qualities of a Conscious Relationship
article - The Happy Couple
book - Mating in Captivity ~ Esther Perel
book - Hold me Tight ~ Sue Johnson
book - Wired for Love ~ Stan Tatkin
video - Thich Nhat Hanh on the Four Mantras
video - The Anatomy of Trust ~ Brené Brown
Podcast - Dating Den with Dr. Rick Hanson
video - Four Minutes of Eye Contact Increases Intimacy
Podcast - Love Drugs with Brian Earp - Sex Talk with Erika Miley
Zouk Video - Anderson & Brenda - Hormone soup (Spirit Bird)
Game - The { } And - The Skin Deep
Podcast - A Divorce Attorney’s Thoughts On Love and Marriage - James Sexton, on Soft White Underbelly
Podcast - Alain de Botton — The True Hard Work of Love and Relationships (unedited version) - On Being
Healthy Sexuality
website - OMGYes
Ted Talk - Rethinking Infidelity ~ Esther Perel
book - Slow Sex ~ Nicole Daedone
book - Resurrecting Sex ~ Dr. David Schnarch
book - Come As You Are ~ Emily Nagoski
book - She Comes First ~ Ian Kerner
Audio book - Enlightened Sex ~ David Deida
Ted Talk - The Secret to Desire in a Long-Term Relationship ~ Esther Perel
Ted Talk - The Truth About Infidelity, Intimacy, & Love ~ Esther Perel
Ted Talk - Orgasm: The cure for hunger in the western woman ~ Nicole Daedone
Ted Talk - What Young Women Believe About Their Own Sexual Pleasure - Peggy Orenstein
Video - Orgasmic Meditation with Nicole Daedone: 30 Days of Intent - Book, Slow Sex (above) recommended prior to this practice
Article - Scents & Sensibility - Psychology Today, Elizabeth Svoboda
Website - Slutbot - Learn How to Talk Dirty to Improve Intimacy
Podcast - On Being “Eroticism is the Antidote to Death,” with Esther Perel
Article - Why are Young People Having so Little Sex - Kate Julian
Ted Talk - The Keys to a Happier, Healthier Sex Life - Emily Nagoski
Book - Tell Me What You Want: The science of sexual desire and how it can improve your sex life - Dr. Justin Lehmiller
Article - Real Orgasms And Transcendent Pleasure: How Women Are Reigniting Desire - Malake Gharib & Katherine Rowland
Ted Talk - A Case for Cliteracy - Sophia Wallace
Podcast - The Biology of Sex - Ted Hour Radio
TV Series - Sex, Love, & Goop - Netflix
Article - An Introduction to Tantra - Mark Steinmetz, an interview with Michaela Boehm
Podcast - Sex & Psychology: Sex on the Brain - Dr. Justin Lehmiller & Dr. Emily Nagoski
Website - The Best Vibrators for Solo Pleasure and Partner Play - Goop
TV Series - Sex Education - Netflix
Podcast - Episode 72 - Kink on the Brain: The Truth about BDSM/An interview with a Professional Dominatrix - Sex & Psychology
TV Series - Principles of Pleasure - Netflix
Website - Afterglow - Sexual Wellness, women-centric porn, education, and “eduporn,” dedicated to improving your sexual experience
Mindfulness
article - Mindfulness
article - Exercising Your Brain
book - Anger: Wisdom for cooling the flames ~ by Thich Nhat Hanh
book - The Mindful Brain ~ by Dr. Daniel Siegel
book - Full Catastrophe Living ~ by Jon Kabat-Zinn & Thich Nhat Hanh
practice - Shamatha-Vipashyana/Mindfulness-Awareness Meditation ~ Pema Chödrön
app - Headspace -Meditation
book - The Power of Now ~ Eckhart Tolle
Addiction and recovery
Ted Talk - Everything You Think You Know About Addiction is Wrong ~ Johan Hari
Ted Talk - The Power of Addiction and the Addiction to Power ~ Dr. Gabor Maté
video - Attachment, Disease, & Addiction ~ Dr. Gabor Maté
article - The Opposite of Addiction is not Sobriety, it is Human Connection
article - Congress Passes a Bill to Address Addiction as a Health Problem
article - Facing Addiction in America
book - In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts ~ Dr. Gabor Maté
book - Beyond Addiction ~ Jeffrey Foote, Carrie Wilkens, Nicole Kosanke, & Stephanie Higgs
book - The Biology of Desire ~ Marc Lewis
Article - The Psychopharmacology of Everyday Life ~ Jamieson Webster
Website - Smoking Cessation Support ~ Allen Carr
Movie - Thanks For Sharing
Podcast - This Naked Mind - Annie Grace
Podcast - Understanding & Treating Addiction - Dr. Andrew Huberman and Dr. Anna Lembke
Podcast - What Alcohol Does to Your Brain and Body - Dr. Andrew Huberman
Personal Growth and neurobiology
Tedx Talk - Happiness ~ Robert Waldinger
article - 16 Ways to Increase Neuroplasticity and why that's Important
article - The Three Faces of Victim - an Overview of the Drama Triangle
article - The Disease of Being Busy
Facebook post - The Wrong Emotion ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Ted Talk - The Power of Vulnerability ~ Brené Brown
video - The Backwards Brain Bicycle
Tedx Talk - The Transformational Life ~ Robb Smith
Ted Talk - The Gift and Power of Emotional Courage ~ Susan David
Podcast - Spiritual Success Summit
Ted Talk - Listening to Shame ~ Brené Brown
Article - Vagus Nerve is the Key to Well-Being ~ Edith Zimmerman
Video - What Was Revealed in Dallas ~ Nic Askew
Book - Wait, What? - James E. Ryan
Podcast - Press Play - Ted Hour Radio
Podcast - How to be Better - Ted Hour Radio
Podcast - Rethinking Anger - Ted Hour Radio
Book - The Book of Forgiving - Desmond Tutu and Mpho Andrea Tutu
Podcast - Forgiveness - Ted Hour Radio
Ted Talk - This Could Be Why You’re Depressed or Anxious - Johann Hari
Animated Short - The Egg - by Andy Weir, animated by Kurzgesagt
Book - Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power - Carolyn Elliot
Somatic psychology, strength, and physical health
Book - Forever Strong - Dr. Gabrielle Lyon
Book - The Body Keeps the Score - Bessel van der Kolk
medicine assisted therapy
Website - Skylight Psychedelics - Partner in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP)
Podcast - Dr. Matthew Johnson: Psychedelics for Treating Mental Disorders/Episode 38 - Huberman Lab
Podcast - How MDMA Therapy Might Change Psychiatry, with Dan Engle, MD - Fundamental Health with Paul Saladino, MD
Podcast - New Paradigms, Ayahuasca, and Redefining Addiction ~ Tim Ferriss & Dr. Gabor Maté
Ted Talk - The Future of Psychedelic Assisted Therapy - Rick Doblin
Podcast - Saj Razvi - Psychedelic Somatic Institute - The Psychedelic Therapy Podcast
Article - Why Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Has Gone Mainstream - Forbes
Article - What Is Ketamine? - Psych Garden
Book - How To Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan
Documentary - Fantastic Fungi - Louie Schwartzberg
Book - A Dose of Hope: A story of MDMA assisted psychotherapy ~ Dr. Dan Engle & Alex Young
Understanding Trauma
Article & Video - Childhood Trauma, the Real Cause of Our Anxiety, and our “Insane” Culture ~ Dr. Gabor Maté
Video - Polyvagal Theory: How your body makes the decision ~ Stephen Porges
Book - It Didn’t Start With You - Mark Wolynn
Youtube - Polyvagal Theory - Dr. Stephen Porges
YouTube - Healing Trauma in a Toxic Culture - Dr. Gabor Maté & Andre Duqum
Book - The Myth of Normal_ Trauma, illness, and healing in a toxic culture - Dr. Gabor Maté
Book - No Bad Parts: Healing trauma and restoring wholeness with the internal family systems model - Richard C. Schwartz
Birth, Parenting, and family
book - Ina May's Guide to Childbirth ~ Ina May Gaskin
book - Parenting from the Inside Out ~ Dr. Dan Siegel
book - The Developing Mind ~ Dr. Dan Siegel
book - Becoming Attached ~ Robert Karen
book - Attached ~ Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
book - Brain Based Parenting ~ Dan Hughes
book - Raising an Emotionally Intelligent Child - Dr. John Gottman
book - Raising Cain ~ Dan Kindlon & Michael Thompson
article - The Family Stories that Bind Us
documentary - What Babies Want
documentary - The Business of Being Born
movie - Men, Women, and Children
website (+ resources) - Step Family Relationships ~ Dr. Patricia Papernow
Article - Inside a European Adventure Playground
Article - How to Land Your Kid in Therapy
Website - Sex Positive Families
Podcast - The 4 S’s of Attachment Based Parenting ~ Dan Siegel on “The Relationship School” with Jayson Gadddis
Website - Step Family Relationships ~ Dr. Patricia L Papernow
Book - Hunt, Gather, Parent: What ancient cultures can teach us… ~ Michaeleen Doucleff
Book - The Baby Decision: How to make the most important choice of your life ~ Merle Bombardieri, MSC, LICSW
Youtube - Huberman Lab: Protocols for Excellent Parenting & Improving Relationships of All Kinds - Dr. Becky Kennedy
resources for Women
book - Circle of Stones ~ Judith Duerk
book - Women Who Run With the Wolves ~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés
podcast - Self-care, A Woman’s Guide ~ Nadine Artemis on Rewild Yourself
documentary - Miss Representation (trailer)
TedxTalk - Cliteracy ~ Sophia Wallace
book - Untamed ~ Glennon Doyle
book - Vagina Bible ~ Jen Gunter, MD
Instagram Page - The Vulva Gallery - Hilde Atalanta
Article - Maiden, Mother, Queen, & Crone - Sowell Magazine, Spring 2000
Resources for Men
article - Men and Touch
article - Men and Loneliness
documentary - The Mask You Live In
book - The Way of the Superior Man ~ David Deida
On Aging and the life cycle
article - The Ideal Age to Retire: Never - Daniel Levitin, PhD
Ted Talk - My Mushroom Burial Suit - Jae Rhim Lee
On Grieving
book - The Wild Edge of Sorrow ~ Francis Weller
podcast - Moving Forward ~ The Ted Hour Radio
Article - The Value of Grieving - Huffpost/Tian Dayton
Children's books
Zen Ties - Jon J Muth
The Three Questions - Jon J Muth
Stone Soup - Jon J Muth
The Giving Tree - Shel Silverstein
What Makes a Baby - Cory Silverberg
Sex is a Funny Word - Cory Silverberg
Tear Soup: A recipe for healing after loss - Pat Schwiebert
A Memory Box: A book about grief - Joanna Rowland
The Way I feel - Janan Cain
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