BOOKS, WEBSITES AND APPS TO ASSIST...

• Mental Health Lou - Focused on connecting Louisville with the mental health resources they need through provider matching, workshops, events and more.

• Earth & Spirit Center - Offers educational opportunities, workshops for beginners and children and many more.

• Louisville Community of Mindful Living - Coming together to meditate, share insights, ask questions and find a peaceful refuge without fear of judgment or rejection.

• Koru Mindfulness Trainings - An evidence-based curriculum designed to teach mindfulness, meditation, and stress management. Hosted by UofL.

If possible - please support your local bookstore when purchasing any books or rent from your local library :)

• Come As You Are by Emily Nagoski, PhD

• The Gifts of Imperfection by Brene Brown

• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk

• Where you Go There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn

• Untamed by Glennon Doyle

• I’m Still here by Austin Channing Brown

• Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections by Emily Nagoski, PhD

• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a #@%! by Mark Manson

• The Mindful Twenty-Something by Holly Rogers

• Maybe You Should Talk To Someone by Lori Gottlieb

• Dare To Lead by Brene Brown

• The Proven Power of Being Kind To Yourself: Self Compassion by Tara Brach

• Unf#ck Your Brain by Faith Harper

• The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

• Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control by Katherine Schafler

• Koru Mindfulness - Koru Mindfulness® is an evidence-based curriculum specifically designed for teaching mindfulness, meditation, and stress management to college students and other young adults.

• Mindfulness - Besides offering an extensive number of meditations with world-renowned teachers, the app also includes a reminder function which can be activated on specific times and places.

• Insight Timer - Offers the largest free library of guided meditations on earth and the world’s most loved meditation Timer, for free.

• Calm - Calm is the perfect mindfulness app for beginners, but also includes hundreds of programs for intermediate and advanced users.

• Headspace - A personal meditation guide, right in your pocket with hundreds of themed sessions on everything from stress and sleep to anxiety and depression.

• Wildmind - Wildmind’s mission is to benefit the world by promoting mindfulness and compassion through the practice of Buddhist meditation.

• Kristen Neff’s Self Compassion - Kristin Neff, Ph.D. is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading experts on self-compassion, being the first one to operationally define and measure the construct over a decade ago.

• Youtube - In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, Brene Brown shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity.

• Tara Branch’s Guided Meditations - Tara Brach’s teachings blend Western psychology and Eastern spiritual practices, mindful attention to our inner life, and a full, compassionate engagement with our world.

• Meditation Oasis - Through the use of guided meditation and technology, we have been able to bring meditation to thousands of people worldwide.

• Youtube - Kati Morton, a licensed therapist, channel is all about mental health. You name it and she talks.

• What is IFS? Main concepts and origins of the Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy modality. WATCH

• What are parts? Watch to learn more about the thoughts, feelings and sensations you feel on the inside. WATCH

• Different types of parts. Learn about the protectors and exiles that we all have. Remember that there are no bad parts! WATCH

• IFS Therapy Summary

• A Radical Way to Heal - We Can Do Hard Things Podcast interviews Dr. Becky Kennedy WATCH

• Greater Than The Sum Of Our Parts book

• The Voices Inside Our Head podcast Dr. Dick Schwartz gets interviewed to help learn about the different parts of ourselves