Books:

Trauma:

  • Complex PTSD, Pete Walker

  • Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, Peter Levine & Ann Frederick

  • It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle Mark Wolynn

  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, by Bessel van der Kolk

  • Happy Days, Gabby Bernstein

  • The Complex PTSD Workbook: A Mind-Body Approach to Regaining Emotional Control and Becoming Whole by Arielle Schwartz

  • The Pain We Carry: Healing from Complex PTSD for People of Color by Natalie Y. Gutierrez 

  • What My Bones Know by Stefanie Foo

  • Break the Cycle: A Guide to Healing Intergenerational Trauma by Dr. Mariel Buqué

Post-traumatic growth:

  • What Doesn’t Kill Us: The New Psychology of Post-Traumatic Growth, Stephen Joseph

  • Upside: The New Science of Post-Traumatic Growth, Jim Rendon

  • Mindset by Carol Dweck

Body Image:

Self-Help/Inspiration:

  • Any book by Brené Brown!

  • Self-Compassion: The Proven Power of Being Kind to Yourself, Kristen Neff

  • You Are a Badass: How to Stop Doubting Your Greatness and Start Living an Awesome Life, Jen Sincero

  • The 5-second rule: Transform your life, work, and confidence with everyday courage, Mel Robbins

  • Maybe it’s you…cut the crap, face your fears, love your life, Lauren Handel Zander

  • The Mountain is You, Brianna Weist

  • Radical Forgiveness, Colin Tipping

  • You are more than you think you are, Kimberly Snyder

  • The Ways of Integrity, Martha Beck

  • Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself, Joe Dispenza

  • The Dark Side of the Light Chasers, Debbie Ford

  • You Can Heal Your Life, Louise Hay

  • The Big Leap, Gay Hendricks

  • The Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life

  • How to do the Work: Dr. Nicole LePera

  • How to Meet Yourself (workbook): Dr. Nicole LePera

  • How to be the love you seek: Dr. Nicole LePera

  • Anxiety Rx: A New Prescription for Anxiety Relief from the Doctor Who Created It: Russell Kennedy, M.D.

  • Revolution of the Soul by Seane Corn

  • Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself by Joe Dispenza

  • The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer

  • Spirit Junkie by Gabrielle Bernstein

  • The Power of Now by Eckert Tolle

  • A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life’s Purpose

  • Ask and It is Given, Esther & Jerry Hicks

  • Loving What Is by Byron Katie(my fave)

  • The Seat of the Soul by Gary Zukav

  • Eastern Body, Western Mind by Anodea Judith

  • Radical Acceptance, Tara Brach

Habits:

  • Atomic Habits, James Clear

  • The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

  • The Perfect Day Formula: How to Own the Day and Control Your Life, Craig Ballantyne

  • Mindset: The New Psychology of Success, Carol Dweck

  • The Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8 AM), Hal Elrod

Podcasts for Self-Development:

  • The Mel Robbins Podcast

  • The Life Coach School, Brooke Castillo

  • I Think I Like You(Relationships), Clara Artschwager

  • Unf*ck Your Brain, Kara Lowentheil

  • Food Psych, Christy Harrison

  • Meditation Minis, Chel Hamilton

  • Losing 100 Pounds, Corinne Crabtree

  • Take a Break from Drinking, Rachel Hart

  • The Psychology of Eating Podcast, Marc David

  • We Can Do Hard Things, Glennon Doyle

  • Tara Brach(Tara is a meditation teacher who does meditations and talks about self-compassion on this podcast)

  • Better with Dr. Stephanie

  • On Purpose with Jay Shetty

  • Rich Roll

  • Happier with Gretchen Rubin

  • How to Be a Better Human with Chris Duffy

  • Help Me Be Me with Sarah May Bates

  • The School of Greatness with Lewis Howes

Books/Audiobooks on reducing/Quitting Alcohol/Addiction:

  • In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Dr. Gabor Maté

  • Quit Like a Woman by Holly Whitaker

  • The Naked Mind by Annie Grace

  • Quit Drinking by Allen Carr

  • We are the Luckiest…The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life by Lauren McKowen

  • Push Off from Here by Laura McKowen

  • The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober by Catherine Gray

  • Sober on a Drunk Planet by Sean Alexander

  • The Sober Diaries by Clare Pooley

  • Unbottled Potential by Amanda Kuda

  • Drinking: A Love Story by Caroline Knapp

  • Blackout: Remembering The Things I Drank To Forget by Sarah Hepola

  • Lit by Mary Karr

Podcasts for reducing alcohol:

  • Take a Break from Drinking, Rachel Hart

  • How I Quit Alcohol

  • To 50 & Beyond

  • Sober Awkward

  • Sober Powered


Apps to reduce alcohol:

  • Reframe

  • Less

  • Stop Drinking with Andrew Johnson

Apps for Mindfulness/Meditation/Breathwork:

  • Calm

  • Headspace

  • Insight Timer

  • Expand: Beyond Meditation(for Journaling)

  • Breathe

  • Medito: Meditation & Wellness

  • Healthy Minds Program

  • Smiling Mind(children & teens)

  • Pause Breathwork Exercises

  • YogaGlo

YouTube Yoga:

  • Yoga with Adriene

  • Bright & Salted

  • SarahBeth Yoga

  • Edyn Loves Life

  • Yoga by Biola

  • Yoga with Bird

  • Lizette Pompa Yoga

  • Yogini Melbourne

Menopause:

The New Menopause by Dr. Mary Claire Haver

The Menopause Manifesto by Dr. Jen Gunter

The Menopause Brain by Dr. Lisa Mosconi

It's Not Hysteria: Everything you need to know about your reproductive health( but were never told) by Dr. Karen Tang

Grown Woman Talk by Dr. Sharon Malone

Athens: 

The Hormone Midwife(Christy O'Reilly): https://www.thehormonemidwife.com/

Practitioners within a 50-mile radius 

Online medical resources:

Midi Health: https://www.joinmidi.com/

Alloy: https://www.myalloy.com/

The Menopause Society: https://menopause.org/

Podcasts:

https://www.joinmidi.com/post/menopause-podcast