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Recommended books/media related to substance use:
In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts
A world renowned trauma expert combines real-life stories with cutting edge research to offer holistic approach to understanding addiction.
Dopamine Nation
Anna Lembke, M.D. — Explores the science of pleasure, pain, and finding balance in an age of overindulgence. (depression / anxiety / addiction)
Quit Like a Woman
Holly Whitaker — A fresh, empowering look at sobriety and rethinking our relationship with alcohol. (addiction)
SMART Recovery Podcast
Science-based tools and discussions supporting self-empowered addiction recovery. (addiction)
I Used to Be a Miserable F*ck
From The Angry Therapist blog founder and podcast host John Kim comes a guide for men looking to find more happiness in their relationships and more purpose in their life.
Dopey Podcast
THE PODCAST ABOUT DRUGS, ADDICTION, AND DUMB SH#T
SoberBuddy
Whether you’re kicking drinks or drugs to the curb - SoberBuddy is here for you no matter where you are on your journey.
Sober Link
Studies show that monitoring in early recovery can help improve outcomes. Soberlink's remote recovery technology empowers people in the fight against alcohol addiction.
In The Rooms
In The Rooms is a free, digital meeting website and social network for the addiction recovery community.
Recommended books/media related to depression:
Five Minutes in the Morning
What if five minutes could change your routine and change your day? What if you checked in with how you are feeling for just those few minutes ....
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson — A counterintuitive approach to living a good life by focusing on what truly matters. (depression / anxiety)
Hidden Brain (NPR)
Explores the unconscious patterns that drive human behavior and shape our choices. (depression / anxiety / general mental health)
How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
A new theory of how the brain constructs emotions that could revolutionize psychology, health care, law enforcement, and our understanding of the human mind.
The Art Of Living
Master the art of living from one of the world’s most revered spiritual leaders. Thich Nhat Hanh, the world’s most renowned Zen master, turns his mindful attention to the most important subject of all – the art of living.
Hidden Brain Daily Challeng
How good are you at distinguishing one face from another? Many of us have had the mortifying experience of running into someone who knows us by name — even though we have no idea who they are.
Recommended books/media related to anxiety:
The Gifts of Imperfection
This text informs its readers of acceptance-based techniques. This leading guide to therapeutic exposure focuses on inhibitory learning.
Headspace
Mindful meditation lets you calm down and breathe to relax during life’s difficult moments. Life is hard sometimes. Headspace is here to guide you through stress.
The Art of Noticing
131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday
Don't Feed the Monkey Mind
The very things we do to control anxiety can make anxiety worse. This unique guide offers a cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT)-based approach to help you recognize the constant chatter of your anxious “monkey mind,” stop feeding anxious thoughts, and find the personal peace you crave.
A Practical Guide to Mindfulness: Be Present in this Moment
Mindfulness is growing in popularity as a technique which teaches us to appreciate our life.This Practical Guide explores how to listen to your body to reduce stress and anxiety in all areas of your life;
Recommended books/media related to PTSD:
The Body Keeps the Score
A pioneering researcher transforms our understanding of trauma and offers a bold new paradigm for healing.
Trauma and Recovery
When Trauma and Recovery was first published in 1992, it was hailed as a groundbreaking work. In the intervening years, Herman’s volume has changed the way we think about and treat traumatic events and trauma victims.
What My Bones Know
A searing memoir of reckoning and healing by acclaimed journalist Stephanie Foo, investigating the little-understood science behind complex PTSD and how it has shaped her life
The Mindfulness Workbook for Ptsd
Effective Mindfulness Techniques for Reducing Traumatic Stress and Living in the Moment
Recommended for other mental health related issues:
he Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook for Bipolar Disorder
This workbook will help you integrate your coping skills with a new and effective dialectical behavior therapy (DBT) plan for living well with bipolar disorder.
Unmasking Autism
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, giving individuals the tools to safely uncover their true selves.
Thriving with Adult ADHD
Focus, organization, stress management, and more—these qualities are gained and improved by strengthening executive functioning and core skills.
The Imp of the Mind
In the first book to fully examine obsessive bad thoughts, Dr. Lee Baer combines the latest research with his own extensive experience in treating this widespread syndrome.
Recommended books/media related to social justice issues
The New Jim Crow
In her groundbreaking and devastating analysis of the American prison system, Alexander explains how the "war on drugs," in concert with our criminal justice system, has intentionally and comprehensively installed a new system of racial control as thoroughly as any Jim Crow era initiative.
A Colony in a Nation
Author Chris Hayes argues that there are really two Americas: a Colony and a Nation. Hayes explores how profound contrasts between policing and incarceration reveal disparate Americas.
Apple: Skin to the Core
Apple: Skin to the Core, is a YA memoir-in-verse. Eric Gansworth tells the story of his life, of an Onondaga family living among Tuscaroras, and of Native people in America, including the damaging legacy of government boarding schools
All Your Racial Problems Will Soon End
A collection of sidesplitting and subversive gag comics about Black life in America.
Policing the Planet
Combining firsthand accounts from activists with the research of scholars and reflections from artists, Policing the Planet traces the global spread of the broken-windows policing strategy, first established in New York City under Police Commissioner William Bratton. It’s a doctrine that has vastly broadened police power the world over—to deadly effect.
Recommended books/media for LGBTQ+ communities
Leg : The Story of a Limb and the Boy Who Grew from It
A hilarious and poignant memoir grappling with family, disability, and coming of age in two closets—as a gay man and as a man living with cerebral palsy.
Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference
Author Cordelia Fine, works to debunk the idea that men and women are hardwired with different interests.
Is It Hot in Here
In this memoir-esque exploration of selfhood, Zimmerman dives into the pros and cons of retiring a Bible-Belt-dwelling, meat-eating, God-fearing identity in exchange for a new, metropolitan lease on life—one of vegetarianism, atheism, queerness, and humor.
Recommended books/media for Grief:
Grief Is for People
Following the death of her closest friend, Sloane Crosley explores multiple kinds of loss in this disarmingly witty and poignant memoir.
Recommended books/media for Communication:
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Power of Habit, a fascinating exploration of what makes conversations work, and how we can all learn to be supercommunicators at work and in life.