Other Practitioners & Support

• Abolitionist Care Provider Database

• LGBTQ2S+ Somatic Experiencing Practitioners Referral List

• Conflict Mediators

Non-Carceral Peer Support & Warmlines

• Thrive Lifeline

• Wildflower Alliance

• Trans Lifeline

• Call Blackline

• Fireside Project (psychedelic peer support)

• California Peer-Run Warmline

Non-Carceral Community-Based & Peer Crisis Support

• Trans Lifeline Resource List

• Peer Respites Directory

Downloadable Resources

• Body Sensations, Feelings, & Needs Lists - Meenadchi

• Circle Model Nervous Systems States, Resilience Tools List, and Nervous System State Shifts - Char Kasza

• Harm Reduction Guide to Coming off Psychiatric Drugs and Withdrawal

• Safety Planning and Intimate Partner Violence

Books I Recommend

• Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication - Meenadchi

• Things To Do Instead of Killing Yourself - Jon-Michael Frank

Books That Shaped My Path

These are books and bodies of work that have influenced how I understand healing, embodiment, spirituality, and being human. Some are resources I still return to or share when they feel relevant; others were important companions at earlier points in my path. They don't necessarily represent everything I believe or recommend today, and they don't all come from the same perspective. I don't expect anyone to approach them uncritically. Take what is useful, leave what isn't, and stay curious.

• Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma: The Innate Capacity to Transform Overwhelming Experiences - Peter Levine

• No Bad Parts: Healing Trauma and Restoring Wholeness with the Internal Family Systems Model - Richard Schwartz

• In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addition - Gabor Maté

• The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness, & Healing in a Toxic Culture - Gabor Maté

• Spiritual Emergency: When Personal Transformation Becomes a Crisis

  - Stanislav Grof

• The Medical Medium Book Series - Anthony William

• How to Read the Akashic Records - Linda Howe

Podcasts I Listen to

• Radical Learning Talks

• The Telepathy Tapes

• The Emerald

• Fucking Cancelled

• Back From the Borderline

• Tarot Bytes

• The Dildorks

• Multiamory

• The Intersectional Fertility Podcast

• Something Positive for Positive People

• Unicorn Millionaire Podcast

• Unpublished

Resourcing: Joy, Pleasure, & Belonging

Resources aren't only about getting through hard things. Joy, pleasure, beauty, humor, music, art, and belonging are all sources of support and aliveness.

Here are some things that have brought me joy, sparked my curiosity, or reminded me that being alive can be an experience worth inhabiting.

Books

• We Both Laughed in Pleasure: The Selected Diaries of Lou Sullivan

• I Dreamed I Was A Very Clean Tramp: An Autobiography - Richard Hell

• Belonging: Remembering Ourselves Home - Toko-pa Turner

• Fuck That: An Honest Meditation - Jason Headly

• Vom kleinen Maulwurf, der wissen wollte, wer ihm auf den Kopf gemacht hat (The Little Mole Who Wanted to Know Who Pooped on His Head) - Werner Holzwarth & Wolf Erlbruch

• Momo by Michael Ende

Podcasts

• Spooked - Snap Judgement

Music

• Ripple Effect - Scott Helman

• The Manifestation 2 - Chris-n-Teeb

• Hi Ren - Ren

• Sweet Revenge - John Prine

• John Prine - John Prine

• Blank Generation - Richard Hell

• it’s ok! - Corook

• Mx Puja Singh

• breathe. it’s gonna be ok playlist - Jaden Chavez

• Haters - Hilary Duff

• Sex, Drugs, & Country Music - Wheeler Walker Jr.

• Born This Way - Lady Gaga

• The Candy Man Can - “Willy Wonky and the Chocolate Factory” soundtrack

• Pussy - Alaska Thunderfuck

• Only Time - Enya

• Animism - Tanya Tagaq

• Canned Goods - Greg Brown

• Wiggle Wiggle - Bob Dylan

• YHLQMDLG - Bad Bunny

• Pink Pony Club - Chappell Roan

• Bad Reputation - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts