Resources
Your One-Stop Shop for Becoming a Better Leader!
TED Talks
Nadine Burke Harris- How Childhood Trauma affects Health across a Lifetime
Francine Mathieu: Maintaining Balance: Self-Care, Resiliency, and Ethical Services
Françoise Mathieu: The Edge of Compassion
Kristin Neff-The Space Between Self-Esteem and Self-Compassion
Brene Brown- Listening to Shame
Julliette Watt: Compassion Fatigue: What is it and do you have it?
Sharmeen Khan: How to deal with Compassion Fatigue.
Amy Cunningham: Drowning in Empathy: The Cost of Vicarious Trauma
Patricia Smith: How to Manage Compassion Fatigue in Caregiving.
Dr. Meredith Fox: Trauma Informed Teaching
Center for Healthcare Strategies: What is Trauma Informed Care?
Leading Clinicians, Authors, Doctors, and Influencers
Kristen Neff- https://self-compassion.org
Françoise Mathieu – https://www.francoisemathieu.com
Brene Brown- https://brenebrown.com/
Bessel Van Der Kolk- https://www.besselvanderkolk.com
Daniel Seigel – http://www.drdansiegel.com
Websites
Trauma Informed Care Project – http://www.traumainformedcareproject.org
ACES too High website – https://acestoohigh.com
Compassion Fatigue – https://compassionfatigue.org/index.html
InsightLA – www.insightla.org
Suggested Meditation / Mindfulness Practices
10 Minute Loving Kindness Meditation – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FU8E7GeGs1Y
Guided Meditation: Embodied Metta, with Tara Brach (22Mins) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhiHCU2CpB0
Love Meditation: Guided Metta Meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh (17:45 Mins) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5luvQp–B8U
The 5-4-3-2-1 Method: A Grounding Exercise to Manage Anxiety (4:30 Mins) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30VMIEmA114
Box Breathing Relaxation Technique: How to Calm Feelings of Stress (2:47 Mins.) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEmt1Znux58
A Meditation Expert Shows her Stress relief ‘tapping exercise’ (2:52 Mins.) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75PUjUsGsQQ
Nick Ortner Explains How Tapping Calms Anxiety and Stress (8:31 Mins) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnbRcO43CD8
10 Minute Mindful Meditation: Mindful Walking – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kapvpqwcNLQ
Compassion for Self and Others with Christopher Germer, Ph.D. (11 Mins.) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JRQMBHjnT8
Loving Kindness Meditation by Kristin Neff (21 Mins.) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cxtdiXBQDk
Applications for Phone / Tablet
Insight Timer (FREE)
Mindfulness Coach (FREE)
Smiling Mind (FREE)
UCLA: Mindful (FREE)
Healthy Minds Project (FREE)
MoodMission ($7.99)
Sanvello (FREE)
Calm (FREE)
Happify (FREE)
PFA Mobile Us Department of Veterans Affairs (FREE)
Support Groups / Programs
Support Groups Central – https://www.supportgroupscentral.com
Anxiety and Depression Association of America – https://adaa.org/find-help/support
The Tribe – https://support.therapytribe.com/anxiety-support-group/
Mental Health America – https://www.inspire.com/groups/mental-health-america/
Al-Anon – Friends/Family with substance problems – https://al-anon.org
Co-Depenendents Anonymous – https://coda.org
EA- Emotions Anonymous – https://emotionsanonymous.org
SMART Recovery – https://www.smartrecovery.org
Dharma Recovery – https://recoverydharma.org
Narcotics Anonymous – https://na.org
Gambler’s Anonymous – https://www.gamblersanonymous.org/ga/
Eating Disorders Anonymous – https://eatingdisordersanonymous.org
LifeRing Secular Recovery – https://lifering.org
Refuge Recovery – https://www.refugerecovery.org
Podcasts
The Being Well Podcast: Compassion Fatigue and Finding Purpose with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Nick Hanson
The Compassion Fatigue Podcase for Animal Welfare Workers by Jen Blough
Fried the Burnout Podcast
Compassion Fatigue Coach on Audible
Books
Charles Figley – Compassion Fatigue: Coping with Secondary Traumatic Stress Disorder in those who treat the traumatized.
Françoise Mathieu – The Compassion Fatigue Workbook
Elizabeth Stanley, Ph.D. – Widen the Window, Training your Brain and Body to Thrive During Stress and Recover from Trauma
Laura Van Dernoot Lipsky – Trauma Stewardship: An everyday Guide to care for self while caring for others.
Laura van Dernoot Lipsky – The Age of Overwhelm, Strategies for the Long-haul
Nadine Burke Harris – The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term effects of Childhood Adversity.
Dawson Church – Bliss Brain: The Neuroscience of Remodeling Your Brain for Resilience, Creativity and Joy
Kristin Neff – Self-compassion, Fierce Self-compassion
Robert M Sapolsky- Behave
Peter Levine – In an Unspoken Voice, Trauma and Memory, Waking the Tiger, & Healing Trauma
Bessel Van Der Kolk – The Body Keeps Score
Mark Wolynn – It Didn’t Start With You (Epigenetics)
Bruce Perry- The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog, Born for Love, What happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, & Resilience and Healing
Robert Scaer – The Trauma Spectrum, The Body Bears the Burden
Pete Walker- Complex PTSD/ Workbook, Gabor Mate, The myth of Normal- Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture, When the Body Says No: The Cost of Hidden Stress
Nicole LePara – How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self
Many Authors – the Self-Acceptance Project: How to be kind/ compassionate towards yourself in any situation
Robert Whitaker -Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America
Shauna Niequist- Present Over Perfect
Glennon Doyle Melton- Love Warrior, Untamed, Carry On, Warrior
Dan Siegel – Healing Trauma
Nedra Glover Tawwab – Set Boundaries, Find Peace
Jon Kabat – Wherever You Go, There you Are, The Miracle of Mindfulness, Full Catastrophe Living
Matthew Sockolov – Practicing Mindfulness
Faith G. Harper – UnF*ck Your Brain
John Teasdale, Mark Williams and Lindel V. Segal – The Mindful Way Workbook
Dr. Daniel J. Seigel – Aware: The Science and Practice of Presence – The Groundbreaking Meditation Practice
Davile Goleman and Richard J. Davidson – Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain and Body